Stan Harper

Stan (Noodles) first appeared at a gig at the old Arena club in the late 90’s. Stan, the artist formerly known as Kitonak Droopy McCool credits his previous gig with Max Rebo Band (formerly Evar Orbus and His Galactic Jizz-Wailers) as early training leading to his gig with Blue House. His vocals and sax playing had a “spacey blues” quality that helped round out the Rent to Own Horns and the Blue House sound.
Curiously, there was no record of Stan’s existence prior to joining Blue House. Immigration issues and questions about his “alien” status ensued and temporarily derailed his career until he could produce a birth certificate that cited Uranus as his place of origin.

“He’s out of this world” – “Rolling Stone Magazine”
“A musical spirit not of this earth” – “Downbeat”
“Cosmic, simply cosmic” – “Billboard”

Stan has played saxophone and taught music in the Omaha metro for over 25 years. He received his Bachelors degree in music education in 1996 from UNO. Currently he teaches from his private studio as well as vocal music for the Omaha Public Schools.
As a musician, Stan is currently a member of Bluehouse with the Rent to Own Horns, and the Omaha Big Band. He and his wife Rene’, a vocalist, have a small acoustic group-Harper and Stan also leads The Little Harper Big Band. He has shared the stage with Connor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Steve Allen, Lou Rawls, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Jim Widner Big Band, the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra, Luigi Waites, Bob Mintzer, Dave Pietro, Chip McNeal, Kim Richmond, Dave Scott, Tom Kubis, Scott Whitfield, Claudio Roditi, Wayne Bergeron, Steve Raybine and others. Also keeping a busy freelance schedule, he has recently played for shows, Beehive, Nunsense, Fame, and “grew up” touring with the Broadway show “Anything Goes”.

Most importantly!! Stan is a proud papa to two amazing, beautiful girls, and a one hip little grandson.