From Sandy's Abaco Video Library



Barefoot Man Concert 2013
(9:30)

Back in the early eighties, when the original owners of the Green Turtle Club used to invite selected guests to dine with then at the head table, the invite was extended to us. Also included amongst the table guests was one time Green Turtle Cay resident and now frequent Abaco visitor, H. George Nowak, known locally as the Barefoot Man. His Story goes like this: ......with guitar in hand guitar he left his home in Germany in search of his island dream. He wound up in Green Turtle Cay where he played for a living by night and fished by day. He eventually married a local girl and accidentally killed a man an a bar room scuffle at the Green Turtle Club. It was suggested he leave the Bahamas which took him all the way to the Islands of the South Pacific. He eventually settled down in Grand Cayman where he performs at Seven Mile Beach. A couple times a year he returns to the Abacos highlighted by a concerts at Nippers on Great Guana Cay. His story is fastening and written about in his illustrated biography, Which Way to the Islands