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Weekly “Sing” at the Annie
Every week on Wednesday night, 7-9:30PM at “The Annie“, there is a singing session, open to anyone who wants to come. We sit in a circle in the art parlor and take turns singing and/or playing (on acoustic instruments) whatever strikes our fancy, and if others know the refrain, they join in! It’s loads of fun, and a very friendly atmosphere in which all levels of talent and experience are welcome.
Here’s another video from our session last week. It shows Ernie Pigeon singing “For the Life of Me”.
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Italian Folk Songs
Sung by Caro Cicala on May 2 during our weekly Wednesday night “sing” at The Annie:
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Pennies from Heaven
Last Wednesday evening, we had a great group at The Annie for our weekly singing event (7-9:30PM). The last time I posted about this, someone asked for video of a song – so I brought my iPhone tripod setup, and filmed!
Henry Allen is not just a generous host at The Annie, he’s also a talented performer. Here he sings “Pennies from Heaven”.
Come and join us some time!
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Boston – Symphony Hall
One of the nice things about Gloucester is that we have the conveniences of living near Boston, but the benefits of a relatively small community. Just a few days ago, I went to a concert at Symphony Hall. It’s great to have a world-class orchestra practically right down the road!
It was my first time at Symphony Hall, and although the performance itself was fantastic, I was also rather impressed by the venue. Here are a few photos I took with my iPhone (using the accessory lenses I reviewed earlier, in most cases the Instagram app, and in the first case, a panorama app).
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Help send a Gloucester student to Berklee — TONIGHT
… while you’re listening to some of the best musicians our country has to offer.
Jazz is known as a one of America’s most enduring musical legacies. And Berklee College of Music is the top Jazz school in the world. But it’s more than that. Every year, Berklee graduates some of the best, Grammy-award winning musicians in all genres, including one of the most popular new genres, Americana. (See lots of Americana music here).
Tonight, you can hear Berklee greats perform Americana, Jazz & Latin music AND your ticket price will help send a Gloucester student to music school (more info here)
Just go to Gloucester Community Arts Charter School at 7:30 and you’ll hear
The Dwells ~ Americana singer/songwriters
And The Berklee Voices — 7 Singers and a 4 piece band singing Jazz & Latin under the direction of Diane Richardson, Associate Professor VOICE.
Tickets $10 and benefit Berklee/Gloucester Jazz & Roots Scholarship Fund (more info here). Keep your ticket and get $5 off the next concert.
Doors open at 6pm and people are welcome to tour the school. Concert seating is at 7:30pm.
Tickets available at LIQUOR LOCKER, at the door or Call Dan at 978-876-1953
Sponsored by the gimmeLIVE Summer Concert Series and BankGloucester
If Jazz, Latin & Americana aren’t your thing, there are plenty of other choices. One of our favorites is Inge Berge, who’s at the Cape Ann Brewery starting at 9 (you can also bop down there after the Berklee show). If you see Inge tonight, be sure to request this song!
There are 9 venues with music tonight on Cape Ann. See full music lineup here.
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An evening of song at the Annie
Last night we had our weekly Wednesday night singing session at the Annie. It’s very informal and spontaneous; anyone who wants to show up takes a seat in our circle of chairs in the art parlor, and we go around taking turns singing (and/or playing acoustic instruments). The group will often join in the chorus if it is a well-known song. It’s a very open atmosphere; music of pretty much any genre, and singers any level of talent or experience (from people who usually only sing in the shower, to music professionals), are welcome. People are also welcome to come if they just want to listen.
Here is a slideshow of some spontaneous photos I took last night.
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Jazz, Latin & Americana Concert ~ Friday at Gloucester Community Arts Charter School
Friday, April 27 at 7:30pm, two major forces in American Music @ Gloucester Community Arts Charter School Sponsored by the gimmeLIVE Summer Concert Series and BankGloucester
The Dwells ~ Americana singer/songwriters
And The Berklee Voices — 7 Singers and a 4 piece band singing Jazz & Latin under the direction of Diane Richardson, Associate Professor VOICE.
Tickets $10 and benefit Berklee Jazz & Roots Scholarship Fund (more info here). Keep your ticket and get $5 off the next concert.
Doors open at 6pm and people are welcome to tour the school. Concert seating is at 7:30pm.
Tickets available at the door or Call Dan at 978-876-1953
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One of rock’s great drummers died today
Levon Helm, drummer and singer for The Band died today in NYC (see NYTimes story here). You can count on one hand great drummers who are also great singers. These two videos give you an idea of why he’s one of our favorites. Nothing more to say. Just watch.
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Would you pay double to see a classic like Springsteen play ONLY His Old Stuff?
How many times have you gone to see a musician that has a library of 20-40 incredible classic songs, pay huge money for the tickets and then endure over half the songs off the new album they just put out with songs you’d never heard of?
You’re standing in the audience expecting to hear Rosalita and Badlands and three or four songs in a row go by and there isn’t a single song you recognize.
Before everyone jumps down my throat, I completely understand the need to grow as an artist and explore and create new stuff so you can satisfy your own desire to create. I get that. When I feel like the blog has been stagnant and we haven’t come up with new ideas in a while I get extremely irritable and it’s when we break new ground or stories that I feel most satisfied with the work we’re doing.
But what I’m talking about is strictly from the consumer’s standpoint.
Would you as a consumer be willing to pay double for a ticket to a classic band if they promised a complete show of pure top number one hits and nothing new?
Because I rarely go to concerts any more, I would.
Wouldn’t it be great if say Springsteen alternated years where one year he does the classics tour and then the following year he plays a mix of classics and new stuff?
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One of our favorite Chelsea Berry Songs
Here’s a great version of For You by Chelsea Berry filmed at the House Concert last Sunday.
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Chorus North Shore in Gloucester
Yesterday, Chorus North Shore performed a concert at St. Ann’s Church of Holy Family Parish. The concert celebrates “80 years of choral performances”, including a selection of works performed throughout their history. Here are some photos:
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Announcing The Gloucester Blues Festival Saturday, August 11th, 2012
It’s a good time to give Good Morning Gloucester the news on our headliner for the Gloucester Blues Festival taking place in Stage Fort Park on Saturday, August 11th.
Shemekia Copeland is at the top of her game, and will thrill the blues lovers at Stage Fort Park this August. She performed earlier this week at the White House for President Barack Obama and shared the stage with blues luminaries like Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Jeff Beck, Keb Mo, Warren Haynes and Trombone Shorty.
On Monday night at 9:00 p.m., PBS will be broadcasting the show: “In Performance at the White House Red, White and Blues”. I urge our friends to tune in and get a small sampling of the powerful voice of Shemekia Copeland, the Queen of the Blues.
The Gloucester Blues Festival is a Paul Benjamin/Bob Hastings Production. Paul Benjamin is the producer of the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine which attracts 16,000 people to the Maine waterfront each July:
We promise to bring the finest in blues to Gloucester this summer. We will be releasing the names of other performers in the weeks ahead.
Gloucester Blues Festival Headliner
Saturday, August 11th, 2012 – 11:00 to 7:00
On the beach – Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, MA
The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce is the primary sponsor of the Gloucester Blues Festival
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Marina on the Beach
Click on the video to see gimmesound.com Artist of the Week, Marina Evans, talk about her new band, new songs, new gigs and upcoming trip.
Best of all, she tells us when we might expect to hear her new songs.
Marina’s got a gorgeous new website (see here) and you can hear some of her music here.
It’s Tuesday in Gloucester. That means KBMG at Jalapenos and Henley Douglas at Rhumb Line. Enjoy!
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Just in case you missed it …
gimmesound Artist of the week: Allen Estes was one of the stars of Celebrate Gloucester 2010 at I4-C2 — and he was joined on stage by Fly Amero in a surprise appearance (Fly originally couldn’t play Celebrate Gloucester due to a scheduling conflict) for one of Allen’s most popular songs, Not With Ya Hands about Gloucester legend Howard Blackburn.
Their inspiring performance was one of the highlights of the festival. Click on the video and check it out!
Lots to choose from tonight swing, funk, jam band & good ol’ rock ‘n roll. See full lineup here:
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“Gloucester Town” – from the Wednesday “sing” at the Annie
Carlo Cicala played and sang “Gloucester Town” (his variation on a familiar song) last Wednesday evening at the “sing” at The Annie. He was accompanied by Bob on the sax and Ernie on the guitar. I had some camera trouble that cut off the first few seconds, but here is the rest:
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Wednesday night “sing” at The Annie
Here’s a snapshot from the “sing” last night at The Annie – a weekly informal get-together on Wednesdays from 7PM to 9:30PM, where everyone gets a chance to sing and/or to sing along with others, and/or play acoustic instruments. People are also welcome to come just to listen. Our host requests a $5 donation from participants to help support our venue’s basic expenses.
Last night we had songs in English, Italian, Spanish, and Latin, from a variety of genres. We ended up with twelve people, three guitars, a sax and a clarinet (I think… I’m not an expert on wind instruments, so I may be misidentifying it). Come and join us for future “sings”!
In a day or two I’ll post a little video clip of one of the songs sung yesterday.
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Merry Christmas!
The parish choir (directed by Tom Misuraca) sang before Mass yesterday night, offering a sort of recap of the Christmas concert held earlier in the month. Here are some highlights.
Unfortunately, in one or two places there is a little bit of feedback in the microphones which mixes with the higher frequencies in the music and makes it sound a little off-pitch, but the choir sounded great.
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St. Ann’s Christmas Concert
Here are a few photos. I was in two of the choirs, so I don’t have photos of those, but here are some of the other performers:
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Allen Estes Features -Julie Dougherty and T Max
Coming soon on Cape Ann TV “Allen Estes Music Scene”
Be sure to watch the show on Cape Ann TV “Allen Estes Music Scene”
Link to T Max’s NOISE publication online.
Other Links:
Cape Ann TV http://capeanntv.org/
GimmeSound http://www.gimmesound.com/
