Allison discovered this sweet video the other day. Apparently the music video for her song “Fixing Me” was featured on a Chinese TV show. Does anyone out there understand what the hosts are saying? Check out this sparkly gem…
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Check out ArtistsPalooza on blogtalkradio.com!
MyTalkabout and Artists Palooza 07/01 by Peter Marcus | Blog Talk Radio
Last Friday two of our fearless leaders, David Lockhart and Allison Geddie, connected with Peter Marcus on blogtalkradio.com to chat about current projects, future goals, and recent happenings within ArtistsPalooza.
Anticipating the upcoming gastronomical and musical extravaganza known as the Eat Real Festival, Allison and Dave discussed the fantastic and talented musical lineup that ArtistsPalooza has been busy putting together. In case you haven’t heard, the Eat Real Festival is on July 16th and 17th at the Helm’s Bakery District in Culver City and promises to have both epic music and delicious food. It’s going to be amazing.
Carlos Cymerman from Social Co-op also called in on Friday to show his support for ArtistsPalooza and talk about the inspiring effect of being around creative people – essentially, the domino effect of good vibes. Carlos is passionate about helping people live their dream life and sharing the message of ArtistsPalooza.
One of the key and most interesting topics, in my opinion, was the idea that passion, music, art, and dreams are ageless. Regardless if you are a teenager or 90 years old, it is never too late to make music and to find and do what you love. Our July Featured Artist, for example, is a musician named Bob Souza – a 91-year-old accordionist who has been playing his whole life. On the show, Dave talks about Bob Souza’s inspiring story and wonderful music.
The radio show also heard from a New York singer/songwriter/musician - Ollie Boy Lester of The Undigables – who talks about how he started his musical career later in life. Ollie Boy’s message: It’s never too late! Older people have just as much to offer as young people and when it comes to music, age is irrelevant. Music is about passion. Listen to the show to hear Ollie Boy Lester’s new song “One More Love Affair."
Allison Geddie also shared her story and passion for music, talking about how music became something powerful and undeniable when she was 23. When the dream of being a musician seemed beyond reach, Allison realized that music was her passion, her contribution, and it was her purpose to nurture and share the gift with other people. Keeping this in mind, Allison’s work with ArtistsPalooza has been geared toward giving space for people to believe in themselves and to share their art with others. Basically, she works to empower artists to empower the world...
Here is what I got out of the conversation:
Do your thing. Share it with the world. There is no expiration date.
Thanks to Peter Marcus for having us on blogtalkradio! We’ll be back for another episode on July 15th!
Click on the link to listen to the whole show!
MyTalkabout and Artists Palooza 07/01 by Peter Marcus | Blog Talk Radio
Last Friday two of our fearless leaders, David Lockhart and Allison Geddie, connected with Peter Marcus on blogtalkradio.com to chat about current projects, future goals, and recent happenings within ArtistsPalooza.
Anticipating the upcoming gastronomical and musical extravaganza known as the Eat Real Festival, Allison and Dave discussed the fantastic and talented musical lineup that ArtistsPalooza has been busy putting together. In case you haven’t heard, the Eat Real Festival is on July 16th and 17th at the Helm’s Bakery District in Culver City and promises to have both epic music and delicious food. It’s going to be amazing.
Carlos Cymerman from Social Co-op also called in on Friday to show his support for ArtistsPalooza and talk about the inspiring effect of being around creative people – essentially, the domino effect of good vibes. Carlos is passionate about helping people live their dream life and sharing the message of ArtistsPalooza.
One of the key and most interesting topics, in my opinion, was the idea that passion, music, art, and dreams are ageless. Regardless if you are a teenager or 90 years old, it is never too late to make music and to find and do what you love. Our July Featured Artist, for example, is a musician named Bob Souza – a 91-year-old accordionist who has been playing his whole life. On the show, Dave talks about Bob Souza’s inspiring story and wonderful music.
The radio show also heard from a New York singer/songwriter/musician - Ollie Boy Lester of The Undigables – who talks about how he started his musical career later in life. Ollie Boy’s message: It’s never too late! Older people have just as much to offer as young people and when it comes to music, age is irrelevant. Music is about passion. Listen to the show to hear Ollie Boy Lester’s new song “One More Love Affair."
Allison Geddie also shared her story and passion for music, talking about how music became something powerful and undeniable when she was 23. When the dream of being a musician seemed beyond reach, Allison realized that music was her passion, her contribution, and it was her purpose to nurture and share the gift with other people. Keeping this in mind, Allison’s work with ArtistsPalooza has been geared toward giving space for people to believe in themselves and to share their art with others. Basically, she works to empower artists to empower the world...
Here is what I got out of the conversation:
Do your thing. Share it with the world. There is no expiration date.
Thanks to Peter Marcus for having us on blogtalkradio! We’ll be back for another episode on July 15th!
Click on the link to listen to the whole show!
MyTalkabout and Artists Palooza 07/01 by Peter Marcus | Blog Talk Radio
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A Day at the ArtistsPalooza Office
Hello Hello Hello!
First day on the job: Sitting in the ArtistsPalooza office, settling in, and getting the stare down from a panda across the room. Not a real panda – it’s just a print, but he looks pretty hostile. There are pictures of massive iguanas all over the wall and unless my first-day jitters are causing some kind of hallucination, I’m pretty sure there is a little white Chihuahua running around.
I walked into the office this morning to find a cozy room full of people, laptops, and good music. Over the past few hours, Dave, Lloyd, Allison, and Blythe have been in and out of the office, taking care of business, and making things happen. All are super nice and wonderfully chill.
We three interns are busy working on all kinds of projects: Marysa with a “y,” our social media maven, is hooking up ArtistsPalooza with updated Twitter and Facebook accounts; Marissa with an “i” is editing and putting the final touches on a stellar video for Bob Souza, our featured artist; and I (Michelle) have been writing, blogging, and generally typing up a storm. We are all new to ArtistsPalooza and psyched to be involved!
Everyone at the office is buzzing about the Eat Real Festival, an annual party in LA offering live music, delicious food, and free entry. We are busy looking for bands that fit the Eat Real vibe and organizing some fantastic performances for the ArtistsPalooza stage at the weekend-long festival in Culver City. Be sure to stop by Eat Real LA on July 16th and 17th for BBQ, beers, and tasty beats! Did I mention that it is free?
Here’s the info:
Location: Helm’s Bakery District, off Venice Blvd. and National Blvd.
Dates: July 16th and 17th
Festival Hours:
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dave is getting psyched about organizing a festival outside of Woodstock for the fall. ArtistsPalooza is hoping to take a bus from LA to Woodstock, picking up artists at various pit stops during the epic cross-country road trip. Today, Dave and Marysa have been planning the route and figuring out cities to present to our Woodstock contact. Here’s what we have so far: Tucson – Austin – Atlanta – New Orleans – Nashville – Chicago. Thinking about heading out in September, if any bands want to join us from any of these cities!
We have also been throwing around vendor ideas for the outdoor festival in August in Topanga Canyon and planning the Fall 2011 theater season at the Fais Do Do Ballroom in LA. ArtistsPalooza is starting a theater at Fais Do Do and we are casting soon!
Also, if anyone has contacts we are trying to get in touch with the Black Keys to do a music video. Ambitious? Yes. But that’s what we do.
Just another day at the office, I guess!
First day on the job: Sitting in the ArtistsPalooza office, settling in, and getting the stare down from a panda across the room. Not a real panda – it’s just a print, but he looks pretty hostile. There are pictures of massive iguanas all over the wall and unless my first-day jitters are causing some kind of hallucination, I’m pretty sure there is a little white Chihuahua running around.
I walked into the office this morning to find a cozy room full of people, laptops, and good music. Over the past few hours, Dave, Lloyd, Allison, and Blythe have been in and out of the office, taking care of business, and making things happen. All are super nice and wonderfully chill.
We three interns are busy working on all kinds of projects: Marysa with a “y,” our social media maven, is hooking up ArtistsPalooza with updated Twitter and Facebook accounts; Marissa with an “i” is editing and putting the final touches on a stellar video for Bob Souza, our featured artist; and I (Michelle) have been writing, blogging, and generally typing up a storm. We are all new to ArtistsPalooza and psyched to be involved!
Everyone at the office is buzzing about the Eat Real Festival, an annual party in LA offering live music, delicious food, and free entry. We are busy looking for bands that fit the Eat Real vibe and organizing some fantastic performances for the ArtistsPalooza stage at the weekend-long festival in Culver City. Be sure to stop by Eat Real LA on July 16th and 17th for BBQ, beers, and tasty beats! Did I mention that it is free?
Here’s the info:
Location: Helm’s Bakery District, off Venice Blvd. and National Blvd.
Dates: July 16th and 17th
Festival Hours:
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dave is getting psyched about organizing a festival outside of Woodstock for the fall. ArtistsPalooza is hoping to take a bus from LA to Woodstock, picking up artists at various pit stops during the epic cross-country road trip. Today, Dave and Marysa have been planning the route and figuring out cities to present to our Woodstock contact. Here’s what we have so far: Tucson – Austin – Atlanta – New Orleans – Nashville – Chicago. Thinking about heading out in September, if any bands want to join us from any of these cities!
We have also been throwing around vendor ideas for the outdoor festival in August in Topanga Canyon and planning the Fall 2011 theater season at the Fais Do Do Ballroom in LA. ArtistsPalooza is starting a theater at Fais Do Do and we are casting soon!
Also, if anyone has contacts we are trying to get in touch with the Black Keys to do a music video. Ambitious? Yes. But that’s what we do.
Just another day at the office, I guess!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
B.O.L.T show @ Dakota Lounge!
ARE YOU FREE ON SATURDAY?
The BOLT will be rockin it in Santa Monica on SATURDAY NIGHT - First BOLT show of 2010 with Luminaries, Amae and Elijah @ The Dakota Lounge. Come thru and dance and sing!
Our good friend Tommy Tung is a fantastic writer. Check out his article.
VOX HUMANA is heard at the 2010 Los Angeles Art Show.
Voxintro
Street artists Mear One, El Mac, Retna, and Kofie perform live at the 2010 Los Angeles Art Show. New fans are enlisted. New critics are born. Provocation succeeds.
Some sit and some stand, but all are in quiet reverence of Kofie who paints an abstract playground for the eyes. Seldom does he acknowledge these attendees of the Los Angeles Art Show. Inches away from the 12 x 12 foot canvas, he lives and works, spiritually tethered to a geometric pool of tides and axes.
When he does get distance, he does it to get supplies from a cart.
Kofie is one of four artists creating VOX HUMANA, a live exhibition of street art at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Next to him is Mear One with a canvas identical in size, while El Mac and Retna collaborate on a 12 x 24 foot canvas. Their performance runs the course of the Los Angeles Art Show (January 20 – 24, 2010), presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA).
Every day, they demonstrate their craft.
Every year, the fair has never showcased street art -- until now.
“This is a groundbreaking show to have this here,” says Bryson Strauss, curator of VOX HUMANA. “The Fine Art Dealers Association, if you’re not familiar, was founded by 19th and 20th century art dealers. It’s evolved from 100 percent historic traditional painting to 25 percent of that and 75 percent contemporary.”
According to Strauss who also directs L.A. Art Machine, VOX HUMANA is a progressive move by the largest art fair on the West coast, since Mear One, Retna, El Mac, and Kofie are not certified celebrities: “Shepard Fairey and Banksy show at art fairs like Art Basel, but they’ve already been validated and vindicated and selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s easy to hang [their work] on your wall and say, ‘Now, I’m cool and I’m hip.’”
Producer of the Los Angeles Art Show, Kim Martindale describes the fair as “encyclopedic,” and believes that VOX HUMANA balances the spectrum and absolves street art of infamy.
“Graffiti art is part of that latest movement,” says Martindale. “It’s kind of gone through a transition from where people had pushed it aside and said, ‘Let’s not even look at it. That’s an evil thing for our society.’”
The sensitivity of the issue reflects in Strauss’ nomenclature: “I use ‘street art’ over ‘graffiti,’ because ‘graffiti’ has connotations, whereas these guys -- if you look at any of this -- you wouldn’t say, ‘graffiti.’ You would just say, ‘fine art.’”
Marta Avellaneda, 56, represents Galeria del Paseo in Montevideo, Uruguay, and opines that VOX HUMANA is neither graffiti nor fine art: “The way I see it, more than graffiti, is that it’s mural work. They’re muralists, but muralists on canvas. To me, maybe because I grew up in the 60s and 70s, the fact that someone is a street performer and becomes part of an art collection -- it loses its feeling.”
Check out the full article at http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/vox-humana-is-heard-at-the-2010-los-angeles-art-show
About the writer
Tommy Tung lives in Los Angeles and holds a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from USC. He writes fiction mostly and rock music. When he isn’t investigating contemporary art, he is seeking literary representation for his novel, Taurus Ikkanda. Say it ain’t so: tungtalk@hotmail.com
ARTISTSPALOOZA JAM THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! JAN. 29TH
This Friday night head on over to the Fais Do Do Ballroom. We will also be introducing short indie films at 7Pm to 8Pm. Films by Allison Geddie, Jeff Lenganza,and Tyler Ross. 8pm the music starts.
Monday, January 25, 2010
RIP Larry
Our good friend Larry from Fais Dodo crossed to the other side this weekend. He was a beautiful, bluesy, hip cat. A protector. We will all be the better with him watching over us. Love. Love. Live.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Artistspalooza and Calvary Chapel in Florida are teaming up to help the people in Haiti.
ArtistsPalooza and Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale will be teaming with Samaritan's Purse to help support those who have been affected by the earthquake. We are accepting contributions that will be used to help those in need.
At this weekends service's, ArtistsPalooza will host a concert to help the needs of the people in Haiti. We will also addressing the needs of those who have friends and family in the devastated region.
2401 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
If you want to be a Volunteer with Calvary Chapel in Haiti please contact them @ www.calvaryftl.org.
At this weekends service's, ArtistsPalooza will host a concert to help the needs of the people in Haiti. We will also addressing the needs of those who have friends and family in the devastated region.
2401 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
If you want to be a Volunteer with Calvary Chapel in Haiti please contact them @ www.calvaryftl.org.
Thank ou all the talented artists.
Thank you all the talented artists who made it out to the open mic jam at Fais Do Do, and all the peeps who supported them. There will not be a jam this Friday but we will be rocking and a rolling on the 29th.
HEAVEN IS WHERE
In the meantime be sure to catch Mr. Matt Lande and his band for the first HEAVEN IS WHERE show of the new year this Friday at Madame Royale!
This will be a 3 piece acoustic set featuring new HEAVEN IS WHERE members Bryan Karijanian and Nick Mason!
Print out this flyer for a $8 admission or go to www.myspace.com/heaveniswhere.
It's going to be a fun night at a super cool, classy, intimate venue.
Madame Royale
6423 Yucca St.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
GET THE POPCORN READY
we will soon be starting ArtistsPalooza Independent Film night. Please submit a DVD film to 1027 Lincoln Blvd #a Santa Monica CA. 90403 or send link to david@artistspalooza.org
HEAVEN IS WHERE
In the meantime be sure to catch Mr. Matt Lande and his band for the first HEAVEN IS WHERE show of the new year this Friday at Madame Royale!
This will be a 3 piece acoustic set featuring new HEAVEN IS WHERE members Bryan Karijanian and Nick Mason!
Print out this flyer for a $8 admission or go to www.myspace.com/heaveniswhere.
It's going to be a fun night at a super cool, classy, intimate venue.
Madame Royale
6423 Yucca St.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
GET THE POPCORN READY
we will soon be starting ArtistsPalooza Independent Film night. Please submit a DVD film to 1027 Lincoln Blvd #a Santa Monica CA. 90403 or send link to david@artistspalooza.org
Friday, December 4, 2009
Congrats to Heaven Is Where for their new album!
Jam night will benefit the Love146 charity.
Come one come all to our AristsPalooza Jam this Friday night at the Fabulous Fais Do Do Ball Room. Bring your instruments and share onstage or just sit back and relax to listen and mingle.
Sign ups are at 8 PM with music starting at 8:30
At 8 PM we will also be showing a ten minute film teaser to help raise awareness and funding for a film to benefit the Love146 charity.
LOVE146 VISION: The abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation. Nothing less.
LOVE146 MISSION: ABOLITION & RESTORATION! We combat child sex slavery & exploitation with the unexpected and restore survivors with excellence.
For more information go to www.love146.org
Sign ups are at 8 PM with music starting at 8:30
At 8 PM we will also be showing a ten minute film teaser to help raise awareness and funding for a film to benefit the Love146 charity.
LOVE146 VISION: The abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation. Nothing less.
LOVE146 MISSION: ABOLITION & RESTORATION! We combat child sex slavery & exploitation with the unexpected and restore survivors with excellence.
For more information go to www.love146.org
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
A great big Thank You goes out to Allison!
This is sooo cute. Jenerosity.org has designed a T-Shirt called "Song" inspired by Allison Geddie! We our so honored and think they did a great job. There are t-shirts for adults and kids so if you have any youngsters you need to get a Xmas or birthday present for - take a look at these! A portion of the proceeds go to ArtistsPalooza.org.
Congrats to Sabrina and her husband for the baby news!
We at ArtistsPalooza would like to send out a great big huge and love to Sabrina and her husband on their pregnancy!!! We wish you both a healthy baby.
The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh
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