Peninsula Singers raise funds for Loma Portal music program - The theme for the Peninsula Singers fall 2019 semester was Hope for the Holidays. In keeping with their theme the Peninsula Singers choir decided to help Loma Portal Elementary School f... - San Diego Community News
- Peninsula Singers raise funds for Loma Portal music program - The theme for the Peninsula Singers fall 2019 semester was Hope for the Holidays. In keeping with their theme the Peninsula Singers choir decided to help Loma Portal Elementary School f... - San Diego Community News
- Deezer is now available on Facebook's Portal TV - Music Business Worldwide
- 50-year-old music store jam-packed with instruments — and history - Chron
| Posted: 20 Dec 2019 01:04 PM PST  A check was presented to Loma Portal's Foundation president Valerie Lawson, Principal Mark Moricci, and music teacher Candy Szalay at Loma Portal Elementary School. In a four-week campaign, choir members personally gave to the Give Hope for the Holidays fundraiser, which was inspired by the choir's mission of reaching out to the Point Loma community and supporting school music programs. At the end of the fundraising campaign, the choir had been successful in raising $2,444 – enough to fully fund a class set of ukuleles for Loma Portal and purchase other needed items such as presentation microphones. A check was presented to Loma Portal's Foundation president Valerie Lawson, Principal Mark Morici, and music teacher Candy Szalay on Dec. 13 at Loma Portal School and then again at the Peninsula Singers Holiday Concert at All Souls Church on Dec. 14. The Peninsula Singers is a community choir in Point Loma directed by Sarah Suhonen and accompanied by Stewart Simon on piano and welcomes singers with all levels of experience. The choir has performed at many venues throughout the community, including U.S.S. Midway, the Point Loma Village Cultural Faire, Southwestern Yacht Club, Point Loma High School, several local libraries, December Nights in Balboa Park and the San Diego Botanical Garden. To find out more about joining the Peninsula Singers for the Spring 2020 Semester starting Jan. 13, visit peninsulasingerssandiego.org. Established in 2003, Peninsula Singers is a Committee of the nonprofit Ocean Beach Community Foundation.  |
| Deezer is now available on Facebook's Portal TV - Music Business Worldwide Posted: 11 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST  Starting today (December 11), Deezer is available to download on Facebook's Portal TV. Deezer users (including Family, Free, Premium, Student and HiFi) can now play their music and listen to playlists, radio and Flow on Portal TV. The Deezer app is available for Portal TV owners right now and will be available on Portal, Portal Mini and Portal+ early next year. In addition to the US and Canada, Portal TV is available for purchase in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand.
Deezer's Chief Product and Growth Officer, Stefan Tweraser, said: "A smart device that is also part of the biggest social network in the world changes the game. "You can enjoy music and shows with your family without having to be on your phone. Our library of 56 million tracks is there for you with just a few simple commands. "It doesn't matter if you're cooking, having a night in or getting ready for a party. Just enjoy your time and let us bring the entertainment." Music Business Worldwide  |
| 50-year-old music store jam-packed with instruments — and history - Chron Posted: 27 Dec 2019 09:55 AM PST 
Musical instruments and equipment fill every space on the floor and the rafters at the Music Factory in Pearland. "We're a small business but filled to the gills," manager Chase Townshend says. Musical instruments and equipment fill every space on the floor and the rafters at the Music Factory in Pearland. "We're a small business but filled to the gills," manager Chase Townshend says. It was the summer '69. Steve Townshend, then 20 years old, had been teaching guitar lessons at his father's general store when he decided to open his own music shop. In the week leading up to Christmas in 2019, the Music Factory in Pearland was busy and buzzing with the business of music. But for 50 years, this factory has been selling more than instruments. For Townshend's son, Chase, who now manages the store, it's not just the veteran musicians looking for another piece and another tone to add to their collections, but the look of wonder on the faces of thousands of kids discovering their first guitar, cello, keyboard, ukulele or snare drum. "It's that Harry Potter-and-the-wand moment — there's that divine light coming down from somewhere and there's music out of nowhere," Chase Townshend said. "I love seeing that." The Music Factory recently held a 50th anniversary concert, inviting old friends and loyal customers in celebration of an enduring family business built around on the concept that music is a gift. 'Music is what feelings sound like' "It's a corny thing, but music is what feelings sound like, and an instrument is like a portal to people to their soul," said Townshend, 22. "It's a special thing, it really is." In the late 1950s and early 60s, Steve Townshend, then in his early teens, taught guitar lessons in his father's shop in a building attached to the family home in the Hastings part of Pearland. Townshend eventually opened his own record shop in 1967 at the intersection of FM 518 and Walnut Street in Pearland. By 1969, that shop, now named the Music Factory, was selling instruments and other music supplies. In the early 1970s, the business relocated to its current location at 1411 E. Broadway. By then, it had become something of an all-in-one music store for local musicians. And like many long-established music shops, it has ties to music folklore and legend, including a former Music Factory guitar teacher, William Eugene "Uncle Boo" Campbell, who had taught his nephew, Glenn Campbell, how to play guitar; and something to do with the mysterious origin of Kurt Cobain's left-handed Fender Mustang. (According to Townshend, a former guitar tech swears he can trace the guitar back to Texas and the Factory, although its unverifiable.) Through the years, veteran musicians have told stories and dispensed advice on playing while helping customers. To Chase Townshend it's all part of the shop's history, and he takes pride in what his family began. Like his father, Townshend started working at the shop as a kid. "It's in the blood," he said. Like any authentic, self-respecting music shop, the Factory might look a little chaotic on first glance: rows and rows of guitars, band and orchestra instruments, stacks of drums, shelves stocked with equipment rarnging from polite practice amplifiers to the-walls-are-vibrating tube amps — all packed into a roughly 24,000-square-foot space. (The store also includes several rooms and eight instructors on hand for lessons and repair services.) The shop literally has guitars hanging from its rafters — new, used and vintage, the more expensive ones at the top. "We're a small business but filled to the gills," said Townshend. The shop has added a stage for concerts in the back as a venue for local musicians and Townshend It has outlasted corporate-owned music store chains that have come and gone throughout the last five decades and continues to thrive among the behemoth emporiums like Guitar Center and H&H Music. "So far, so good," says Townshend, who gradually evolved into the position as manager over the last few years, with the full blessing of his father and mother, Diane, who are both still involved in the daily operations of the shop. Along with the Gibsons, Yahamas and Epiphones, Chase Townshend believes the shop has survived this long in part by keeping things real. "We are known for our honesty, being straight-forward and taking care of our customers," Townshend said. "We know how important music is, and we have always wanted to make it accessible to everybody." Townshend remembers how it felt to hold his own first Epiphone acoustic guitar when he watches kids come in and gaze at the guitars hanging from the rafters. "It's that Harry Potter 'aha moment' — when you hand them a guitar……it's like magic," he said. yorozco@hcnonline.com  |
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