Do you like the Ghost Dinner Band? We do too!!! Do you like free music? We do too!!! Do you like skipping while whistling John Tesh tunes? We don’t, what are you some idiotic freak? We can’t help you with that third thing but we CAN help you out with the first two. The Ghost Dinner band is currently giving away their lastest album; for free! Just go here http://ghostdinnerband.bandcamp.com/
This year marks the fifth year that Go Local Music have put on their famous “Camp and Jam.” The festival takes place this June 28th, 29th and 30th. It is a local festival hosting the music of tons of amazing local bands and artists. This year the folks at Go-Local are really going all out; adding extra days, extra bands and extra beer. On top of all that they have just announced that ZACH DEPUTY will be headlining the festival. Zach Deputy will be bringing his “Island-infused, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Gospel-Ninja-Soul” to the new Davisville NH location.
Run Gazelle Run is a local New Hampshire band that has been gaining some momentum over the past year or so. You may have seen them performing with Ghost Dinner Band or perhaps you are looking forward to catching them live at this year’s Go Local Camp and Jam. Whatever the case, they are amazing, fun and a band that you should go see. They released their début album at the end of last year and it can be found on most of those online places for purchase(includes that Steve jobs site). Since we think you may know very little about this band, we thought you might want to know some obscure facts about them.
Last week we featured an article about local music promoter, musician, and all around nice guy, Lucas Gallo. This week we take aim at ‘Go Local Music’ founder, president, and CEO... Mark Trottier. If you are a part of the local music scene in New Hampshire, you have seen Mark at shows, putting on shows, playing shows, hitting on farm animals and setting up sound for shows. His organization, Go Local Music, puts on a few local festivals a year. These festivals feature some of the best local bands from around Concord. This past year they most famously held Camp and Jam Four and Camp Captain Crunchy. Each event had tons of bands, camping and beer. This year Go Local Music is putting on Camp and Jam V!!!(The V stands for awesome in case you fail Roman numerals). This year’s Camp and Jam features twice the bands, three times the days and I would assume lots more beer.
Below are notes on Thelonious Monk's music performance advice. Picture below, transcription below that!!!
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Did you go out to some shows this weekend? Did you miss some shows? Below are some pictures of what happened around town. If you snapped some pictures, please send them to us yourbandinfo@gmail.com or post them on our facebook page
If you are involved in the music scene in Concord NH, you know Lucas Gallo. You have seen him walking around in his little fancy hat, smoking a smoke, drinking a drink and skipping a skip. He books music shows at a few local venues; Penuche’s and True Brew. He also co hosts a radio show every other week on WNHN-LP 94.7 FM promoting local music in and around Concord NH. On top of all of that he runs Concord Music Scene on Facebook, a page that lists all the local gigs around town. If that wasn’t enough he also use to play in the band The Jamantics and still plays out on solo guitar. Geesh. Know what else? He owns a pig farm where each pig is taught to play guitar by 6 weeks of age (ok that is a lie). OK, well.. you might be wondering “what is the point of this article!” Are we just listing a bunch of stuff that Lucas does? NOOOOOO.. We are listing 5 things that you can DO TO LUCAS.
I have owned an orange amp for about 4 years now. I can tell you, it is the most annoying amp I have ever owned. Seriously, annoying!!!! Below are the top 5 reasons why owning an orange amp sucks
You have a band and you have your first show or maybe you have been performing out for a few years or maybe fear is keeping you from performing at all. You get nervous before every show… Terrified… freaked out. Stage fright can derail even the best musician from being able to put on a good show. With a few tips you should be able to get over that fright and give the performance of a life time.
There was a lot of music this weekend. If you are like me you wish you could be there for it all. In reality we can't but below are some photos of what happened this weekend in the local music scene. Did your band play? Did you take a picture? Send it to us at yourbandinfo@gmail.com. Please include the name of the band, the venue and the date of the show!!!!
