This week we introduce two new sections. The first is Our Featured Product. Yeah, it's an advertisement, but we promise to keep it lively and interesting, turning you on to new products. Who knows? Maybe you'll learn something new!
The next new addition is called Totally Random. Each week we'll feature some web-oriented gizmo or discovery that will most likely have nothing to do with music, but should prove to be interesting nonetheless.
Remember-If you are a local musician or in a band (or know of one) and would like to get the word out about upcoming shows, releases or projects, drop us a line.
You can follow and contact us on twitter @ playgroundpc, or send a message to our Facebook page administrators: Ford Seeuws or Justin Weathermon.
LOCAL ARTISTS
Last week we featured the Carolinas and mentioned the free show they were doing at Pier Park. For those of you who didn't get a chance to make it, they put on a great show! Here's a short video from the event:
Remember to check them out at The Carolinas Rock.Com.
Save the Ship
In 2006 two couples, Thomas and Leah Irby and Zach and Dayle Stidham, joined forces with local drummer Pat Douglas to form Save the Ship. In August of 2008 Pat moved on to devote more time to his solo effort The Cries Of. Pat was replaced by Matt Via, and Save the Ship was off and running again until Leah and Thomas received the exciting news that they would be having a baby. Stepping in to take Leah’s place is Ashley Rader (of the Rader Family Band fame), whom the band has taken in as one of their own. She'll be performing with them tonight at The Onion (see below).
And their sound? They describe themselves as female-fronted, melodic indie-rock. While Save the Ship desires to make the best music possible, they are committed to building relationships through their music. Thomas Irby (lead guitarist) explains:
We are in this band because we want to positively impact people's lives. We want people to receive joy from our music, but also from getting to know us. Talking to the people that come to our shows is a very important part of why we do this. We have developed some very strong friendships over the years that began with someone walking up to us and saying "I really like your music".
Every person is very important and worthy of love. We believe that a lot of people (especially teenagers these days) don't get told that enough.
In addition to tonight's event, Save the Ship will be playing a show on August 7th at Lynn Haven Methodist Church, which features local band Lily White and the kind-of-a-big deal (as in really) Cool Hand Luke.
Visit Save the Ship's MySpace for songs, event lists, etc. You can watch a video of their performance at Element 3 in Tallahassee on Youtube:
Civil War Inside
And since this post is called Music Links, I might as well throw one more in: Thomas maintains a blog with some good musical links, reviews and arts-related content. Follow him at Wells Without Water.
UPCOMING MUSIC EVENTS
Show at Vineyard Church TONIGHT!!
Friday, July 17th
Panama City Beach Vineyard Church (looks like a big onion-on south side of Back Beach, just west of Alf Coleman)
6:30 pm
Featuring Save the Ship, Paxico Via Mexico(indie/folk from Gainesville), Longshanks (brand new indie rock band), and Not Ourselves (indie folk duo)
$5 (four bands for the price of half a cd!!)
Facebook Event Page
Live in Concert at the Martin Theatre
Sundays from now through Sept. 13
The Martin Theatre Green Room
3 - 7 p.m.
$2
This week featuring Jubal's Kin.
Details:
3 to 4 pm is a meet and greet with the artists,
at 4 we begin recording the show for WKGC.
Come and be a part of the show. 5PM to 7PM is music and more music.
Every week Lucky Mudd opens up the the afternoon of music for a different musical guest.
For more details visit Emerald Coast Studio.com.
Jazz Jam at the Granite Cafe
Every Wednesday
The Granite Cafe (on the corner of Beck Ave and 10th St. in St. Andrews)
6 - 10 pm
FREE
Bring an instrument and a bit of rhythm and join the jam!
Bay Arts Alliance's Backstage Pass
Bay Arts Alliance is hosting a summer concert series showcasing local talent. The details:
Friday Nights July 24-August 28
The Marina Civic Center
6:30 pm
$5 Admission
Enter through backstage corner on NE side of building
For more info visit Bay Arts Alliance or check out the event on Facebook:
Backstage Pass.
FEATURED PRODUCT
This week we take a look at the fine line of Native American flutes from High Spirits:
For more info about High Spirits flutes visit their facebook page and their website, and come on down to Playground to give them a try!
And just for fun-take a look at Barry Wood's NAMM oddities. Wood compiles a list of the most interesting new instruments found at the yearly convention for music retailers, and this year High Spirits made the list.
The contraption below makes it possible to play two or even three notes at one time...
YOUTUBE TALENT
I suppose we should just change the name of this section to "online talent" being that this is the second time we've featured videos from other sites, but, hey, the term "Youtube" is kind of like "Coke"-the brand that ends up being a catchall for the type of product...at least that's the justification for now anyway...
* This one takes a bit of time to get going, but it's worth it:
Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
* You just never know what you're going to find out there...
I just found a humbucker electric kazoo in one of our catalogs. Out of curiosity, I did a search on electric kazoos, and here's what I found:
Vehicle on Electric Kazoo
Johnny Flash: Misirlou - Dick Dale Cover
Enter Kazoo Man - Metallica Enter Sandman performed on KAZOO by Mister Tim
So if you're looking for a cheap and novel alternative to the talk box, there's always the humbucker electric kazoo!
LINKS/NEWS
* WKGC's Peter Michael Bardach is hosting a new show called Emerald Coast Studio, which plays on FM 90.7 Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. The show features a variety of local musicians and bands that run the gamut of musical styles. They also happen to be the ones responsible for the weekly event mentioned above: Live in Concert at the Martin Theatre. One of our own, violin instructor Ford Seeuws, made an appearance on the show with Fran Bullock's ensemble the Bay Arts String Quartet. An excerpt from that show can be heard here. Other local musicians/bands that have been featured on the show include: Steve Wiggins, David Goldflies and Jim Ward, Save the Ship, the Emerald Coast Chorale, the Screaming Fleas, Ashley Rader and many more. So, yeah, it's just a tad eclectic!
For those of you interested in performing on the show or finding out more, visit Emerald Coast Studio.com, and don't forget to tune in to WKGC @ 5 p.m. on Saturdays to hear local artists take the radio waves.
* If you are learning guitar or have been playing for a long time, but cannot, with any degree of certainty, identify the note names of frets in standard tuning, check out Fretzilla.net. It works like this: make it your home page so when you crank up the internet, it prompts you to identify randomly assigned frets in a given time limit in order to load the webpage of your choice. If you get the answers right, the page loads, if not...try again. It's a good way to make your knowledge of the fretboard become second nature.
* NPR has some free music up for grabs through I-Tunes. If you like Folk or Jazz visit Free 'NPR Music at Newport' Samplers for two FREE 12 song samplers.
TOTALLY RANDOM
We’ll kick off this new section with something tasty, or at least something that makes sour stuff tasty. Have you ever heard of miracle fruit? CNN did a story on it here: "Miracle Fruit" Turns Sour Things Sweet. Apparently this is a type of fruit found in West Africa that will truly alter your taste buds' interpretation of sour tastes. None of us here have tried this yet, so if any of you have some more info, chime in. You can purchase "miracle fruit" from Miracle Fruit Man.
Thank you for checking in this week. Remember to drop by again next Friday, and if you have any feedback for us, let us know!
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