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Radius Project Music Documentary On Peterborough Launches Kickstarter Campaign
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Serena Ryder photo by Michael Hurcomb
A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched for The Radius Project, which was born out of a simple question: "So which famous people would I know from your hometown?" The hometown in question is Peterborough and the answer was endless. Directed by music photographer and director Michael Hurcomb and produced by Mexican Cheesus—the team behind the hit web music video series Bandwagon—the Radius Project looks at the wealth of musicians that came from the radius around a small town and went on to national and international acclaim. A short list of people that grew up or relocated to the area are Neil Young, Thousand Foot Crutch, Royal Wood, Three Days Grace, My Darkest Days, Cale Gontier (Art of Dying / Thornley), I Mother Earth, Greg Keelor, Ronnie Hawkins, The Leahys (and Natalie McMaster), producers Greg and Rob Wells, Sebastian Bach and Serena Ryder.
photo by Michael Hurcomb
The doc will feature one on one interviews with some of these artists about their experiences here, a look into how a small city and the surrounding towns created so many acclaimed artists, interviews with outsiders looking at what makes a music scene work, a history of the music scene, interviews with some local legends, and a look at the future.
The end result of the project will be to showcase this music scene to the world and tell an untold story to the residents too.
I Mother Earth photo by Michael Hurcomb
The Radius Project team wants to make this documentary look and sound as great as possible. They want to use the high quality gear they have, rent some external gear, have an essential and talented shooting team, and travel when necessary for interviews.
Metric at PMC by Michael Hurcomb
The Radius Project is currently in production with plans to showcase the documentary at film festivals in 2016. The film is slated to premiere and be available by digital download early 2016.
Watch a teaser campaign video here...
Click here to to help with the Kickstarter campaign. You can find the Radius Project on Facebook here, Twitter here and more info on their website. We interviewed the Radius Project's Michael Hurcomb on a recent episode of PTBOCanada Live With Mike Judson. Click here to watch it.
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Watch: Melissa Payne's Amazing New Music Video "Bring Me Back"
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Photo Bryan Reid
Peterborough-based songwriter Melissa Payne has a new album out High and Dry, her second full-length album. Payne and her five-piece band play with passion and graceful restraint that speaks to the ebb-and-flow pacing of life, especially the Millennial-age relationships and struggles that inspired much of her writing on the album.
"Bring Me Back", the second single off of High & Dry—which she performed on Episode 4 of PTBOCanada Live With Mike Judson—was produced by Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor and James McKenty from Seventh Fire Records. The song was a natural choice for Melissa and videographer Rob Viscardis to put to film and you'll see why in this excellent video below...
Music To Our Ears: There Is A Downtown Music Crawl February 21st
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The Peterborough Folk Festival and Peterborough DBIA are presenting a Downtown Music Crawl Saturday, February 21st. It will feature as series of "Pop-Up" shows in downtown businesses. It starts at 1 pm, is for all ages and is FREE!
Here is the schedule (rock it)...
1:00pm - Sam Allison - Bluestreak Records (444 George St N)
2:00pm - Blues in the Bottle - Needle in the Hay (385 Water St)
3:00pm - Kennedy Cult - Plush Boutique (384 George St N)
4:00pm - Melissa Payne - Le Petit Bar (399 Water St)
5:00pm - Sean Conway - Sam's Place (188 Hunter St)
***There is an After-Party at the Gordon Best Theatre with Sean Conway and his Post Modern Cowboys. 9:00pm - All Ages - $10 per ticket.
Watch The Toque Session With Melissa Payne
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Melissa Payne, who appeared on Episode 4 of our podcast PTBOCanada Live With Mike Judson recently, also performed on Soundwave Studios' Toque Session series. Check her out below performing with local musicians Matt Greco and Christopher Culgin...
The Radius Project: Documentary Being Produced On Peterborough's Influential Music Scene
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There's something in the musical water here too...
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Read MoreWatch: Peterborough's Alyssa Bartholomew Covering "Clarity" by Zedd
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Peterborough is full of musical talent—and another to add to that list is Alyssa Bartholomew.
Alyssa, who is part of a music duet series by fellow local musician Kate Suhr, has launched a YouTube channel with an amazing cover of "Clarity" by Zedd. Check it out below...
Watch Alyssa below performing with her music mentor Kate Suhr...
Here Are The Trews Singing Highway Of Heroes In Peterborough
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The Trews were in town Saturday (October 26th) performing in concert at The Venue last night.
Earlier in the day, they did an intimate 7-song acoustic set in the Venue's lobby bar.
Watch them below singing "Highway of Heroes". "The song is kinda pertinent right now unfortunately," says lead singer Colin MacDonald. Indeed. —Scott Arnold
