Busy Busy Busy

My life, is quite a bit of music.

Specifically, last week was Shaun Barrowes' first benefit concert, which is part of a tour he'll be doing to several different High Schools, raising money for music programs across the U.S.

This tour is specifically called the "Live for Music" tour. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of his Music, but his general idea of helping others is pretty cool, and most of the people I know actually do like his Music, so it's probably just me being extra picky.

Afterward, the Jazz Band I'm in went to State Fair and the judges told us "You're amazingly energetic, now just get quiet enough when the music needs to be quiet, because you're loudness is amazing." The whole dynamic contrast speech, and such.

Before that I actually did an audition to be a part one of Caleb Chapman's groups, and I made it into the Voodoo Orchestra. The Voodoo Orchestra won a Downbeat Award last year, and is an altogether amazing group, and I'm incredibly lucky to have gotten into that band. To tell you a bit about Caleb Chapman's groups, the Crescent Super Band is their flagship group, and has won several awards, and all the groups play with several professionals in the Music business. A few of the ones they've played with before include Dave Weckl, Abe Laboriel, and Jeff Coffin, but they've played with over 200 Guest Artists of that caliber.

Basically, they're a group of High School students that play at the Professional level, both in skill and in who they play with.

It's grand.