| I didn't have time to write this newsletter last month but here's what's in this one for you this month: - A new website - A European tour - Portuguese Television - Video clips of early rock & rollers - Sax Radio and more... New Website My new recording Rock & Roll Saxophonist CD has a new home, a
website all of it's own... This site takes an in-depth look at the
recording, the music, people involved etc. Holland Tour With Candye Cayne Candye Kane has invited me on her European tour in The Netherlands next month. This is a very special event indeed cause it will directly involve special needs children after the show to join the musicians onstage and let them perform with the band. Candye has done it before and tells me it's like magic for those kids so I'm looking forward to being a part of it. It's called the United By Music tour and our Dutch friends can check out the link and hopefully see you soon! (it's in Dutch) TV Show And for my Portuguese friends... RTP (Portuguese international station) and OMNI Television out of Toronto will have a feature on me Sept. 19 and repeated again Oct 3rd www.rtp.pt Classic Video Clips Sax On The Web is the
cyberspace hangout for many saxophonists and sax fans. They have
asked me to do an article on saxophone recording techniques
which should be featured by the end of the month. A regular contributor
of SOTW, Neil Sharpe, who also was kind enough to write the
liner notes for Rock & Roll Saxophonist has been turning me onto
some recently discovered footage from the early era of rock & roll.
Here's a couple of the links for you to enjoy; They say this is the year for video on the internet and the site youtube is a major player where a lot of video types are posting their stuff. If you haven't checked it out yet you might want to do so cause there's something there for everyone. Song Awards A song of mine "Swing That Thing" from the new CD, "Rock & Roll Saxophonist" was submitted to Garageband.com a little while back and what they do is have the members who are mostly musicians review and vote for songs. I'm proud to report that "Swing That Thing" made it to #8 on the Blues charts and to #12 in the top 100 on the Jazz charts. It recieved 50 reviews in total. The song also got voted as;
Track of the Day on 28Jun2006 in Blues
And here's the song if you haven't heard it already; Till next time... Rock On Johnny Ferreira |
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