Solo Sunday Presents: "God is a Firefly (or, God is a Word We Made Up)" by Charles Murphy

"One reason to believe in a God, is sometimes you just need somebody to thank." This show is about looking for God (whatever God means to you) in weird places, from the Tennessee River, to your buried shame, to the disgraced planet Pluto, and trying and failing to find words for things that can't be explained.

Charles Murphy is an Alabama-raised, Chicago-based musician who loves trees, Irish whistles, and the words “I don’t know.” He grew up a priest's kid in the Episcopal Church, the legacy of which (among other things) is that he loves the sound of a group of people singing more than just about anything in the world. He has played throughout Chicago's music scene as part of the folk duo Duck and Goose, and as part of the band The Diving Bell. He loves songs that have stories in them (especially the ones without words) and he believes that everyone is a musician. He can be found most days wandering around his house or Winnemac Park, making up songs about washing his hands too much and his late basset hound, Murray.