Shawn Hershey

Thursday, March 06, 2008

New Beginner Class Structure

We restructured our beginner classes at Its All Swing! and created videos of our syllabus that we can add to our website to illustrate what will be taught:

6-Count Class

8-Count Class

Monday, March 03, 2008

CarolHershey.com

Monday, December 31, 2007

Rhythmic Arts Festival

Dianne Eramo and I decided to enter the slow dancing contest at the Rhythmic Arts Festival this weekend, 12/30/2007, and ended up winning! Unfortunately I didn't get any video of the competition.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

SheBAM! performance at Waterfire

This was fun!

For those close enough to Providence for a weekend, check out waterfire. It's cool.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Competing at BluesShout 2007

Rachel Demers and I placed 3rd in the 2007 Blues Shout Jack and Jill. This was our dance in the finals. For those who don't know, a Jack and Jill competition randomly pairs dancers together for a randomly selected song. I had only danced once before with Rachel and that was the day of the competition.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Fried Bananas at BIX

The Fried Bananas played for the Boston Independence exchange at Elizabeth's Blues Cafe dance on Saturday, May 12th.

Go to www.theFriedBananas.com/Media.aspx for more clips.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

SheBAM performance at BIX

SheBAM performed its latest choreography at the Blues Cafe dance during the Boston Independance Exchange, Saturday May 12th. Yee haw!

Sunday, April 01, 2007

The Fried Bananas Website

I've created a website for The Fried Bananas, the swing band that played for Amanda's party and will be playing at the Blues Cafe dance for the Boston Independence Exchange:
www.TheFriedBananas.com

Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Fried Bananas at Mike's House

The Fried Bananas (the new name of our swing band) was supposed to play at the Blues Cafe dance on Friday, March 16th. Unfortunately we got snowed out but Mike Hibarger held a late night party instead. The following is a clip from the party:

Anna Callahan (trumpet and voice), Shawn (trumpet), Jim Frey (drums), Josh Fialkoff (piano), Ben Vigoda (guitar), Steve Conahan (bass)

Other clips from that evening:

Douce Ambiance

The Old Country

Nature Boy

You can also listen to the podcast of the audio: (the audio quality isn't that great since I stupidly placed the mic near where people congregated rather than close to the band)

Saturday, January 27, 2007

SONH Cabaret Piece

This is a piece I composed for the cabaret at the 2006 SONH. In this incarnation I think it's a little bit long, but it was fun to do.

Boring Technical Details:
I'm using Reason on my Mac as the sound source for the bass and vocals. The MIDI trumpet is something I saw Darren Barret play at Wally's Jazz cafe in Boston. I tracked down the maker on the internet and bought one. I'm using an M-Audio as the MIDI interface, a Sony ECM-MS957 MIC, and an RC-20XL looper that my sister and her boyfriend bought me for Christmas. My trumpet is the good ol' Bach Stradivarius and the Harmon is a Jo-Ral.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

SheBAM!

Back in November I suggested the creation of a performance group to keep myself and others working on their Lindy Hop. We've now got a name, upcoming performances, and a website (www.dSheBAM.com). The group currently consists of myself, Amanda, Bronwyn Bryant, Marc-Andre Vachon, Elizabeth Miller, and Davis Thurber. One of the coolest features of the site is a blogger driven Inspiration page, which will allow us all to post our most inspiring clips.

Check out video from our first performance:

Saturday, December 30, 2006

My Space on myspace.com

I've finally created a MySpace account: www.myspace.com/shawnhershey. It looks like it will be usefull for promoting events and keeping in touch with old friends. But currently most operations seem to take forever to complete. Ack!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Amanda's Roaring 20s Party

This past weekend, Dec 16th, Amanda and I threw a Roaring 20s party for her 30th birthday. The following is a clip of the band that played for dancers:

Shawn (trumpet), Jeramie Anderson (drums), Josh Fialkoff (piano), Ben Vigoda (guitar), Steve Conahan (bass), Tim (trombone)

This flickr set contains some pictures of the party.

Additional videos:

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Upcoming Lindy Hop Classes/Workshops

On Friday, November 17th, Kerrin and I will be teaching at Elizabeth's Blues Cafe dance.
December 3rd, Betina and I will be teaching workshops at BU.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Updated Website to use Blogger

Inspired by Ben Vigoda's inventmusic.org website, I decided to modify my website to use Blogger as its engine for generating news. While I was at it, I switched over the hosting from googlepages to webhost4life so that I can have more control over features and play with ASP.Net 2.0. In addition I've created a podcast of all the music on this site so that I can use a nice looking Odeo flash player. I am in geek heaven.

Here's That Rainy Day

mp3

Date: 11/09/06
Performers: Shawn (trumpet), Carol Hershey (My Mom on Piano) & Shawn (Bass)
About: Used GarageBand to create a Here's that Rainy Day Play-along. You'll have to excuse the low quality bass playing.

Swing City, October 27th, 2006

Last Friday I played Jumpin at the Woodside with the Beantown Swing Orchestra at Swing City.

Siggraph, July 2006

Check out inventmusic.org to see what we did at Siggraph. You can also check out the brief clip from the performance:

The Creation of this Web Page Wednesday, April 26th

Google keeps getting cooler and cooler. First GMail, then GCal, and now GooglePages. It took me about an hour to put up this site. Compare it with my previous lazily created website and you can appreciate it even more.