Upcoming Bass Events in No. Virginia, DC, Maryland - Bryan Beller Clinic, & more

Hey gang,

I just wanted to share these bass related events that are coming up with the group.

The Virginia Bass Forum is celebrating it's second birthday on May 15th, 2011.

First off, we are excited about the Virginia Bass Forum's new partnership with Fredericksburg Academy.  I'm sending a huge thank you to Fredericksburg Academy and their Music Department for hosting and partnering with the Virginia Bass Forum.  This gives us another home for the local bass community to meet. 

So at our next Bass Forum event help support the FA Music Department by stopping by the FA Band Boosters concessions table. In addition to food and drink, they will also be selling jewelry created by a friend of mine; April Tos of Corvus Creations.  April has her own unique spin on recycling. She takes used bass and guitar strings and creates one of a kind jewelry pieces from them.  She's also generously offered to split all of the proceeds from her jewelry sales with the FA Band Boosters.

We're going to kick off the birthday event at 3 PM with a clinic with Bryan Beller (bassist for Dethklok/Steve Vai/Mike Keneally).  This is definitely a "hands on" clinic, so bring  your bass.  Bryan is going to take participants through learning songs by ear.  You are welcome to bring either an electric bass or an upright bass to participate.

We are going to have a potluck dinner after the clinic ends (so please bring a dish to share!).  During dinner, we have added a Bass Open Mic/Open Jam.  Several people have asked if we were going to do another concert like we did in 2010 for the one year birthday bash.  Since a good portion of the bass community will already be together, this seemed like a great opportunity to get local bassists up and performing.  We will have 2 bass rigs set up, a vocal mic, and a drum set.  I'd love to see a mix of student performances and jams by local bass instructors.

The dinner break will also be a great time to pick up CDs from Bryan and Kira. Both of them have new CDs out, and Bryan will be releasing a new DVD.

At 6:30, we will wind down the Bass Open Mic/Open Jam.   Kira Small and Bryan Beller will have a house concert at that point.  Kira Small is well known for her work as a solo artist and as a vocalist for such artists as Martina McBride, Peter Frampton, and many more.  She is also a former Berklee vocal instructor. 

We will settle in to finish off the evening with lovely, sultry vocals and R&B music.  And Bryan has been known to throw in the occasional solo bass piece.  Solo bass meets R&B.   This is Bryan and Kira performing at WesFest 5.
http://youtu.be/6_GC-_scrAY


So...how cool is that?  A clinic, dinner, a bass open mic, and a house concert. 


Advance discounted tickets are now on sale: 

Clinic only: $20 (starts at 3 PM)
Concert only: $20 (starts at 6:30) 
(This is a great option if you have a bassist in the family, but the family only wants to come for the concert portion.  Buy 1 ticket at $35 for the family bass player, and $20 concert tickets for everyone else who only wish to see the concert.)
Entire day (clinic, open mic, and concert) $35


Prices at the door:

Clinic only: $25
Concert only: $25
Entire day: $40

To purchase tickets, you can send a Paypal payment to [email protected]. Please send an email to [email protected] to confirm a payment was sent.


Also, mark your calendars for another Bass Forum event on Saturday June 18th at 2 PM.  We are going to host a bass clinic mash up with the awesome Dr. Donovan Stokes (on upright bass), Michael Dimin, and Christian DeMesones. More info to be announced at www.ladybassmusic.net

Thanks for reading all the way through this! I hope to see you at one of the upcoming Virginia Bass Forum events!

- Brittany Frompovich

www.ladybassmusic.net




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