Another splendid and different week at Pete’s Candy Store. Each one is just jammed packed with lessons as performers. Here’s the inside scoop of some major points. 1) Microphone placement is hard! We tried to put Stefan in the back so he wouldn’t peak out Read More …
Tag: Tin Pan
What’s with all this rain?
If you live in New York you’ll know that we’ve had an astonishing number of days in a row with precipitation. It’s getting like Seattle East over here. For the street musician these are hard times. On Monday we went out to the park even Read More …
Guggengeim Celebrates
On Tuesday of this week we performed at the Guggenheim for the second time. It was a wonderful experience. They were celebrating their 50th anniversary and were hosting the 5th Avenue Museum Mile Festival. They had us set up just outside the museum underneath that Read More …
San-day in Central Park
Such madness! All the stars aligned to make this a perfect day: the first beautiful day after many days of rain, the first Sunday in April. My family was in town and I had my sisters, brother and little nephews to share the day. This Read More …
New Widget from Reverbnation
Here’s a new easy way to purchase all of our music in one place. Let me know if you dig it.
Now Playing at Central Park
The first few times of the season we’re second guessing ourselves a little bit. It’s pretty darn cold. Clifton is just smacking at his strings because he can’t really feel his fingers. Our intonation is sliding around like a game of chutes and ladders. The Read More …
Mosaics
All good things come to and end. Everything is in a flux. Prince says, “Sometimes is snows in April. All good things, they say, never last.” Barring some horrible disaster, the beautiful mosaics at the Times Square station will have a longer duration than most Read More …
New Music On-Line
I just got some first mixed back from our sessions that we did in September down in Phili. Darren Morze did a great job engineering the session and mixing these for us. Enjoy.
Museum of Modern History
Alice in Wonderland – Stefan, Jesse, Cassidy, Clifton. I think we found a mid-week home for a little while. It seems we do alright with tourists and their kids. All the kiddies want to jump around on top of the sculpture (insert creepy photo of Read More …
Fred Wesley
What does this man have to do with Tin Pan? So glad you asked. Here’s the extended version… Theme #1: Cassidy is a great soloist on the bass. He has great tone, good attack, good projection, excellent intensity and good intonation. All very important. Best Read More …