In the place where country, folk, and bluegrass meet, you will find the music of Steve LaSala. Steve blends his gift for musical storytelling with a unique style on acoustic guitar. His performance includes an exchange of friendly banter with his audience and a lively mix of requests, with a few less well-known tunes by popular artists, and his own compositions.

Steve began playing guitar at the age of thirteen immersed in the country and folk revival of the sixties and the US invasion by the Beatles. He performed in. coffeehouses in the North Jersey area where he grew up, and while majoring in English at Rutger's, worked as a DJ on the college radio station. With his love of words, stories and music it was only natural that he begin to write songs. Each of Steve's original songs convey and underlying honesty, simple truths about lives that come together, and loves that fall apart.

His debut recording Taking the Moon for a Walk is a collection of all original music ranging from the sweet and sentimental title cut, to the outrageous hit Is the Chicken Done Yet a sad but funny story about a marriage done in by BBQ'D chicken, and the old time country sound of Our Love Has Been a Jukebox (Full of Old Hank William Songs). The tape also includes the hauntingly beautiful song Mommy, Can You Hear the Rain? the story of the short and tragic flight of Jessica Dubroff, the little girl pilot.

Steve has recently appeared at the Cornerstone Cafe in Freehold, at Barnes and Noble in Brick Township and at the Java Joint in Toms River. He also was featured with Terre Roche in a Songwriter's Showcase at the Ocean County Library.