http://www.marcrogers.com Bassist for Holly Cole, Michael Kaeshammer, The Philosopher Kings, Sunshine State and more Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi everyone...in the spirit of 'no news is good news' I've been WAAAYYY too busy to update this page. Hopefully that'll change now that I have the WordPress app for iPhone. I'll soon have some audio up from albums I've recently worked on with Sarah Harmer, TV/TV, The ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2010/02/updates-or-the-lack-thereof/ Sorry for the lack of updates to this page, my only excuse is that I've been CRAZY busy! If you want to find out what I'm doing minute-by-minute, check out my twitter feed at www.twitter.com/marcrogers or find me on facebook at www.facebook.com/sweetmarcus. See you there! More updates ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/11/recent-doings/ Hi all, I'll be performing a live streaming concert this afternoon (July 16) at 2pm EST on http://www.am740.ca with Michael Kaeshammer Trio. The concert should also be available as an on-demand viewing after the fact. 'See' you there! http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/07/live-streaming-concert-on-am-740/ I just added two new audio clips to the Audio page, the title cut from Michael Kaeshammer's new album "Lovelight" and 'Courage' from the new Justin Hines album "Chasing Silver". I'm very proud of my work on both of these albums, give these tracks a listen and if you ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/06/more-new-audio-clips/ I found this on Amanda Palmer's blog, it's so good I had to repost it here. If you're a musician or a music lover, I'm sure you'll find this as meaningful as I did. Enjoy! Why Music Matters Karl Paulnack, Director, Music Division The Boston Conservatory Dr. Karl Paulnack’s Welcome Address to ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/05/why-music-has-meaning/ For those of you who still haven't seen the amazingly painful interview with Jian Gomeshi on QTV, go here: http://www.youtube.com/qtv. Here is my attempt to capture this unique moment in Canadian history with a series of haikus... Billy Bob Thornton or as he's perhaps best known Angelina's ex Oh poor Boxmasters your rent ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/04/billy-bob-thornton-in-haiku/ I've recently (finally) started to update my Audio page...one of the things I added is a rather nifty bootleg recording of a tune from a Susan Tedeschi show that I did at the Nokia Theatre in NYC in 2007.  Click on the 'Audio' link above and check out some of ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/03/new-audio-clips/ I've recently become a huge fan of Twitter, the social networking site.  Something about the simplicity of the site and the oddly interesting 140 character limit have me hooked.  BTW for those of you on Twitter, my username is sweetmarcus if you feel like following me.  On a related side ... http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/03/twitter-pated/ I'd like to thank everyone who came out to my Yamaha clinic at Elite Music on Sunday, I had a great time.  Special thanks to Starbucks Danforth for the free coffee!!  Hope to see you at the next one. http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/02/elite-music-clinic/ Just found out that Shannon Butcher's latest album, 'Words We Both Could Say' (which I had the pleasure of producing and mixing) is on the iTunes Best of 2008 in both the Best Vocal Jazz and Best New Jazz Artist categories...which makes me very happy! http://www.marcrogers.com/2009/01/words-we-both-could-say-on-itunes-best-of-2008/