Hello world!

The GNOME Project is BACK!

I’m David Tucker, it’s a pleasure to greet you.

I’m currently in Oregon, and happy to have found a new home to call Gnome Base.

I look forward to seeing everyone again soon. Please be patient as I update this site.

All previous website info has been lost, and the phone that had so much of the recorded history of the project has also been lost. There is nothing keeping us from moving forward.

Before we do, let’s take a look back.

It can be tough finding something you love doing enough to devote your life to its pursuit. Especially when you love as many things as I do.

Music has been a big part of my life. From neighbors getting together with kit drums, banjo, piano, and whatever else was available, playing swing and ragtime music, to muzzle-loader festivals listening to Sweet Adelines and Barber Shoppers. I sort of grew up in Detroit with the sounds of Motown in my head. I was an army brat, so our house was in Detroit, but I traveled quite alot. I got to listen to Hawaiian music, in Hawaii, before I was 10.

As a twenty something in the 80’s, I began volunteering at local music events in Pennsylvania. Sandy Hollow Arts and Recreation for the Environment (SHARE) and weekend parties at Rib-Eye’s. I volunteered as an usher at the Forum, a venue in downtown Harrisburg for even more opportunities to see live performances. I spent ten years working at a renaissance festival with some of the most entertaining musicians I’ve ever met.

Thanks to Jim Roe, and our friends of Jango Monkey, Floydfest 10 in Virginia was the first major music festival I attended. Not only that, I had an all access pass as a roadie for the band. (It was also the weekend of my 50th birthday!) This fantastic group of people, collectively known as the Terrapin Travelers, later invited me to a bluegrass festival in Florida at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SoSMP). My home away from home for the next 7 years. Suwannee deserves a page of its own. It was during my time in Jacksonville, FL and SoSMP that the GNOME Project was conceived and officially launched as a registered not for profit corporation in the state of Florida.