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Gary appeared as a guest on Season 4, Episode 17 of the PBS Kids show Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman. The episode, entitled “Ruff’s Yard Sale Makes a Racket”, visits Brimfield, Massachusetts where he challenges two of the show’s contestants to explore the Brimfield Antiques and Collectibles Show. Gary also appeared as an expert appraiser on […]

A new technology was introduced by Gary in 2012. I.M.A.G.E., which stands for “Interactive Meet And Greet Entertainment”, enables celebrities of all types to interact with their fan base worldwide, using the Internet. Gary said the reason he created it is because now, with the use of his invention, fans can purchase merchandise from their […]

Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera Official Website Prior to launching their soon to be iconic debut project Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera, Act One, we got the chance to talk in depth with the mastermind behind the work – Gary Sohmers – to find out more about the music, […]

While producing concerts and collectibles shows, Gary Sohmers was also traveling to up to fifty antique, collectible, and specialty shows, every year – buying and selling merchandise, and promoting his shows to other collectibles vendors. In 1986, Gary set up to sell merchandise at Jolly Jim’s Flea Market at the Northeast Trade Center in Woburn, […]

Gary was also influenced by his father’s love for Gilbert and Sullivan, and songwriting. Finding music and collecting to be parallel worlds, he combined both into his career paths. His family moved from Texas to New Orleans in the mid 1950s, when Dixieland was popular, and to Nashville in 1957, when Country music was becoming […]

Gary Sohmers was born in Houston, Texas. He lived in Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Massapequa, Long Island, New York by the time he was 13 years old, and was bar mitzvahed in Brooklyn. He attained his love of collecting from his father, who collected campaign buttons. At the age of eight years old, he […]