Formed in early 2014, Sweet Sweet is an American folk duo from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina comprised of Jeremy Dunham (guitar, vocal) and Kerrine Gifford (cello, vocal).
Author: Neil Connors
Neil is the Online Editor for Making Music Magazine and tested his skill with tickling the ivories once, but since becoming part of the team at Making Music, he might give it a second try.
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra Supports School Music Programs in Philadelphia
What do you do with more than 1,000 musical instruments in disrepair and no funds to fix them? That was the dilemma faced by The School District of Philadelphia. Now a new project, Symphony for a Broken Orchestra (symphonyforabrokenorchestra.org), funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and The Barra Foundation, seeks to remedy the situati
Songwriting in the Modern Era
A Music Week study that analyzed the top 100 singles of 2016 found that an average of 4.53 people wrote the hits, and those in the top 30 averaged 4.67 people
Community Video: JUDE
JUDE is an alternative rock band based out of Atlanta, Georgia. They released their debut EP, The Heart, in June of 2016 and have been gradually gaining traction ever since.
Community Video: Nightmare River Band
The Nightmare River Band (NRB) is a fierce combination of raucous Alt-Country, Americana, and good ol’ Rock N’ Roll. According to Matt Krahula, songwriter/ front man, the songs are about “love, loss, pain and drinking… not necessarily in that order”.
Sensaphonics celebrates May as Better Hearing Month with 3rd annual Facebook giveaway
Sensaphonics is running a Facebook giveaway contest for the month of May in celebration of Better Hearing Month. The company will award one winner with a pair of classic 2X-S custom in-ear monitors and a dB Check in-ear sound level analyzer.
Community Video: Matt Jaffe & The Distractions
Matt Jaffe is a rock & roll singer/songwriter from San Francisco. Cutting his teeth on countless open mics around the Bay Area, Matt started taking music (a little bit) more seriously when Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads offered to produce his first record.
Community Video: Brandon Jeffries
Brandon Jeffries is an award winning songwriter and independent artist based out of Charlotte, NC. He has been described as having a gritty, southern style with a definitive pop edge that adds a natural and raw sounding flavor to anything he performs.
Community Video: Jenny Vinatieri
Jenny Vinatieri is a songwriter-singer from Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has been gaining traction and airplay in the local community for my first album release “Religion” which is a collection of songs she wrote to illustrate her ability to write across different genres.
Musical Brain Scans
Mark Doidge of Toronto, Ontario, creates three-dimensional “movies” of brain activity from a clinical electroencephalogram (EEG), which he calls “portaits” of your mind.