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Paul Gilvary
A Music Man
August 2006
Name: Paul Gilvary
Name of Business or Organization: The Git Gone Boys and SongBokays.com
Contact: 773-868-4620 and pgilvary@yahoo.com

Where were you born and raised?
Plainfield New Jersey. I moved to Chicago when I was twelve.

What are you passionate and how are you fulfilling your passion ?
Music is my everything. Everything I do is music related. I teach music to elementary kids using Hip Hop. I am in a rockabilly band called the Git Gone Boys. I write music for any occasion. I am writing a song for a guy who wants to get his girlfriend back.

Which five people (living or dead) would you invite to a dinner party?
Gene Vincent(in 1955 first guy to wear leather in a band), Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Eddie Cochran and Carl Perkins

If you had one month to live, what would you do first?
I’d spend the month in the Ease Village in NYC. When I was a kid I thought to myself 30 minutes away everything creative was happening.

What is something that you have learned about life?
There is good in everybody.

What do you like to stay home to do?
Spend time with my wife…you can fill in the blanks..wink..wink..

What place in Rogers Park, past or present, has special meaning to you?
Lifeline Theater, my wife is the boss there.

What two establishments in Rogers Park besides your own do you tell your friends about?
Dukes Bar and Redline Tap

 
 

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