Monday, September 20, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back
I have quite the fall lined up. 7 shows over the next 6 weeks! I'm pretty excited to be a part of not only our lil Victoria night (now monthly @ Lucky Bar) "Blender", but I've been asked to join a small 4 city tour of female artists I met in the Lilith Fair local talent search. Then, to top it all off, Rifflandia has also added me to it's roster this year.
Shaping up to be quite a September for me, but I couldn't be more stoked to be working this much.
I've recently relocated to the mainland (Vancouver, proper) to get a bit more immersed in the music movement over here. A lot of potential collaborations and connections here to develop and I plan on really maximizing my time here.
Stayed tuned for many new projects! In the meantime please check out of the many shows if you can!
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Stage Fright?
So, having a hip-hop alter-ego raises some legitimate concerns. But let me start at the beginning...
About a year ago I met and befriended an MC in a hip-hop band. With a similar passion for the lyric, we bonded over our own brands of song-writing. Soon we were jamming together, fitting my folk-inspired vocal lines over his verses of rhythmic words and finally began our own brand of performance we called "flip-flop". Soon that spawned a whole other sub-career of writing and singing hooks for other hip-hop artists and groups. I always take my work seriously but I liked this type of collaboration because it was so effortless, and fun. There wasn't that added pressure that this was "my stuff". They were projects that I could come to, lay a track on and let them finish. It was almost too easy.
Then it came to perform with a certain artist with whom I would just be up there with him, singing to a beat track. No guitar. No mic stand to hide behind. Just me and a mic in my hand standing next to a real live rapper. So.....the obvious question is:
WTF do I wear?? Not to mention "Genevieve Rainey" isn't really a very bad-ass rappette name. And do I dance up there, throw my hands in the air like I don't care? You see my concern.
I'm open to suggestions...but ya'll will have to come out Thursday night to Logan's pub and see what I come up with.
Oh, and does anybody have some gold chains I can borrow? Thanks.
About a year ago I met and befriended an MC in a hip-hop band. With a similar passion for the lyric, we bonded over our own brands of song-writing. Soon we were jamming together, fitting my folk-inspired vocal lines over his verses of rhythmic words and finally began our own brand of performance we called "flip-flop". Soon that spawned a whole other sub-career of writing and singing hooks for other hip-hop artists and groups. I always take my work seriously but I liked this type of collaboration because it was so effortless, and fun. There wasn't that added pressure that this was "my stuff". They were projects that I could come to, lay a track on and let them finish. It was almost too easy.
Then it came to perform with a certain artist with whom I would just be up there with him, singing to a beat track. No guitar. No mic stand to hide behind. Just me and a mic in my hand standing next to a real live rapper. So.....the obvious question is:
WTF do I wear?? Not to mention "Genevieve Rainey" isn't really a very bad-ass rappette name. And do I dance up there, throw my hands in the air like I don't care? You see my concern.
I'm open to suggestions...but ya'll will have to come out Thursday night to Logan's pub and see what I come up with.
Oh, and does anybody have some gold chains I can borrow? Thanks.
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