Life moves in certain cycles and rhythms, kaleidoscopic patterns that dance like sunlight across a bare floor, and love is no different. Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Dorie Colangelo beautifully exemplifies this basic sentiment on her EP The Low. Musical snapshots taken from different real-life vantage points capture the subtle highs of stealing away with a lover to the challenging and hope-filled lows of maintaining a friendship after a relationship has ended, all the while keenly acknowledging that things change. As Colangelo explains, "The Low was inspired by the roller coaster of life. Sometimes you're up high, sometimes you're down low. You can never stay in either state for very long."
The challenge and freedom for an artist is that there is no set path, no yellow brick road to success. One has to blaze the trail alone and often create not only the way, but also the means, for carving out a career. For singer/songwriter, Jamie Rae this has meant following her heart and learning to reach both deeper within and farther without.
Embracing the diversity and challenge of different creative mediums, Val Emmich can be considered equally proficient as a musician, writer and actor. The New Jersey native recently released his sixth album, Little Daggers, has completed his first fictional novel and currently can be seen on the television show Ugly Betty.
Artists often become categorized by - and locked into - the
genre in which they first become known.But, to assume that someone is capable only of expressing
himself/herself through a singular means is to limit the creative potential
that we all possess. Singer/songwriter/dancer Dorit has been staring down this
very challenge and, perhaps most importantly, overcoming it.
Each week as Wednesday evening comes to a close for much of the city, a small crowd of musicians and music fans alike begins to gather on the sidewalk outside of the Rockwood Music Hall waiting to participate in celebrating another little piece of pop music history. For the next three hours from 1am until 4am, some of the best and brightest musicians share the small stage and play their own versions of songs from a predetermined album.
