Didn't realize that we'd went so many days without posting.

Angel has been really busy. She has been a regular at Mucci's Italian Bistro in Monroe, NC for the past couple months, performing every couple weeks. She did a couple local fundraisers and fall festivals, that was fun. She's put up lots of videos and even wrote a new song or two. You should check it out!

Here's my favorite!

Help Angel raise points to win at Topblip.com

This is a great site to help Angel increase her fan base. Check out her videos there. It also helps to increase her views on YouTube. 

http://www.topblip.com/video.i?cmd=list&search=angelmarie

Thanks to all who continue to support Angel in her dreams!

New Videos are up! Check them out!

Angel was very busy this weekend. She performed at Mucci's in Monroe from 6 to 9 PM Saturday night. She had a great time and did awesome at playing and singing! It was a lot of fun and she made a little money to boot.  Then Sunday, despite all the rain, she was able to perform on the main stage at Festival in the Park in Charlotte, NC.  It was a great experience for her as she had to introduce herself and her songs. She's not used to doing that yet. Everything went well and I think she earned some new fans. 

Check out the pictures from Festival in the Park.

Update on Upcoming Performances

Here's the schedule as it stands for the next few weeks.

Saturday,  Sept. 25, 2010   performing at Mucci's in Monroe 6PM - 9ish
Sunday,    Sept 26, 2010  Festival in the Park in Charlotte  3:45 PM
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010   Lake Park Fall Festival  2:30 PM
October 14th  CATA Showcase

Info for the Bench Studios Contest

The videos are up and the contest has begun.  There is some great talent represented there.  Check it out.

Here's the link to the fan page:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monroe-NC/the-Bench-Studios/102283916477977

Angel's video is on either page 4 or page 7 depending on the format style you are using to browse the videos. Here's the link directing to it:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monroe-NC/the-Bench-Studios/102283916477977#!/video/video.php?v=447310481848

Please vote for her and help her win studio time so she can record one of her original songs!

She posted a brand new video today talking about the contest and also sang a couple sneak peeks to some songs she working on including a brand new original she's working on. Make sure to check it out.

Bench Studios Vocal Contest!!

This past Labor Day weekend at our local Matthews Alive Festival (also known as Stumptown) Angel entered a singing contest with Bench Studios from Monroe. The videos will be live today.  You should check them out and vote for her. The winner receives 4 hours of recording time in studio. So cool.

And Angel did awesome singing. She sang Miranda Lambert's Gunpowder and Lead which she hasn't done for YouTube yet. So Cool!!

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New Videos!

Angel put up a couple more videos recently.

Here's her most recent, Eminem's with Rhianna. She even did her best at rapping.




and she also covered this one





and this one

Win a $10 iTunes gift card

We just keep on trucking along and continue to promote Angel and get her name out there.  The latest is a Facebook fan page. With over 500 subscribers on youtube and 106,000 total views it was time to branch out a bit.

Click here to check out her page:  Facebook Fan Page for Angel

There are a few ways you can help us out with this.

• You can like her Fan page 
• share her facebook fan page
• suggest friends for her facebook fan page
• You can put up a link to her blog.
• Follow her blog
• You can embed one of her videos from  youtube on your facebook page and encourage others to like it and subscribe to her
• And of course don't forget to subscribe to her videos on youtube yourself.

So I am going to do a contest to get this going. I want her facebook page to reach 100 fans and to increase her youtube subscribers to 1000 (Diane, thanks for the great idea).

Directions: Comment on this blog post, with a comment for each of the suggestions listed above. I will enter your name in a drawing one time for each comment that you post after I verify that you have completed the suggestion. Make sure to give me your youtube user name and links to your facebook page. You can email me privately as well if you don't feel comfortable posting that information publicly.  Sewrtess@aol.com  That is 7 possible entries into the contest. The prize will be a $10 itunes gift card.

**Note: your wall on facebook must be public for me to confirm that you shared and embedded the video.

Contest starts today on 7/15 and ends on midnight on July 30th

Wordless Wednesday

Angel's at Music Camp!

Angel's been at music camp this week. She's already heard B. Reith and Disciple and got close enough to Toby Mac to touch him. What a great opportunity. Here's a song or two by the artists she's already seen.

New Videos

Angel has had a very busy week.  She sang for a couple collaboration videos and put up a new cover.  She loves summer just for this reason.  It's almost an unlimited time for music.  Check out her new videos.

Wordless Wednesdays

So I know this defeats the purpose of wordless Wednesdays, but I just wanted to explain that we will likely start participating in wordless Wednesdays and just post a random picture either of Angel or something she's done, or maybe about another musical artist.  So enjoy!

Musical Resources

One of our visions for Angel of Melody is to have a list of all the resources for Amateur performing artists. I am going to start compiling a list of companies in the south east with any ties or associations with music. This will be one of the things that we plan to give to the young up and coming artist. If you know of any musical companies near here please let me know. Anything music related. Music lessons, stores that sell instruments, places that carry accompaniment music, sheet music, software etc.

Another new song: Broken Glass

Angel recently put up another brand new song. I can really hear the improvement in her voice and in her song writing from a couple years ago. The girl really puts some work into it. Check it out!!

What we have in the works!

I know that everyone is wondering what kind of things Angel has planned in the future. We have so many ideas running through our heads that sometimes it's hard to choose. But I thought I might update you on some of the things we are thinking about.

Of course Angel still wants to do the charity organization Angel of Melody. That will just take time to get going, but we have definitely not given up on that. Along with that we are planning on scheduling and hosting some benefit concerts probably starting here locally first.

She is still writing songs and of course recording new videos on youtube, but she would also like to get together with some of the other youtube sensations out there and do some duets. We are in the process of setting up the first one. If you are interested in getting together with her comment here with your email address and I will contact you.

We are also planning on a couple promotions and give away contests to draw in some more readers and subscribers to youtube. If you have ideas on contests we could hold please let me know.

Now here is the kicker. Angel is optomistic, maybe a good deal more than me, but she wants to perform in Nashville on July 10th. We will be in town one night only and she would like to have the chance to perform there that night. So if you know of a good place she could have the chance to perform like a karaoke restaurant or something similar please let me know. Again you can just leave your email address here in the comments and I will get back with you.

Lady Antebellum's Need You Now

Angel put up another video this week. While editing her new original Don't Swear on the Moon, she came across a video of Need You Now by Lady Antebellum that she had done a few months ago. She's been so busy that she just hasn't had time to edit it and get it up. I thought she did really well and I just love the song.




She is currently working on a video for Miranda Lambert's Gunpowder and Lead. If you've seen her video for White Liar then you know that she has enough twang in her voice for it to take on a life of it's own. Schools out in just a few more days so I am sure she will have that one up soon.

If you have any suggestions for songs for her to cover, please comment and let us know.

We finally got Angel's latest song up on Youtube last night. Its by far the best she's done so far. Gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it! So check it out and like and share it everywhere. She is trying to hit 100,000 views with all her videos. We are so so excited about this one!!

I just did a photo shoot with Angel and got some great pictures with her. Just thought I would share a couple of my favorites with you.

Enjoy your holiday weekend!!

I am so excited to have a weekend to spend with my family.  It was a very hectic week.  Angel survived cheer leading tryouts though she didn't make the cut. I am so proud of her for working so hard this week during the process and I guess we just have to assume that God has something else in mind for her this coming school year. It will be a busy weekend with church and family gatherings but we are all looking forward to having Monday off to relax and veg out a bit.  Enjoy your long weekend and remember those who have given it all for our freedom!

Rip the Hallways/Highschool Icon

For those you who are asking about the Rip the Hallways Competition or have sponsored Angel, I wanted to give an update on the competition.

Since Angel auditioned for the Rip the Hallways competition in the fall of 2009 it was postponed twice. Once because the producers were seeking out more sponsors and attempting to make the show even flashier and bigger. The second time it was postponed indefinitely due to inclement weather on the western part of the state. It seems that the second postponement actually caused major issues with the host venue as well as loss of sponsors. Some contestants actually auditioned during the summer of 2009 and are still waiting. Unfortunately at this time we have heard nothing more about the show.

We did travel to Fayetteville in October for the pilot episode and watched the first round of contestants. You can see them and parts of their performances in the commercial made for the rest of the competition here http://www.beatmakerz.net/ripthehallways/

The kids are all extremely talented and the competition is fierce. This performance is the one that we thought was by far the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEJHU4FvWU

Hopefully they will get things taken care of soon so all these kids can show what they are made of.

If you sponsored Angel for the competition, I am moving forward with plans to advertise for you even though the show may not happen. I am working on updating all the links on her blog and youtube pages. We also have plans in the works to move ahead with her charity organization and will be advertising and putting out flyers recognizing our sponsors at that time. All sponsorship monies were used for furthering Angel’s music endeavors; either for travel expenses for the October trip to Fayetteville and in preparation for the show (costume, hair, make-up), misc supplies such as guitar strings, sheet music etc. If you have any questions about how the money was used please feel free to contact us. We would be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Even if the show never happens there will always be lots of competitions and shows and Angel will always be
involved if at all possible. Check back often or you may miss the next step in her career!

Benefit Concert with Shane Tracy

Oh yeah, I forgot that Angel did a Benefit concert with a local artist/performer last month. His name is Shane Tracy and he is awesome!! You need to check out his songs on iTunes. You can also check out his website at http://www.shanetracy.com// He is kind of a cross between Jason Mraz and John Mayer. Very cool!

The benefit was for an organization call Million Meal Mission.  http://millionmealmission.org/  Check out their website. It's a unigue idea started here locally, intent on providing meals (low cost, nutritional) to starving children here and across the world for just $0.17 a meal. They are doing an amazing job of making it easy for any of us to help out either through donations or by action. You can come out and actually help pack the meals.

Here's some pics from the concert. Maybe later I can get up a video of one of the songs Angel sang with him.

Angel and Shane after the concert.




Angel before the concert. I love how this picture turned out.





Angel and Shane on stage performing.


Shane rocking out to one of his original songs.




Angel performing Bring on the Heartache. I never get tired of hearing that song.

Update on Angel

I just wanted to update on Angel.  She is still working hard on her music and singing and even has a new song about to be posted.  We just have to finalize the copyrights on it.  But Highschool has proven to be very demanding for her.  She is trying out for cheerleading this week and with the end of the school year rapidly approaching there are lots of tests to study for and lots of last minute projects.  I am sure that she will have lots to say and post about this summer and if she has it her way lots of videos.  So check back often this summer to see what's up!