Concert photograph by Ben Sussman of Stephen performing at Walpurgis Musiektheater in Mortsel, Belgium in September of 2017.

  above:  Stephen performs 4 songs on cigar box guitar on Cigar Box Nation TV        above:  Stephen performs The King of 3 Strings and talks about his music.     
below:   2 acoustic guitar pieces:                    What's Wrong   and  Interplanetary Chatter           below:   Stephen plays his song Miniature Planet on his miniature            X times Y = ?   and  Pot of Gold                                   on a one of a kind miniature guitar:                                     on Robert Parish's  Musicians Rising Up Series:                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Click here to see Stephen play Interplanetary Chatter on miniature guitar

Below: 2017 Music OMI Fellows Stephen Cohen, Yuan-Chen Li and Alberto Novello collaborate on Where Do We Go?, a musical piece, with photos from their Music OMI residency in New York and photos from Stephen's deFENIKS artist residency in Belgium:

​Stephen talks about 2 of his instruments and plays A Pug Named Fred and Interplanetary Chatter at the close of the Music OMI
Guerilla Improvistion Concert at the Basilica in Hudson, N.Y. :

A participant at Stephen's cigar box guitar workshop in Belgium.

Stephen at sunset at Music OMI, Catskill Mountains in the distance

Stephen in Belgium with his handmade beer-can guitar

Ride the Train from Here was the closing piece of the 2017 Music OMI Concert in the Fields. Music OMI is an international artist residency, and Ride the Train from Here features Stephen with artists from Peru, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Germany:

                              photo by Ben Sussman:                                       Stephen at the 2015 Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival:                                   Red-Tailed Hawk, at the Flying Monkey Theater                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           2016 Cigar Box Guitar Festival in Huntsville, Alabama:                                                                                                                                                                            

Below are 7 musical pieces recorded at Stephen's artist residency at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle.  
Talk to Me is now available as an EP vinyl record. 

Stephen at home with 5 instruments. This photo by Julie Keefe is on the cover of the "Talk to Me" vinyl EP, which was released in 2016. Stephen used his own voice and the voices of 3 guest artists, and played his acoustic guitar, his homemade and his custom made cigar box guitars, his original 5 String Thing instrument and his one of a kind, custom made miniature guitar. The project produced songs, spoken word pieces, and instrumentals on the theme of talk. Doug Haire, sound engineer, played an important part in the experimental process of the project.

    3 pieces on acoustic guitar:       1 hit song is Stephen on voice and acoustic guitar, Rich Hinrichsen on double bass and Jen Harrison on French horn    
​                                                                 More Than Yoko is Stephen on voice and acoustic guitar                                    No More School is a  solo acoustic guitar piece

This video below has Stephen's first album, from 1979, in full, with photos.      And you can hear "Thomas" from his 1984 album,             

Stephen performs his original song, Time and Money, at a special event at Morning Shade Farm in Canby, Oregon, October, 2016. Jeff Stier (former Tree People percussionist and woodwind player) plays drums on the piece; and Rich Hinrichsen (the taller one, and former Tree People and Walking Willows double bassist), and Christopher Sholtola-Hardt (an Oregon artist and musician) provide backup vocals:

Below is the world premier of Stephen playing his one of a kind, custom made miniature guitar at the Northwest Folklife Festival.  

​  Below left: a music video created by Stephen, Your Bus is Late​:                       Below right: a video featuring Stephen's family and animals, Living with the Animals:

Stephen created this short film/music video/work of art, the Cistern Symphony, at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington in 2012, with a team of musicians and artists during his Centrum residencies. It was shown at the AVI Festival in Jerusalem, Israel in December of 2016.

​Stephen created his sculptural percussion instrument, an instrument he could get to while playing guitar, in the late 20th century, and did a series of performances and residencies with it in the early twenty-first century.

Here Comes the Band, Give Me That Toy, and Mr. Knickerbocker are on Stephen's 2006 children's and family album Here Comes the Band

"Here Comes the Band" painting by Christopher Shotola-Hardt

Stephen with guest singers at the Long Island Children's Museum. photo by Ben Sussman

Stephen playing and dancing "Mr. Knickerbocker" at the Long Island Children's Museum. photo by Ben Sussman

"You Need to Get to Know Me" is from a 2001 Oregon Public Broadcasting Art Beat show featuring Stephen's residency at Wilsonville High School, where he assisted special education students, along with several music and art students, in creating instruments out of found and recycled materials, composing music and writing songs, producing a CD, Junk Jam, and performing at the Wilsonville Festival of Arts.