Gigs
Before I get all up in the personal space, I
have a few gigs that are #1 priority in my book for you guys to know about!
Thursday, March 26 – 95Hyde interview with DJ
Victoria at Boston University’s Radio Station WTBU from 8-10pm. We’ll be doing
a live acoustic set too! Listen here.
Sunday, March 29 – I’M BEING A CELEBRITY JUDGE
in Vermont
Has Talent this Sunday at the Barre Opera House, 3:00PM. My Vermont
friends, I miss your faces. Come have lunch with me before the event!
Friday, April 10 – Healing Tones for
Hasbro with 95Hyde, Cat Has Claws, Sic Vita, and the Dust Ruffles. The benefit is
for Hasbro Children’s Hospital and hosted at University of Rhode Island’s
Ballroom Dance Club. The event starts at 7:00PM. $5 with Student ID/$7 to the
public.
Friday, April 17 – 95Hyde at PA’s Lounge in
Somerville, MA with We Are Ambushed, Lure of the Animal, and Big Time Kill. Bostonians
come get a drink with us! Doors at 8:30PM. Video link soon!
Back In the Saddle Again
I’m so stoked to be gigging again after this
brutal winter. You’d think I’m getting complacent or something. If I didn’t
have that itch to be on stage killing my inner demons with music, I’d be a sad,
sad person.
This Tuesday Cam, Jon and I are going to get a practice
going for our interview/acoustic show on WTBU. The DJ, Victoria, is so
passionate about music. She’s talented, too. She not only DJs, she writes for
HOWL magazine. I met her over a phone interview last summer in addition to a
gig we had in Lowell and she’s the sweetest person. I’m wicked jelly, she’s
just getting back from SXSW now! I better be careful, half this interview might
be me salivating over SXSW stories. Her writing about 95Hyde can be found here.
Another thing I love to do besides performing
music is helping young entertainers. I’m honored to be a judge for Vermont
Has Talent this Sunday. They’re a nonprofit that helps young
performers in Vermont area gain recognition for their talent. In addition, the
proceeds from this event go to support the Miss Vermont Organization's Scholarship Fund.
My friend Susan got in contact with me to help them out and I couldn’t be
happier to do so! She’s a talented singer/songwriter herself. (Check out her music!) The grand prize
for this event is $500. I’ll be posting on instagram/tweeting/social media’ing
the HECK out of this thing, but if you can be there in person to support these
young adults it’d be even better.
April 10 for the Hasbro Children’s Hospital is
another event for everyone. Proceeds go towards helping children. I don’t know
of any other cause more worthy. Our friends The Dust Ruffles are
performing with us again and I can’t wait to see them! This’ll be 95Hyde’s
debut at URI as well.
Dave Crespo, the man of the
Boston Music Industry and co-DJ with Carmelita on WAAF’s Bay State Rock sent
me a message last month about a show at PA’s on April 17 and I had to jump on
the opportunity. (Did I mention he’s the man?) We’ll be performing with some
fantastic bands, too. 95Hyde’s making a video right now for the event that I’ll
post as soon as it’s done. The show is on a Friday, which means you have no
excuse but to come out and party with us in Somerville. I’ll sing you something
you’ll know.
Life. What’s the meaning of it?
That’s about it in my life right now. Nope, no
wait. I take that back. There’s a ton going on, haha. If you didn’t catch it on
my social media posts, I wrote an article on the 2015 Winter NAMM Show
that got published in Berklee’s Music
Business Journal this past month. I’d mean a lot to me if you gave it
a read. :]
I’m also a co-director of Berklee’s Heavy Rotation Records this
semester. We had our record release show this past February and had 500 people
attend. (BAM!) Having my own band is great, but helping other bands really
rounds out the musician/marketing experience. All of our artists have members
that attend Berklee, and there’s literally a genre for everyone in our music. Check
out our roster here.
All of this being said, I’M GRADUATING IN MAY.
WHERE THE HELL DID TIME GO? I’ll have a BM in two months (with some
sort of music business major thrown in there).
The big question my peers and I are asking
ourselves: where do we go from here?
My band is my love. Music’s my life. Gaming is
my escape. If I can find a way to encompass all of those things into a service
or product and monetize it, I’d be the happiest person on earth. That’s the
goal, friends.
Speaking of gaming, I’m streaming World of
Warcraft now! I spent so many hours last week making my Twitch channel pretty and
professional. Still not done yet, but I’m getting there! My game time has been
divided into brainstorming ways to have engaging streams and analyzing
discipline priest logs. My apologies if that last sentence was a foreign
language to you. To my nerd friends who get it, I’m buying you coffee.
I’d immensely appreciate it if you tuned in Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from
9:30EST-12:30EST. I love talking and I especially love talking on the
Internet. Sometimes I even whip out a guitar and serenade my viewers. I take
requests. I’ll be streaming TONIGHT! To those who watch gaming streams from
time to time: what experiences keep you watching a streamer’s channel? What do
you want to see in a gaming stream?
I think that’s it for now. Keep on keepin’
on.
