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Cleveland Rising: The Song, The Video and the Screenplay
"Cleveland Rising" music video. Since the initial inspiration and conception, going back to 2007, "Cleveland Rising" the song & video, and Cleveland, the screenplay, are now completed! "Cleveland Rising," written by & © Alexsandra Sukhoy (Lyrics) and Vanessa Daffron (Music) ...
read more...03.4.2009
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Cleveland Rising: Lyrics & Instrumental
Cleveland Rising: This City is Our Home Lyrics: Alexsandra Sukhoy, Music: Vanessa Daffron Instrumental Link Intro From our steel mills To our baseball I’ve seen it rise And I’ve seen it fall… Verse 1 The factories closed down Like a sunset ...
read more...10.16.2008
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Maudeville
On Saturday May 3 the band, now calling itself Maudeville, went into the recording studio to lay down the tracks for "Cleveland Rising." And, while the band is not, yet, famous, the drama of the day, including unpicked up phone calls, flipping schedules, stormy weather and tight quarters, could have...
read more...05.12.2008
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Cleveland Rising: The First Three Rehearsals & Princess Shoes
On Thursday evening, November 15, after packing a guitar, keyboards, keyboard stand and amp into my new VW Rabbit, Evan, Daniel and I headed down to Vanessa's and Tony's house. As Vanessa and Tony have a free standing house, and the rest of us all live at the Statler, it made sense to rehears where ...
read more...03.5.2008
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The band is preparing for our first studio recording session - and it's happening this Saturday in Chagrin Falls. It's very exciting to start laying down some of the fruits of our musical work together thus far. In what is shaping up to be an iterative process of writing, recording, writing and more...
read more...02.27.2008
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The Backstory. The Statler 7. The Band.
THE BACKSTORY - As an Art and Communication student at DePaul University in the early 1990's, I spent each weekday commuting on the el to school and work, between suburbia and Chicago, while listening to my white Sony tape and radio walkman. Often XRT (93.1) would serve as entertainment on the long ...
read more...02.22.2008
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