Show. Saturday, May 9th in St Paul.
We will be opening for Kid Major and Mystic Funk will be closing things out. This venue offers a great menu for food / drinks and will also be fun to check out a great show. See you soon!
Some Good News!
On April 23rd, 2015 we had the opportunity to play Anthem’s International Music Festival to represent Minneapolis at the Acadia Pub. This was a unique opportunity to not only play for a couple of charities, (Children of South Africa – chosa.org and Musary, a music lending library located in Boston – themusary.org) but to also play our first live show as a 6 peice band. Overall, we had a fantastic time and we got to share the stage with 5 other fantastic performers as well as represent our city. For those who are newer to the realm of this project it started off as a solo-acoustic act over 10 years ago, so this was a huge deal for the band and I.
One of the other cool things about this festival, is the organiser’s put together a way to get the regional acts noticed. Other major cities are hosting this festival and many other acts are also playing this festival. If you are chosen as a city representative you get to move onto a “regional face-off” (more details here) where you are put up against approximately 70 market champs. Well, just a few days ago we received an email…
“Our judge selected Perry Project as our City Representative, so congratulations!! This means Perry Project will be moving on to the Regional Round which will take place online in October…Thank you and again congratulations!!“
We are happy to say we got chosen to represent Minneapolis! Final voting begins in October and The IMF champion will receive an all-expense paid international tour. We are very optimistic about this and honored (check out our IMF artists page). We will need your help come October to make what appears to be a dream, a reality. A big thank you goes to Paige Fults of The Anthem Group who helped everyone so diligently to set this event up.
More Later…
Best,
– Tracy Perry Jr –
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– Perry Project –
First Practices Underway.
Over a month ago I posted an ad seeking additional band members to join Perry Project. After numerous interviews from interested musicians I found 4 awesome, and talented individuals that shared the same passion and vision.
Yesterday we had our first practice as a band and it could not have gone any better. Everyone was in agreement that it exceeded all expectations and are looking forward to the next practice.
This is a huge milestone for the project as it keeps the vision alive. All we need now (as far as members) is a capable keyboard player to finalize the sound and to add that extra bit of polish we are looking for.
More updates to follow.
-Tracy-
First Reviews Are Out.
The first reviews are starting to come out for my debut album. I was a little worried about the response, I put so much into this project and no one likes rejection. The majority have been really positive so far and I couldn’t be happier about that unless I want to get really greedy of course and expect all perfect scores. 🙂
I know an artist’s worth is not measured in a review. If I read every review before I bought an album, my personal music collection would not be what it is today. These first reviews however mean a lot to me and are only one step of many as I push forward to accomplish what is next for Perry Project.
One reason the reviews are very important is it helps validate this project beyond what just me or some friends have to say about it. Validation is a very important next step. I want this project to be heard by as many that are willing to listen, I want to start a movement with this project (I know, I dream big).
-Tracy
“The CD is very good and I would listen to the next album this band put out. 4/5.” – Laura Turner – Indie Shark
“Brilliantly moves like an ocean across the ears. 7/10.” – Cyrus Rhodes – Indie Music Digest
“Perry has all the creativity and songwriting prowess to be extremely dangerous. 4.5/5.” – Heather Noble – Gig Band
“The opening songs make this worth having for sure. 8/10.” – Gary Hill – Indie Artist Alliance
“The whole thing flows well from start to finish. 9/10.” – Brian White – Rock N’ Roll View
“The dreamy, soaring sound of Ever Changing is so powerful. 8.5/10.” – Mary Angela Tobin – All Whats Rock