[Hidden-tech] Shout-out to local talent

[Bronwen Hodgkinson - cdeVision]

Thanks for sending that around Mitch! What incredible talent (the
Winterpills CD has been in my car stereo for weeks).

 

I'd like to add a fellow Hidden-Tech'er to the list: Tish Grier, local
blogger & citizen journalist (http://www.spap-oop.blogspot.com/), who will
be a panelist at SXSW Interactive.

 

Bronwen

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Bronwen Hodgkinson

bronwen at cdevision.com

413.532.6100

 

 

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From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net
[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Mitch
Anthony
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:27 AM
To: Hidden-Tech
Subject: [Hidden-tech] Shout-out to local talent

 

Dearest Hidden-Techers -

 

This week the self-employed, creative community of Western Mass. is being
ably represented at one of the country's most august gatherings of the music
and arts scene: South By Southwest <http://2006.sxsw.com/%20> . Now in its
20th year, this annual gathering in Austin, TX celebrates what's new and
great in music, film and interactive media.

 

Please put your hands together for the ambassadors from our incredible
valley:

 

Kris Delmhorst <http://2006.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/1583.html> , from
my home of many years, Greenfield

"Kris Delmhorsts songs roam from downtown edge to back-road roots, and she
sings them from where it counts. Shes quietly built a devoted fan base that
packs houses throughout the USA & UK. The fourth record, a collection of
songs inspired by well-known poems, is due out on Signature Sounds June
2006. The ambient beauty of Margo Timmins, the country honesty of Lucinda
Williams, and the airy lightness of Emmylou Harris (Boston Globe)"

 

Winterpills <http://2006.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/3768.html%0A> , from
Northampton, the town that makes the rest of us hip

"Based in Northampton, Massachusetts, Winterpills play haunting, delicate,
room-hushingly beautiful music with aching melodies and acid lyrics. Think
Elliott Smith,X,Iron & Wine, and the Innocence Mission all get drunk and
fall asleep in Joni Mitchell's backyard. "Achingly beautiful...," says The
Washington Post about their self-titled debut."

 

BTW, Kris Delmhorst and Winterpills are both on the Signature
<http://www.signaturesounds.com/%0A>  Sounds label, another one of the
valley's great talents. Discover this world-class label at
http://www.signaturesounds.com/

 

Thurston Moore <http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=724> , from
Northampton

Thurston represents a new standard. Major indie cred (when was the last time
you passed a magazine stand that didn't feature Thurston or Kim?), a house
one block from the new Smith art museum (with a kitchen table that seats
20), a SoHo studio, a doted-on tweener daughter, and friends who really know
and love him. Move over, Ward. There's another tall guy in town.

 

 <http://2006.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/8120.html> Sonya Kitchell, from
Ashfield

I remember Sonya singing "God Bless the Child" in my kitchen at the age of
8. She went on to be the first local ever to play the Iron Horse and the
second to be signed to the new Starbucks' "Hear" label. This week her new
single was the #1 most added single on AAA radio. 

 

Last summer she was playing some new songs in a friend's living room. I
couldn't recognize the chords she was playing. "Sonya, where'd you learn
those chords?" Sonya: "I made them up".

 

It could be a Western Mass. motto: "Reality? That's easy. I make it up."

 

Cheers to those who help make Western Mass. the paradise it really is.

 

Mitch Anthony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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