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June 10: Michael Brunnock CD Release at the Living Room

About Me

I love music!
Finally - Michael Brunnock's CD is out! We've been waiting a long time for this! (And I have already heard it and it sounds great!)
-- -- -- CDBABY LINK for MICHAEL BRUNNOCK'S "So I do" -- Michael Brunnock's "So I do"
Contemporary folk rock, lyrically charged, Neil Young meets Coldplay on a bus while on vacation in Ireland. The bus driver plays the banjo.
This is One of my Favorite Albums Right Now:
JOE PURDY: ONLY FOUR SEASONS
It's just gorgeous, from start to finish, each song is perfect. If you have an opportunity to see him play live, then GO! If you are a Grey's Anatomy fan then you've heard a few of the songs already on the show.
East Village favorite Brendan O'Shea has just released his 2nd CD - Be Here Still. It's now on CDBaby.com
BRENDAN O' SHEA: Be Here Still
Contemporary folk music without the ponytail.
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I am really fortunate because I can go to so many of his gigs and I get to hear him perform these songs live often. And I am just thrilled with how his newest CD turned out! The whole cd is really fantastic.
Another local favorite singer of mine is Trevor Exter. He plays cello like no one else! He can often be found at the Sidewalk Cafe, the Rockwood Music Hall, Banjo Jim's, and Joe's Pub. Right now he has some cool videos on his page. He just released his 3rd CD, a great new CD called Flying Saucer People.
Butt Scratcher!

My Interests

Music, spending time with my friends, going on bike tours in lovely places, yoga, photography

What Karen Means
K is for Kinky

A is for Articulate

R is for Relaxed

E is for Enjoyable

N is for Neglected
What Does Your Name Mean?

Music:

MY FAVORITES: Kila, Michael Brunnock, The Frames, Joe Purdy, Tom McRae, Brendan O'Shea, Josh Ritter, BellX1, Del Amitri, Justin Currie, Dead Can Dance, Damien Rice, plus lots of local NYC singers like Matty Charles and the Valentines, Julia Darling, Kelley McRae, Dan Donnelly (Sonovagun), Mark Dignam, Jenna Nicholls, Fionn O'Lochlainn, Trevor Exter, Andy Fitzpatrick, Mark Geary, Susan Enan... I recently had the pleasure of hearing Melody Gardot play at Rockwood Music Hall. She's fantastic.

Have you ever heard Kila? They are World/Irish music, from Dublin. Really gorgeous music. They have a new cd out called Gambler's Ballet that is excellent! It can be ordered on www.kila.ie

They met a musician in Japan named Oki and they invited him to Dublin to make some music together. Their Kila + Oki CD is really beautiful. The album is getting fantastic reviews from music publications around the world and is nominated for a Meteor Award in Ireland. www.kila.ie

Have you heard Paddywhacked Radio - great internet radio station!

WOW - I never knew there was video of Penguin Cafe Orchestra on Youtube! And this is one of my favorite tunes of theirs. They're from England and had several CDs but the main composer passed away in 1996. You may have heard their music in films and documentaries though. This piece in this clip was used in Ken Burns' documentary about the Twin Towers.

Movies:

Buy the DVD: Glen Hansard of The Frames and Marketa Irglova have just won an OSCAR for 'Falling Slowly', from their film ONCE. It won the Indie Spirit Award for best foreign film and the Audience Favorite Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival. The soundtrack is great too.
Rolling Stone called it the BEST OF THE BEST at Sundance! (March 8 2007 issue)
Here is what Rolling Stone said: BEST OF THE BEST - That would be writer-director John Carney's Irish musical Once. Shove the jokes. Think U2, not Riverdance, and get set for something unique and unforgettable. The Frames frontman Glen Hansard stars as a Dublin songwriter who takes his guitar to the streets and sings himself hoarse to deaf ears. That is, until he meets a pretty Czech pianist (Marketa Irglova) who gives him the guts to quit his dad's repair shop and start finding the bucks to make a recording. That's it, a bittersweet love story with blazing Hansard music ("Falling Slowly" is a killer). Nothing about this movie should work - the budget is shoestring and the actors are inexperienced. But Once is the essence of Sundance: attempting the impossible and making magic.

Television:

The Office, LOST, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Survivor, Family Guy, Craig Ferguson

Heroes:

KILA