Archive for MRC News
Hip-Hop Showcase Review
Posted by: | CommentsThe May Music Madness Hip-Hop Showcase took place at the Tom Tom Founders Festival Closing Gala this past Sunday, May 13. MRC students performed in front of hundreds of concert-goers. To see all the pictures from the performance, please visit our Facebook page.
You can also check out this Charlottesville Newsplex video that re-caps the day. MRC alum, J Willz, who also performed in the Showcase, is shown on-stage in the video. A HUGE thank you to all of our performers: TJ Fresh, Quis $weat, Lila Siperia, Big Trae, Michael Bryant and J Willz.
Singer-Songwriter Wrap-Up
Posted by: | CommentsThanks to everyone who came out on Friday night to watch nine budding singer-songwriters take the stage and showcase their talents. Thanks, most of all, to our performers: Olivia Langan, Bridget Klauer, Allie Eichelberger, Harli Saxon, Neil Ackroyd, Aimee Moody, Liam Rowland, Emma Davis and Mariah Jenkins.
Visit our facebook page to see the full album of pictures from the show. Be sure to come out to the Tom Tom Field Day and Closing Gala on Sunday, May 13 for our second May Music Madness event— the Hip-Hop Showcase.
Showcase Line Up Announced!
Posted by: | CommentsWe are pumped to announce the line up for our Singer-Songwriter Showcase THIS Friday night! Come out to the MRC between 5 and 7pm to catch these amazing performers:
Neil Ackroyd, Emma Davis, Shelby Edwards, Allie Eichelberger, Mariah Jenkins, Bridget Klauer, Olivia Langan, Aimee Moody, Liam Rowland, and Harli Saxon.
The event is FREE and open to the public. The Music Resource Center is located at 105 Ridge Street, just a block from the Downtown Mall. Check out our full list of MRC events happening this month as part of May Music Madness.
New Prizes and Sponsors
Posted by: | CommentsWe’re less than two weeks away from the first May Music Madness event. Thanks to our amazing sponsors and community partners, we can offer these fantastic prizes to the winners of our Battle of the Bands on May 19:
1st Place- Opening Gig at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion during Fridays After Five
2nd Place- Corner Lounge Interview on 106.1 The Corner
3rd Place- Six hours of consecutive studio time at the Music Resource Center
The winners will be determined by a combination of a judges panel and audience vote. We will also offer prizes for: Best Front Person, Best Bassist, Best Guitarist and Best Drummer. Entry forms are due to the MRC THIS Saturday, April 28. Check out our post listing last year’s winners.
Thank you to all of our sponsors and community partners who are making May Music Madness possible.
Lead Sponsor
Additional Sponsors
Community Partners
“It just grows like an apple”
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Click here to watch a video about students in our sister program in Duluth, Minnesota.
The inspiring artists of the Music Resource Center don’t stop in Charlottesville. At our sister Center in Duluth, Minnesota, Galalee Wright and sisters Dylan and Jesse Hatten started their composition trio, Brown Eye Blue Eye, when they were just six years old. They now record and compose at the Music Resource Center in Duluth, and even perform outside of the MRC in their community.
When explaining their composition process, Jesse says that the sound comes to them naturally, like an apple growing on an apple tree.
“It just grows like an apple, ” she says.
Brown Eye Blue Eye’s full interview from Fox News can be found here.
Like Art?
Posted by: | CommentsIf you’re musical (and we know you are), chances are you can make art. The Music Resource Center’s annual spring album will be released at the end of May, and we need cover art! We’re doing this contest in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club and Computers 4 Kids, so members of those organizations as well as the MRC are eligible to submit designs.
Members who would like to submit designs for our CD cover need to do so by March 16th, so we can get it ready to go! Make it exciting, make it original, make it new. Go ahead – get creative and get drawing, because how cool would it be to see your art on the cover of some great music?
Click here to see examples of past cover art.
New “Rock Band” Workshop
Posted by: | CommentsDude, let’s start a band.
We know you’re out there. You’ve been practicing and practicing and you’re finally ready to make the leap from playing in your basement to playing on a stage. But, you don’t have a band.
MRC’s Rock Band is a way to bring together MRC members of all different instrument backgrounds who are interested in meeting and playing with fellow musicians. During Rock Band, which will meet on Fridays from 6-7pm, musicians will come together to 1) learn and practice a cover song 2) write a song together and 3) record the song as a band.
The eight-week Rock Band workshop will start on Friday Feb. 3 and meet every Friday evening for eight weeks, ending on March 30. You MUST sign-up in advance for this workshop. You will not be able to join after the workshop has started. The Rock Band group will operate very independently, but will be supervised by MRC staff and volunteers. Musicians signing-up for the workshop need not be advanced, but should feel like they have a comfortable grasp of their instruments.
Call the MRC at 434-979-5478 to sign-up today! Also, you can check-out our other winter workshop offerings here.
MRC January Closings
Posted by: | CommentsThe MRC will be closed Monday, January 16 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Monday, January 23 for building maintenance.
MRC January Closings
Posted by: | Comments| January 16, 2012 | ||
| January 23, 2012 |
The MRC will be closed Monday, January 16 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Monday, January 23 for building maintenance.
New Electric Drumkit
Posted by: | CommentsThanks to a generous donor, we have recently acquired a new electric drumkit. This drumkit can be played SILENTLY, yes silently, for those looking for a quiet rehearsal. But, it also has 64 different drumkit sounds and one thousand other instrument sounds—guitar, piano, even vocals—that let students experiment with drums in a whole new way.
If you have old instruments around your home that you are not using anymore, please consider donating them to the Music Resource Center. Our most needed instruments include: guitars (both electric and acoustic), bass guitars, drums, and guitar and amp accessories (cables, tuners, capos). Please call us at 434-979-5478 for more information on donating instruments or equipment.
Our new electric drumkit
Staff and volunteers assembling the kit
Timmy making good use of our new acquisition
