Zero Boy!!

Have you ever seen or heard this guy perform? He calls himself Zero Boy? What's with the name? And what and who is he?

He's a combination performance artist, stand-up comic & "vocal acrobat." Zero Boy performed for us between sessions; quite a creative and funky twist in the midst of Emerging World Views and Global Creativity. He recounts his zany adventures in Zeroland through a unique blend of sound and mime, the results being something akin to a performed comic book. He combines movement with live, vocally-produced sound effects, and enacts a parade of hilarious, fantastical characters.

This is one part of him:

With the real Zero Boy after his performance:

Quite the character. Later in the evening when the The Howard Fishman Quartet performed after dinner, I found myself "gettin' down" New Orleans style with him in the aisles. I couldn't sit still in my seat.

Says Terry Gross of NPR - "The group's material draws on a wide variety of American music: jazz, blues, country, folk and Texas swing, but their experimental and improvisational style sets them apart." That about sums it up.