ROGER LEHMAN
Singer, Guitarist, Pianist, Composer, Teacher
May 2009 update
Hey everybody. The Shakespeare performance went GREAT! Much thanks to all of you who showed up.
The same Theater Group (www.columbiscivic.org) will be doing a performance of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in the
Fall of 2009 and Dickens' A Christmas Carol for Christmas 2009. Be sure to check them out!
In March I started rehearsing with what is going to be a GREAT R&B band that is, as yet, nameless.
We'll be playing around the Buckeye Lake area as the weather gets warmer. Now that my "theatrical duties"
are fulfilled for the time being, I'll be back to doing solo gigs on the coffee house circuit.
The Jazz Quartet (the TOP CATS) will be playing for the Wyandot County Music Fest on July 4th in Upper Sandusky, Ohio
(we're on from 4:30 to 5:30 PM).
Also, The TOP CATS will be doing their annual performance in Magnetawan, Ontario during the latter part of July
(I'll be fishing for Pike the rest of the week!)
I'm looking forward to a great 2009 from here on out (and we deserve it because winter really sucked)!
Take care and be well - Roger
Hello and welcome to my site. My name is Roger Lehman and I was born to play music.
If I'm not playing music, teaching music, writing music, or recording music, it's
probably because I'm asleep.
I currently live in central Ohio, and when I'm out playing then I live where ever I am.
But the place where I grew up is Upper Sandusky, Ohio in the heart of Wyandot
County. It is the place that made me who I am, and more than anywhere
else on earth, it is the place I call "HOME".
I hope you can stay a while, take a look around, check out the photos,
listen to the tunes, and visit the numerous interesting links.
Thanks for stopping by. ----- Roger
BIO STUFF 
I was born in February of 1952. My first memory of music was this old 78 rpm record
that my parents had. On one side it had Gene Autry singing "Rudolph The Red Nosed
Reindeer". On the other side it had Guy Mitchell doing a song called "Singing The Blues",
which was actually written by Hank Williams Sr. Oddly enough, I still sing BOTH songs
today. I think of it as kind of paying homage to Gene and Guy for teaching me to sing. I was
raised Catholic and went to a Catholic school for grades 1 through 8. This was back in the
"old days" when you went to church EVERY SINGLE MORNING before school. Also, since
back in the old days, Catholics went to church EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY. I guess you
could say that I learned to sing because I sang EVERY SINGLE MORNING, except
Saturday, from the time I was 6 years old on. In the church I went to, you were required to
sing! If you didn't sing, you got your knuckles cracked with a ruler (Ouch!). Isn't it
ironic how, sometimes, the thing you think you hate most in life eventually turns into the thing
you love the most? When I was 6 years old, I absolutely hated having to stand up straight and
tall and bellow out "Ave Maria" at the top of my lungs. Today, playing guitar or piano, and
bellowing at the top of my lungs is what I absolutely live for! Strange.
I guess the main other things I can tell you about myself are that I teach Classical Piano,
Jazz/Blues Piano, and all styles of Guitar (Blues, Rock, Country, Folk, Finger Style, etc.).
Besides playing SOLO (Acoustic Guitar, Piano, & Vocal),
I play Piano with the SMALL CHANGE JAZZ DUET,
I play with THE TOP CATS (a Jazz/Blues Quartet),
and I compose and record a lot of original material.
I think that if we can turn off our televisions from time to time, get out of the house,
see a LIVE performance of ANYTHING ANYWHERE, interact with each other,
TALK to each other, and LISTEN to each other, then there might just be hope
for us. The TRUTH is passed from person to person by people who care
about one another. It doesn't come from a television network
owned by a corporation that manufactures weapons.
SO GO SEE SOME LIVE MUSIC!
Check Out The Music Scene In Columbus, Ohio At:
COWTOWN MUSIC
Watch a VIDEO of my band THE TOP CATS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBzPy2S9mGI
Check Out My Band's Site At:
http://www.topcatsonline.com/
CONTACT ROGER:
Phone: 614-261-1384
Email: rlehman10@earthlink.net