2:00pm (14:00) Panama 3:00pm (15:00) NYC 12:00pm West Coast 9:00pm (21:00) Central Europe 10:00pm (22:00) Eastern Europe Friends in Asia & Australia, you will be sleeping... Saturday June 30, 2012 will be the date for Tara's Online streaming concert, she will sing all her material including some brand new songs never heard before! The show will take place LIVE @Volumen Brutal Metromall, the best music store in Panama city, which now has 2 locations; Multicentro and the new local at Metromall. Tara's album is available for sale @VB Multicentro and it will also be available at the show, so don't miss this!!
Here is the link for friends and fans outside of Panama, this event was created also because of you and your fantastic and sincere support from so far: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/volumen-brutal-tv I feel I really need to post about my favorite TV show in my musician blog, because it has been a very crazy and awesome week. First I gotta explain about my probably stupid tradition, but at least I have 1; every year I make covers of my favorite Eurovision songs no matter in which language the song has been composed, for those friends who are not in Europe, Eurovision is maybe the biggest music festival I have seen, because every country in Europe sends a song to a big LIVE performance festival, the contest itself is a very professional event, that looks great on TV and it takes part on spring, every year. Like I said, every year I make covers for my favorites in show of support from so far, and this year I had quite a lot of favorites, it was a good year in my opinion, so I wanted to do something special. There was a song that was driving me crazy, I wanted to sing it so much, that much that I learned it on guitar, but the original singer's voice was so intimidating to me,that I tried to resist my "impulse of stupidity" I felt I couldn't deal with the song, you gotta hear that song! Then, the Saturday before the Eurovision grand final, I just had a horrible day at school, believe me it was terrible, I came home frustrated, and then I was recording some songs at home just to distract myself from that frustration and yeah, my impulse of stupidity just became stronger and because of the feelings of that particular song, combined with my mood, I started recording it at home. I was not sure if it was good enough to publish it, I was so nervous so I kept the cover to myself, but then a friend from the Balkans who already heard another cover I made the day before heard my supposedly called attempt of cover and he really liked it that much that he told me to put it on YT or somewhere. He is also from that region of Europe, he said it was good enough to try, that same moment we were talking, the other cover I recorded was posted on the original singer's Facebook page, published by Nina Badric herself! Big thank you Nina, love you! I was so happy, my gloomy mood was changing a bit, so I decided to listen to my friend and uploaded a quick video for the other song I was so nervous about, just a picture of both, Kaliopi and me with the audio track on YouTube. Then it happened, comments were arriving per minute, and I thought it was just for friends to have a laugh at my attempt, oh no, the video became my most watched video ever on YouTube, didn't sleep that night, it reached 25000 views in only 1 day. It was showed in many websites in Macedonia, couldn't believe all the feedback, it was that special to me that I made a second video, just to tell them a huge thank you for everything, and as I also knew the song on guitar and I read that somebody was looking for a LIVE performance of it, then I played acoustic on the second video, and again the press caught me. I didn't sleep for 2 days in a row, days before the Grand Final, I answered for 2 interviews for different websites and newspapers, and I think I also got a message from Kaliopi herself, I am still not sure if it was her 'cause she was very busy, but it was her official account on YT, so I don't know, but I was so happy, if it was her, then it was a very beautiful thing. Macedonians have been very kind to me and they also jumped to listen to my own music, this really means to me, so once again big, huge thank you to all of you, Croatians, Italians, Macedonians, Serbians, French, Hungarians, Finnish, Estonians and all of you who have noticed about my yearly tradition, don't know what to say I really appreciate this. And here are the covers!! again, it was a crazy and awesome week, thank you people, you're the best!
And what about the show itself? Oh! I watched semi finals on internet, thanks to friends who gave me good links with no delay, watched with my grandmother, I wish I have recorded us on video, we were dancing along with Russian grannies and Moldova's performances, well I was singing with almost every song. And I didn't like the winner but it was all predictable since before the contest started so I don't really care about who won. The event itself was very cool this year, had a great time at home watching it. Love. Tara. Like some of you may know, one of Tara's hobbies is to explore and share music with people worldwide, since 2010 she found an interesting way to do this online through some music contests. Yesterday evening her song "Challenge" was uploaded in it's full version to YouTube via MelodyVision, which was the first online contest she ever joined. When I first joined MV back in 2010 I was pretty confused, I had to look for songs from my country so they could make a themed video for it to participate, yes I thought it was like Eurovision but worldwide, still was a bit confusing and I didn't get much into it, but little by little I started to love it, a lot of great music has been sent to that contest and also I found some other interesting contests to join, but never sent my song until now. So like I said it is kinda like Eurovision and every contest edition has a theme based on it's current host country, here comes the reason why I decided to send it now, not before, not later. This edition is hosted in Cardiff, Wales and I know it is not real is just an online theme, but I find it quite symbolic and felt it was the right moment to send it, Wales is the closest to Ireland which was a host country way before I even knew about the contest, I could have tried some months ago during the Glasgow edition which was my personal favorite, but it was a local language theme (yes sometimes I should send only songs in Spanish) so I couldn't send myself then. Right after it was a free language edition hosted in ...Tallinn so no, long story just no, I decided to waita bit more. Then all my projects started to take more shape and I decided to release my first EP which is coming out very soon on May hopefully and then Cardiff! Yes, now is a good one! Some of you may know that I love Ireland, I even went there when I was younger and I wish to go back there someday so the symbolism is important to me :) The video was up and it already has a very good feedback from MV players, you gotta see that video is really nice I loved the green colors since the first moment, and the Welsh dragon is just perfect! Challenge is a song about dealing with problems and getting over it as soon as possible but of course is not an easy thing, it's like "fighting with a dragon" simply great. They make awesome videos, I even learned some Photoshop tricks from them really cool, so no more talking Thank you MelodyVision for all the fun and great music shared this is a chance for me to share my song with at least 1 person from each country, that already is a huge thing to me, means a lot! And here is Challenge!! Also check this out!Yes, winners are all pretty famous but there are also great not so famous songs. For me, this ones are a great example: La Sole <3
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