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Escaping Pavement in Concert and Vocal and Mandolin Workshop
February 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$20
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Detroit Music Award Winners for Outstanding Americana Recording 2017 (The Night Owl)
2017 Official Showcase Artist at Folk Alliance Region Midwest Confernce
2018 Official Showcase Artist at Listening Room Network Festival
From Detroit to Pasadena, to the high seas and then back to Detroit; it’s only when the Detroit-Music-Award-winning, singer/songwriter duo Emily Burns and Aaron Markovitz escaped the neon blitz and car-strewn concrete of the city that they discovered how well their music could bloom when they brought it back to the roots. There is so much life and vitality in the Americana-folk journeys of Escaping Pavement, sprung entirely from an acoustic guitar, a mandolin, and two voices. Fiery passion, wistful reflection, awestruck adventurousness, and heartstring-plucking poignancy, the duo discovers, through song, the range of human emotion and celebrates the purities of what we’ve left behind for the artifices of tech trends, drug stores and cacophonous city centers.
Their romance together came only after they started singing songs together, having met in 2005, as teenagers, at an open-mic night. From there, they would continue collaborating in several other bands together, but they stepped up their game when they both got accepted to the Los Angeles College of Music. When they graduated, they hopped a cruise ship as part of a band running through covers of Top 40’s hits for waltzing baby-boomers. They came back to Detroit, but discovered that after two years of singing songs together on that cruise ship, for four hours a day, seven days a week, their singing voices had become fused into a perfect harmony.
Here is the info for the workshops:
Vocal Workshop:
How to Sing with others
Main focus: To inform others on the different techniques and approaches that will make singing with other people fun and exciting.
bullet points:
-How you hold the shape of your mouth on the inside and outside affecting intonation
-the different sounds we can make with vowels
-starting and ending words together
-vocal slides
-arrangement of vocals throughout a song
-basic harmony for two and three parts
-demonstrations of all of the above!
Mandolin Workshop
Mandolin Playing:
Main focus: To provide tips for the beginner to advanced mandolin player on how to improve their skills in the technical and musical realms.
bullet points:
-left hand technique, fingering of basic chords and different voicings
-chopping, it’s usefulness and effectiveness, and the mandolin’s role in a traditional bluegrass setting
-right hand technique focusing on a few different picking techniques
-Crash course on the history of modern mandolin playing with a focus on Bill Monroe
-Thinking outside the box for mandolin inspiration-taking licks from artists that don’t play bluegrass or mandolin and applying them to a bluegrass context
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