The New York Guitar Festival has commissioned Howard to write an origonal score for Buster Keaton's 1922 silent short "The Frozen North." Howard will perform the score live with his band on January 19, 2012 at Merkin Hall. Tickets are available here.
Watch a video of Howard talking about the piece, and read the full interview here.
The Fall 2011 Tour generated some awfully kind words from various publications. Here's a sampling:
* "Music Won't Let Him Go" By Brittany Stoner, ENCORE Magazine
* "New York Times: UP CLOSE " on NY1 (about 24 minutes in)
* "The Sound of Rusty Farm Implements" by Robert Burke Warren, CHRONOGRAM Magazine
* "Howard Fishman Plays Black-Eyed Sally's" by Michael Hamad, THE HARTFORD COURANT
* "The Indefinable Party of Howard Fishman" by Myles Dannhausen, Jr., DOOR COUNTY PULSE
* "Old Sounds in a Modern, Urban Style" by GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE