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Posts about our Web site or the blog – new features, etc.

Shaun, Ben, and a surprise appearance from Seth take Sweetwater by storm

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Shaun Dever is joined on stage by Ben Carter at Sweetwater 3/19/10.

What a show we had last night. Wow. From right before the show when Seth McFadyen and Ben Carter went outside of Sweetwater into the street and played “Semi Charmed Life” and “Island In the Sun”, to Ben unplugging his guitar and singing Jewel on a chair in the middle of the crowd, to Shaun Dever leading a group amorphous jam of “What I Got”, this show was something else.

Hero Ben Carter.

Last night at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston, Shaun Dever, Ben Carter, and Seth McFadyen rocked the crowd for an incredible night of wild acoustic jams and packed-room sing-alongs. At one point, Ben even called a girl from the crowd, sat her in a chair in front of him and played a song for her – she apparently was from Switzerland, which led Ben to thank her by saying, “Welcome to America.” Seth put on a great last-minute opening set, and Shaun rounded off the night with his rad tunes and some more great sing-along jams.

Last night we were giving out little flyers for a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Brewster Sessions, Volume 1 sneak peek album. More on the actual album later. But for now, go download the 6-song album for free here: brewsterproductions.bandcamp.com.

TONIGHT: Jake Hill and Greg Loftus will be playing at Sweetwater for the launch party of TRANZMISSION, the indie music blog of Ryan Wood. If you come tonight, you can get your digital hands on a free download of Greg Loftus’ EP courtesy of Tranzmission.

Now, here are a multitude of photos from last night. Thanks to Shaun Dever for some of them, and for the nice settings he put in the camera for the ones of him. We’ll add some video soon.

See you all tonight!!
- Jon

Here, hear!: Featured music!

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Yes, this is a picture of the music player to the right. Take a listen! >>

Good morning everyone out in Brewsterland,

We have a fun announcement for anyone who likes to visit our Web site: we now have a FEATURED MUSIC PLAYER! I know this might not be terribly exciting to some, but we’re very happy we get to present one more way for the bands we work with to get exposure and new fans. We’ll be rotating the music around fairly frequently so keep an eye out for new stuff. For now, we’ve got 2 tracks from the [amazing] Christmas compilation, “A Christmas Miracle”(2009), put out by our good friend Mark Bryant at Plimro Records, and a few tunes from our good friends. Here’s the track list:

1. “The Real Kris Kringle” by The Juicebox Graduates (a new band w/ Shaun Dever, Nick Amendolare, Nate Cristofori, and Tyler Kinsherf)
2. “Starry Night (Fairy Tale)” by McCarthy & Legge (also from “A Christmas Miracle”)
3. “Wake Up” by The Release (off their debut EP, this is an incredible song)
4. “Out of My Hands” by Jake Hill (another tune from the studio of Mark Bryant)
5. “His True Song” by The Eagle Hill Band (not quite up to the engineering par of the others [i recorded this one], but nice nonetheless)

Please enjoy the music as you poke around the site (it’ll pick up right where you left off if you go to another page) – and look for new music every so often.

Laterade,

Jon

Come on in, we’re open for business! Welcome Brewster’s new home online.

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brewster-metal-benblend_webWell hello to all you out in Brewster Productions land,

We’ve been working for a while on our brand new Web site, and we’re pretty proud of it – please take a look around and enjoy. This week we are wrapping up our 2nd season of the School’s Out Summer Concert Series, and making a smooth transition into the fall, so get ready for some great things to come!

Starting this fall, not only will we keep doing more shows all around New England, but we are officially open for business and offering sound production and promotion services for hire! We’re really excited about this – so the next time you’re putting on a big (or small) party, a charity event, a road race, a keynote speaker, corporate picnic, etc. and need a band or just a PA to get you heard….come to us. We’re experienced, enthusiastic, efficient, and best of all: CHEAP. Like really cheap.

So, let’s take a look at a few new things on the site. On the right side, you’ll see our schedule which will be constantly updated so check back, links to our concert series and good friends, a google advertisement, a place for your business to advertise (like everything else, cheap), and our Twitter feed. On the top navigation bar, you can check out our services, media (photos, video, audio), get in touch with us, and find out more about us.

Lucas Carpenter (on tour with Mark Rose of Spitalfield) performed August 7 at the School's Out Summer Concert Series

A few things we have in the works for this coming year: Class of ’05 Memorial Scholarship, Nike Indoor Nationals, lots of shows.

Please make yourself at home, bookmark us, subscribe to our RSS feed, follow us on Twitter…..and whatever other things you crazy kids are doing these days on the World Wide Interweb. Just make sure you keep checking back for more shows and events, services, and if you’re in a band: E-mail us about doing shows!

That’s all for now. Stay tuned in the coming week or so for more updates. Make sure you don’t miss the last summer concert series show of the year: Chris Albert and Semester Abroad will be rockin’ the Hedge House Lawn this Friday 9/4!

Keep it real,

Jon Dorn
Brewster Productions

(pictured above: Lucas Carpenter, on tour with Mark Rose (of Spitalfield), performs at the School’s Out Summer Concert Series August 7)

Acoustic show; big plans for Brewster Productions

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Last night’s acoustic show was great – even though we were competing with Lifehouse for an audience (they were next door at Memorial Hall). George Barber and Chris Albert each put on a great show. There will be a bunch of photos up soon, but check out a couple below.

And as for Brewster Productions, we’re feeling ambitious. Lately, we’ve been noticing a bit of a community of musicians forming around the SE Mass area – artists performing together and going to each others shows, etc. – and we want to keep this going. So in light of this, our hope is that our new web site (coming soon) is going to serve as a sort of meeting point for the growing music scene around these parts. Artists and fans alike will be able to post photos, use message boards, listen to music and lots of other things. It’ll be sort of like if MySpace was a person and decided to devolve 1,000 years and forget how to speak English. Basically, it’s going to be a small, fun thing that will get people in the immediate area interacting and, most importantly, going out to shows and supporting the musicians.

We’ll let you know when all of this is ready to go, but for now you can check out our blog (you’ve probably noticed it since you are reading it right now) and our new temporary web site.

Peace,
Jon
BP

A few photos:
George Barber 8/1

Chris Albert 8/1

New Brewster Blog and cool Web stuff coming soon!

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Welcome to the new Brewster Blog! We’ll be touching up our website a bit in the coming weeks (with the help of Shaun from Sapreme Design) and our new blog is the first of many cool things to come out of it. Expect forums, message boards, photo galleries and other things of the that nature.

As far as the blog goes, we’ll be posting copies of important posts to our MySpace blog, but come here for the annals of Brewster Productions’ opinion, recollection and introspection.

-Jon
Brewster Productions

Brewster Blog Time! Coming this summer…

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Hey everyone -

I should be doing my homework right now, so of course I decided to initiate Brewster Productions into the MySpace blog universe.

We’re getting closer to Brewster’s 1-year anniversary and so far we’ve been having great success. We’re putting on our farthest-away show on April 19th at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY with popular Skidmore artists Lyle Divinsky, Nat Osborn and Luke Santy, as well as two of our old standbys, Shaun Dever and Stephen Infascelli.

This summer is going to be one of the rockingest summers since they started keeping track of that back in 1894. So far we have a whole free concert series featuring some of the hottest bands on the South Shore, and we’ll certainly be having lots of shows at places other than the Plymouth waterfront. The best part is the concerts are on Friday – we realized that as awesome of a place Plymouth is, there’s nothing happening for under-21-year-olds on Friday nights. That’s where the School’s Out! Summer Concert Series comes in. We’re taking on the demographic the Wednesday night concerts miss and giving amateur musicians (and a few budding professionals) the chance to perform on Plymouth’s biggest stage. Hopefully we can hip-up Plymouth for the generation that’s grown up with computers, not typewriters.

That’s all for now for the Brewster Blog. Perhaps next week I’ll go into the history of Brewster Productions and story of one bright-eyed youngster named Scott McEwen and his relentless pursuit of a dream…….. (sparkling star shoots across the night sky)

Good night and good luck,
Jon Dorn, VP