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"SHOEHORN" Tap dancing saxophonist, works as a solo performer, bandleader, soloist, accompanist and sideman.

SHOEHORN

Shoehorn is an original performance artist who creates music with his feet and dances with his horn. Michael Shoehorn Conley has combined organic body rhythms and sophisticated jazz forms and concepts into an entertaining spectacle. While specializing in sax and tap dance, he is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer, utilizing a variety of wind and percussion instruments, original poetry and songs and an ear for music from around the world.

IT'S A GREAT TIME TO BUY CAFE CIRQUE, Shoehorn's NEWEST CD, now only $10! Thanks for supporting Shoehorn's work!

Shoehorn's latest CD, CAFE CIRQUE, the contemporary jazz cabaret circus soundtrack featuring Dan Gaynor, Ward Griffiths and Skip Elliott Bowman, is now only $10 on cdbaby. To hear streaming samples please hit the music button at right. For more info about this recording hit the news/blog button on this site, or use the link to cdbaby at right.

Shoehorn the Blue Monk, a live CD documenting a gig with Dan Gaynor, Pere Soto and Artis the Spoonman (plus David Valdez and Sean Congos on horns for a couple of numbers) is now only $10:

CD links at right- THANKS!

SOME VIDEOS

The newest video post, from a performance in April 2009 with Wanderlust Circus

#1 Demo Video

(CLIP # 2) Shoehorn solo (full show) DEMO video from Moisture Festival 2007:

( Clip # 3) Tappercussion e-tap demo

( Clip #4) New Clip! Reorded 4/1/09

(CLIP # 5) This clip is of Shoehorn's VonTap Quintet at the Harvest Moon Festival in Chinatown, October 2006:

Toshi Onizuka, Ward Griffiths, Skip Elliott Bowman and Gordon Lee.

( CLIP # 6) Plus, Jump Start, a SAX-Themed original comedy short film costarring Renato Caranto, just for fun: ( about 3 minutes)