We’re excited to introduce SSO’s newest full time member, drummer Matt Ellis. He also just recently got sponsored by Soultone Cymbals and Silverfox Drumsticks. Not too shabby. Read more about Matt and his life story at http://www.somervillesymphonyorkestar.com/about/matt-ellis.
Come see the SSO play an extended set at Church of Boston as part of their free Tuesday nights sponsored by www.mysecretboston.com with special guests, The Highway. Check out our Tour page for more info.
Along with his passion for music, SSO founder Joel Edinberg is now writing restaurant reviews in a he said/she said format for the new website www.2dineforboston.com. It just launched to check it out to find good restaurants in the Boston area. I know, as musicians we typically don’t get to eat much food, so this is a very special treat!
Joel will be joining the Wine Bottega in the North End on Friday, January 27 between 5-8pm to help pair different wines with our album. Lots of red wine to be drunk and even maybe some Russian wine (i.e. vodka… jk). http://thewinebottega.com/spin-the-bottle-somerville-symphony-orkestar/
Go to our tour page at http://www.somervillesymphonyorkestar.com/tour to get more info. We have shows coming up on Jan 20 at TT the Bear’s place, Feb 3rd at Harlow’s Pub in Peterborough, NH and on Feb 4 at the Radio Bean in Burlington, VT.
We would love to thank Christina Lacoste for her great review of our set on November 18 with Walter Sickert and the Army of Toys. Read it here at http://digboston.com/experience/2011/11/pandoras-box-church-night-one/
Tune in to WERS 88.9FM on Sunday, October 16 at 9:15AM to listen to an exclusive live performance an interview for WERS’s live music week. We’ll be playing some songs off of our new album for our first live radio show! Either tune in to 88.9FM or go to http://www.wers.org/ for more info.
Go to channel 3 (in Somerville) at 10pm to watch the show “Somerville Rocks” on Wednesday, October 5 to see our first ever television performance. We just finished taping at SCAT (Somerville Community Access Television) last night and we’re really excited to have this air on TV. Go to http://access-scat.org/watch-scatv for more info.
” Their track “Into The Wood Chipper” is a perfect example of this. This song draws the listener in the second it begins playing. The lilts in the melody are accented in a distinctly Eastern European way teleporting the listener to the land from whence it came. Well, it actually came from Somerville so not there, but to the land from whence it wishes one to believe it came. This song has a fantastic build up and the listeners excitement builds along with it until there is nothing else to do but to get up and perform a jig. ”
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We are very excited to introduce the very talented Peter Fanelli as our new trombonist. Peter studied at Eastman School of Music and has a lot of experience playing Klezmer and Jazz with some of the world’s greatest. Come out to the Somerville ArtBeat Festival on July 16 at 3pm to see what all the Buzz is about and support him for his first show with us!
