Come out to Eamon Patricks and catch up on the latest with Live Music Peoria.

And there is A LOT going on!

On the agenda:
- Fogelberg Family Music Festival at Glen Oak Park
- Street musicians collaboration with Peoria Park District
- Compilation CD of Peoria punk/indie rock bands
- Benefit show and release party for comp CD
- Red Cross and MS Walk fundraisers
- Songwriters guild
- Website/newsletter/online archive gallery
- And more

So come out, have some food and drinks, and let's talk music in Peoria. This event is open to the public.

6pm, Sunday, April 13, 2008

I received the following email the other day:

Thought you might be interested in this. The second volume of this comp features a mid-sixties band from Peoria called the Wylde Heard.

http://lost-in-tyme.blogspot.com/2006/12/va-bad-vibrations-vols-1-3.html

Check out the link...free downloads of great sixties garage rock!

So anyway, who is (was) the Wylde Heard? Are any of these guys still in Peoria?

 

When I saw the title of this article from Wired, I thought for sure it was a joke. But no....

From: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23562208

Scientists unravel what makes us creative

Jazz musicians riffed on a keyboard inside an MRI chamber for brain scan

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON - Scientists inspired by the legendary improv of Miles Davis and John Coltrane are peering inside the brains of today's jazz musicians to learn where creativity comes from. Think dreaming.

posted by jwright on March 22, 2008 - 8:43am.

http://www2.pjstar.com/index.php?/ejstar/article/radiohead_adds_single_m...

A good friend of mine now living in New Zealand emailed me yesterday. Several of his musician friends from New Zealand will be spending 3 months traveling through Japan, Europe, UK, USA & the Cook Islands.

They'll be in the Chicago/Peoria area about the third week of May...and they're looking for venues and places to crash...They're interested in staying with locals and friends...on couches, floors, lawns, gardens, roofs etc. They will also be making a photo documentary with audio interviews of the trip.

Listen to music and find out more here:

Lindon Puffin

Boddhisatva offers up pearls of wisdom.

LEADING AUTHORITY:

Google "myspacemusic marketing" and this post comes up first. In the top 20 search results, you'll see about 8 or 12 posts by Vaspers or Str8 Sounds. I am the leading authority on both "blogocombat" and "myspacemusic marketing", according to Google.

From: http://www.pjstar.com/stories/020708/CUE_BFLH3C20.030.php

Banding together

Live Music Peoria's Jonathan Wright on Peoria's diverse music scene

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Jonathan Wright is the managing editor of Central Illinois Business Publishers, a local company that churns out four publications: Interbusiness Issues, Art & Society, Peoria Progress and Peoria Woman.

When he's not tackling the challenges that come along with his day job, Wright uses his communications skills to promote the local music scene.

The great Preston Jackson was a consistent thread throughout the Jan/Feb issue of art & society. In addition to the article about jazz, check out these other articles that involve Preston Jackson:

JAZZ FANS: Check out the article I wrote for the January/February art & society magazine:

Finding Jazz in Peoria

"I set out to discover—to define—the history of jazz in Peoria, to “unlock the secrets” of a storied past."