real life and fiction

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#		Title	Length
1		This Is a Test	4:46	Play
2		The Dusty Old Freight Train	3:41	Play
3		3 Handed Blue	3:31	Play
4		3 Handed Dreams	1:41	Play
5		Grandfather	4:35	Play
6		Let's All Root For the Home Team	4:46	Play
7		Rain, Rain, Rain	1:34	Play
8		Stephen's Star Spangled Banner	1:26	Play
9		If That's Entertainment	4:02	Play
10		Two-handed Dreams (of the Little Guitar)	3:48	Play
11		The Closing List	2:59	Play
12		Thomas	3:58	Play

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Description

Stephen Cohen is a performing artist and award-winning songwriter who uses acoustic
guitar, voice, original sculptural percussion instruments made from metals, woods,
recycled and found materials, and a revolving roster of guest artists in his performances.

Stephen's latest full-length CD is real-life and fiction. this is a test and let's all root for
the home team were released as a 7," vinyl, 45 rpm single in the United Kingdom in 2001
by Ethbo Music of London. Other recordings include Bridges of This Town, a one song
CD about Portland's bridges; Many Hats, and his first album, on vinyl, The Tree People.
Work is now in progress on Stephen and the Talk Talk Band.

Stephen's performances across the United States include the Kerrville New Folk Awards
Concert in Texas, First Night (New Year's Festival) Providence (R.I.), the Northwest
Folklife Festival in Seattle, the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, Ca., the Acoustic
Roots Concert series (Fredericksburg, Va.), the Sidewalk Cafe (New York City), the
Sanctuary Concerts (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); the Long Island Children's Museum,
the Please Touch Museum (Philadelphia); live radio performances and interviews on Cross
Tracks in Worcester, Ma., Acoustic Eclectic (WDIY, Bethleham, Pa.), Contours (WNTI,
New Jersey), Sonarchy Radio in Seattle; workshops including Outside the Box,
Alternatives in Marketing and Performing at the International Folk Alliance Conference in
Nashville and Exploring Sculptural Sculptural Percussion at the Mendocino Art Center in
California in 2003; and countless performances, workshops, and residencies in his home
state of Oregon. His residency at Wilsonville High School in Oregon, one of a series of
projects in which he assists youth in creating instruments out of recycled and found
objects, helps them compose music and lyrics, and produces a CD of the results, was
featured in a story about Stephen that aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting's Art Beat
show in January, 2002.

Stephen has won several national songwriting awards, including an award at the
prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas in 2000. He received a grant from the Puffin
Foundation of New Jersey for a homeless and transitional youth recording project he did
in 2003 with P: EAR of Portland. That project was also funded by the Regional Arts and
Culture Council of Portland, which has awarded him several other project and technical
grants. He is on the Artists in Education roster of the Salem (Oregon) Arts Association

Stephen's all star guitar, a piece made from shoe parts, copper, bronze, silver and used
guitar strings, was part of the Shoes: The Sole of Humanity exhibition at the John Michel
Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconson. His racket guitar, a hybrid instrument made
from guitar and tennis racket parts, acrylics and metals, was shown at the Art About Music
exhibit at the Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene, Oregon in the summer of 2003.

"Today's guest was Stephen Cohen, visiting from Portland, Oregon. After growing up in
Rhode Island, he spent time in New Mexico and settled in Eugene, Oregon before moving
to Portland. Along with his guitar, he brought two racks of percussion and several
handheld pieces. He fabricated many of these instruments, others he found, and some
were made for him by other artists. Stephen approaches musical composition with the
perspective of a visual artist. His musical pieces are soundscapes, sonic textures woven
into a whole. Dynamic guitar is augmented by the diverse percussion that draws you in
and holds you close. Stephen's unique approach to music came across to our listeners.
-Richard H. Fox, CrossTracks, WCUW, Worcester, Ma.

Stephen Cohen is an accomplished composer and endearing performer stepping out on
the national stage. Underlying all tracks is Cohen's distinctive guitar picking- a
whispery, lyrical style that speaks from the heart. He has a gentle, sensuous voice and
provides shimmering percussion as well. He is a fresh talent to be reckoned with."
-Fred Crafts, KUGN Morning Show, Eugene, Or.

"Mr. Cohen is a musical storyteller who so intimately and convincingly shares his vision
that his listeners can't help being whisked along on the journey... He employs bells,
glass, hanging brass, tubes.. whatever the musical tool, Stephen involves himself in its
creation and arrangement for both the visual and musical impact... allowing him to
perform full range of emotion, to experiment and expand his art."
-Sharon McBride, State of the Arts

"Your album (The Tree People) is FANTASTIC! I played it several times on my show and
sent ALL the copies to listeners: I had 10's of calls for this record... Some people are still
hoping to have a copy! It's one of my best discoveries for the last 10 years!"
-Jerome Besanger, Namo Radio, Brussels, Belgium

"Stephen Cohen mixes acoustic guitar with his own handmade smorgasbord of Eastern
percussion instruments welded together like some sort of Dr. Suess contraption (a
"fo-fo-famfoogler" perhaps). It's an act all the Whos down in Whoville would dig-
ambient, worldly, quirky folk." "Cohen's musician-inventor tag was recognized with an
award at this year's Kerrville New Folk Concert. His new disc, real life and fiction,
offers a good helping of his eerie take on folk Americana. His voice, a mix of Bill
Morrissey's ragged growl and Rickie Lee Jones' scat stuttering, spars with his guitar
playing, which dodges fast fretwork for the different shade of inventiveness and edge of
John Fahey's quiet, quirky ramblings. Live, his handmade "sculptural percussion"
instruments have got to be seen to be believed."
-Bill Smith, Willamette Week, Portland, Or