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[peabo] is an actor, musician, composer and writer who came to New York City from Minneapolis in 1990. In addition to current film, television and voiceover work, he has created and collaborated upon a multitude of original theater and music works since he began performing in 1970 at the age of 8.

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is a crystallization of unique perspectives on music, nostalgia and performance crafted over two decades. A piano bar for the digital age, it mixes startling covers of once-popular music with original work, resulting in stark yet sweet meditations on memory, music, personal computers, the past, the future, and the powerful forces that emerge from the places they overlap.

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is the first peabohemia CD, a 75-minute audio theater work that combines reconstituted pop with original music, monologues and audio vignettes. "100% real time, unproduced and unedited," parts or all of the disc can be sampled or downloaded here, or the disc can be ordered through the mail [see contact page].

The disc is also complemented by CREDITS and COMPANION STORIES which are the main feature of this site. Listeners are now invited to interact with these stories by contributing to threads inspired by any of the 22 tracks and the stories that go with them.

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"A musical talent of marvelous diversity and theatrical savvy ... a one-man musical event"
Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Brings a devastating deadpan sensibility to his work"
Atlanta Journal & Constitution

"Hilarious"
The Village Voice

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