Video clip- Midsummer Nights Dream at East Gloucester Elementary From James Dowd

Most of what I think I do as a father is spend huge amounts of time reminding my kids about obvious things like that they can’t go outside in the rain wearing just socks on their feet. If someone said to me at that moment: "You kid and her class are capable of pulling off a pitch-perfect rendition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream" I’d laugh out loud.

"You mean the kid outside in the rain with the socks on?"

But this is why we have schools and great teachers, to remind us occasionally that there are deep, deep wells of talent in those kids.  Beyond what we can imagine.

This clip is from East Gloucester Elementary fifth grade play, last night.
Tonight is sold out, but there may still be tix for the Sat matinee at 2.

Miranda Russell takes Graceland to her heart

This video features gimmesound Artist of the Week Miranda Russell’s wonderful cover of Paul Simon’s Graceland.  She and her band really make this song their own.  Watch and see what we mean.  You can catch her at Shalin Liu, where this was filmed, with the same band next week.  Get tickets here.

Eight great music choices tonight.  See full music lineup here.

If you’re not sure what to do, come down to the Gloucester House for the Berklee Jazz & Roots concert featuring Ed Saindon on vibes and Berklee’s Dean of Performance Matt Marvuglio on flute .  It’s only $10 and supports the new scholarship fund that will send a Gloucester student to music school.  See more details here.

“Although he’s not well known for his work in children’s music or lullabies, he was brilliant playing, arranging & producing on this CD” ~ Miranda Russell

Who is gimmesound Artist of the Week Miranda Russell talking about?  Watch the video and find out.

About 10 years ago, she and her collaborator (who, in addition to arranging and producing performs on guitar, percussion, whistle, piano and backing vocals) released a beautiful lullaby collection CD (listen to one of those lullabies here).  This is not your usual lullaby CD for baby only.  The excellent musicianship, harmonies and arrangements will captivate an adult audience as well — and it might just instill good musical taste in your little one.

Plenty of music to choose from tonight.  If YOU want to be the DJ, bob on down to Minglewood at 9pm and choose a song.  See full music lineup here.

Video- Leeny’s Stinky Diaper At Giuseppe’s Ristorante

Leeny performs one of The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad’s Favorite Tunes at Giuseppe’s Ristorante 2 Main Street Gloucester MA.

Every Sunday afternoon Giuseppe’s has a fantastic children’s sing along around their piano

Sundays
KIDS EAT FREE! (all night)

with the purchase of one adult entree

or

pasta specialty

and enjoy the kid’s piano bar!! 4:30-5:30

DSC03607DSC03609

Miranda Delivers

How can you get gimmesound Artist of the Week Miranda Russell to deliver her 2 CD/DVD set to your house personally?  Watch this video and find out.

Notice the spectacular backdrop from the Shalin Liu stage where we filmed this morning.  You can see Miranda live on this same stage next Thursday or Friday with her excellent band (Miranda tells us who’s performing with her next week).  Get tickets here.

This week, there’s excellent music all over Cape Ann all week long.  Check out this week’s complete music lineup here.

Video- Shakespeare is coming to East Gloucester Elementary!

Martin DelVecchio forwards-

Shakespeare is coming to East Gloucester Elementary School!
The 5th-grade class presents three performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Thursday, March 29th at 7:00p (Stratford cast)
Friday, March 30th at 7:00p (London cast)
Saturday, March 31st at 2:00p (Stratford cast)
Tickets are $5.00 each; contact EGSfifthgradeplay@gmail.com for details.
And bring a food donation for The Open Door!

Thanks!!!

Christopher Vincent Produces An Action Packed 2012 Boston Derby Dames Home Opener Video

Love the track and the editing Chris used!

What many may or may not know is that there are many Boston Derby Dames Living Right Here in Our Community!

Video: Christopher Vincent (christopher.r.vincent@gmail.com)

Check out his YouTube channel here

The Boston Massacre shot their Calendar here at our dock Captain Joe and Sons-

Click here for the slideshow of photos from David Cox that day

image

Edith Piaf yesterday ~ Richard Thompson Today ~ Another excellent Shalin Liu video from Miranda Russell

So you can appreciate just how versatile she is, here’s a video of gimmesound Artist of the Week Miranda Russell singing a classic Richard Thompson song at Shalin Liu.  You can see Miranda there next Thursday or Friday (get tickets here).

Did you miss KBMG Electric on Saturday @ Minglewood?  (We told you not to.)  Well, you can catch Dan King tonight at Rhumb Line and the boys tomorrow acoustic at Jalapenos.

The weather may have cooled down, but the music scene is heating up.  Check out this week’s music lineup here.

New gimmesound Artist of the Week, Miranda Russell at Shalin Liu – Don’t miss your chance!

In this video, Miranda sings Edith Piaf exquisitely!

If you’ve never seen Miranda Russel in concert, you’re chance is coming up soon.  She’s at the Shalin Liu in Rockport on April 5 and 6. Best of all there are still good seats left and you can get them here, but don’t wait too long.  Her concerts sell out.

There is so much music today from Beethoven Symphonies to world to Celtic to jazz to acoustic that you’d think we lived in New York City!  Check out the full music schedule here.

Special treat video proving who’s the best guitar player in town

You don’t often get to see KBMG ELECTRIC, but you can tonight at Minglewood at 9pm.  Just in case you forgot, they ROCKED Celebrate Gloucester.  Here’s a video from that beautiful September day in 2010 proving who the best guitar player in town really is!

And there’s a visiting rock star in this video ~ he looks like one too.  Anybody know who he is?

If you’re in the mood for something more quiet, check out our friend Marina Evans at Cafe Shalom.

Plus there are plenty of other excellent choices for music tonight.  See 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.

Video- Meet Skip Sheppard From Soon To Be Opened Three Lantern Marine and Fishing

“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!

Erin Gra Ma Chroi sung on Gloucester’s Harbor Walk

gimmesound Artist of the Week Michael O’Leary sings one of his favorite songs of Ireland in the traditional Irish style on St. Patrick’s Day at the site of Gloucester’s new Harbor Walk.

It’s not too late to get out to one of Gloucester’s many St. Pat’s parties ~ this town is just getting started.  See full music and party lineup here.

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.

Video- Coveted Yarn Yarn Crawl 2012

Witness The Spectacle

These yarn people are bananas!

Yarnies and Fiber Fanatics Congregate To Take Advantage of Ridiculous Yarn Savings

Loch Lomond sung for Joe Garland

In this video, gimmesound artist of the week Michael O’Leary sings one of Joe Garland’s favorite songs with Janice Fullman .  This was part of the special tribute to Joe Garland produced by Local Music Seen with Allen Estes that showed on the large screen at the October 1, 2011 ceremony celebrating Joe’s life at I4-C2.  A longer version of this tribute special is in the works and will air on Cape Ann TV once it’s finished.

Michael O’Leary is also featured in today’s Gloucester Daily Times story (see here).

Don’t wait for St. Patrick, get out and dance tonight.  There’s Reggae DJ, Blues, Jazz/hip hop and more.  See complete music lineup here.