Michael (Moonwulf) Longcor

MICHAEL LONGCOR has done a lot of offbeat things in his life, including riding a bicycle down a ski run, helping General Chuck Yeager park a vintage P-51 Mustang, donning Medieval armor to fight in the bruising tournaments of the Society for Creative Anachronism, being a bodyguard for Robert A. Heinlein, and placing third in a cricket-spitting contest. There was also that thing about quelling a riot while dressed as a Klingon and wearing garish toe socks.

His music is different, too. He writes and sings songs on subjects ranging from Native Americans, to space travel, lost love, vengeful seeing-eye dogs, vampires and personal hygiene. His music has aired on regional radio across the U.S. and Europe and he has appeared on the nationally syndicated radio show, Doctor Demento and accompanied the Good Doctor in his live stage show. He has also appeared as a guest on National Public Radio¡s "Folksong Festival," hosted by Oscar Brand.

Michael has eight albums to date released on CD from Firebird Music (based in Portland, Oregon). These include Lovers, Heroes & Rogues, Kitchen Junk Drawer, Heartburn, Field of Fire, Dangerous Heroes and Drunken Angel. Norman & Saxon, a collection of Rudyard Kipling¡s poetry set to Michael¡s music, was recently used in a BBC Radio special on Kipling. He also wrote and sings most of the songs on Owlflight, a companion album for the fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey.