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Flipping the Script to Become A Full Time Artist – Kenya
reprinted from WomenMovetheSoul.com – We find our artists everywhere on the internet – worldwide. We found Kenya (McGuire Johnson) Kenyamjmusic.com on facebook. Happened in bounce in and there she was in the stream. We looked, we listened and realized that this is real talent. The inspiration that Kenya gives us, besides her music,…
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The Dance of Dialogue and Music and Imagery – Rachel Noll
“The dance of dialogue and music and imagery, and the personality of the camera and how that helps tell the story… It’s special.” “Saying yes to life. Letting go of fears and stories of ruin and failure.” These are the words of an Artist, Actress, Writer, Filmmaker, Singer, Musician, Martial Artist, Horseback Rider,…
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Upcoming Performances at the Cutting Room in NYC
On July 3, 2014 at the Cutting Room NYC, Ms. Gwen Foxx will bring her live performance and Motown sounds to the stage at 9:30pm. Gwen Foxx is an international music artist and one of the most renowned singers to ever come from Detroit. A mesmerizing performer and a…
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Musicians Do You Have Insurance?
Often full time musicians live without medical insurance coverage. With new government laws that have been instituted that require everyone to have medical insurance, you need to start looking at your alternatives and find something. Even though by law a hospital cannot deny someone emergency medical treatment, they will do the minimum and then your…
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Catherine Cazes-Wiley & Tinaliah
A conversation with Catherine Cazes-Wiley, her hats and homeless people. She’s having an interesting journey in life. We won’t tell you about it, we’ll let her tell you. When I started this social enterprise I had no idea that a common thread was already running among job creation, social justice and the fashion…
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Dovetail – Being Connected to One Another
Let’s start off with a typical question – who started Dovetail? Aaron: Dovetail started way before it even had a name. Philip and I had been playing music together in many forms for a few years before Dovetail. I was started by four people. Philip, Daniel, Scott and myself. Our first EP was recorded before…
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Protecting Yourself & Equipment
So you have a band. You’ve got equipment. Along with both of those things – you have a van. The band is in the van and the equipment is in the van and you’re ready to get to the gig. What kind of protection do you have on all of the above? We’re talking…
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Losing Ground As Street Players
We wanted to talk about street players. A search for the words “street players” on google netted 426,000,000 results. There’s main street players, eden street players, chapel street players, street players.net, south street players, union street players and the list goes on and on. We didn’t want to mention a band in particular, but…
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Soaring Words from Soar
I am the mountain springs that run in energetic flows towards destiny’s aim, I follow the stars of hope and give them my mirror to reflect their glow, I fight against hard rocks and gather precious shells with pearls, I stop in crystalline streams where the sun rests its beams and further pursue my…
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Eryk McDaniel Arrested for Playing on the Street
Eryk McDaniel, who people say can really play a mean trombone, was arrested for playing on the just outside Turner Field outside of the Brave’s game. Last Friday he was just playing on the sidewalk, entertaining the crowds as they were heading into a Braves game, when officers came up and told him to leave. He told…
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Looking Foward With Days Ahead
“Daysahead revives the spirit of the golden era of bands from the 70′s & 80′s criss-crossing rock, jazz, and soul into a sound that’s both contemporary and timeless….an air-tight band and a bewitching front woman. Daysahead gets straight-ahead funky.” (Michael Heyliger, RhythmFlow) Daysahead was founded by husband and wife duo guitarist/producer/songwriter Steve Wright (Richmond, VA) &…
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100 Greatest Male R&B/Soul Vocalists
1. Jackie Wilson 2. Roy Hamilton 3. Clyde McPhatter 4. Sam Cooke 5. Marvin Gaye 6. Tony Williams (Platters) 7. Solomon Burke 8. Levi Stubbs (Four Tops) 9. Little Willie John 10. Al Green 11. Smokey Robinson 12. Luther Vandross 13. Ronald Isley (Isley Brothers) 14. Sam Moore (Sam & Dave) 15. Stevie Wonder 16.…