Welcome to my new weekly newsletter providing you a quick look into what's currently happening with Gloria Miller Music!
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I will be performing at Hotel Metro this coming Saturday. Here are the details ...
Hotel Metro
Saturday, March 7th @ 9p.m.
411 E. Mason Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 272-1937
Hope to see you there!
So much has happened in the past week that I hardly know where to begin. Okay, here goes … You may recall that I was scheduled to be in the studio on February 21st to start recording the vocals for my upcoming CD release. Well, a few days before my session, Glen Quarrie, Owner & Engineer of the Sound Quarry Studio where I'm recording calls me and says that we need talk. This makes me just a bit nervous and after a little game of phone tag, we finally catch up to each other. Long story short, he didn’t feel that the music that my record company had produced was exactly what I was expecting and thought that instead of my session being a “recording” session, we should make it a “listening” session. I agreed.
By the time that Saturday rolled around I had picked up a last minute gig and ended up rescheduling our listening session to the following Tuesday. I get to the studio, Glen and I sit down with a nice cup of tea and we start listening. First we listen to some of the current projects that Glen is working on. Then we get to my project and I’m unpleasantly surprised at what I’m hearing. Glen is right. The way the music was sounding was not what I was expecting and I could slowly feel the wind going out of my sails as we discussed how to get the project back on track.
I’ve been in a few conversations with my record company and they are very much in partnership with me to release a project that we can all be thrilled with. The situation in my mind has boiled down to this … either Tate Music Group will re-record the music in their studios in Oklahoma or, they will allow me to record the entire project here in Milwaukee. I expressed to them that I want to record the project here with musicians who I know will get the job done! Stay tuned to see what happens. I will know one way or the other by the end of the week!
Friday, February 27th I performed at Bayou Cajun Restaurant and Lounge and it was such a great gig. I had Sam Steffke with me on keys and got a fantastic surprise when my sax player, Lyn Lewandowski walked in. Most of my gigs last year were with my Quartet which included Lyn. However, so far this year I’ve mostly been performing as a Duo. It was so nice having Lyn sit in with her Alto Sax -- she really spiced up the night!
I also had some friends who I’ve become friends with through Facebook come to the show that night … Madelaine and John. They are performers as well so I invited them to sing and they did “Embraceable You.” At the very end of the song Madelaine pulled out this teeny beany “Ewe” and placed it on John’s shoulder. It was very cute. The next morning I was still giggling about the little Ewe.
That brings me to tonight. My friend Georgie and I went to the Spreenkler networking meeting held at Bucketworks where we were able to get some great information on some of the creative things going on in the Milwaukee area. If you’d like to learn more about Spreenkler and their networking event, please visit their website: http://www.spreenkler.com/.
Also, I am co-founder of a new organization called the
Milwaukee Area Musicians Network (MAMN) and we are holding our first meeting on Monday, March 24 @ Bucketworks. Here are the details:
MAMN Networking Meeting
Monday, March 24th
6p – 8p
Bucketworks
1340 N. 6th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
The other co-founders of this organization are Stephanie Wagner of O2M Productions (http://www.o2mproductions.com/) and Tracy Anderson (http://www.organizemeplease.net/).
If you are a musician in the Milwaukee area, please plan on attending this networking event to learn more about us and to become a part of what we’re doing. Also, if you are on Facebook, please join our MAMN Group: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=51694007010.
I’ve been in a few conversations with my record company and they are very much in partnership with me to release a project that we can all be thrilled with. The situation in my mind has boiled down to this … either Tate Music Group will re-record the music in their studios in Oklahoma or, they will allow me to record the entire project here in Milwaukee. I expressed to them that I want to record the project here with musicians who I know will get the job done! Stay tuned to see what happens. I will know one way or the other by the end of the week!
Friday, February 27th I performed at Bayou Cajun Restaurant and Lounge and it was such a great gig. I had Sam Steffke with me on keys and got a fantastic surprise when my sax player, Lyn Lewandowski walked in. Most of my gigs last year were with my Quartet which included Lyn. However, so far this year I’ve mostly been performing as a Duo. It was so nice having Lyn sit in with her Alto Sax -- she really spiced up the night!
I also had some friends who I’ve become friends with through Facebook come to the show that night … Madelaine and John. They are performers as well so I invited them to sing and they did “Embraceable You.” At the very end of the song Madelaine pulled out this teeny beany “Ewe” and placed it on John’s shoulder. It was very cute. The next morning I was still giggling about the little Ewe.
That brings me to tonight. My friend Georgie and I went to the Spreenkler networking meeting held at Bucketworks where we were able to get some great information on some of the creative things going on in the Milwaukee area. If you’d like to learn more about Spreenkler and their networking event, please visit their website: http://www.spreenkler.com/.
Also, I am co-founder of a new organization called the
Milwaukee Area Musicians Network (MAMN) and we are holding our first meeting on Monday, March 24 @ Bucketworks. Here are the details:MAMN Networking Meeting
Monday, March 24th
6p – 8p
Bucketworks
1340 N. 6th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
The other co-founders of this organization are Stephanie Wagner of O2M Productions (http://www.o2mproductions.com/) and Tracy Anderson (http://www.organizemeplease.net/).
If you are a musician in the Milwaukee area, please plan on attending this networking event to learn more about us and to become a part of what we’re doing. Also, if you are on Facebook, please join our MAMN Group: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=51694007010.
If you haven't done so already, please join my Facebook Musician Page. Here's the link: www.facebook.com/pages/Gloria-Miller-Music/9486129890. We are up to 103 Fans. YAY!
Thank you so much for your continued support and I welcome your thoughts, comments or rants. Join the conversation!
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