April 26, 2010 – 12:07 am
May 19, Philadelphia: Gustavo Dudamel leading LA Philharmonic, Jazz vocalist Lizz Wright & GrooveLily at Kimmel Center
We are so delighted to return to Philadelphia and be a part of this exciting event, which is the spring fundraiser supporting the Kimmel Center’s educational offerings. This will be a very special evening (”red-carpet attire” encouraged, says the Kimmel Center), so dig some festive clothes out of the closet and come join us. Tickets for the show are $20. (There are also $100 “VIP” tickets which include cocktail reception, meet-and-greet with Gustavo Dudamel, etc. – but the GL concert itself is just $20. See below for details.)
Kimmel Center Presents GrooveLily In Concert
Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio
300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
May 19, 2010
7:30 PM
215.893.1999
Kimmel Center
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I’ve been doing various kinds of yoga for a few years now (and recently Brendan has gotten into it too, specifically the bikram variety) – and I absolutely swear by it. I feel more relaxed, serene, stronger, and even a bit taller…and the yoga is a perfect balancing counterpart to what I’ve done for many years, a road-warrior-worthy military-style workout of cardio/pushups/situps. All three of us in the band are now into yoga, and it’s doing each of us a world of good.
The other day I went to a class where there was some vaguely eastern-sounding music playing in the background, and I paid it little attention (I actually prefer it when there is no music because I get distracted)…until I suddenly heard a very familiar voice coming from the speakers: it was my grandfather!
Samuel Vigoda
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Paul Sabourin, of Paul and Storm, just turned 40, and his wife threw him a surprise birthday party. We weren’t able to be there, but Storm invited us to participate in a mashup video where we would reminisce about something absolutely fictional in Paul’s history. Accordingly, we filmed a little something in the lobby of the hotel before the gig in College Station, TX, earlier this week.
The resulting video, below the break, is HI-larious, but much of it is, well, implications are made. Be forewarned.
Our segment is about how Paul used to play Sousaphone with our band. Storm got all photoshoppy and included these photos:
We can only say: Happy Birthday, Paul, and thank you, Storm! It’s clear that a lot of peculiar people love you a lot. Including us. Read More »
The wheel is spinning madly... (image courtesy of boardgamegeek.com)
Okay, we’re going to do it. We’re going to finish Wheelhouse. For real.
For those of you who don’t know anything about this, Wheelhouse is the 2nd GrooveLily concert-musical-hybrid thing, the one we started in 2004-5, after Striking 12 was proving to be a successful venture and we wanted to do more of the same.
TheatreWorks supported us with a writers’ retreat in January of 2005, and a workshop in their New Works Festival in April-May of 2005, and we made significant progress. Then we stopped.
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Really looking forward to this! We played STRIKING 12 a couple of years ago here at Texas A&M, in a cozy cabaret space for 3 nights in a row, and had a blast. Now we’re returning to play the larger Rudder Theatre, with SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES in concert, this Thursday, March 4, as part of the MSC OPAS “Intimate Gatherings” series. We like the sound of that, and hope to see you there.
Rudder Theatre, Texas A&M
