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 its theater pieces, such as “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” or “Striking 12,” and you want to know what song, what part of the story, comes next.
And one other thing about GrooveLily sets them apart — this band truly seems to be having a great time on stage making this music. And that sense of joy and fun was quite infectious Friday night as the band made its Oklahoma debut at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
As we say in my house, now that I’m trying to avoid all cursing and swearing around my 4-year-old son, hot golly. Check out the full review here.
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 them about the show, and expecting that at least a couple hundred of them would make time on a Wednesday night to come see us perform the score live in the town where the show started. Read More »
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 rather euphoric. Please feel free to bring cigars for them…and also to join us after the show at ZANZIBAR.
(Gene and Kris will most likely scoot back to their respective hospitals, but Brendan and Val will be delighted to have a celebratory drink with you!)
Zanzibar
645 9th Ave at 45th St
212.957.9197
We’ll probably get there around 9:15ish – the show ends at 8:30, and then we’ll be signing CDs and packing up gear. See you tonight…
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 our songs and witty banter from the comfort of your very own internet.
Check out Homegrown Radio, and tune in tonight at 7 pm Eastern time.
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 planned May arrival; the three of us in the band were honing our concert version of SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES, getting ready to perform it on both coasts; now that we had the new album in hand, we were also preparing for a workshop of the theatrical version of SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES, at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, to include a bunch of actors and probably a lot of writing; and Brendan and I were getting more and more stressed out about preschool options for our son Mose, having spent many hundreds of dollars and hours since last fall applying everywhere and getting in nowhere. We were on what seemed like every waiting list in Brooklyn. Read More »
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