8in8 member Amanda Palmer recently returned to Berklee to give a clinic to students attending the Summer 5-Week program. Watch what Amanda had to say about touring, songwriting, and a whole host of other topics on Berklee’s ustream channel! The concept: what if several internet celebrity musicians, who have carved a niche in the industry [...]
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Photo Blog: Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Damian Kulash Perform as 8in8
September 16, 2011 – 11:00 am
5 Questions with Captain America composer Alan Silvestri
August 26, 2011 – 4:42 pm
Earlier this year, I got a chance to interview Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri at one of the rehearsals for his concert with the Video Game Orchestra at Symphony Hall, where he conducted his suites for Forest Gump and Back to the Future. The sold-out performance also included appearances by other accomplished film and television [...]
Pop/Rock Live! Featuring Charlie Worsham 2011
August 1, 2011 – 12:30 pm
I know what you’re thinking. A flutist at a Pop/Rock show? Well, that’s because this was no ordinary pop/rock show, in that, most of the performers weren’t pop/rock at all. Not that I’m complaining, because the performers did share something in common – their undeniable talent as singer-songwriters studying at Berklee. In fact, I don’t think [...]
John Mayer 2011 Clinic – “Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself”
July 11, 2011 – 7:00 am
You know a celebrity is coming to the Berklee Performance Center when a campus announcement informs students they will NOT be allowed to queue up at the BPC doors until 2 hours before an 11 o’clock event (you also know it’s a celebrity when students would choose to wake up before 9, but I digress). [...]
Brendan James, Matt White, and Berklee alumnus Will Knox @ Cafe 939
July 6, 2011 – 11:30 am
Brendan James @ Berklee’s Cafe 939 Earlier this semester I attended my first Cafe 939 show, and WOW! Was I impressed! While I had been inside the Red Room at Cafe 939 to hear several guest artists to speak to my ACI class, I had never attended a concert to hear the acoustics of the [...]