Welcome to the world of Gary Green.

Colorful, intense, successful, controversial, and diverse; the world of Gary Green is a world of business, literature, music, gaming ... and mostly of an adventurer.

Though today he is most often identified as one of the country's leading casino executives (or still as the ultimate gambler to some ? especially since his appearance in the World Series of Poker a few years ago), before that, he was known as a pioneer of the first dot-com era. In some circles he is known for the business acumen that put him in the employee of Donald Trump, Forest City Ratner, and other business titans.

Others knew him as an award-winning journalist. Still others visited the Smithsonian or heard is music recorded by other artists and knew him as one of America's most intense folk singers and recording artist. And, there are those who remember him as a civil rights, union organizer, and advocate of Native American rights.

No matter where you come from, entering Gary Green's world is an entire adventure to most. Businessman, Gambler, Adventurer, with a background more colorful than most of the casino glitter houses that he builds and runs, even in his mid-30s ? almost three decades ago ? Gary Green was already being called a legend.

As a journalist, he had twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize...before the age of thirty.

As a songwriter, his three record albums, recorded on legendary Folkways Records were part of the Smithsonian's permanent American Folklife collection.


*Gary Green's 3 Albums In The Smithsonian Collection*

As a labor union leader, he was one of the masterminds of the single largest organizing drive in American history.

And as a propagandist, his skills had been tapped by members of Congress, presidential candidates, governments, and Fortune 500 corporations.

Gary's old friend and mentor Congress man Joe L. Evins of Tennessee

By the time he was 40 he had become a walking compendium of vast and varied experiences that included: publishing a 250,000-circulation magazine; writing a best-selling travel guide; and co-owning a circus.

		Elements of the former Moscow Circus made up the Euro Circus, co-owned by Gary Green. Below is a video trailer advertising the circus. At the left: the three-tent complex that made up its permanent home in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Center left: Gary's good friend 'Gratchik' who Gary booked as "the world's most famous clown" and who became the leading attraction at Gary's Circus project. From Armenia, Gratchik spoke less English than Gary spoke Russian. Center right: A publicity photo of one of the acts of the circus.

By his mid-40?s, he had become a genuine pioneer of the Internet e-commerce business and technology and had twice won a place as a finalist for the Best of COMDEX (the international high-tech expo). He had architected the framework for the most powerful e-commerce, was a genuine pioneer of web technology with a client list that included many of the Fortune 500 (click here for a list >>>).

Into the 21st century and at 50 he spent his time fine-tuning and redefining the marketing and technology processes for the casino gaming world...bringing them (kicking and screaming at times) into modern corporate competitive business models drawing from traditional catalog and direct marketing transition to e-business.

Still on the lecture and public-speaking he spends his time creating new companies, writing, playing guitar, lecturing, pitching technology solutions, defining marketing for the gaming industry, and giving propaganda and startup advice. Technically living in South Florida, he has spent the last decade splitting his time between Florida, Las Vegas, New York City, Southern California, Oklahoma, Montana, two Caribbean islands, and where ever the next adventure leads him.

On the cutting edge of the 1970?s avant-garde twilight zone between coming of age baby boomers and the rest of America, one week Gary would be at the side of a veteran member of Congress giving policy or strategic advice and the next week in Greenwich Village playing guitar in one of the dimly lit, crowd-packed coffee houses.

The Baltimore Sun best described Gary's ability to touch, convince, and motivate broad-based audiences:

"Mr. Green had them: a young couple with a three-week old baby, a couple well into middle age?and approximately equal numbers of those who seemed to remember the Fifties, and those who looked to have been children in the Sixties, not of them."

Born in North Carolina and raised in the hills of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia, Gary Green is a braided paradox of simple, working-class Southerners and the high-tech, urban intelligentsia. With a southern charm more akin to John "Doc" Holiday and Rhett Butler than the ?cable-guy? and the redneck set, he is often referred to as one of the last ?southern gentleman scoundrels?.

He served his apprenticeship singing folkie acoustic versions of Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash songs in New York City folk circles and as a daily newspaper reporter in the South covering the goriest of murders, drug raids, and government corruptions.



	Left: Poster from a Gary Green concert in a package show. Top Center: Gary & legendary Pete Seeger after a concert on Seeger's Sloop Clearwater.Top Right: Gary and civil rights singer/organizer Rev. Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick prepare for a Raleigh NC concert. Bottom Right: Phil Ochs, co-founder with Gary, Seeger, & Broadside Magazine of the I Hear America Singing Topical Music Project.

Often a lecturer or guest speaker at conventions, trade shows, colleges, high schools, Universities, community groups, clubs and churches, Gary's Southern folksy charm disarms and relaxes a crowd as he spins them into a calculated web of entertainment or persuasion.

With a lifestyle reminiscent of the fantasy-world of 1940?s matinee cinema noir serials ? even down to his trademark fedora ? Gary soars from exploit to adventure to escapade chronicling a myriad of romantic episodes in prose and lyric.

And his escapades as a professional card counter and gambler in the early 1980s rival the best rat-pack era Vegas stories and color; not to mention his stint in the World Series of Poker.

A walking compendium of vast but highly varied life experiences, Gary writes (or tells) an edge-of-your-seat descriptive adventure that engulfs the readers or listeners and transports them into whatever world he navigates.

At the same time, he is a results-oriented senior-level executive with a proven record of accomplishments. Known as one of the few master practitioners of subliminal motivation and persuasion (an art form that from time to time unsettles some of the less-progressive and more oppressive elements), he is a seasoned professional in media placement, state-of-the-art targeted marketing, writing, politics, financial & budget development & oversight, and administration.

His byline has appeared more than 1,000 times in daily newspapers and national magazines and more than 10-million people have heard his voice on radio and television.

From organizing a topical music project with Broadside Magazine, Pete Seeger, and the late folksingers Phil Ochs and Rev. Fred Kirkpatrick, to allegedly "running guns" for Native Americans at the siege of Wounded Knee to passing in and out of the "Berlin Wall" in old East Germany, to mid-night drug raids in the company of heavily armed southern cops, to early morning Washington meetings with members of Congress and heads of state, to creation of new Internet technologies to being a professional gambler and later a casino executive?the world of Gary Green is a world of adventure. This site gives you just a taste of some of those adventures.

Gary reading after returning to the South from the siege of Wounded Knee, 1973

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