January 5, 2010 – 3:31 pm
One of the great byproducts of Striking 12 getting licensed here and there, is that occasionally we get to meet people who played us.
Val and I are trading off for two weeks, with one of us working on Toy Story The Musical on site in Anaheim while the other stays home and takes the kid [...]
November 28, 2009 – 7:22 pm
Back in 2006, when we spent the better part of six months working on writing and then rehearsing and then performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with director Tina Landau, we made some lasting friendships with some of the actors. Notably, we had to collaborate closely with Jesse Nager (who sang so gloriously on our recording [...]
October 15, 2009 – 2:23 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s out. It’s called “Tinker Bell & the Lost Treasure,” and it’s the first feature film we’ve ever been involved in. An album featuring two (okay, one-and-a-half) songs (one has music by slammin’ film composer Joel McNeely with lyrics by Val and myself) is released on iTunes as of September 22 (but [...]
October 1, 2009 – 4:24 pm
We just got an unequivocally awesome review in the Tulsa World, and we need to crow about it for a minute. We don’t play as many concerts as we used to, so it feels pretty darned nice to get a review like this (by James D. Watts, Jr.):
You hear a GrooveLily song from one of [...]
October 1, 2009 – 3:52 pm
Hey folks.
Due to a miscommunication between us and an unnamed third party, we’re not currently able to let the over 20,000 people who attended Sleeping Beauty Wakes in 2007 know about our upcoming show at Largo on Wednesday, October 7. We were, as you can imagine, counting on being able to tell all 20,000 of [...]
Val and Bren will be driving to Northwest New Jersey to play some songs from Sleeping Beauty Wakes tonight, in support of our upcoming show at Birdland in New York City. Never mind that the radio station is 65 miles away from the club–through the magic of web radio, you can tune in and hear [...]
Rob Bond, the leader of our Petal Pusher Program, has Gone. To. Town.
He has ransacked his collection of old GrooveLily live videos, TV appearances, and now he’s even filmed and edited our recent Sleeping Beauty Wakes concert at McCarter. And he’s posted all of it here:
Rob Bond’s collection of GrooveLily videos at Vimeo.
It’s official. Rob [...]