What you never saw & What to watch for in Brad Byrd’s New Video

Yesterday former gimmesound Artist of the Week Brad Byrd released his new video on GMG (see here) directed by another former gimmesound Artist of the Week Brandon Rose.  Excellent job, Brandon, Brad, Brie and everyone who made this happen!

Part of this video was shot at Minglewood Tavern on St. Pat’s day, so we thought we’d piece together some of the behind-the-scenes footage of the making of that video for you to see today.  You’ll see actresses Brie Hobbs trying out for the part of Brad’s girl-friend at the casting call and Stacey Iwanicki, who played one of the fans.  And of course you’ll see our boy Joey C, who was there for the entire shoot.  In the final video, there’s a good shot of Joey in the audience.  Welcome to the big time, Joey!

Brad will be shooting another video at Minglewood next Saturday, May 5, so you’ve got another chance to be in the audience and get on screen!  Stay tuned to GMG for details.

You know summer is on the way when there are 8 venues with music on a Wednesday night in Gloucester alone!  See the full music lineup here.

Brad Byrd Video Shoot May 5th at Lat 43- Party and Be In a Music Video!

Brad Byrd writes-

Hey Joey, Brad Byrd here…    just wanted to catch up w/u (hopefully you’ll see this email) and say thanks for coming out to Lat 43 on St Patty’s Day and being a part of the video shoot.   The video is almost finished and I’m excited to show you and Gloucester/Cape Ann.  I also wanted to personally thank you for including/featuring me in your GMG blogs over the last couple months or so.  Congrats again on all the blogs success!  

That said, I wanted to let you and your readers know that we will be doing another video for another song off my new album on May 5th at Lat 43 again.  This time w/my full band.  It’s going to be a big night.  I’m also playing every Thursday night from 8-11pm at Giuseppe’s solo for the month of April.

Check Out Brad Byrd’s Site below

image

Two Artists of the Week Opening Tonight

Brad Byrd with Brandon Rose at MinglewoodYou may remember that Brad Byrd shot a video at Minglewood on St. Pat’s day.  (Here he is with Hollywood director Brandon Rose).  If you missed it, check out this post.)  TONIGHT, Brad is starting his Thursday Night Music Series at Giuseppe’s at 8pm.

Last week, we featured Miranda Russell (listen to her great version of Graceland in the video above).  There are still good seats left for her concert tonight at Shalin Liu in Rockport.  Get tickets here.

Plus there are plenty of other choices for tonight too.  Check out the full music lineup here.

You asked for it, You Got it ~ The complete song

You’ve seen lots of behind the scenes video and interviews (click here if you missed them).

Now here’s what so many of you have been asking for — Brad Byrd‘s complete song Zero to the 101 performed at Minglewood on St. Pat’s afternoon while gimmesound Artist of the Week Brandon Rose and his crew get crowd shots.

Lots of choices for great music tonight starting at 7pm: Dance party, fundraisers, old faves and new faces.  See the full music lineup here.

“If you can get good hate mail, it means you’re actually doing very well.” ~ Brad Byrd

That’s right, folks.  In this video Hollywood director Brandon Rose (gimmesound Artist of the Week) and local musician Brad Byrd sing the praises of getting hate mail and give 4 reasons why it’s a good thing.  Watch the video and see all the reasons why Brad & Brandon love hate mail!

It feels like summer and Gloucester’s music scene is heating up too:  7@7 ~ SEVEN great music choices tonight beginning at 7pm.  See full music lineup here.

Brad, Brandon & Brie ~ Casting Call

Here’s the third of our series on the making of Brad Byrd’s music video Zero to the 101 directed by gimmesound Artist of the Week, Brandon Rose.  This video shows the casting call last week at Minglewood Tavern and ends with Brad Byrd and Brianna Hobbs (who was cast as the female lead) doing a bit of improv.

It’s Tuesday in Gloucester.  You know what that means: 7pm at Jalapenos and 10pm at Rhumb line.  See full music lineup here.


Want to know the secret of editing good video? Pay attention to this …

Last weekend, Hollywood director Brandon Rose came to Gloucester with his crew to direct a music video for Rockport native Brad Byrd‘s hit song Zero to the 101 that was featured on ABC TV’s Happy Endings, so we decided to feature him as gimmesound Artist of the Week.

We first met up with Brandon during the casting call at Minglewood Tavern on Thursday and talked about his approach to editing.  In this video (above), he gives us a good lesson on the subject, so PAY ATTENTION.

Later this week, we’ll have exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Brad’s video.

Today it’s Dave Sag in the afternoon and Bandit Kings at night — two good choices, so get out and have some fun.  See local music details here.

So you don’t think you need a music video? Think again.

Hollywood director Brandon Rose, of Mind Venture Pictures, came to Gloucester this weekend to shoot a music video for Brad Byrd, who was gimmesound Artist of the Week in January.  So we figured it fitting for Brandon to be Artist of the Week starting today.

In this video, Brandon has advice for all you musicians out there trying to get your music heard and seen.

The rest of the week you’ll get the very first glimpse at the making of Brad’s music video for his hit song, Zero to the 101 — footage you’ll only see on Good Morning Gloucester — so stay tuned!

It’s a big day for music with different choices every hour starting at 4pm this afternoon featuring last week’s Artist of the week Michael O’Leary at the Landing (especially for those of you who just don’t want St. Patrick’s Day to be over).

See full music lineup here.

And don’t forget our good friend Allen Estes at the Rhumb Line with Orville Giddings ~ Always a great show!

Live Blogging from the Brad Byrd Video Shoot @ Minglewood

Here’s a sneak peak at the sound check for today’s music video shoot of Brad Byrd‘s hit song Zero to the 101 at Minglewood Tavern (at Lat 43).  There’s still time to come on down and get your pretty face into the video.  Filming will go ’till about 4pm.

It’s St. Patrick’s Day in Gloucester and you know what that means … Plenty of music and dancing starting RIGHT NOW and going on all night long.  See full St. Pat’s music lineup here.

You can be in a Music Video on St. Pat’s Day!

Hollywood comes to Minglewood.  Don’t miss your chance to get in on the action!

Watch the video interview, above, with Hollywood director Brandon Rose, of Mind Venture Pictures, who’s here this weekend to shoot a music video of Rockport native Brad Byrd‘s hit song Zero to the 101, which has been featured on ABC TV’s Happy Endings.

Want to be in this music video?  Just go to Minglewood Tavern (at Lat 43) at NOON on Saturday (3/17) and you could be in the shots of the audience for the live performance portion of the video.

Rockport’s own Brad Byrd is looking to cast an attractive female lead for his upcoming music video for his song "Zero to the 101"

Rockport’s own Brad Byrd is looking to cast an attractive female lead for his upcoming music video for his song "Zero to the 101". Brad’s music has been featured on  MTV, VH1 ABC’s Happy Endings, as well as others. 

The video shoot is going to be on Sat. March 17th, and Sun. March 18th, so you must be available both days.

The video is going to help promote the musician’s newest album so the video will be getting a large amount of exposure.

The casting call is going to be held on Thursday, March 15th, from 1pm to 5 pm in the Gloucester / Rockport area.

All those interested please send:
1) A Head shot or photo
2) Your age
3) Best way to contact you
4) Preferred time of audition on Thursday
to brandon@mindventurepictures.com
***Also, if you are interested in being the female lead and are free the 17th and 18th but not free for the casting call you may still submit the above information***
All those who respond will receive an email with:
1) their time of audition
2) the location of the casting call
3) the contact info for the production.
For compensation, the lead will be reimbursed for gas, and will receive a DVD copy of the video upon completion.
Thank you everyone.

He Won!

You may remember that Brad Byrd, who was gimmesound’s Artist of the week at the end of January, was up for an award on Melodic.net.  Well he won Singer/Songwriter Album of the year, for his latest album Mental Photograph!

CONGRATULATIONS BRAD!

Click on the video  above to hear Brad sing Middle of the Road from that album.  In honor of Brad’s win, we edited some footage from last month into a fascinating interview (check it out here).

Then hurry out to catch bluegrass brunch at Alchemy, followed by jazz in the afternoon, folk in the evening and the Bandit Kings Gloucester sound at the Rhumbline.  It’s a musical Sunday in Gloucester!

Brad Byrd Wins Best Singer-Songwriter Album of the Year!

GMG readers: thanks for voting for Cape Ann’s own Brad Byrd, who won in the Best Singer-Songwriter Album of 2011 for his release “Mental Photograph” on the highly-regarded melodic.net site. Brad was up against such luminaries as Ryan Adams & Bon Iver, but clearly, melodic’s fans know the best when they hear it! For more of Brad’s music, visit his site www.bradbyrdofficial.com and check out his interview on melodic.net.

Local Musician’s song on ABC TV’s Happy Endings

012312
Peter talks with Brad Byrd about his new song Zero to the 101 which was featured on ABC TV’s hit comedy Happy Endings  last week.  Click here to listen to the song

Something about a Harley…

For more Nelson Ride photos and the Rockport Harvest Fest, click here.

 

 

 

Chickity Check It! Brad Byrd To Play This Weekend’s Sidewalk Bazaar

Just wanted to follow up w/u and say that it was a pleasure to meet
you a week or so ago out on Rocky Neck.  Congrats again will all of
your success with your blog!  Brad and I are subscribers and look
forward to following along.  Just a quick heads up, Brad actually was
asked to perform this Sat Aug 6th from 3-5pm for the annual sidewalk
Bazaar.  We are looking forward to it…  I know you had mentioned
sending over a youtube clip so here’s a link to a video and also a
link to Brad’s website which will bring you directly to all of his
pages, fb, twitter, youtube, myspace, etc.
Anyway,
Hope to see you around soon!
Marnie Valley Byrd

www.bradbyrdofficial.com