The Bobcats have finished our second record "Bobcats Are Back!". For those of you who are not in the know about the Bobcats, it's the school band for Beebe (which is one of the schools I work at a few days a week for students with special needs). You can check out the artwork below which was made by one of the students:
We made a pretty rad music video for the title track using a green screen (or the green wall in the music therapy room) where students picked what they want behind them for it and such. The CD also has some songs from our Bobcats the Musical which we had a few weeks ago. The musical was inspired by Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" and is about the changes they wanted to see.
For confidentiality reasons I'm not able to post the music video or songs on here - but if you're a staff at Beebe and want a copy let me know and I can get on to you!
July 26th - Mike Simonelli, the Killa B’s Acoustic Re-imagining Series, & More TBA - RI House Show - contact for details
August 1st-August 3rd: Newport Jazz Festival - John Zorn, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Dave Holland, Robert Glasper, Brian Blade, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bobby Mcferrin, Vijay Iyer... August 5th - Borris (Paradise Rock Club)
August 9th - Mike Simonelli - Family Friendly Acoustic RI show - contact for details
August 19th - Arcade Fire (Xfinity Center)
-I will actually be away for this show, so I have two tickets for this show that I’m looking to part with. I got pre-sale tickets, so they are front section - pretty close.
-I've only heard one of their songs (which wasn't even finished yet) since they've become Coaches - but it was super rad. I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to keep secret...but from what I heard it's much more electric and a lot noisier and gnarlier - but still is in the same spirit as their previous folky stuff. Can not wait to hear more from them.
-A hip-hop duo based in Rhode Island composed of two of the greatest dudes of all time and former band-mates from back in the day. The rhymes are on point, and truly funny (kind of reminiscent of MF Doom) and the beats get pretty epic and bring quite a party (with samples ranging from Cream's "White Room" to Sigur Ros's "Saeglopur")
A Rhode Island based duo (Derek Delahunt and Ben Taylor) which mixes folk and electronic music. If I'm not mistaken this will be their second show - and from the sounds of their album "Parade" which they put out last year, it should be rad.
