Wednesday

StreetcredMusic: Lots of Women Play Piano, Pt 1. Kayce Laine and Carole King

 The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

The word piano is a shortened form of pianoforte

 Kayce Laine

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Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, 

you want to leave yourself wanting more. Carole King

 


 

See part 2: Part2 HERE!

 

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StreetcredMusic: After The Music: #Pianowomen with Erin Pellnat

 

"After The Music" with Erin Pellnat 

Songstress, Sky Diver, resident of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn.

A style all her own, versatile, in her music and her life. From heavy metal to jazz

she excels. And it's all wrapped up in an exploding stage presence.

More interviews: CLICK HERE

Tuesday

StreetcredMusic: "After The Music" with #Pianowoman Kayce Laine

 

Get to know the artists I support and work with. That's the purpose of this blog. If you know them you will probably take more interest in them and their work, that's the mission here. #Support.  Non profit support.

So take a look here at a familiar face  Kayce Laine an original #Pianowoman. Four years now after the first #Pianowomen shoot, we got together to see what's been going on in her life.

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We did not know it but just days after we were in New York City shooting this, Covid devastated the area we were staying in. Kayce went back to Nashville and spent a week with a flu like illness. Me I got lucky I guess, I was fine.  

 

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StreetcredMusic: "That Jazz Life" Greta Panettieri

Eleven years of StreetcredMusic: In 2012 I wanted to document the stories of several women who came to New York City from other countries, to make music.

Here is one of those stories, Greta Panettieri    

"That Jazz Life"

 

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Friday

StreetcredMusic: "Music/Life" of Clara Lofaro


Enjoy The Full Video HERE: Music/Life with Clara Lofaro

In the eleven years of #StreetcredMusic, this was my first attempt (2012) at documenting the trials and tribulations of women as Indie Musicians, coming to New York City from other states and countries.


It was certainly a learning experience for me, and we had fun.


Please take a minute to read the final credits. All those wonderful people who helped me, coming out of the blue, knowing nothing about film. 

 

 

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StreetcredMusic: Kristin Hoffmann - "Water of Life"



Kristin Hoffmann


Codes For A Healthy Earth

World Unity Water Day, June 24th....

We are all connected by the Ocean. 
Our everyday actions affect the world in which we live,
and all creatures sharing our planet.
I wrote “Song for the Ocean,” so that, through singing,
we can raise our awareness and get involved
in creating positive environmental change.
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Additional Video; "Song For The Ocean" and her web site here::
 Kristin Hoffmann



Monday

StreetcredMusic: Alessia Ramusino, Cezara Lucia Vladescu. "To See You Naked Is To Remember The Earth, The Smooth Earth"

 To see you naked is to remember the Earth, 
   the smooth Earth, clean of horses
      the Earth without reeds, pure form
         closed to the future, confine of silver. ...Federico Garcia Lorka

Video...HERE.."Nuda" by Alessia Ramusino 

Alessia Ramusino



Alessia Ramusino was born in Genoa.

She began traveling when she was only 20 days old, thanks to her father’s job as a geologist. He was transferred to Iran and the whole family lived there for the larger part of Alessia’s childhood. She kept travelling, living in several countries, such as Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and the United States of America, thus enabling her to get in touch with different people, languages, religions, traditions and ways of life and creating in her the necessity to find a common language that could overcome the ethnic differences. This is the reason why Alessia chooses the English language to write the lyrics of her songs.
    

 

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Cezara Lucia Vladescu
 
Cezara Lucia Vladescu
 

Video HERE: "Morphine" by Cezara

Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu started her piano studies with her mother, also pianist, Carmen Giorgiana Vlădescu.

At the age of fourteen she was admitted under exceptional circumstances and with the highest score at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe.
Here she pursued her studies at the special division of ´Young Students` with Prof. Günter Reinhold. She completed her studies earning her Bachelor degree and
Artist Diploma at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe (Germany) in the piano class of Prof. Dr. h.c. Fany Solter.
Between 1994 and 1999 she won first prize in numerous national and international piano competitions.

 

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Thursday

Women in Music #Streetcred

Women in Indie Music

Started in New York City, now global, to 223 countries.

Streaming to 190 Nations, every Thursday at 5pm, ET 10pm, UK

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Amazing women musicians. StreetcredMusic is 100% nonprofit

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Monday

StreetcredMusic: Piano Styles, Lola Astanova

Piano Styles: Lola Astanova

 Lola Astanova’s name may be new to you, but it is very familiar to her countless fans around the world, many of them of an age and demographic that classical music has spent decades trying to reach. With a direct pianistic lineage back to Liszt and a distinct visual flair, the dazzling young pianist has perfected a riveting, deeply emotional style that hearkens back to the old masters.

VIDEO, Lola: Carol of the Bells (The Enchanted Carol)


Lola Astanova
  Link to other Piano Styles:: More Pianowomen Styles


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StreetcredMusic: Piano Styles, Champian Fulton

Piano Styles

 “What has keys but can’t listen to the beauty it unlocks? A piano.”

Champian Fulton:
  Born in Oklahoma, Champian is considered one of the most gifted pure Jazz musicians of her generation. She grew up with music in the home; her mother and father (Jazz trumpeter and educator Stephen Fulton) recognized her fascination with music at an early age. The presence of her father’s musician friends, including Clark Terry and Major Holley, inspired her focus on Jazz. Her first paid musical engagement was with her own band at Clark Terry’s 75th Birthday Party; she was 10 years old.

 VIDEO: Champian, Jazz Showcase, Chicago

VIDEO: Champian, Winter's Jazz Club

Champian Fulton, Web Site



















Champian Fulton, get music
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Friday

StreetcredMusic: Piano Styles, Licia Missori

Piano Styles

 “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

 “These fingers of mine, they got brains in ’em. You don’t tell them what to do – they do it.”

Some memorable quotes from musicians. Let me show you some of the people I know, and their unique styles.

 “The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.”

 Licia Missori, Pianist and composer from Rome, Italy, she began to play and compose at the age of three or four. During the last 15 years she has been conducting concerts both as a soloist and in collaboration with other artists, accumulating hundreds of concerts in Italy and abroad.
 She works at freelance music transcription and teacher of music theory, solfeggio and piano.

Enjoy this video: Licia Missori "Sweet But Psycho"

Pianist Licia Missori

Licia Missori, Rome


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Saturday

StreetcredMusic: #MeToo, Power, Let's Talk About It. By Tessa Lena

 A long awaited piece from one of my favorite thought processors.
Tessa Lena

Her always insightful commentary is refreshing, in this time of IA,
overreaction, surveillance and political correctness.

Someone who is interested, (for real) about bringing people together
as people not bots...Tessa is a breath of fresh air in today's shit storm of rhetoric.

Enjoy, this atricle~~
 HERE:   #MeToo~Power~R.Kelly (Full Article) 

        Originally published by: Fair Observer

© Kraft74 / Shutterstock



Tessa Fights Robots

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Monday

StreetcredMusic: A Catch Up Video with Erin Pellnat aka Erroneous

 Please enjoy this wonderful, vibrant artist. 
      Erroneous

This is a video we did in New York City, this winter. 
I just wanted to find out what some of my favorite women artist have been up to.

We are like a family that does not see each other often enough.
Please enjoy and get to know Erin, she will brighten your day,
as she does mine.

 This video as all the videos I shoot, have no script, no rehearsal, no retakes, 
      what we shoot is what you get.

VIDEO: After The Music

Erin Pellnat aka Erroneous




 

Tuesday

StreetcredMusic: Rita Castor on Patreon, An Op/Ed

Open Letter To: Musicians
    Re: Patreon

I ran the indiemusician route for several years. Now I'm established in the music biz as a teacher. No, not teaching music or voice, teaching how to run a music business. A business of one or a full band, you must create an income from your product. Business #101.

I want to talk about Patreon. I myself have received several communications from musicians I know to join Patreon, and literally help support them financially.

I feel sad that they have asked me to do this. Sad because I know they are all being taken advantage of by venue owners who will not pay them for their gigs. Venue owners who are literally stealing from them, and profiting from their labors.



Of course the obvious solution is for all musicians to demand a payment for their gigs.
But egos won't allow them to put themselves in demand. That's a subject for a more serious time.

I am also a bit insulted that I'm being ask to give money, when they give their talent away, so venue owners can make hundreds if not thousands of dollars while they are on stage.

Summing up, what you are doing is asking your fans, who buy your music, come to see you, buy a drink or two, maybe some food, gas money, travel money, to also give you a monthly salary.
While the bar is full at anywhere from $10 to $14 dollars a drink, and they give you nothing.
Have you considered how it feels to get a request like that?

                                                                                     Rita Castor.

Sunday

Streetcred, Women in Music.



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