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Looking for ways to breathe some life into drab and overcast days in their hometown of Watford, Indiana started writing passionate indie anthems for sunny days and rainy days alike. Indiana came into being by the random meeting of Barney and Dom at Keith Allens mobile karaoke at Glastonbury Festival – Barney had been impressively belting out songs a cappella; shortly after he joined the band. Indiana's sound is epic and melodious with quiet/loud dynamics - melodic indie meets post-rock. Big vocals, carefully crafted guitar melodies and a spectacular live sound. Their songwriting passion is for that which returns to indie's epic song writing heritage - the band's purpose being to take music back to when songs mattered more than haircuts - band of substance over style. Their time together has seen the band play for the BBC, national press, airplay on internet radio in UK and Australia, college radio in the US, festival appearances including one for the O2 mobile network. It has also seen the band share stages with the Tom Hingley (Insprial Carpets), Brinkman, The Honeymoon, Mylo, Kasabian, Mohair, The Bluetones, Art Brut, Hey Negrita, The Subways, The On/Offs and The Deadstring Brothers, amongst others. The band is now poised to make their first official release during summer 2007. Indiana was also the name of a US indie rock / emo band who existed in the mid-late 1990s, appearing on the First Crush Compilation (featuring contemporaries such as Jimmy Eat World, At the Drive-In, Mineral and Still Life) and A Compilation for Heroes. Unfortunately, the band broke up prior to releasing any other material.

Enter the "Wes Montgomery - Echoes of Indiana Avenue" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2012

Recording

Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Avenue

Source: JamBase
December 17, 2011

FIRST FULL ALBUM OF PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD MONTGOMERY MUSC IN OVER 25 YEARS With a lot of sleuthing and a team of experts on the case, long lost tapes of Wes Montgomery have been discovered and restored. Resonance Records will release Echoes of Indiana Avenue—the first full album of previously unheard Montgomery music in over 25 years—on March 6, 2012, which would have been Montgomery's 88th birthday. Over a year and a half in the making, the release will provide a ...
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Radio

Jenni Brandon, Reviewed Today by Indiana Public Radio

Source: Kari-On Productions
March 17, 2010

Jenni Brandon's Songs of California contains some of the most imaginative, ingratiating recent chamber music for winds I've heard. Five Frogs (in six movements) is a pond-side exploration of the constituent members of the woodwind quintet at which Thoreau would have smiled. The bullfrog/bassoon swells contentently and flies buzz languidly (courtesy of the detached oboe reed). The disc contains thoughtful solo works for flute, Bb clarinet, and bass clarinet, and the concluding Sea Quartet for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano ...
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Performance / Tour

Jerry and Marlene Tachoir to Present Clinic and Concert at Indiana University, PA

Source: Michael Ricci
October 7, 2009

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Bernstein’s Workroom Will Head to Indiana

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

Leonard Bernstein’s children have donated the carefully preserved contents of his main composing studio to Indiana University, which has promised to recreate the space.

Contents of the home studio in Fairfield, Conn., where Leonard Bernstein composed will be displayed in a re-creation of the room at Indiana University in Bloomington.

The items run from the deeply meaningful to the banal. They include Bernstein’s stand-up composing table; a conducting stool that may have been used by Brahms, given as a gift ...
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Performance: Paquito D'Rivera Plays at the University of South Indiana, Evansville, on October 10

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

The University Core Curriculum and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra present Cuban jazz musician Paquito D’Rivera at 2 pm on Friday October 10 in Forum I in the Wright Administration Building at University of South Indiana. Multiple Grammy-award winning musician and composer D’Rivera will present a free musical 'informance' for the USI community, and the public is invited. A Havana, Cuba native, he began his career as a child prodigy and created various original and ground-breaking musical ensembles during his teen ...
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