Al Gori was born in Manhattan in 1964 and raised in Teaneck, NJ. He graduated from the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ with a concentration in kinetic sculpture. He’s been working since then as a NJ-based millwright.
When he’s not up to his ankles in grease and pulp at a paper recycling plant or toiling in the local film industry as an automobile wrangler, he may be found lugging around his homemade contraption now known as “the Homespun Merry-Go-Round.”
This labor of love was initially spawned as part of his senior thesis project at Mason Gross. In its original incarnation it was a cumbersome, dangerous eyesore which he called “The Merry-Go-Round to Hell.” Through the years, he’s been making his creation safer, more attractive with animated monkeys, birds, other animals, music, and a homemade bubble machine.
Since its creation, Al has been making his Merry-Go-Round available for a wide variety of charitable events, parties big and small throughout the northeast. He calls himself a tinkerer or “crack-pot” inventor with a flair for showmanship. Says Al, “I’ve always wanted to be in show business. With the Merry-Go-Round I’ve created my own entry level position swinging off the lowest rung of the entertainment ladder: ‘Carnival Folk.'”
Al stores and maintains his Homespun Merry-Go-Round at home in New Jersey. He could be coming to your town soon! Why not invite him? Contact Al
Al with Tinya Seeger
friends from the Clearwater Music Festival
