The Two of Harts'
Gallery of the Arts
Welcome to the Two of Harts' 1999 ICAP* Gallery of the Arts Web Site!
Showcase YOUR art or music on the web. What a way to reach your market! Your original works can be purchased directly from you (you furnish a way for them to contact you) when they've seen samples of your works on this site. (See samples below.) Also available for a donation of $21.95 each is a collection of original music by fantastic new artists. Please contact ICAP for this exclusive sampling of great music, by emailing ICAP at Dustyshot@AOL.com . Contact us NOW for information and the tape of new artists! You could be one of them!
Good News!
Showcase your talents here on the Gallery's web site.
For example, listen to these!
CLICK on these LINKS to LOAD & LISTEN:
"Park City Bop!"
(ActiveMovie or comparable sound program required)
Copyright (c) 1984 - 2000
To purchase an album of original music by the artists featured
above
for only $21.95 (Shipping included), please email for information:
Can be displayed and sold
similarly!
*About the Gallery of the Arts: The Gallery, through Intra~Coastal
Arts and Productions, has been a non-profit organization which has for over
ten years aided new talent in finding direction and audience in their chosen
medium, whether it be music, dance, visual or dramatic arts or related trades.
With the Two of Harts hosting showcases for new performers and songwriters'
groups such as Tidewater Songwriters Association and the Songwriters' League
of Virginia, and the ICAP Songwriters Association in Utah, and other
songwriter groups in Utah, innumerable new artists have begun their performance
and creative years. Having performed as a duo, and with their own
bands, Saddle Boogie of Virginia and Salt Lake City, and Full House of Virginia,
they have also helped liven up other bands, such as Suzie Arden's Showband
and Gaylen Young's Five Easy Pieces! Much of their music was recorded
in excellent small studios, such as Smokey Lake Studios in Virginia Beach,
and West Valley Productions in Utah. ICAP has also helped productive artists
who have fallen into hard times and who have needed a support group, career
counseling and, in the most extreme cases, actual temporal aid. If
you are interested in joining ICAP, please contact us at Dustyshot@AOL.com.
A booklet describing the numerous ways ICAP is available to help you in your
chosen art field is available for $5.00.
(Please allow
6 weeks for delivery.)
Want
to find out more? Email us at
Dustyshot@AOL.com
, for more
information.
9/11/97 ~ A Tribute to Jerry Hart
The Better Half of the
Duo,
"The Two
of
Harts"
Someone very special lay for two weeks slipping
away in a hospital bed after seven years
of illness. A sweet, talented man, Jerry
Ward Hart, who has performed the works of many
of the greats of popular and country
music -- The Eagles, Waylon and Willie, David Allen Coe and Hank,
Jr., as well as the Beatles (oh, how he could
play their
tunes!), Randy Travis, the Bellamy
Brothers, and so many others, as well as his own
songs (at least 5 albums worth, most of them
still unrecorded) -- and now he, after
having been dismissed as hopelessly ill by the doctors in charge
of his care, has chosen to release his hold
on this early existance and go to the
arms of his savior.
He had no wealth or fame, just his love
of performing and his enormous cache
of music and his memories of sharing with others his
love for music. He continually reached
out to help others to share their talents
and original works through countless showcases hosted for free.
*** His
songs written to benefit the hungry and homeless
were performed and donated
for those less fortunate. Aside from the
music, many times he spent hours assisting
others, and could be found in any
weather, under a stranded stranger's
vehicle working to get it going again.
Because of his sensitivity, he took the
troubles of those around him to heart
and would always try to give solace and
encouragement to anyone in trouble,
without regard to his own convenience
or safety, ultimately resulting in his
death. There never was a more willing
good samaritan than Jer. Even after his death,
he has kept on giving -- his old 1963 Ford Econoline
van has been vandalized in a break-in
attempt to steal it. There have been repeated attempts, some
successful, to steal other equipment which has
taken years of sacrifice and hard work
to obtain.
***
He remains virtually unknown and unapplauded
for his gifts and great love for
others. Like many who were famous, he
fought a long and valiant, though
unsuccessful, fight to stay in recovery from
his addiction to alcohol. There
were those who in the guise of friendship
aided the deterioration and ultimate
destruction of his body, but never his
precious spirit. Unlike many who have
been fortunate enough to overcome the
hold this terrible disease had on him,
he didn't have the physical and financial
resources to fight any longer.
He was
only 43 years old.
***
He had so many obstacles in his life -- missing
the upbringing of his only
daughter whom he loves so dearly and for whom
he wrote the hauntingly beautiful "Song
For Tina," and the recent loss of both his
mother and his father (the latter for whom he
searched -- for over 15 years). He also
suffered many employment changes and health reversals -- yet
he kept trying to get on the road to recovery
and continued to create beautiful music
and lyrics inspired by those around him.
***
Jerry Ward Hart was born to Jerry C. Hart and
Catherine Gertrude Clendenning Hart,
November 29, 1953, here in Salt Lake
City. He loved his mountains. He loved
the outdoors, the streams, the crisp
mountain air; he loved to ski Utah's
great slopes and those of Jackson Hole;
he love to fish and camp; he loved people
and he loved his elder brother, Jesus Christ.
He was a Christian of the most basic kind and
he showed it daily.
***
From the age of three, Jer was hitting tennis
balls. He was a child state tennis champion
of both Utah and Idaho. He built many
country club and other tennis courts with his
father's business, Hart Construction,
and was crew chief at the early age of 17 years. Jer taught
tennis and ran his own tennis pro shop. In the
80's Jer started surveying and became
very competent in this work, eventually being promoted to party
chief.
*** At
the age of eight, he began to play the guitar and
from then picked up the drums, and several horns,
including the saxophone. He had a desire
to learn other instruments, especially the violin.
***
An eagle scout through participation in a troop
supervised by an L.D.S. scout leader
(although not a member of the L.D.S. church) and
through his father's Sea Scouts as a boy, he
had since used every opportunity (which
usually meant those hanging around his '63 Ford Van) to teach
neighborhood youth those things he knew
so well in scouting, such as various knots and
archery which he also loved.
*** We
thank those of you who chose to look close enough
to see his special spirit and sense of humor,
his humanity and his great
talents.
If you would like to help
others like him, contact me at
Dustyshot@AOL.com
. Thank you.
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