25th Anniversary Concert series.

1. The Grey Ghost
25th Anniversary Concerts
An Evening Inspired by Col. John Singleton Mosby

2. Over twenty years ago I spent three years
researching the exploits of Col. John Mosby,
The Grey Ghost, in and around an area of
Virginia known as the Debatable Land.
After three years of research, I spent another
two years composing an acoustic rock opera
which premiered on January 20, 1990 at the
Gay Street Theatre in Washington, Va.
The sold out premiere concert was followed with a series of concerts at
performance venues and college campuses across Virginia and the
mid-Atlantic throughout 1990.

3. The premiere concert was covered by northern Virginia media and PBS
… which accounted for the overflow crowd at the concert.
Following the premiere concert, segments of the video and audio tracks
played on PBS and WAMU (American University) radio.

4. In the Fall of 1990, I was invited to join a
group of well-known musicians and
bands for a tour of the Soviet Union.
It was planned that this would be a tour
of “Americana Music” and I was invited
because the promoters thought the
Mosby Opera represented a piece of
American history.
Unfortunately, the Soviet Union collapsed and the concert tour was
cancelled.
The Grey Ghost acoustic opera and concerts was put on the shelf.

5. After the 1990 shelving of The Grey Ghost … two things happened:
1. I went back to technology, eventually leading a team of technical
super stars who migrated business applications and decades of
data from mainframe computers to newly architected desktop
technologies … at the National Geographic Society … to ensure
that NGS could continue to function beyond Y2K.
2. A number of musician friends continued to cover songs from the
Mosby opera … in Virginia, North Carolina, New Mexico and
Arizona. Some getting periodic airplay on radio stations.
I thought the Mosby days were over, but then I began hearing from
fellow musicians and previous concert goers who said, “Why don’t you
bring it back”?

6. So … here we are.
A little bit older and a lot
wiser … still holding on to
the fire in my belly to perform
The Grey Ghost on stage.
To bring The Grey Ghost back to life, I need your help. The costs are
not enormous, but they are real. Musicians, back-up singers, concert
production costs, etc.
Your contribution, in any amount, will make this 25th anniversary
concert series a reality … and for that, I am extremely grateful.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-grey-ghost--2/x/5615538