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About Me

Based in Troy, NY, the Bookdrop Bees rejected a few band names before settling on their current one. For example: Can you imagine them as Frankie the Skull? Or perhaps Sex Cologne? See what I mean? By the way, these guys are married. To each other. No, seriously. Is that lame? NUH-UH. In fact, they have yet to be described as "lame" even once. Rather, folks have remarked upon their live show as being tight, yet spontaneous. Those same folks have seen the Bookdrop Bees play at venues such as The Taproom at Brown's, Slow Jed's Mud House, the Flavour Cafe, Perfect Blend, Moon and River Cafe, Mahoney's Bar, Sugar (Tribeca, NYC), Beantown (Allendale, NJ), and many more in New York's lovely Capital Region.
The Bookdrop Bees are very excited to be a band, and if they could, would release a Choose Your Own Adventure... album.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/15/2006
Band Website: thebookdropbees.com
Band Members: Gemma Halfi: Vocals, percussion, kazoo, occasional acoustic guitar.
Ilan Halfi: Acoustic guitar, occasional vocals.

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Influences: Joni Mitchell, Phish, Wilco, Janis Joplin, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Badly Drawn Boy, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald
Sounds Like: Starkly confessional narratives filtered through the largely unnoticed details in the dense contexts of death, faltering relationships, jealousy, and unrequited affection. Shimmering and textured vocals glide atop angular acoustic rhythms. Sometimes tranquil, sometimes downright rocking, we have been compared to Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, and Aimee Mann.
Record Label: Little Blue Ninja Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Taking a Breather

So, here's the thing. Grad school is kicking our butts right now. We've held off on booking any more shows for this fall so we can concentrate on kicking its butt back. So, we've go...
Posted by The Bookdrop Bees on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:00:00 PST

We know that it's probably magic

"Little Life" made its official debut this past Saturday night at the Flavour Cafe. We've been selling it for a little under a month, however, so this was really more of a Mazal Tov/celebration...
Posted by The Bookdrop Bees on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:28:00 PST

On the Radio & CD Baby

Two short pieces of news: 1) The Bookdrop Bees will be making their first appearance on the airwaves (not counting my old radio shows at SUNY Cortland when we were plain old Ilan and Gemma). Thursd...
Posted by The Bookdrop Bees on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:46:00 PST

So, this is MySpace.

Ok, we are just beginning to set this up. It's a nice companion to our primary web page, www.thebookdropbees.com. Be sure to check that page for a more extensive list of gigs (although the...
Posted by The Bookdrop Bees on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:36:00 PST