September 14, 2010

Checking in With Our Longmont Boys

Shiloh House - Longmont Campus

Since the Longmont students finished their albums a few weeks ago, we haven't been up to their campus so that we could focus on organizational development.  We headed up to see the boys this week, so that any new songs could be added to the website, and so that they could record vocals if they had any.

It was a fun evening, and the students are coming along very well with their willingness to get on the microphone.  Here are a couple of tracks that are fresh out of the oven from the boys at Longmont:

Flava Son - Manny and Kieth

Double CC 2 - Chris

In the Swing of Things

Devereux Cleo Wallace

We opened the class with a couple of inspirational videos:

The Guru video emphasizes our theme of positive expression through hip-hop, and The Band's  song is a classic moment in American music history.  We had a young lady join our program recently, and she had prior experience working with Flobots.org at the Denver Children's Home.  She brought in a track that they had prepared for her, and we recorded her vocals, which will be the basis of a new song.

We also covered some of the technical details of working with the music software, which makes the workflow smoother and more efficient.  Overall, it felt like things were stable and normal this week, which is where we want to be at this point.