14) Who Are SYP!'s Influences?

The biggest sustainable-musicianship influences
- David Dominguez (Gabe’s dad): singer of nightly lullabies and doo-wop, community activist, and avid walker
- American folk music:
o Old-time rural dance, religious, and art music
o Woody Guthrie
o Pete Seeger
o Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
o Utah Phillips
- Mystical freedom folk-music:
o Black Gospel
o Native drumming/ singing
- Saint Francis of Assisi: patron saint of animals, risque poet.

Musical influences
- The Beach Boys
- Hank Williams
- David Pleasant, and Gullah music (from the sea islands of S. Carolina and Georgia)
- Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and early 70’s songwriters
- All of Paul Simon’s work
- Local Utah Celtic family bands: Fiddlesticks, and Kirkmount
- American musical theater