Wednesday, February 29, 2012
RockRadio993 Promotions & Marketing For Your Business
If you’re in business, you know you have to find that happy medium with marketing your business and dealing with the operational costs of your business in order to start making some income.
You may have a small business; you’re trying to get off the ground. Trust me, I know what you’re going through! We’ll the reality of the matter is, times are tough for so many. It does take some investment of funds to make a business go. Banks aren’t really lending money, the mighty loan is so vital and important to get to the next level.
Our economy is currently the issue, jobs aren't easy to come by these days. Many have turned to starting their own businesses in frustration. If you're looking to push or promote your business, please contact RockRadio993 at 540 809 2541. We'd like to discuss how we can help to assist you with an economical, but aggressive marketing plan to promote your business.
We offer several promotional strategies and promotional advertisement vehicles to promote your business. For example on our websites, we can carry your banner or widget for as low as $1.00 a day! Our goal is to push your brand or service. Promotional videos can be produced for personal or business promotion while providing high quality production. Our radio staff can produce professional radio ready commercial production and voice over services for your businesses without the huge expenses normally tacked on due to the large staffing of stations! Smaller overhead allows us to focus on each client; hence, it’s client focused as we want your business! Our reach is nationwide and international with the advent of the internet. RockRadio993 is growing daily and we are truly excited.
RockRadio993 has rolled out an online magazine to support the musical community while providing the business owner a captured audience to promote too! We are proud to offer these professional services at a great price point while delivering high quality services as the big boys provide!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Today we speak with Actress, Jessica Cameron:
Jessica Cameron was born and raised in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada and moved to Toronto to study fashion at Ryerson University. After finishing her degree she moved to Ohio to work as a fashion designer and in her spare time she decided to try an acting class. The acting bug bit, and Jessica has since made acting her full time career. In the two short years she has been acting full time, she has already been cast in more then 30 projects including music videos, TV shows and feature films. In 2010 she won an industry award for being a Rising Movie Star. Most recently she played Princess Areola in the feature film Potpourri directed by Elliot Diviney and she starred with horror icon Steven Geoffrey's in the feature film Mr.Hush. She also had the chance to work with legendary director Jim Wynorski on the (rumored to be syfy channel bound) film Camel Spiders and the established horror director Jeff Burr on a feature film entitled Resurection. She was three web series that have been released in 2011 including the syfy film noir "Aidan 5", the comedy series "2 Doors Down" and the action packed series "Caught!" In 2011 she started her comic book modeling while appearing in Brian Shirley's "Crocaloctopus" and Dennis Willman's "Ginger-Stein". In 2012 she will be starring in Dennis Willman's comic book series "The Vengeance of Sleepy Hollow" as well as many more film and TV projects.
Catch our interview all day today on RockRadio993 starts at 8:30am
Films:
Camel Spiders
Resurrection
The Sleeper
Cut
Mr. Hush
Mothers Blood
Truth or Dare 4
Waiting Fear
98 Degrees and Sunny
Post Mortem America 2021
Playing House
Lovers
Best Supporting Daddy
Secret Colors
Solitude of Love
The Dead Matter
Television:
Caught: The Webseries
Aidan 5
Night Out Ohio
Commercials:
West Virginia Lottery Principal Regional
Reach Out Wireless
Lia Sophia Jewelry
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Drummer Bobby Sanabria, My Old Drum Teacher
I recently attended an Open Mic Night in Fredericksburg, VA were I was united with my old band mates. It's been about 2 years since I've been behind a kit. I was recently asked about my drumming and why I haven't played. This question was asked as I returned back to my seat as I concluded a brief demonstration of my drumming that night. For one, I was astonished to hear a compliment about my playing; it's been so many years since I've played in a serious project!
It was nice to hear someone appreciated my playing, but its always a struggle in my mind to figure if I have what it takes to raise that flag once again. Since starting RockRadio993, I've had the opportunity to hang with some great drummers. Many have inspired me to play again. Our area is rich with some great and accomplished drummers which will be surely included in future blogs. We have some great local groups with great drumming talent; I'd like to showcase them on my radio show and live! At this particular point in time, I'd like to introduce you to someone who I really respect.
Mr. Bobby Sanabria was my drum instructor many years ago. He helped to instill great values and provided me with great skills to pay it forward. I wanted to showcase him here; I will soon embark on a possible tour and kick off my drumming in full force as a friend has now become signed to a label and asked for my drumming support. So I get ready to gear up to support a newly formed touring project.
Robbie Rodriguez
Radio Host & Drummer
RockRadio993
Bobby Sanabria:
Bobby Sanabria - drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, recording artist, producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior and multiple Grammy nominee – has performed with a veritable Who's Who in the world of jazz and Latin music, as well as with his own critically acclaimed ensembles. His diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Charles McPherson, Mongo Santamaría, Ray Barretto, Marco Rizo, Arturo Sandoval, Roswell Rudd, Chico O'Farrill, Candido, Yomo Toro, Francisco Aguabella, Larry Harlow, Henry Threadgill, and the Godfather of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mario Bauzá.
Bobby, the son of Puerto Rican parents, was born and raised in the "Fort Apache" section of New York City's South Bronx. Inspired and encouraged by maestro Tito Puente,another fellow New York-born Puerto Rican, Bobby "got serious" and attended Boston's Berklee College of Music from 1975 to 1979, obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree and receiving their prestigious Faculty Association Award for his work as an instrumentalist. Since his graduation, Bobby has become a leader in the Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and jazz fields as both a drummer and percussionist, and is recognized as one of the most articulate musician-scholars of la tradición living today.
He has been featured on numerous Grammy-nominated albums, including The Mambo Kings and other movie soundtracks, as well as numerous television and radio work. Mr. Sanabria was the drummer with the legendary “Father of the Afro-Cuban Jazz movement,” Mario Bauzá’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. With them he recorded three CD’s (two of which were Grammy-nominated) which are considered to be definitive works of the Afro-Cuban big-band jazz tradition. Mr. Sanabria was also featured with the orchestra in two PBS documentaries about Bauzá and also appeared on the Bill Cosby show performing with the orchestra. He also appeared and performed prominently in a PBS documentary on the life of Mongo Santamaria and on camera in the CBS television movie, Rivkin: Bounty Hunter.
In 1993 Bobby and his octet Ascensión released ¡NYC Aché! on Flying Fish Records (now available on Rounder Records). It received worldwide acclaim and garnered four and half stars in Down Beat magazine, as well as receiving a nomination for Best Record of the Year by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD). In June 2000 Bobby released Afro-Cuban Dream... Live & In Clave!!! on the Arabesque label. Recorded live at Birdland in New York City, it features Bobby powering a big band of twenty all-stars. Critically acclaimed worldwide, it has been hailed by both the jazz and Latin music cognoscenti as a masterpiece, and was nominated for a mainstream Grammy as the Best Latin Jazz Album of 2001. Afro-Cuban Dream...Live & In Clave!!! was also nominated for the Jazz Journalists Association 2001 Award for the Best Afro-Cuban Jazz Album of the Year.
His next recording, ¡Quarteto Aché!, released in 2002, on the ZOHO label, documented Bobby's virtuosity in a small group setting and was hailed a "classic" by Modern Drummer magazine and critically acclaimed by the New York Times. It was also nominated for Best Latin Jazz recording of 2003 by the Jazz Journalists Association. He also received a second Grammy nomination in 2003 for, 50 Years of Mambo - A Tribute to Damaso Perez Prado.
Bobby and his Quarteto Aché toured Armenia in June of 2007 being personally invited by the U.S. Embassy to represent the United States in a a series of concerts. Headlining in the final event, The Cascade Jazz festival in Yerevan, Armenia’s capitol, the group received a thunderous ovation from the estimated 8,000 person audience which was broadcast throughout the country. In a pre-concert press conference when asked what jazz represented, Bobby simply stated, “Freedom.“ His group has the unique distinction and honor of being the first ensemble ever to perform Latino oriented jazz in this country and spread clave consciousness in a unique master class that he held at the Yerevan Conservetory. If this weren’t enough, the ensemble performed a private concert for Armenia’s Heads of State, and President Robert Khachaturian who stated that, “I simply love jazz! Its spirit of improvisation in a collective democracy is the inspiration for my vision for Armenia.”
Bobby’s latest recording project, Big Band Urban Folktales, on the Jazzheads label, was nominated for a mainstream Grammy in 2008 for best Latin Jazz recording. It is proving to be his most lauded work and has been garnering critical acclaim for its futuristic approach to the Latin jazz big band canon. Big Band Urban Folktales also has recently won the 2008 Jazz Journalists Award for Best Latin Jazz Recording of 2008.
"...(Mr. Sanabria) expands the possibilities, moving the sound of bands like that of (Puente, Machito), with all the heft and intricacy and clave-based dance rhythm, into the harmonically oriented sophistication of current New York jazz players. It’s New York up and down, and back and forth across the last century, from the street to the mambo palaces to the conservatories."
- Ben Ratliff, The NY Times
Also out is the DVD of Bobby and his nonet Ascensión’s scorching appearance at the 2006 Modern Drummer Festival currently released by Hudson Music and the new release of the CD, El Espiritu Jibaro, a collaboration between legendary trombonist Roswell
Rudd, Puerto Rican cuatro virtuoso Yomo Toro and Bobby with his nonet Ascensión is available on the Sunnyside label. Also forthcoming (November 2008), the release on DVD “FROM MAMBO TO HIP HOP” – A South Bronx Tale, produced by City Lore, on which Bobby was an Assistant Producer and which broadcast on PBS in 2006 and won the 2007 ALMA Award for Best Television Documentary.
Mr. Sanabria has been the recipient of many awards, including an NEA grant as a jazz performer, various Meet the Composer awards, the INTAR Off-Broadway Composer award, and the Mid-Atlantic Foundation Arts Connect Grant three times. In 2003 he was presented with an "Outstanding Achievement Award" by Ivan Acosta of Latin Jazz USA, in recognition of Bobby's extraordinary creative contribution to Latin jazz. Mr. Sanabria has recently been awarded the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award by KOSA for his outstanding accomplishments in jazz and Latin music both as a performer and educator and the 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Mentor Award presented to him by the Manhattan Country School for his work in the world of jazz.
Mr. Sanabria co-produced the nationally broadcast documentary, THE PALLADIUM - Where Mambo Was King,” for the BRAVO network which received the award for Best Documentary for a Cable TV in 2003. Mr. Sanabria was a consultant in the Smithsonian’s historic four year traveling exhibit, Latin Jazz: La Combinación Perfecta and also featured in two of the exhibits short films.
Mr. Sanabria was voted “Percussionist of the Year" for 2005 by the readers of DRUM! Magazine, a worldwide publication devoted to drums and percussion. His three part video instructional series, “Getting Started on Congas,” originally released by DCI way back in 1995, now available through Alfred Music, set an industry standard by which all other instructional percussion videos must be judged by.
Article on Bobby Sanabria from:
www.Allaboutjazz.com
www.Drummerworld.com
Picture: www.DrummerWorld.com
Alexis Brown of Straight Line Stitch
We had an opportunity to catch up with Vocalist, Alexis Brown of the National Touring Band, Straight Line Stitch. Alexis was kind enough to spend some time with us after an awesome performance at KC's Music Alley in Fredericksburg, VA last night! Christie Turpen our Street Team Leader captured part of the interview on video for us. You'll be able to get the full interview on www.rockradio993.blogspot.com by tuning into the On - line show.
Alexis and the new line up threw down last night! It was an amazing display and we are excited to have been there and behind the scenes. We also had an opportunity to sit down with Kris Hawkins the Axe man and Ian Shuirr the drummer for this band! We took some photos and also followed up with with Jason White on Bass and Nathan Palmer on Guitar...This band is a powerful combo!!
Looking forward to following the band and gathering information from their tour stops!
Friday, February 24, 2012
Madrone Hits Northern Virginia On March 2nd
You need to check out Madrone, this three piece band hails from Roanoke, Virginia and come to do business on stage. These musicians have a great chemistry and have found the formula needed to produce great musical arrangement. They've come ready to provide you with soaring vocals along with strong lyrical content.
I've seen them perform live and was so impressed by their instrumentation. They can enter any given arrangement with simplistic fare, then within seconds reach complicated time signatures with ease all the while providing you with interesting riffs and musical layers. You have to check this band out live!
Here is your chance to rock with Madrone, they'll be at Lion & Bull in Haymarket, VA on March 2nd
Time: 9:30 pm - 1:00 am
Door: Free ( No Cover) 21+
Check Madrone On Line: www.Madroneonline.com
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