New Haven, CT, 1961? Where it all started (lower left corner)
1965(?). "Jamming" with my dad, from my extensive toy instrument collection.
1972? - The music looks reasonably complex, though I have no idea what it is. The more relevant thing is that I'm paying no attention to it.
Yes, Eagle Scout at age 13. Corner me sometime and I'll tell you the story. 1974
1976(?) A Couple of teenage Joes (with joe Midiri)
Bellmawr, NJ - 1977 Incriminating evidence - with Paul and Joe (or Joe and Paul) Midiri
1979? I have no idea!
Stating at age 18, I worked the weekly Amatuer Night at the Crazy Horse Saloon, in Barrington, NJ, accompanying the contestants. i learned a lot in those 18 months. 1979(?)
Dover Downs, Dover, DE - 2006(?)
The Midiri Quintet at the Showboat in Atlantic City in 1997(?). Tons of gigs/shifts at the Showboat in the '90s, starting with hotel lobby solo piano in 1993.
1986 - According to the marketing department at the Cherry Hill Mall, I broke the record for ongoing music performance in retail, I was the "Picnic Pianist" for 11 years, from the 80s into the 90s. This Courier Post feature is from 1986
Mammoth Lakes, CA - July, 2008 Enjoying the music, and the scenery of the Mammoth Lakes Jazz Jubilee (and occasionally taking some oxygen, at 8000+ feet)
Norris Pavilion, Rolling Hills Estates, CA - 11/11/07 Solo piano feature with the Midiri Brothers sextet
Promo shot - 2015
- Onboard an American Cruise Lines ship after a show. I was a walk on entertainer for ACl from 2009-2019.
Promo shot - 2016
Wallingford Arts Center w/ Danny Tobias - 2015
Cultured Pearl, Rehoboth Beach, DE - 2016(?) With the Mike McShane Trio, featuring Paul Midiri
With Dick Durham for Mainstay Monday - 8/22/16
8/5/17 - Bluecoast, Rehoboth Beach, DE Shore Jazz Trio with John Ewart and Mike McShane.
The Mainstay, Rock Hall. MD - 10/7/17 On stage for Mainstay Monday
Garfield Center for the Arts - 3/14/18 With Bob Ortiz for the annual Women Helping Women production.
Promo shot - 2018
Promo shot - 2018
Garfield Center for the Arts, Chestertown, MD, 8/25/18 Trying out the new "hybrid" piano, in concert.
Milton Theater, Milton, DE - 7/27/18 In concert with Roo Brown
Promo shot with Beth McDonald - 2016
Church of the Open Door, York, PA, 10/28/18 In concert with Beth McDonald Boger
With Beth McDonald at the Stoltz Listening Room, 12/9/18
True Blue Jazz, Rehoboth Beach, DE - 4/27/19 With "Chuck Redd and the Monday Jazz Cats (Amy Shook, Frank Russo and myself)"
Mainstay Monday with Vince Lardear, 10/15/18
With Lea McGowan, 4/23/19
June 2019. Selfie on a gig with Philadelphia jazz legend Larry McKenna
With Libby York for Mainstay Monday - 7/29/19
Garfield Center for the Arts - 9/13/19 Chestertown Jazz Festival show
Playing my son's wedding reception, with Jimmy Lawlor in the background. 10/8/18
Feeling the love on the (final) performance of the 15th annual Women Helping Women concert, at the Garfield Center for the Arts, in Chestertown, Md, on March 14, 2020 (just days before the pandemic shutdown)
September 2019. My first gig with Sharon Sable (that set the stage for all that followed), when she and her husband, E Shawn Qaissaunee joined me for Mainstay Monday
Final "Mainstay Monday" show, with E Shawn Qaissaunee and Sharon Sable - 12/17/21
Playing on the town piano of Chestertown, MD, 4/14/21
Mid South Audio Studios, Milton, DE - 12/15/21. Recording for a Christmas radio broadcast
The Sholbertshires - Garfield Center for the Arts - 2022
So many captions .... True Blue jazz festival sponsored event,. with Mike Mcshane and Cody Leavel 10/22
Inaugural "First Friday with Joe Holt" series show, with Amy Shook and Cody Leavel - 2/4/22
With Beth McDonald under the Avalon Theatre marquis, 9/30/22
With the Midiri band, performing for the Pennsylvania Jazz Society, 6/27/22
With Suede, and Amy Shook (photobombing her own photo) at Ram's Head, in Annapolis, MD, 7/30/21
The original trio (from the 1970s!) with the Midiri Brothers, at the Jubilee by the Sea festival, Pismo Beach, CA, 1/14/23
Sharon Sable/Joe Holt promo shot (2022)
Blossom Dearie Tribute show with Sharon Sable. March 25, 2023. With Tom Baldwin and Mary Lou Newnam
Dropping in on Jackie Warren, in Cleveland Ohio, in April 2023, while Sharon Sable and I were out there for our first Blossom Dearie themed concert (at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University)
In the dressing room before a show at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center, in west Chester, PA. 3/24/23
With the Craig Gildner Band's Charlie Christian tribute at Keystone Korner on 7/26/23
In the happy place with Amy Shook w/ the Scott Silbert All Stars at Glen Echo Park, MD on 9/2/23
The Sholbertshires: amy SHOok joe HOLt scott silBERT steve abSHIRE 2023
Rhythm section sandwich (in between Jack Hegyi and Pat Mercuri) with the Midiri band in Eagles Mere, PA in August 2023
2023 - "First Friday with Joe Holt" featuring jazz great Scott Robinson
Sun Valley Jazz and Music Festival, ID - 10-18-23
Becoming one with it. Jazz Festival weekend in Rehoboth Beach. 10/18/24
First picture with Santa since around 1964 or so. :D 12/5/24
Accompanying Jimmy Lawlor for my First Friday show at the Mainstay on 12/6/24,
2025 - Outdoor gig with Beth McDonald Boger on a cold February day. Don't let the somewhat heated tent fool you. :D
May 2025. Glenwood's with Amy Shook and Scott Silbert; my Tuesday night buddies for 2-1/2 years.
2025 - Wait ... What am I doing here!?!
Performing with Emily Margevich at Opera Delaware. 1/25/25
Closing night program for VBT Bike Tours at the Inn at Huntingfleid Creek, in Rock Hall, MD 10/30/25
Fun at the piano with a VBT Bike Tours guest. Inn at Huntingfield Creek - 5/15/25
With Rhonda Apple at Shorebreak Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, DE. 11/15/25
Hanging on a break with John Ewart, Mike McShane and Holly Lane (Shore Jazz). 11/1/25
Solo recording session. mid South Audio, Milton, DE. 12/18/25
April 2026. Still (crazy) on the Mainstay stage after all these years :)