Editorial / Op-Ed
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Written by Candice Helfand
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Sunday, 21 May 2006 |
 Tufts Beelzebubs'
Part 1: Recording
It is not easy to make a great CD. It’s a long, tiring, detail-oriented, and sometimes exhausting process for everyone involved to come out with a great product that people will be snatching off the shelves (were there to be some kind of shelving system involved in ordering something online…you know what I mean).
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Written by Amy E. Malkoff
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Thursday, 06 April 2006 |
 For the past 10 years or so of my life, I’ve been mixing together and living in both the acoustic music world and the a cappella world. My goal has always been to take an a cappella group to high-end acoustic venues, and I’ve been able to do that. Acoustic audiences respond very well to a cappella, partially because of the novelty of simply not being another solo singer-songwriter, but also because they tend to be smart audiences who appreciate music that is done well. There are a few other acts that have tapped into the acoustic scene, like Da Vinci’s Notebook, who did very well at folk festivals and coffeehouses.
I went to an open mic this past Sunday here in my town, to be supportive of my friend’s boyfriend, who was the featured act. I’d never met said boyfriend before. And for a while, I've been contemplating how I want to talk about my recent open mic experiences, because it’s been bothering me. When I started out as 1/2 of an acoustic duo, in grad school and right out of college, my partner and I cut our teeth on a steady (almost nightly) diet of open mics. Truly, the trenches. We worked our way up from there. And the quality of the performers was astounding. And so was the competitiveness. In many circumstances, I think competitiveness is one ugly characteristic (although competitive people inevitably think themselves charming), but in this case it sure kept people on their toes. Songwriting was honed, everyone was looking for a gig, so they brought their best game out of necessity. Consequently, the people I started out performing with now read like a who's who of national touring songwriters:
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Written by Candice Helfand
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Monday, 03 April 2006 |
 hypocritical writer sings
“Bum bim, bum bim, bum, bum, bum…”
Uh oh.
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Written by Candice Helfand
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Wednesday, 01 February 2006 |
 ShockWave performing at the ICCA Mid-Atlantic QuarterFinals
I'm a list-making kind of girl. Always have been, always will be. So naturally, when presented with the task of writing about my experience in leading a group into its first competition heat ever (the ICCA quarter-finals)… yeah, odds are it will be in list form. So what I did was put together a list of things that I, as musical director, did my best to reinforce with the group. They’re basics, but sometimes being in a leadership role requires you to tirelessly reinforce some basic principles in your group, especially when a group is as young as ours is. So here are the ones I focused on:
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