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Jimor:
OK, I finished transferring 8.5 hours of video I took during a local art/music festival from tape to the computer, and now I'm starting to process some of that for posting. A trickle to start, but expect a flood soon, with something like 25 acts!

Here's an early taste with Autumn Sky - The Bird and the Bear, and ZuhG with a groovin' jam that got people in the park moving and dancing!

And while not on my page, one of the artists I posted above, Shannon Curtis, just released a new single that has a very cool video she made one afternoon "with an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, a Sharpee, and an iPhone"!

Jimor:
OK, lots of new stuff on my page from the Park concerts, and I've filmed a couple of other shows since then, but this post is for a young singer that is just knocking everybody's socks off (including mine).

Singer/songwriter Parie Wood picked up a judges' award at the local young musician's contest/concert back in the spring (her 3-song set recorded by somebody else), which got her an invite to the cable access music show I work on, which is where I first saw her. I got a chance to film her set at the Chalk It Up park concert, but my camera crapped out half way through her set. Here's one song from the early part, though, Manifest.

Then I was able to get her full set at a coffeehouse show, so here's 2 from that. Hope You Realize, and Missing Pieces. I'm giving her the rest of the clips, so hopefully there will be more online soon.

There probably isn't anything that instantly grabs you, but the fact that a 16-year-old can fill an 11-song set with rock solid songwriting and performing throughout is the kind of thing that you don't see very often.

Jimor:
The local music awards show was held on Saturday with a 5-hour block party downtown. between the awards presentations, there were several sets of music. I managed to record most of them.

The kickoff was a set of various singer/songwriters showing their stuff. All of them friends of mine, so I had better record it all!

First a 3-song set from Autumn Sky. She won awards for Singer/Songwriter and the overall Artist of the Year award, the 2nd year in a row she's pulled off this double feat!

Next up is Adrian Bourgeois for a song, backed up by a couple members of Musical Charis, who won for best Indie Act. Following Adrian was Reggie Ginn with a song. After that was a 3-song round by Justin Farren, Dean Haakenson, and Carly DuHain to finish off the songwriter set. In the first song, Justin gets off one of the best lines ever in describing what a car really is: A magic chair/ that burns the bones/ of dinosaurs/ propelling you/ at chosen speeds/ to anyplace/ you want to be.

After a few awards were presented, the group ZuhG came up for a rousing 35-minute set. They were the evening's other double winner with awards for best release for their CD, and for best Reggae/Roots act.

A few more awards, and then a set by Exquisite Corps, who were joined for 3 songs by a local ballet company in front of the stage. Unfortunately, there weren't any lights set up for that area, so all you see on my video is vague silhouettes.

In order to get shots, I had to hold my camera above my head, so by this time I didn't have the stamina to film any more, so I just shut it down and just enjoyed the rest of the show, something I don't do nearly enough these days. ;-)

Jimor:
Video dump since I haven't updated this thread in a while. About to run out to another show, so I'll have even more later.

Last night caught my friend Autumn playing at a local art museum's auditorium. As she said, easily the cleanest venue she's ever played at! Autumn Sky - We're Gonna Dance Like.

Opening for her was a young musician from down the road in Davis. Nat Lefkoff with an untitled song. Still 17, but showing some good songwriting.

Another show with Shannon Curtis with a new song False Alarm.

Teen sister act Dog Party with The World Is Not A Game.

For those of you not quite into the singer/songwriter stuff I typically post, here's a couple from The Kelps, with more of a punk sensibility. Grimoire, and The Unkillable Josef.

Jimor:
OK, 3 sets from the Friday show.

Headliner Sister Crayon. My 200th uploaded video, and I'm really happy with how this came out. A full 44-minute set with one of the most dynamic performers to come out of the local scene.

ZuhG. Only 2 songs in this 22-minute set, which tells you something about the way they jam!

Random Abiladeze. The first rapper I've filmed. Not generally something I'm into, but with a good venue and an active stage style like he has, hell of a lot of fun to film.

3 more sets from this show to process.

I also have a question for anybody reading the thread. This venue is a really nice place to film, and they have a lot of pretty big national acts coming through, but while I recognize the names, I don't follow the current scene enough to know which are worth going to. So, if anybody wants to peruse the venue calendar and point me at some shows you'd like to see with some high quality video, let me know!

And yes, I see that Attack Attack! is playing in February.  :roll:

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