As several of us are Somerville (MA) residents, we’re always excited when we get a chance to rock our own neighborhood. We had two shots recently – first, the Somerville ArtBeat festival, which was a blast! …and our wonderful return (this was the previous time here) to the Union Square Farmers Market!
ArtBeat!
Some of the librarians join Somerville Symphony Orkestar for the “Elephants on Parade”
Somerville news preview – recap
Photos of us at the Farmers Market!
A little video of us at the Farmers Market.
[…] great shows in excellent settings including outdoor performances at the Harvard Square Mayfair, Somerville ArtBeat, and BU Comm Ave Fair. We opened for Liars and Believers’ Song of Songs Musical. We played […]
[…] remains celebrated during this holiday season for his love of Somerville staples life Fluff and ArtBeat!Ode to the Somerville Turkey (Fred’s Song) by Friends of Fred (Rachel Leah Blumenthal, Sophia […]
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[…] We had recently already expressed our excitement from serving as the house band for TEDxSomerville (story on the TEDxSomerville blog)! Our participation involved writing a song about each of the 25 speakers. It was challenging to complete, but we had a lot of fun doing it and treated the songs as ad hoc pieces that we’d leave behind after the event. To our delight, many of the speakers and other attendees immediately started expressing interest in hearing recordings of the songs. Because many speakers missed their songs or weren’t able to catch the details in the excitement, we immediately posted some recordings of our rehearsals, intended to help us learn and review the songs for our performance, along with lyrics so that interested parties could get the details. That didn’t seem to be enough. The requests poured in for more complete and polished recordings of the songs. At first, we were reluctant to spend time making this happen, but as the days after the event rolled by, we realized that we really enjoyed working with the songs for both their musical content and the context under which they were created. It was a bonding and learning experience for the band and it helped root us in the Somerville and surrounding community – something we’ve been extremely proud to be a part of for a long while (often playing City events such as ArtBeat and the Farmers Market). […]