After spending three formative years writing, recording, and performing his music in Europe, singer-songwriter Fly Tucker is looking to be grounded in Aspen.The 35 year old Florida native, who has connections to Aspen since he was a child, left Brussels late last year to continue his career in the United States. He's already displaying his brand of original acoustic music for local audiences- compositions he describes as "dark, modern alternative rock with an acoustic element."

He open for Tea Leaf Green at Belly Up Aspen last month and can be seen and heard at Steve's Guitars Feb 17, and the Bring the Funk Festival at Sunlight Mountain on Saturday, Feb 25.

Tucker is a personable artist with a humanist style. He estimates he's written, collaborated on or produced between 70 and 100 songs, many of which speak to love, relationships and alienation. "I've never felt a complete part of anything,' he says. " I often write from the standpoint of being on the outside looking in. In all my years of living, I've never felt utopia."