If you are a fan of Aztec Two-Step and are self-employed and would like to be included on our links page, please contact Rex via email and submit your request. What goes around comes around!
Artworks by Bobbi Dickerman
Bobbi balances being Aztec Two-Step's booking agent and road manager with hand-painting small wooden furniture, bowls, boxes, and other functional decor- all with her unique sense of whimsy and love of color. She debuts her long awaited website on December 1st 2008 with an array of vibrant multi-colored candlesticks that will make ideal holiday gifts. Please honor her life-long passion by visiting her website.
www.bobbidickerman.com
HANDWRITTEN PICTURES CREATED
FROM YOUR FAVORITE WRITTEN WORDS
Do you have a favorite quote, affirmation, song?
Do you write your own poems or lyrics?
Consider commemorating a piece of writing
by having it hand-lettered on beautiful paper, that can be matted or framed,
It would make a memorable gift or heirloom
for partners, family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, or yourself.
NATASHA WOOD
( 516) 508-1321
artistinflight@gmail.com
My name is Janice Schwartz and I am a Licensed massage therapist in
Fairfield, CT. I help my clients reduce pain, stress and anxiety. For 23
years, I’ve been giving my clients customized massages, tailored to
their needs on that particular day. I’ve accumulated a wide range of techniques
including Neuromuscular Therapy, Lymphatic Drainage, deep tissue, trigger
point therapy and myofascial release.
HealthTouch Therapeutic Massage
400 Post Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
203 254-1344
www.healthtouch-massage.com
My name is Steve Johnson.
Since getting forced to retire last year I have ramped up my antique
radio hobby into a full time business. I have spent years collecting
radios and the original radio manufacturer's factory service manuals
and schematics and now offer my antique radio service library on line
through my web sites. I sell them all over the world. It's been a tough
year and a tremendous amount of work getting things going but it's been
worth it. The stress from my government job is gone and working at home
is great. It's nice to be able to do something you enjoy for a living.
Besides collecting antique radios and record players, I also have a large
collection of vintage test equipment.
Steve's Antique Technology - Auburn, NY USA
Collecting Antique Radios, Supreme Instruments,
and Other Vintage Test Equipment.
My collection page is http://www.StevenJohnson.com
(which has links to my radio schematic sites).
http://www.TheSchematicMan.com
http://www.AntiqueRadioSchematics.org
I have recently retired as a school social worker after 25 years and started my own business where I conduct cognitive behavioral therapy groups for children with social skills deficits. I help children make friends, get along better with the friends they have, and deal with teasing and bullying. My practice is located in Commack which is in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY.
Ronda Brooks, LCSW, P.C.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES
www.kidhelp.org
CastleGuard Pest Management
CastleGuard Pest Management is owned and operated by John Fraysier in the Rochester, NY area. Though pest management services don’t always get the best rap in the news, at CastleGuard, we are committed to responsible pest management to achieve a healthier and safer living environment. I am a fan of Aztec Two-Step from the days of the first album till now. Visit the CastleGuard website www.castleguardpest.com and click on the “Poets Corner” to read my own poems, inspired in part by the great music of Aztec Two-Step!
Exterminators have a creative side, too.
CastleGuard Pest Management
94 Jefferson Ave.
Fairport, NY 14450
585-381-0395
john@castleguardpest.com
Con Fullam
Con Fullam is a dear friend of Rex’s from Maine and the co-writer of ATS’s Hey Little Mama. After 40 years of writing music for others, Con has finally come out with his first-ever solo 4 CD song collection entitled, The First Forty Years. Con has also masterminded several song projects over the years to benefit various charities in Maine including his latest, The Amazing Music of Mainers which includes among others, ATS’s Highway Song. Proceeds from this 2-disc CD and 27-song compilation goes to the Campaign for Ending Hunger in Maine.
Con Fullam
The First Forty Years
www.maineexiles.com
A & R Printing
I have a small printing business that I run where as they say I'm the chief cook and bottle washer. Another words, self employed. I have low overhead that I can pass on to customers. My specialty is short-run items: Envelopes, Stationery, Business Forms, small booklets, etc.
Contact info:
A & R Printing AandRPrinting@optonline.net
Bob Root
Located on Long Island, NY
RONCONE'S
Joe Fantauzzo just purchased a longstanding Italian restaurant in Rochester, NY called RONCONE'S. It originally opened in 1937. Please check the website at Roncone's Restaurant. Joe promoted an ATS concert in 2008 at The German House, also in Rochester.
Julie Cohen
Julie Cohen is a family therapist on Long Island, working with couples, individuals, children and teens, much to her delight. Julie uses traditional and experiential exercises to access the opening of one's original and authentic self, the self that was born with the capacity for love, joy, enthusiasm and shared connection. In particular, Julie is an advocate of Inner Child work. Please visit Julie at her website:
www.magicseedsliving.com
Ab'Cadabra Lon Cerel Magic Shows
LON CEREL has three times been voted RI’s Best Party Entertainer by the readers of The RI Parents’ Paper. Lon is a keen combination of performer, comedian, and magician — the total entertainer. He has been working audiences with skill, wit, and a love of his craft for over 30 years. Lon also holds the record for the Fastest Balloon Artist in the World, creating over 400 different sculptures. Lon's shows consist of 40-45 minutes of Comedy Magic - very strong on Audience Participation, and often an appearance by his pet rabbit , 'Bunny Cianci.'
Lon Cerel
18 Pinewood Avenue • Johnston, RI 02919
www.LonCerel.com • (401) 946-3183
Animal Rescue
Animal Rescue Site Needs Our Help …. For Free!
You may have seen this going around but the Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (How about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box "fund food for animals" for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site! PLEASE PASS IT ALONG to people you know.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Architectural Innovations
Architectural Innovations is a custom millwork and cabinet shop located in Monroe, CT. Our philosophy is that every client is distinct. The AI experience is an intimate exchange of design and communication between client and craftsman. Whatever your custom woodwork needs may be from a new front door, to a wall unit for your family room or a dream kitchen we strive to produce aesthetically pleasing yet functional works of art. Please visit our gallery:
R. Kim Guinta
Architectural Innovations, LLC
619 Fan Hill Road
Monroe, CT 06464
203-459-9828
http://www.architecturalinnovations.net
Back River Music Works - Singing our History in the City of Ships
Alison Lee Freeman is a 21st century chantey singer with an extraordinary voice easily heard over gale force winds. In performance the vivacious balladeer mixes traditional songs of the sea with newly renovated folk songs. Join in on the chorus for a journey back in time and enjoy history the old fashioned way through entertaining songs and stories.
Alison Lee Freeman
Back River Music Works
PO Box 161
Georgetown ME 04548
207.371.2404
email: alf@brmw.mobi
http://www.BRMW.mobi
Bill Donovan And His Record Machine
I've known Bill since 1983 when I first played in his Fellowship Open Golf Classic in Rockland County, NY. After many tries, I finally won it the year Bill stepped down to take his DJ business to California. Like Aztec Two-Step, he's still available and still performing
email: ohboy408@yahoo.com
http://home.netcom.com/~ohboy904/donovan/
We had a great time as guests on Bob Goodman's Whole Nuther Thing radio show out of southern California www.wholenutherthing.com
Bonnie Goff Design
93 Poor Mill Rd., Morrill, ME 04952
email: bongoff2@earthlink.net
In-house and off-site design and production for B2B and consumer projects including custom publications, catalogs, brochures, direct mail, print advertising, and trade show graphics. Freelance graphic designer for the Pawtucket Red Sox for fifteen years.
Bristol Tile
Larry Bard
Installation of stone, porcelain and ceramic tile. 25 years experience. Licensed and insured. Greater Hartford area. Contact Bristoltile@sbcglobal.net or call 860-231-8466. I will email pictures of my work on request.
Colin A. Colman, Esq.
20 Pickering St., 2nd Floor
Needham, MA 02492
(781) 444-2333
Colin is a dear friend with a heart of gold. He wouldn't want you to know this but he's heavily involved in his hometown charity Needham Cares which still raises money for Katrina victims in New Orleans and surrounding Gulf towns. Colin's firm specializes in business and corporate law. Colin is also helping me raise capital for direct marketing my Christmas Carol Sports Parody CDs and regularly kicks my butt golfing.
email: ccoleman@colemangagnon.com
www.colemangagnon.com
Connecticut Mind & Body Works
Byron & Rosetta Eddy
32 Sprain Brook Road
Woodbury, CT 06798
(203) 266-0001
Dear friends of Rex who are magnificent massage therapists, plus amazing at reflexology and facials!
www.ctmindbodyworks.com
Nancy Cote
Nancy is a wonderful children's author and illustrator who created the front and back covers of my new kids CD, Stargazers.
www.nancycote.com
Dr. Marc Craig, DDS
1090 Meriden / Waterbury Turnpike
Cheshire, CT 06410
(203) 272-8822
Marc is a wonderful dentist who I first met when he hired ATS to play at the opening of his new office and health facility in Cheshire, CT in 2000. Marc & his wife Judy have done pro bono work for myself and several artist friends as well as making annual volunteer trips to Haiti for the Haitian Health Foundation located in Hartford, CT. There are few finer people on the face of this god-forsaken earth than the Craig's.
Driscoll's Antiques & Collectibles
165 Pineridge Road
Torrington, CT 06790
(860) 489-2449 or (860) 626-7355
An eBay Trading Assistant
I have known Michael for many years. He is a true friend and is an expert in assisting people (since 1989!) in cleaning out their homes or estates after relocating or after the loss of a loved one. Michael buys antiques, old documents & papers, old paintings & musical instruments, early almanacs and photographs and every imaginable item associated with estate sales. Michael also asks, “have you looked in the attic, cellar or catch-all lately? You'd be surprised at the value that can be found there.”
driscollmichael@optonline.net
Electronic Online Companies
We can help your small- or medium-sized company or your nonprofit organization receive payments and/or donations by credit or debit card, or by electronic check, in any medium of communication used today: wireless data transmission, face-to-face, phone, fax, e-mail or internet. We eliminate the costly delays in paper-shuffling, in the mail, and at the bank.
To be most valuable to our clients, we make recommendations drawing on our in-depth understanding of the specific application to prevent any regulatory or implementation issues, augmented by our past work experience in the trenches, so to speak. Everything we do is customized to the client's needs. We have been complimented for our dedication to excellence in customer service, a rare trait in business today.
Thanks and best regards,
Marc W. Halpert
PO Box 320048
Fairfield, CT 06825-1004
phone 203.373.0875
efax 203.549.0406
www.yourbestinterestonline.com - www.e-givingonline.com - www.greinvoice.com
blog: http://smarterpayments.blogspot.com
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marchalpert
Maureen Saunders, DVM
Maureen Saunders, DVM is a Veterinarian in Rockland County, NY and has two practices:
Spring Valley Animal Hospital
151 Route 59 Monsey, NY 10952
(845) 356-8616
Cat Care Clinic of the Nyacks
127 S. Broadway
S. Nyack, NY 10960
(845) 353-6369 (meow)
It is 99% for felines, but I she will see the occasional dog, mouse, rabbit, etc. at this practice also!
Contact Maureen at: drmo717@aol.com
NEW Dan Fogelberg CD
Our friend Fred Migliore, host of FM Odyssey, the long-running nationally syndicated radio show, has released a 2 CD interview retrospective with Dan Fogelberg. During the interview, Fred engaged Dan in a wonderful, animated conversation about Dan's first 25 years in the music business. You will hear 13 full-length songs, including "Same Old Lang Syne," "Nether Lands," "The Last Nail," and "Mountains To The Sea," as well as Dan's thoughts on many of those songs. I got such a huge response from my February 2008 missive about Dan, who passed on in December 2007 from prostate cancer, I thought you would be interested in this recording. This 2 CD Collector's Edition is available for $29.95 at www.fmodyssey.com. Three dollars from each CD sold will go to the Prostate Cancer Foundation in Dan's name.
www.fmodyssey.com
Robert L. Rinderman - Jaffoni & Collins Incorporated - Investor Relations & Strategic Business Consulting
116 East 16th Street - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Although not self-employed, I work at a boutique consultancy in NYC and we assist companies (typically publicly traded ones) with proactive and turnkey investor relations and public relations. I'm also happy to assist (pro bono) with editing for Aztec fans who would like light editing done on resumes or short writing pieces (time permitting). We do a lot of writing/editing for our clients and I've been in this field for ~15 years (worked as Wall St. trader and got an MBA in between). I prefer that people contact me at my personal email - rindy2k@gmail.com
All the best, Rob
PS - Go Mets!!
www.jcir.com
Rock-n-Robins Enchanted Cauldron
935 W. Beech Street
Long Beach, NY 11561
My husband and I own a metaphysical gift shop in Long Beach, NY. We're kind of a blast from the past (minus the head shop part)! We have incense, oils, candles, herbs, crystals, sterling silver, Celtic and semi-precious stone jewelry, and more! We have an astrologer and a psychic, by appointment only, on Sundays. As of this February, we will be celebrating our 4th year in business. Hours - Wednesday and Saturday 11-7, Thursday and Friday 11-8, Sunday 11-6. Closed Monday and Tuesday
www.rocknrobinsenchantedcauldron.com
Rosie's Original Cards
Rosie Rinsler handcrafts authentic 60's style greeting cards, prints and collages and created our Simon & Garfunkel Songbook CD cover. She and her beau Josh have been to over 40 of our concerts!
www.rosiesoriginalcards.com
Roy Gumpel
Roy Gumpel is a photographer who not only has photographed Aztec Two Step ‘Days of Horses' CD cover and in concert for some of the website imagery, but he also has shot a number of CD covers for other musicians, like David 'Fathead' Newman, Michael Murphy, John Menegon, Don Braden, Larry Willis, Gontitti (Japan), and many others. Roy lives in Woodstock, NY and travels to the ends of the earth, cameras in hand to shoot assignments and personal projects. Roy photographed (and starred in) "Rt.66, The Mother Road" for National Geographic Explorer, The Learning Channel ("Sideshow, Alive on the Inside"), also National Geographic recent "The Human Footprint". No assignment is too big or too small, or too outrageous.
www.roygumpel.com
Safe and Sound Video
Mark McKellar
A couple of years ago I started a little, tiny side business. I take people's home movies and convert time to DVD. I can do all kinds of film and video formats - hell, I've even got an old Betamax player. It's really turned into a nice little business for me - If I can grow it a little more, it may turn out that I've created my own job instead of working for someone else full-time.
(978) 729-5618
shipguy@comcast.net
www.safeandsoundvideo.com
Secretary of the Arts
You may have seen this already, but it is so important I am passing it on. Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. The arts need this and we in this country need the arts--now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on to your friends and colleagues.
www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html
The Sister Project
Marion Roach Smith and Margaret Roach have been fans since the early 1970's after seeing us play at My Father's Place in Roslyn, NY. They both live in upstate NY now, freelancing and making a go on the web and with their books. Check out their blog, She Said, She Said.
www.thesisterproject.com
Virtual Chinese Herb Shop
Merri Korn
Chineseherbshop.net is your on line source for Chinese Herb Formulas.
800-733-4325 (phone)
860-242-0126 (fax)
www.chineseherbshop.net
The Wayback Machine
Tucson, AZ
www.waybackmachineband.com
A multi-faceted group and the only band west of the Mississippi to cover Aztec Two-Step! (Check out renditions of "Almost Apocalypse" and "Shantytown.") Jim's been a dear friend since bringing us out to play the Tucson Folk Fest.
Youth Sports Now
www.YouthSportsNow.com develops portals to create regional web communities for youth athletes, parents and coaches. The first market is in Central Virginia (greater Charlottesville area). We're looking to develop new markets in 2011 and we encourage interested entrepreneurs who want to learn more to contact me at the email address (and mailing address below).
Eric B. Lund, President
Strike One Media, LLC
2525 Wind River Rd. Charlottesville, Va. 22901
434-760-3187
elund78@comcast.net
www.YouthSportsNow.com