Steve Cunningham

Music Timeline

2023

The Picture Section


“The Picture Section” is an album of songs inspired by photos in the Chicago Sunday Tribune “Picture Section”, September 9, 1945.


thepicturesection.com

2018

I performed “Wonderful Day” with DPlay at Ellen & Josh’s wedding. 

2015

Videos

2015

Music From Mister Steve


“Music From Mister Steve” is an album I released after my time as Mister Steve.

2001-2015

I performed as Mister Steve at the Neutral Ground Coffee House in uptown New Orleans.

Morgus


I appeared on the TV show “Morgus the Magnificent”.


1987

1989 - 1994

I worked on a collection of lullabies called “Happy, Safe & Loved”. It remains unfinished.


1985

I graduated from the University of New Orleans with a degree in computer science. I also started creating computer based music.


1982

Time Zone & The Show


The band “Time Zone” included Bobby Fonseca, Damon Shea, Chuck Phillips and me. “The Show” was a multi-media stage collaboration between Time Zone and Steve Sweet that was performed throughout New Orleans.


1978 -1980

Music From Nancy


“Music From Nancy” was staged performance art based on the comic strip “Nancy”. It was created by Steve Sweet, Jesse Poimboeuf, and me. It premiered at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans on November 3, 1979. Other performances included the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Fort Worth Art Museum, and The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.


1978 -1980

The Mechanics


I was in The Mechanics, a new wave band in New Orleans, with Tim Youngblood, Bob Fonseca, Bruce Raeburn, and Damon Shea. The Mechanics released an epononymous EP and were on the compilation “N.O. Experience Necessary”.

The Mechanics EP

“Soft & Pretty”

“The Consumer”

1975

I graduated from the University of New Orleans with a degree in Music Theory and Composition.


1974 - 1978

Tonewhop


I was in the band Tonewhop, with Tim Youngblood, Bob Fonseca, Jesse Poimboeuf and Don Wightkin and Greg Piccolo. Tonewhop was a cover band, but did release a couple of singles.


1972 - 1974

Calhoun Players Guild


I was a member of the Calhoun Players Guild, a group of friends who put on elaborate toy theater productions, including musical scores.


1970 -1971

The Ritz Hotel


I was in the band The Ritz Hotel, with Clark Vreeland, Tim Youngblood, Tom Youngblood, Reggie Scanlan, and Becky Kury.


1969

The Water


I moved from Southern California to New Orleans in February 1967. In my senior year of high school I was in a band called “The Water”. I played guitar and sang. 

We played live on TV on “New Orleans Night People” in 1969, where we backed up Harry the Singing Mailman

singing “Mustang Sally”. 


1967

Green Jeans Flowers


A friend and I made up a band that only existed on paper.


1966

Newton Junior High Choir



1955