BIOS

State College native Randy Hughes currently lives in Carthage, NC, with his nurse anesthetist wife Cindy, their fourteen kids (six dogs and eight cats), and a varying number of foster cats and kittens. A professor of English at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, he continues to perform around the Sandhills of North Carolina with The Randy Hughes Band and plays bass with the adult choir of Community Presbyterian Church in Pinehurst, NC. FYI, in October of 2015, Randy will mark the 50th anniversary of his first paying gig with The Semanons (that's No-names spelled backwards) at the YMCA in Bellefonte. Yikes!

Since we last saw Glenn Kidder, founding member of Cartoon, at Schwab Auditorium in July of 2012, he and Cecelia retired from the work-a-day world and moved to a 7-acre plot in the mountains of western Virginia.  They work hard  tending to the property, which takes a bit of muscle, sweat, and imagination.  During down time, Glenn has been working on his first novel, creating new music, and nurturing new music contacts in the Appalachian foothills.  He is negotiating to help create a local coffeehouse setting in Covington, VA, called The Vintage Music Series; he is working with the Alleghany Highlands Arts Council to perform for their patrons; he recently auditioned for the Lewisburg, WV, Carnegie Hall, which has an outdoor summer music series; he plans to introduce his music to the good folks of Clifton Forge, VA (a developing artistic community) via their outdoor amphitheater summer open mic program. So life is good, and rich with creativity!

Jon Rounds recently retired from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, where he had taught writing since 2005, and with wife Louise moved to Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. In the years since Cartoon disbanded, Jon has continued to write songs and play occasional gigs, most notably, Cartoon reunion shows at the Arts Festival and songwriter-in-the round shows at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville with brother Jamie. In 2011, Jamie produced a four-song demo of Jon's songs in a Nashville studio. Aimed at the country music market and performed by Nashville session players, the demo is a little too country for Cartoon fans, but it attracted the attention of a Nashville publisher, who picked up two of the songs and is pitching them to Nashville artists.

Stacy Glen Tibbetts has performed in State College as a member of the acoustic duo Driftwood with Kate Twoey, as a solo singer/songwriter, and as the leader of the hot swing group The Sizzle Sticks.  Original songs from his 2010 CD Out On the Town, featuring vocalist Catherine Dupuis and the Hirsch Jazz Quartet, aired on jazz radio stations nationwide. He has been the pit guitarist for many local theatre productions and has co-written two full-length musicals with librettist Pam Monk. He teaches writing at Penn State and lives in Bellefonte with his wife Gina and daughter Johanna.  Member of ASCAP, AFM660, The Dramatists Guild.

LINKS

http://www.stacyglen.com/presskit.html