(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Art629 Gallery Presents "Highway of Sight II," a showcase of Steve Forbert's photography while touring as a musician on the road. The exhibit will be on display from Friday, June 26 through Sunday, July 26. An opening night party (open to the public) will be held on June 26 from 7pm to 10pm and Forbert will be in attendance.
"Anyone who travels around as much as I do is going to see a lot of different things," said Forbert. "I get a sense of satisfaction from being able to capture an image that appeals to me and, if it makes the grade, share it later with others. With my kids now off and gone, I'm able to spend more and more time in Asbury Park with my girlfriend, Diane. I'm grateful to art629 for allowing me a respected local show place for my photographs."
This will be the second gallery showing at art629 by Forbert, who is much better known as a musician/singer-songwriter. His most popular song was "Romeo's Tune", which reached No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980,
Art629 Gallery is located at 629 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park, NJ. For more information on the gallery and gallery hours visit www.art629.com
ABOUT STEVE FORBERT:
As a young man from Meridian, Mississippi, Steve Forbert traveled to New York City and played guitar for spare change in Grand Central Station. He vaulted to international prominence with a folk-rock hit, “Romeo’s Tune,” during a time when roots rock was fading out and the Ramones, Talking Heads and other New Wave and punk acts were moving into the public consciousness. Still, critics raved about Steve’s poetic lyrics and engaging melodies, and the crowds at CBGB’s club in New York accepted him alongside those acts. “I’ve never been interested in changing what I do to fit emerging trends,” Forbert observes, “Looking back on it, it was helping to keep a particular American songwriting tradition alive at a time when it wasn’t in the spotlight.”
After his first two records came a plethora of well-crafted, unforgettable songs on such albums as Little Stevie Orbit, Streets of This Town, The American in Me, Mission of the Crossroad Palms and Evergreen Boy. His tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004. In October 2012, 35 years after his first album, Steve released an exciting new one, Over With You. Its ten fresh but mature songs pinpoint a wide range of emotions that color personal relationships --- emotions that most listeners have undoubtedly felt and struggled to understand at some point in their lives. “This is an album that has taken a lifetime to make,” explains Forbert. “You don’t just pull these songs out of thin air --- you have to live them.”
Steve has spent the last seven months working on a new record called Compromised, due to be released this fall,. He has also nearly completed a memoir, primarily about his early years in Greenwich Village straddling the line between traditional folk venues and punk rock's CBGB's. Called Beyond the Chandelier, it should be available by Christmas from PFP Publishing.
For more information on Forbert visit www.steveforbert.com
