As performed by The Jen Allen Big Band,
featuring vocalist Laura McCabe
FINALE
Also,
For Your Dining Pleasure:
Jazz Standards
The Jen Allen Big Band
JEN ALLEN, keyboard
KRIS ALLEN, alto
STEVE DEANGELIS, bass
LAURA TELMAN, trumpet
JAKE THIBAULT, tenor / alto
STEVE BROOKES, tenor / alto
GEOFF BROOKES, trumpet
KEITH GIBSON, guitar
BEN BILELLO, drums
PETER McEACHERN, trombone
LEAD VOCALIST & VOCALISTS TEAM LEADER
LAURA McCABE, Siena College
Back-up singers (Wamogo HS students)
courtesy Maurice Steinberg
SHANNON GUNNIP
CASEY GRAMBO
MORGAN GRAMBO
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Reception Band,
The Positive Downside
Ska / Reggae / Reggaeton
"NEW EP NOW OUT"
WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut
United States
Alex Roderick - Drums/Vocals/Vibraphone
Dave Ma - Guitar/vocals
James Logue - Bass
Scott Rodd - Guitar/flute
Derick Dolloro - Aux. Percusion
Peigeng Liu - Trombone
Kerry Lowry - Tenor Sax
Katie Ronan - Baritone Sax
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About The Positive Downside
The Positive Downside has been together in multiple forms for roughly 4 years. Starting off as a Blink-182 and Greenday rip-off, their sound has significantly evolved into something they believe is their own.
They first gained recognition after the release of their debut album entitled "That's Cool... But Not Really" and have since broken up, reunited, gained members, lost members, gained members back, made instrument rearrangements and somehow through all the madness have put out a second self-produced and recorded 5 song demo entitled "This Case Must Be Returned To.." This album embodies the direction in which The Positive Downside intends to move and is a preview of an 18 song full length which will be released in 2008 and will also be self-produced and recorded.
Alex Roderick, thesongwriter/lyricist/drummer/vocalist of TPD lists his influences as The Slackers, The Skatalites, Dizzie Gillespie, Buddy Rich, The Specials,and a wide array of music from hardcore punk like the Dead Kennedys tothe most in-the-pocket jazz and swing like Modern Jazz Quartet. While incorporating elements of jazz, punk, two-tone and traditional ska and reggae, he shares a belief with the other members of the band that their sound obviously will remind a listener of a certain band or a certain song, but that they add an element that is their own. They play a brand of neo-traditional ska which is blended with the intensity of two-tone and punk to create a whole new mix of urgent, extremely danceable music, while also including styles of reggae and slower paced rocksteady and ska.
They try to put an emphasis on freedom in their music, with loose song structures and an abundance of live and recorded improvisational time, and they all agree that playing instrumentals at a live performance and taking a nice long solo section and beating it until the song comes to a climactic finish is the most fun part of playing music.
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INVITATION
Seating Limited
You are cordially invited to attend the
11TH Annual IMPAC-CSU System Young Writers
Statewide Ceremony &Dinner
Sunday, June 1, 2008
The Litchfield Inn and Bistro East
860-567-4503
4 p.m. Workshops
5-6:15 p.m. Outdoor Reception Rear Courtyard
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Special Guests:
Maya Polan, 2007 State Poetry Champion,
Freshman, Univ. of Redlands [Calif.], Writing Major
Lionel Bascom,
Writing Professor,
Western Connecticut State University
Master of Ceremonies
Rand Richards Cooper, Author
Reception Entertainment
The Positive Downside
http://www.myspace.com/thepositivedownside
Dinner
$35 per person*
* CHECKS TO IMPAC YOUNG WRITERS
Dinner Music By The Jen Allen Big Band
Featuring Vocalist Laura McCabe
RSVP by May 23, 2008
ANDY THIBAULT
IMPAC-CSU System Young Writers Trust
231 Beach St.
Litchfield, CT 06759
800-814-6931 or 860-690-0211
tntcomm82@cs.com
www.ctyoungwriters.org
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