October 16, 2009 – 6:50 pm
Every so often, we are the lucky recipients of artwork from some of our youngest listeners. These make us happier than you can imagine. Here’s the latest, from 12-year-old GrooveLily fan Madison Kemp. Thanks Madison!
Hey all! It’s been an incredibly exciting weekend: sound engineer Kris Umezawa’s baby was born Friday, and Gene’s second son was born LAST NIGHT. (He’s already on a jazz schedule, arriving late and starting up at 1 AM.) Both Kris and Gene will be at tonight’s sold-out Birdland show, perhaps a little sleep-deprived but probably [...]
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 [...]
All spring long, the pace of life had been ramping up. Brendan and I had begun flying out to Los Angeles at least once a month, working on songs for three separate TINKER BELL movies; Gene and Suzanne had begun preparing and cocooning in earnest, as baby boy #2 pressed forward (and down) toward his [...]
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. [...]
One of my favorite things about the interwebs is the way that things keep changing and getting (mostly) better when you’re not looking. Case in point: by following a few links today, I discovered a world of GrooveLily pages out there, most of which I had never even heard of. If you have a moment, [...]
February 3, 2009 – 10:00 am
Folk Music. Drums. Can they coexist? This question plagued us (or at least me) for several years during our foray into the folk music scene. That period in the band’s history had many triumphs and many dips into deep despair. But, it also was the source of one of my proudest accomplishments, which I am [...]
January 28, 2009 – 1:32 pm
It’s been a whirlwind month, eventful for all of us to say the least. After returning from California to the rude shock of the frigid Brooklyn winter, we warmed our fingers and our hearts at the wonderful Zipper Factory Theatre in Manhattan, where we did seven performances of STRIKING 12 in concert, and filmed 3 [...]
January 27, 2009 – 7:52 am
Val subscribes, as I suspect many people do, to google alerts. For a performing artist, it can be fun to see if somebody is blogging about you, or if you were mentioned in a newspaper far from your home. Occasionally, something truly bizarre will pop up, like the following: The Celtic rock band GrooveLily mentions [...]
January 8, 2009 – 10:32 pm
There were many people who attended STRIKING 12 at the Zipper Factory Theatre last week who did not get programs – we apologize for running out of them! If you were at the show and would like to download the SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES preview tracks we promised, just send us an email at us@groovelily.com describing [...]