Here is my happier, passionate new blog on the Blogger. Thanks for coming. Here I will tell you who is new and exiting in the Utah music scene, tell you about big local music events, and local band CD releases.
My mission is to debunk the fact that there isn't a 'scene' here in the land of Zion. There absolutely is one, and it's a big, fat, talented one. Especially those kids in UT County like Orem and Provo. I don't know what's in the water there, but that's where The Used came from.
So I'm typing my first blog in bed listening to my brand-spanking new B&O clock radio. It's pretty sweet. Before, I had to crank up the stereo in the living room. I always wanted a radio in the bedroom. I usually like to listen to local radio DJ Steve Williams on KUER 90.1 FM at night who plays jazz until midnight (and he has one of the smoothest voices in town), then if I'm up apres minuit I switch to classical on 89.1 FM. Then in my car during the day I usually listen to KRCL 90.9 FM which plays a lot of local bands of different genres. I am going to get an iphone adaptor so I can listen to the station I DJ at, www.utahfm.org, founded by former members of KRCL. You can download Quicktime on your iphone and listen to Utah FM.org that way also.
SO! Let's get started with the first event and new CD release:
This one I am emceeing and it's FREE. The fourth annual Music To Clean Your Ears Out, a benefit for The Utah Food Bank put on by the Utah label Eden's Watchtower Records (www.ewrecs.com). It's at The Gallivan Center this Saturday, September 26, from 2 pm to 10 pm. There will be nine EWR bands (Elemental, Menlo, Iberis, Michelle Vreeland, DulceSky, Patsy Ohio, Born To Ride, Emily Allen, and Theta Naught) and a couple of belly dance groups, Shahravar and The Skirts. Admission is free, and please bring non-perishable food-items for The Utah Food Bank. While you are there, pick up any or all of the EWR recording artist CDs and compilations, including a brand new one that will make it's debut that day.
Featured CD release! The new full-length album from Salt Lake City singer/songwriter Libbie Linton. Titled Bird Wings In The Bleak, her round, deep vocals are reminiscent of Zach Schwartz (A.K.A. Zach Rogue) of Rogue Wave's. To listen to her music is mesmerizing. Pick Up "Bird Wings In The Bleak" at Slowtrain Records on 300 S. (Broadway) and 221 E. in SLC.
That's all for now. It's past my bedtime!
Hope to see you this Saturday,
Portia
Radio DJ for Utah FM, mobile DJ, monthly guest host on PCTV, and Utah band radio show host for six years total.
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