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After Seeing Fine Arts Being Cut From Schools … Will My Child Have the Same Opportunities That I Did? (Video)
March 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The short documentary “The Missing Note” shows how fine arts are not just fun but integral for students and their education and what we can do to save them.
Ten Things I’ve Learned From Playing in a Band
August 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve played on stages that were so small that we were literally bonking instruments together and couldn’t move at all. You learn to appreciate the small things…like space, working monitors and a half-decent sound engineer.
The Thing About Holiday Concerts
December 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Carl Bosch attended his last Holiday Concert, and, well, it was glorious.
Ten things I've learned from playing in a band
June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
NOTE: I used to play in a band called Broken Falls Community Hall Band. We played a bunch of gigs in Vancouver, made a CD, never made much money…and loved every minute of it. This is a page with a song on it (right-hand side): http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Broken-Falls-Community-Hall-Band. Here’s us playing on a ridiculously small stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxyiT5omYU Try [...]
Ten things I've learned from running sound for my dad's jazz band
May 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
Everybody wants something different, which makes it impossible to keep everybody happy. With live sound, it’s not always a question of volume. You can often do more to highlight and clarify an instrument or vocals with EQ than with volume. You can have perfect levels, but once the musicians start playing and singing, they are [...]
Guestpost #43: Stephanie Sheri – Ten things I've learned from being in the independent rock band Pan Out Now
April 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Steph is a friend of mine, a musician, an improviser, and an all-around awesome person. She is also an excellent vocal coach: http://www.dragonflymusiclessons.com/dragonflymusiclessons.com/home.html Note: After graduating music college and being a professional working musician in Toronto, I took the plunge and co-founded an original rock band called Pan Out Now. It was an intense 13 [...]
Guestpost #23: Josh McNorton – Ten things I’ve learned from playing music
March 23, 2011 By 6 Comments
Josh McNorton is one of those guys who is always fun to hang out with in any social situation…a connector. And then he has this deep, poetic side that seems almost jarringly different from his gregarious personality. He’s a character, is what I’m saying…and it all works somehow. He’s worked up and down the music [...]
How to Seduce a Woman on Chatroulette
March 16, 2011 By 3 Comments
For the rare occasion you don’t meet a naked dude.
“One guy broke into tears and said his classmate saved him from suicide by reaching out.”
This is a comment by AF on the post “Breaking News: Dudes Have Feelings”.