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We now also have a Show Calendar page!
Click the "SHOWS" link above. You can now also send us feedback, comments, suggestions, or anything else your little heart desires at feedback@orpheusreborn.com.

On March 21, 2008, we passed 100,000 cumulative plays of these songs and clips. Wonder how long it'll take to hit a quarter of a million??? (Note that this does NOT include plays of the "Classic" song clips that may be accessed from the Alan Lorber Biography page.)

On April 24, 2009 we passed a QUARTER OF A MILLION cumulative plays! Fantastic!

Broke the daily record - 2787 plays from (roughly) 6 AM on December 9
to 6 AM on December 10, 2009!

During the month of March, 2010 we had almost 34,000 plays!

On July 3, 2010 we passed HALF A MILLION cumulative plays! Amazing!

During the month of December, 2010 we had over 42,000 plays!

On March 30, 2011 we passed an incredible THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION cumulative plays!

During the month of October, 2011, we had almost 48,000 plays!

AWESOME! On November 10, 2011, we passed our ONE MILLIONTH PLAY! Really wouldn't have imagined that!

Visit our Discography pages to play YOUR favorites. Each play counts as a "vote" for that song as shown on our Monthly Top 75 page.

Stephen and the Snake have just completed a new studio recording - give a listen to Stevie Ray !

We've run across a recent live version of Steve's tune Lucianne, performed live at Kelly's by Bruce MacKay and Friends. Bruce was a founding member, with Steve, of the trio Martin, MacKay and Schell in the early nineties. Elliot Sherman, keyboardist for Orpheus (II), was also a part of this performance.

Bob's tune Mick Ryan's Lament has been featured in an Irish stage production called An Emigrant's Tale, performed during 2011 at Dooley's Hotel in Waterford, Ireland. A CD featuring the show's music has also been released, available at www.amazon.com (and other outlets). The show was produced by Martin Murray. More information can be found at http://www.anemigrantstale.net. Click here to listen to a clip.

Snake and Colette O'Connor have finished another song, destined for Colette's Writing In The Sand album. Click the blue link to listen to Hide And Seek.

We lost another old friend this past Sunday, December 4. John Lincoln Wright, who was one of the founding members and lead singer of the Beacon Street Union back in the Orpheus days, passed away after a long illness. The Union was also a part of the "Boston Sound."

After BSU, John went into country music and became one of New England's real stars with his group the Sour Mash Boys. Although we'd lost touch, we still mourn his passing.

Since early in 2011, Snake has also been working with a wonderful singer-songwriter named Colette O'Connor. They've started recording what may well turn out to be several CDs - click on the blue link to hear the first completed song, Have You Ever.

Stephen and the Snake would like to thank all of their fans and friends who attended the pair's Feature at Roslindale Open Mike on Monday, October 10. It was the biggest crowd ever at ROM - the staff even had to open the doors to allow seating in the church sanctuary! Thanks again ... we love all of you!

On Monday, October 10, a young lady named Paisley Parker, who is a student at the University of Wisconsin / Eau Claire, will be featuring Orpheus on her Internet radio show called Friday On My Mind (note: the schedule shows this as being on Tuesday, but that's an error). The program "airs" from 3 to 5 CENTRAL time; if you're in the East and want to listen to it it'll be on from 4 to 6. Go to http://sri.uwec.edu (note that there is NO "www" in the URL) and click on "Listen Live." We're going to record it and will post it when we get a chance.

ALSO on Monday, October 10, Stephen and the Snake will be the featured performers at Roslindale Open Mike Roslindale Open Mike, held at the Roslindale Congregational Church, 25 Cummins Highway in Roslindale. This should be a really good time; hope to see you there!

We've found, and posted clips from, three 2009 performances of Bob's tune Mick Ryan's Lament. One is from a CD by Sean Brennan (Bob and Kathi are currently performing with him on the Cape under the name The Skiffs), while the other two are live performances found on YouTube, one by Steve Jacobs in Dortmund, Germany, and the other by the Sioux Falls Ceili Band at a festival in Falls Park. You can access the clips from here (scroll down).

Stephen and the Snake appeared and performed on Deb Barron's show The Folk Spot, WCUW-FM (Worcester) on August 13. You can listen to their segment on the S&S web site, http://www.stephenandthesnake.com/press.html. They performed three songs: Congress Alley and Stevie Ray, both written by Stephen, and Ramblin' Boy, written by Tom Paxton. You can access the songs here (scroll down).

We've also found out that the area of Worcester known as Crown Hill is being designated as an historical site. This includes Congress Alley, which is to be rehabilitated (it's been fenced off and overgrown for the past several years) and opened for walk-throughs; word is that it will be marked with commemorative placques (although we haven't confirmed that yet). A bunch of us feel that the entire Congress Alley district should be designated a culturally significant historical site, with appropriate markers. That's some time off, but this at least is a start. Help us out and make your support known to the mayor and city manager.

We've discovered and posted clips from two more cover versions of Can't Find The Time. The first is a live version by a group from Dedham (MA) called the Chick Magnets, and the other is an instrumental by Rich Goldberg from his new CD Eclecticity. Click on the blue links to give a listen!

The Video Beat (http://www.thevideobeat.com) has recently released a DVD set called Folk in New York City, Vol. 5-7. This includes Orpheus' lip synched performances of Can't Find The Time and I've Never Seen Love Like This, videotaped at the Bitter End in 1968 and previously released in the VHS tape compilation Live From Greenwich Village, Volume Six, 1996.

Since the passing of our friend Walter "the Bear" Zaremba" (see below), we've been regularly performing one of his tunes called Torn Up Blues. As Bear used to say it's kind of misogynistic, but hey! a lot of classic blues songs were. Click here to listen to our take on it, performed at the Roslindale Open Mike in July of 2011.

Yet another version of Can't Find The Time has appeared, this one a live recording by a group from the Bronx called the Beau Beats. You can access a sound clip here.

Warner Brothers has finally released the movie Marlowe, starring James Garner, on DVD. "Why should we care?" you ask. Well, the original Orpheus did the theme song for it. You can see the DVD cases and listen to a clip of the theme here.

The South Shore music community has lost one of its legends. Sadly, Walter "Bear" Zaremba is no longer with us. Bear was a great blues man, a big burly soul with a tremendous voice and a heart of gold. Stephen and Snake had the honor and pleasure of performing with him many times over the past few years. He was an amazing person who will be sorely missed by all who knew him. Rest in peace, Bear.

Our friend Michael Gutierrez-May has released a new CD EP enititled Fifty Miles Away. Steve provided background vocals on two tracks, and played harmonica on one of them. Listen to clips from The Albino And The Transvestite and Groucho.

Stephen and the Snake will be featured on WATD-FM's Twilight Showcase Sunday evening February 27 from 9 to 10 PM. The show, hosted by Sandy Streid and Keith James, can be heard on the air at 95.9 FM and, if you live too far away, you can listen to a streamed version at http://www.959watd.com/twilightshowcaseradio.php (click on "listen live"). The guys were joined by Catbird Café regulars John and Dan Olivere, and by Victor "Moulty" Moulton, drummer for the mid-60s group the Barbarians (Are You A Boy or Are You A Girl, What The New Breed Say, etc.). Give a listen!

The show will also be posted in WATD's archive a couple of days after the 27th (and will be posted on stephenandthesnake.com as well).

On Monday, February 14, Steve will be the featured guest on Hull Community Television's Cinzi Lavin Show (Comcast ch 10, Verizon ch 35). Later in the show he'll be joined by Snake, and the pair will perform a few live tunes. The show airs at 7:30 PM and is repeated at 9 PM. We understand that it will also be aired in Hingham, Maynard and Stow; check your local listings.

The Iris Music Group has released a remastered version of Orpheus' Joyful album (the third album). Previously, IMG had only offered this album as a digital download; this is a full CD release. Details are here.

Steve, in his capacity as host of the Catbird Café Open Mike, will be featured on WATD-FM's Twilight Showcase Sunday evening January 9 from 9 to 10 PM. The show, hosted by Sandy Streid and Keith James, can be heard on the air at 95.9 FM and, if you live too far away, you can listen to a streamed version at http://www.959watd.com/twilightshowcaseradio.php (click on "listen live"). Catbird regulars Jennifer McQuaid, John Olivere and Frank Ruzzano also participated. The show will also be posted in their archive a couple of days later (and will be posted on stephenandthesnake.com as well).

Steve plays harmonica on two tracks of a new CD release by John Olivere called Silence Is Consent. John is a decorated Viet Nam veteran who is now in the forefront of the peace movement. Listen to clips from Another Soldier and Hit The Ground Runnin'.

IMG Books has recently announced the publication of Alan Lorber's Benny Allen Was A Star, a work of historical fiction that is largely autobiographical. You can read a fairly large excerpt here.

We've posted some more live tracks from our 2006 performance at Johnny D's. Access them here.

We've recently unearthed some LIVE RECORDINGS of Orpheus Reborn! These were recorded for Hull Community Television by David Rienks - we're planning to post the videos as well, once we increase the storage space on our web host server (which is in the works). We've posted the first audio track from these, a version of Congress Alley, recorded at Johnny D's in Somerville in 2006. Sound quality is a little less than stellar because they were miked using the camcorder's built-in microphones rather than from the sound board, but they're not bad! You can access it here.

Ran across still another obscure cover version of Can't Find The Time, this one by a the Invictas, released in 1970 on a 45 RPM single. We haven't been able to come up with a clip, but you can see a photo of the record on the Stephen and the Snake web site.

The Iris Music Group has released two new compilations: Indofusion, Volume 1, which includes The Dream by Orpheus, and Indofusion, Volume 2, which includes the Alan Lorber Orchestra's rendition of Echo Of The Night. The latter is based on Alan's orchestration for The Dream, and was previously only available on the 1997 Ace Big Beat CD reissue of his Lotus Palace album.

Stephen and the Snake's outdoor concert at the Wayside Commons in Burlington, scheduled for Wednesday, August 25, has been postponed until Thursday, August 26, because of rain. The forecast for Thursday is good, so we hope to see you there. Music starts at 7 PM.

We've acquired yet another obscure cover version of Can't Find The Time, this one by a group called The X-Ceptions. It's a cut from their album Live At The Gables, released in 1971. Click here to listen to a clip.

Several months ago, a film crew from Burlington Community Access Television (bcattv.org) showed up at the Catbird Café to interview and video a performance by Stephen and the Snake. We just got the word that a 1/2 hour program, Stephen and the Snake Live at the Catbird Café will be airing, starting tonight (July 27) on their Public channel. This can be found on Comcast Channel 9, RCN Channel 3 and Verizon Channel 39. Don't have details as to the schedule, though. Check your listings. The interview will be aired on Richie Sarno's Turntable show in August. Again, check your listings. These are being aired in conjunction with the Music at Wayside Summer Concert Series (see below), and Verizon will also air them in several other towns.

On July 22, 2010, the South Shore music community lost one of its staunchest supporters when Osvaldo "Ozzie" Marinelli passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was a truly unique individual and a good and loyal friend, with a real love for music. We will all miss him. Rest in peace, Ozzie.

Ran across another, very obscure cover version of Can't Find The Time, this one by a Dino Take Five, released in 1971 on a 45 RPM single. We haven't been able to come up with a clip, but you can see a photo of the record on the Stephen and the Snake web site.

Stephen and the Snake will be be closing out the Music at Wayside Summer Concert Series, held outdoors at the gazebo at Wayside Commons in Burlington. The Commons are on Wayside Road, Exit 33A off Route 128/95. You can find driving directions at the link above. We'll be performing starting at 7 PM; admission is free. Rain date will be the day following (Thursday, August 26). See you there!

There's a really interesting book in the making - The Sounds from Boston (working title, subject to change) by Rob Watts is scheduled for publication by Ocean View Press in 2008. Rob interviewed Harry, Steve, Jack & the Snake on August 21 of 2005, and both Orpheus and Orpheus Reborn are expected to be a featured part of this project. Read more at www.bostonauthor.com.

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