May 25 2019
Tap Technical Articles - January 20, 2005 Note: the following articles originally appeared in 1999 and 2000 in On Tap, the International Tap Dance Association newsletter. e-tap An Introduction to Electronic Tap Dancing: MIDI Triggering by Michael “Shoehorn” Conley The… Read more
Aug 5 2017
While I try to list as many shows as possible on my calendar, I don't play a whole lot of bars or public concerts. I stay busy making music in schools, senior centers, private residences and various special events and…
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Dec 27 2016
NEWS FROM MC SHOEHORN- June 2016. Shoehorn had a great success in Chicago on June 4th with Reggio McLaughlin's National Tap Dance Day concert, and reconnected with one of his earliest jamming buddies, Scott Hamill, who was with him the…
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Dec 1 2015
Well, the year started in Spokane, Washington when I launched a kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in the wee hours of January 1st after performing there the evening before. The kickstarter was successful and I raised the money to get my project…
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Jul 23 2015
MC Shoehorn: "Dances with Instruments" DVD
Dances with Instruments
Fuego Azul ( Silk Road)
Gameplan: Gamelan
Crop Circles
It's Not You, It's Me
Waking Up in Mexico
One-Man Drum Circle
Neckstrapolation 2/27/15
Three Metals
Whole Blues
Eastrum
A Tapella
Michael…
Jul 23 2015
Wingin' It by MC Shoehorn © 2015 Michael Conley - Kutsubera Music SPR-007
1. 42nd Street Harry Warren & Al Dubin 1932
2. Ice Cream and Bubbles (vocal version- Introducing Eileen Konomi Conley)
3. I Hi Tabidachi Momoe Yamaguchi (山口百恵)…
Nov 9 2010
I have been recording all year with Fools in Paradise and I will soon be releasing some new recordings with Bronkar Lee as well.
Dec 20 2009
Wow, That was an incredible night! Claudinho and Alexandra are both great singers and the band was right with them. I was sitting in a high powered horn section and got to launch some inspired riffs. That and last month's…
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May 24 2009
Today's Rose Festiaval solo show was hot! I had happy feet! It was National Tap Dance Day, as established by the United States Congress in 1989 to recognize the role and stature of tap dance as an American art form…
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Dec 2 2008
My wife Kurumi and I took our kids to her hometown of Kyoto, Japan where she exhibited her artwork at Gallery Shirakawa for the first ten days of November. http://www.kurumiglass.com/ We got there a week early to set things up.…
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