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Now and Forward 2024 – Ken’s debut novel, The Arsonist, a corporate thriller centered on Wall Street and Climate Crisis is published on Koehler Books to rave reviews. Also on deck for 2024/early 2025 is Ken’s first children’s album, the Dharma Revival album, his non-fiction debut on mindfulness, and the Wall Street Diaries POOK (podcast-book).

Author Bio: I’m a graduate of University of Colorado at Boulder who began my career in the trading pits of Chicago. My career track would take me around the world and, through happenstance, into the most prestigious institutions on Wall Street. I pivoted onto a path of music, writing, and sustainability, the latter which would again take me deep into the Wall Street power structure and complete the inspiration for The Arsonist. My own rise and fall and the people I met along the way seeded the Arsonist’s memorable villains and unlikely heroines. The Arsonist contains many true stories, like the running of the bulls which is largely verbatim from experience. The Arsonist, A Cal Minor Story is my first novel with more in the works. I work on climate solutions through my other company and hope to continue writing both about sustainability and the trapping of humanities insatiable appetite for just about everything.  I also write about Mindfulness and Life under the developing philosophy, The Art of Here and Now.

Music Bio: Ken Coulson is a musician, artist and advocate for sustainability. He is a prolific songwriter and has released multiple albums as a soloist and with the bands Gatsby’s Green Light, Kite, and Other Corner Jug Band. Ken’s newest music is The Dharma Revival, an Americana-Inspired acoustic-electric offering that fuses elements of classic, Gypsy Jazz, and funk into danceable and approachable compositions. Ken is working on a number of writing projects including a novel and screenplay. With his company, Future Bright LLC, Ken works to promote clean food and energy projects and investment, and other economic sustainability solutions. Ken is active in his local community and has held board positions with Slow Food Metro North and on the Town of Weston Sustainability Committee. He’s an avid outdoor lover, yoga & Qigong enthusiast, and helps to organize the longest running Ultimate Frisbee pickup game in the country.

Ken Coulson Bio: Ken began to record and perform in 2008 and has recorded and released multiple albums through the label Sonic Bomb.

2018 – With writing on 18 new Americana-Inspired songs complete, Ken forms The Dharma Revival to play the music organically with hopes to record in 2019.

2017 – The Hope & Amen Videos and Singles are released.

2016 – The Gather By video and single is released as a pre-cursor to a series of multi-media singles, video and artwork in support of the global change movement.

2014 – Gatsby’s Green Light releases The Forever Smile, a writing collaboration between Ken and bassist, Lucas Gould featuring virtuoso band members Hari Ganglberger on Drums and William Earley on guitar. The album  was recorded and mixed by Steve Hansen at hi-top studios.

2013 – Gatsby’s Green Light releases the Annalee EP and documentary style video

2012 – Ken releases his first solo album, Gatsby’s Green Light forming the foundation for the collaborative collective. The album features Paul Stivitz (Dispatch) on drums and other.

2011 – Ken performs a solo tour with 15 dates down the east coast.

2010 – Ken’s Folk collaboration, OCJB, releases Grow featuring a collaboration with Kim and Ray Bryant.

2008-2010 – The rock funk group Kite, featuring Ray Bryant on Bass and Hari Ganglberger on Drums releases 3 albums, Exercise in Levitation, Space Guitar and Kite LP produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Theoret of Threatened Productions.

Ken’s performing highlights include the Fall Down Festival (Dopapod, Shakedown, Superhuman Happiness) and Circles on Sounds Festival (Cabinet, Alpace Gnomes, Haley Jane & the Primates) with Gatsby’s Green Light. Ken was a collaborative producer of the Circles on Sounds festival. Ken performed at Stamford CT’s Alive at Five with Kite and has performed at Norwalk CT’s Live Green Festival four times.

Ken has supported strong community and his advocacy of sustainability performing as a soloist at dozens of farmer’s markets, in support of the Working Lands Alliance (WLA) and for two consecutive years at the CT Northeast Organic Farmers Association Winter Conference (CT NOFA).

Ken is an ASCAP artist and WGA screenwriters guild member with over 100 writing credits.

Ken is working on completing a number of writing project including 3 novels and 3 screenplays.

Ken’s company, Future Bright, is a Sustainability company working to promote social and environmental restoration through multiple channels. Future Bright promotes both for-profit and non-profit clean food and energy projects, sustainable investment themes and the adoption of diet based healthcare.