Late this summer, several things came together for us musically:
- Cyndi helped me put the Blue Skies Trio back together by identifying a singer in our church(Tammy), with Adam on drums. When Aaron’s repertoire matches our set lists, it will become the Blue Skies Quartet. We played for Rev Jeanne’s Ordination in July, and were very well received.
- I got in contact with a youth minister from another church who was interested in having The Band play at their church as a special event for their youth
- Our church Worship Team decided to have another Youth Sabbath less than a year since the last one, meaning, we want to do this more often than once a year.
The second item motivated me to make a demo CD with songs that we’ve done for church in the past. Last week, the boys and lay down the backing tracks at the soon to be famous Hernandi Music studios. Last weekend, we invited Lizzie and Travis to our house to lay down the vocal tracks, and record one or two more songs. We had a lot of fun together, and the kids worked really hard and were exceptionally good at constructive criticism and listening to each other’s feedback and ideas. Many adults couldn’t do better.
After I delivered our first demo CD to the youth minister, I thought that I need to explore the more modern methods of digital distribution. To make a long story short, and I launched us on Reverb Nation and FaceBook. Hopefully, this embedded link will work for you:
This has been, and will continue to be a fun project. Next, I plan to launch Blue Skies Trio in a similar fashion. I will post our original demo CD, as well as record a new one with the new members. Stay tuned, and spread the word!