Welcome!

The New Project: 

The screenplay for Chasing Gilels!

For most of the past six months, I have been working on creating and revising a screenplay I wrote based on the experiences of my friend Sina Najarian when she spent several months studying at the Moscow Conservatory in the USSR from 1968-1969. The screenplay has had a professional revision, a pitch deck has been created and query letters to producers have started going out through the Virtual Pitch Fest site. I am including a link to the pitch deck here on the website front page here.  I have one response so far from a producer who won an award at the Sundance Film Festival a few years ago and I hopeful this project can become a reality. Here is the link for the pitch deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DeCiP6AOXkMthjeJSfPyVYt2QZfjtsztExmmB_ygh98/edit?usp=sharing.

Drifting To The Right celebrates its 2nd anniversary next month and there are plenty of CDs still available via me mailing them out to you . To get a copy, for now, send $10 by Venmo to mikegtz22@aol.com and include your mailing address in the EPK/Comments area on the last page of this website and you will get a copy as fast I can can send one out

Also CDs are available for the earlier albums and all three albums are available through streaming services under my name 

 

Emil Gilels

1916-1985

Screenplay revisions and pitch deck editing assistance provided by Stage 32 and Sara Elizabeth Timmins at Life Out Loud Films. 

At the Drifting to the Right album release event, April 2022

Fred Meltzer, percussion

Ultrasound Studios, Hanover, Mass. 

Michael Gutierrez-May: 2023 Calendar of Events!

Previous events

ISSA Boston Songwriter Showcase

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One Broadway Collaborative , 468 Laewrence Street, Lawrence, MA

Another benefit showcase performance for the redoubtable One Broadway Collaborative in Lawrence, managed by Aaron Tornberg. I will be one of 7-8 performers this evening. Shows are held at the Lawrence Cable TV headquarters where One Broadway is currently producing its many and varied shows.

Performance Showcase at TCNE Conference

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Jazz Cafe at Hilton Park Plaza, Boston, 50 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

I am joining Linda Marks for a special perfomance for the TCNE (Trans Club of New England) Conference at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on the night of Thursday, January 25th. Linda and I will be trading original songs and then performing four songs together, including the famous Laramie song to be dedicated to the TCNE community.

PRIDE picnic on Uxbridge Common

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Uxbridge Town Common, North Main street, Uxbridge, MA

I will be providing music for the PRIDE picnic on Uxbridge Common Saturday, July 22nd from 12-4 pm. I expect to play one 45 minute to one hour set but I could perform for longer. I did this last year and I am happy to do it again. Should be a good turnout of support ! The person who was vandalizing the Love Bridge over the Mumford River on Mendon Road (Route 16) was caught red handed last week! Named after Olympic athlete Alice Bridges, every June for the past couple years, it becomes the Love Bridge in honor of PRIDE month. The PRIDE continues into July!

Mass Walking Tour, June 2023

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Channing Unitarian Universalist Church, 45 Webster Street, Rockland, MA

Later the same day, I will be opening for Mark Mandeville, Raianne Richards and the musicians on the Mass Walking Tour at their final stop this year in Rockland, MA. I will be performing a 15 minute set along with three other local musicians and Mark and Raianne will be performing an hour set. It's free! Come support a really wonderful, worthwhile cause!

Benefit concert for One Broadway Collaborative

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Lawrence Cable TV Studios, 468 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass

Aaron Tornberg's One Broadway Collaborative site was recently seriously damaged by water which was putting out a fire on the Fifth Floor of the building on January 5th. Musicians and Artists are rallying to support the rebuilding of the site. Aaron has also started a Go Fund Me (see the One Broadway website) and scheduled events are continuing at the Lawrence Cable Access TV station on Essex Street.

Twilight Showcase with Sandy Streid

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WATD-FM, Marshfield, MA

I will be returning to the Twilight Showcase program on a Sunday night in October with another guest yet to be named. Relaxed and easygoing and genuinely interested in championing local musicians, Sandy and her partner Keith James do a very nice job with this show which has become an institution over the past several years on the South Shore of Boston.

Parlour Open Mike

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Parlour Providence, 1119 Main Street, Providence, RI

The Locals Covering Locals 8 event has been cancelled but those who would have participated, including myself will get the chance to perform the songs we intended to cover next Wednesday night at the Open Mike at the Parlour. I will be covering three songs from Don Tassone, Steve Allain and Kala Farnham.

Album Release Event at Ultrasound Studios

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Ultrasound Studios, 14 Hanover Street, Hanover, Mass

We are having an album release event at the studio where the album was recorded, Ultrasound Studios owned by Joe Clepp in Hanover, Mass. We will be putting together a band and playing through the album at the stage in the studio. A wonderful thrill for me and hopefully a bang up event for all involved. We will be having a live audience probably by invitation only. More info on this as we get closer to the date.

Twilight Showcase

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WATD-FM 95.9 , Marshfield, Mass

I will be appearing for the first time ever on Twilight Showcase, the weekly Sunday radio program hosted by Sandy Streid and Keith James on WATD-FM on Boston's South Shore. Twilight Showcase is a long running program which has featured many South Shore based musicians over the years and others from Southern New England including Jonathan Edwards. I will be there with Stephen Martin, the producer of my Drifting To The Right album. Tune in and cheer me on!