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Photo by Elizabeth Lemon
North Elementary (John Harrison on right), from Chapel Hill, followed The Good Graces out of Atlanta and dished out a healthy dose of sweet, textured pop rock at The Green Bean last night.
Photo by Elizabeth Lemon
Chris Jackson belted out another tune for Citified, closing a great night of live music in downtown Greensboro.
This will be another brief post. For a more detailed account of the night’s performances, check out Nash Roberts’s take on the evening. Also, for the newbies, here’s our promo entrance page to sign up for an account with Amiestreet and receive free money to support our local artists.
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In June of 2009, the dotmatrix project hit another milestone. It was our first opportunity to feature three performances in a single evening. We were pleased to showcase three singer/songwriters all local to Greensboro, NC.
Randy Furches is a high-spirited, high energy person and performer. He kicked off the evening with a short set that showed off his love for all varieties of music. There was some Blues, some Folk, and a little bit of Hip-Hop. He brought along with him two musicians to accompany him during his set. Hank Johnson provided some extra flavor on guitar and on mandolin. King-Kev-O helped Randy finish his set off, bringing his own lyricism to the stage on “Cryogenics.”
ALBUM CREDITS
Recording Engineers: Don Ravon, Dan Bayer, Jerrod Smith
Mixing Engineers: Dan Bayer, Cesar Oviedo
Mastering Engineers: Cesar Oviedo
Cover Design: Sean Coon
Cover Photograph: Elizabeth Lemon
Morgan McPherson is a talented young performer who I believe has a long and prosperous career ahead of her. For this evening, she was accompanied by Ron May on bass and Strother Bullins on drums. The magic these guys brought to the stage can also be found on Morgan’s EP, Destiny Save Me, which was recently recorded in Nashville. It should be available soon. You can check out her myspace for more information on that.
ALBUM CREDITS
Recording Engineers: Don Ravon, Dan Bayer, Jerrod Smith
Mixing Engineers: Dan Bayer
Cover Design: Sean Coon
Cover Photograph: Doug Klesch
Kristen Leigh has done quite a bit of traveling as well, going as far as the West coast, to produce her music. Fortunately, for us, she still calls Greensboro home. When she’s not performing purely solo, Ueli Schweizer joins her on violin, as he did for us this evening. Sara Dickson, Kristen’s friend and tutor on piano, also accompanied the talented songwriter during the performance.
ALBUM CREDITS
Recording Engineers: Don Ravon, Dan Bayer, Jerrod Smith
Mixing Engineers: Don Ravon
Cover Design: Sean Coon
Cover Photograph: Matty Sheets
Photo by Carolyn de Berry
Elizabeth Lemon, one of DMP’s photography leads and curator of tomorrow night’s photo exhibit opening at The Green Bean, was featured in an interview by Matty Sheets over at Monkeywhale.
Congrats, Elizabeth.
Photo by Stephen Charles
The exhibit… is up.
That was only a few months in the making.
This Friday night @ The Green Bean is the exhibit’s opening, featuring the music of past DMP performers: Laurelyn Dossett, Mr. Rozzi and Eating The Invaders. We’re also going to screen a slew of DMP music videos created by the ever talented All Aces Media, Ioannis Batsios, Jason Marc Pierce, Jennifer Graves, Bret Jones and Michael McQueen.
As far as the exhibit goes, we have 29 large format photographs on display, shot by 9 local photographers across 8 monthly shows, which will stay on the walls until September 27th.
Friday night, the entire month… it’s our way of both celebrating and promoting the talent found within our own community.
We do hope you can come out and enjoy it with us.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t introduce our featured photographers, so here they are:
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Kevin Belton flickr account Email | Voice: 336.816.8571 Kevin is a professional product photographer for the High Point furniture industry, second camera for John Leonard Photography for weddings and special events. He has been shooting themed based ideas in the last year or so featuring addiction, fashion, and music. Art is his passion and the camera is his medium. |
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Stephen Charles CharlesMedia Photography Email | Voice: 336.682.9517 Stephen Charles began taking photographs in 1983 with a 35mm Canon Sure Shot. With the advent of Digital SLRs he has pursued photography as a growing passion, with a desire for letting candid captured moments tell the story. |
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Jessi Hagood Jessi Hagood Photography Jessi Hagood is a native of Eden, NC and works primarily in the Greensboro area as a Wedding and Portrait Photographer. Recently her work has involved photographing Bodybuilding and Figure Competitions, soon to be featured in Muscle and Fitness Magazine and in an upcoming episode of MTV Made. |
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Doug Klesch Doug Klesch Photography Email | Voice: 336.542.3071 Doug is a refugee from the cubicle farms of corporate America. Failing to have sapped all creative energy from him over more than a decade, his overlords released him back to the world. He gratefully returns wielding a camera. |
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Elizabeth Lemon Elizabeth Lemon Photography Email | Voice: 719.244.3518 A recent graduate from the photography program at Randolph Community College, Elizabeth is adjusting to life outside a classroom. She is pursuing fine art and documentary photography with rediscovered inspiration and a tool box of new knowledge. |
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Alex Maness Alex Maness Photography Email | Voice: 336.707.6121 Alex Maness, local boy done good, likes to travel and explore, but keeps Greensboro, NC as his center of gravity. He runs a photography business shooting for magazines and advertisers, as well as his own documentary projects. |
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Mark Smith flickr account Email | Voice: 336.414.4721 Mark’s first inkling that photography could be fun was when his parents brought out the dreaded slides of their jaunts overseas. Once Mark could afford it, he bought a Pentax ME Super and “that was that.” These days, Mark happily takes sports and beach pictures as well as the live music events at DMP. |
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Carolyn de Berry Carolyn de Berry Photography | Email Monkeywhale Productions | Email A Connecticut native and graduate of Guilford College and the Commercial Photography Program at Randolph Community College, Carolyn is a freelance photographer and assistant living in Greensboro, NC. She is also the production photographer and studio manager for Monkeywhale Productions. |
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Allen Martin MartiniVision Email | Voice: 917.687.1912 Greensboro native Allen Martin is a photographer and designer who has recently relocated back to his home town after 18 years in NYC. A camera owner since adolescence, for the last several years Allen has focused on fashion, fine art and entertainment photography. |
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SPECIAL THANKS TO:
A SUPER SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FRAME SPONSORS:
Photo by Mark Smith
After two wild months of hard-rocking and hell-raising tunes, the dotmatrix project got a little mellow for the month of February. The audience buzzed with a cool anticipation as Bruce Piephoff and a small orchestra of musicians took the stage to kick off the eleventh DMP show.
Photo by Mark Smith
Bruce has been around a while and he’s got plenty of music to show for it. He dipped into his collection and pulled out several great tunes for us here at DMP. His set included a song referencing his time in Texas (Rosalita), one about a local basball hero (Big Foot In The Door), and a tune about a one-time Tate St. staple known as the Nightshade Cafe (Old Crow). Check them out, along with the rest of Bruce’s live album, on Amiestreet or Last.FM. For the newbies, here’s our promo entrance page to sign up for an account with Amiestreet and receive free money to support our local artists.
One more thing…
This is the first DMP album to be mastered thanks to the gentlemen at Studio 4. Bruce likes it. We like it. I’m pretty sure you will, too.
ALBUM CREDITS
Recording Engineers: Don Ravon, Dan Bayer
Mixing Engineers: Dan Bayer, Cesar Oviedo
Mastering Engineers: Cesar Oviedo
Cover Design: Sean Coon
Cover Photograph: Elizabeth Lemon
Randy and Hank Johnson doing their thang.
What would a DMP show be without a folk/rap collab? King-Kev-O on the mic.
Check out Elizabeth Lemon Photography to see more of her work.
What is this Rockabilly-thing? Is that the devil’s music?! Maybe. It’ll definitely make you scream, hoop, and holler like your soul’s on fire! If you don’t believe me, just listen to some of The Tremors. Self-described as one-third Greensboro, one-third Burlington and one-third Hell, Jimmy Tremor, Slim Perkins and Stretch Armstrong will make you believe.
Photo by Elizabeth Lemon
For the tenth installment of the dotmatrix project, we were fortunate enough to capture a sampling of the Hell-raising hits they make together. That was back at the end of January. Even though it was a bit cold outside, it was nice and hot next to the DMP stage that night!
Photo by Alex Maness
In case you don’t believe me (or somehow don’t remember), you can check out the pictures from that evening on the DMP photostream. Or you can check out the video on vimeo . Oh yeah, and you can listen to the live album on Amie Street. To make the whole process a whole lot easier for you on Amie Street, here’s our promo entrance page to sign up for an account and receive free money to support our local artists by putting coin directly in their pockets. (It should be on Last.fm before long. You can check back here for the link when that happens.)
ALBUM CREDITS
Recording Engineers: Don Ravon, Dan Bayer
Mixing Engineers: Don Ravon
Cover Design: Sean Coon
Cover Photograph: Elizabeth Lemon
Hands, an essential component of music. Morgan McPherson makes the piano sing.
Nice use of the difference in lighting! Morgan McPherson and Ron May.
For more of Elizabeth’s work, see her blog.
Matty Sheets of Eating The Invaders.
Matty Sheets, apparently early in the ETI set before the lights and the crowd caused divestiture.
For more of Elizabeth’s work, check out her blog
