Tuesday, January 15, 2019

IHEARIC VIDEOS - Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, and Steel Drums

Katie Wedmore
As per usual, we have a rather eclectic mix of videos from IHearIC. We had acoustic guitar player, Katie Wedmore, keyboardist Matt Smart, and Tyler Swick, Aaron Ziegler, and Blake Shaw playing electric bass and steel drums.







Katie Wedmore is a singer and acoustic guitar player with a YouTube channel who obviously has no interest or desire to promote herself!

Katie Wedmore on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjtLbaaydmH9H4sG_-af0lQ


"Matt Smart (Music Coordinator) Matt has played and conducted all over the world including Brazil, Hong Kong, and Shanghai and has worked with Michael Feinstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Bonnie Raitt, among others. A California native, he has degrees in music from Pomona College and Butler University (and was at The University of Iowa for a while). Matt calls the Bay Area home where he is very active music directing, teaching, composing, and performing." - from his Transcendence Theater Company profile


"Tyler Swick is a freelance musician and music educator in Las Vegas, Nevada. Elementary music education was a late passion for Swick, discovering it at the end of his music education degree at the University of Kentucky. After the bell rings in the Clark County School District, he heads over to the College of Southern Nevada to work with the Coyote Calypso Steel Band as an arranger and participant. The Coyote Calypso Steel Band is where Swick received his first exposure to steel drums when they played at the Las Vegas Day of Percussion in 2004. Now Swick teaches private steel pan lessons at the college after rehearsal but when he's not playing pan at CSN, Swick lectures the History of Rock and Roll to undergraduates. ​Late nights and weekends are spent enjoying the vibrant music scene around Las Vegas, whether it's listening or performing."

Iowa performance history:
University of Iowa Steel Bands - PASIC 2013
UI Jazz Band
​Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra
Reggae Against the Machine
5 O'Clock Somewhere Band
Tin Can Duo
- from Tyler Swick's home page

Tyler Swick home page:
http://www.tylerswick.com/


"Dr. Aaron Ziegler is a percussionist, educator, and arranger based in Toledo, Ohio. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Toledo where he directs the newly formed Rocket Steelband and teaches classes in Ethnomusicology, and Jazz History. He also maintains a private studio of concert percussion, marching percussion, and drum set students of all ages.

"As a percussionist, drum set player, and steel pan player, Dr. Ziegler has performed throughout the midwest including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Iowa and Ohio days of percussion. He has also performed internationally at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference 2011 and 2013, the Inaugural International Panorama Competition in Trinidad & Tobago in 2015, and served as the percussion adjudicator for the 69th annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in Hong Kong, China in 2017.

"Dr. Ziegler received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy with a secondary area in Ethnomusicology, as well as his Master of Arts from the University of Iowa, and his Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Toledo. Dr. Ziegler proudly endorses Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets."
- from Aaron Ziegler's home page

Aaron Ziegler home page:
http://www.aaronzieglerpercussion.com/


"Blake Shaw is an upright/electric bassist, composer, bandleader and private lesson teacher from Lisbon, Iowa who now resides in Iowa City. Shaw started on double bass at the age of 17 after becoming familiar with electric bass a few years before. He started his college career in the fall of 2008 at Kirkwood Community College. This is where he had his first classical lessons on double bass with Jeanette Welch. He moved on to the University of Iowa to pursue a Bachelor’s of Music in classical double bass performance, studying with professor Volkan Orhon and completing that degree in 2013. After a brief cruise ship gig in Australia, with the P&O Australia cruise line, following his BM degree Shaw came back to the US to start a Master of Arts degree at UI under the supervision of John Rapson, Damani Phillips, James Dreier and Steve Grismore while acting as one of the jazz department’s teaching assistants. Shaw was fortunate enough to play along side with several different guest artists during his years at UI such as: Wycliffe Gordon, O’had Talmor, Carmen Bradford, Terrell Stafford, Dave Pietro, and Dick Oatts.

"Shaw’s influences come from various genres and instrumentalists. He has made it a mission to become diverse and proficient in different contexts. His experience stretches from jazz, rock, classical, bluegrass, to latin, funk, R&B, and anything in between. His main bass influences have been but aren’t limited to Dave Holland, Christian McBride and John Clayton. Current bands Shaw is booking with include but aren’t limited to The Blake Shaw Quintet, Goose Town, Elizabeth Moen, River Glen, Thrio, and The Clinton St Quartet. You can also find Shaw subbing in Christopher Merz’s Very Happy Band as well as Flash in a Pan. Side projects include Dana T’s bands, the Muscatine Community Orchestra and Eric Thompson’s Fun Time music Hour."
- from Blake Shaw's home page

Blake Shaw home page:
http://blakeshawbass.com/


The IHearIC YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/IHearIC

IHearIC videos on IMSC:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/IHEARIC%20VIDEOS


PREVIOUSLY ON IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE:

AUDIBLE FARM - Episode 17: Cobey Murray
https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/audible-farm-episode-17-cobey-murray.html

DES MOINES IS NOT BORING - The Vahnevants: Bum Out!
https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/des-moines-is-not-boring-vahnevants-bum.html

DSM UNPLUGGED - Chris Ranallo on Jan 6, 2016
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/06/dsm-unplugged-chris-ranallo-on-jan-6.html

IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 26: Feed Me Weird Things (06/03/2018)
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/06/ihearic-podcast-episode-26-feed-me.html

YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 30: Andersen Coates
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/06/your-own-private-iowa-episode-30.html


THREE RANDOMLY PICKED PREVIOUS POSTS....

IHEARIC VIDEOS - A Steel Pan Player and a Cellist
https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/05/ihearic-videos-steel-pan-player-and.html

IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 3 (11/05/2017)
https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/04/ihearic-podcast-episode-3-11052017.html

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 63: Iowa Country and Folk Music
https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/04/iowa-music-showcase-podcast-episode-63.html


OTHER IMSC WEBSITES AND LINKS:
Feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/IowaMusicShowcase
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iowa-Music-Showcase/364796883703114
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/iamusicshowcase
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/iowamusicshowcase

No comments:

Post a Comment