{"id":962,"date":"2010-07-20T22:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T02:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2010-07-20T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T02:45:12","slug":"concert-report-sidecar-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Concert report – SideCar Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday evening we went to hear SideCar Heroes<\/a> at Music on the Hill<\/a> in Windham. They’re a six man a capella group. Most of the six have formal college-level training in music; several are secondary school music teachers. They have an amazingly full big sound for six people. There are music and video links on their website, so go check it out.<\/p>\n

Music on the Hill is a summer concert series in the UCC church in Windham, ME. Windham reminds me a little of Dedham MA in having a big commercial strip along a major highway, but having some lovely old parts that you don’t see if you don’t look for them. The church that hosts the music is a little New England church with maybe eight pews on each outside wall and twelve more between the two aisles — so it seats a little over 100 people. There’s one stained glass window in a bump-out in the front of the sanctuary. If you’re not going to get more than thirty or forty people to attend a concert, that’s a nice size hall. Everyone can be close to the performers, and the room doesn’t look empty the way a venue four times as big would with twice as big an audience.<\/p>\n

After the performance there were refreshments in the community hall, which is in a separate building. We got to speak with a couple of the performers, notably the guy who does the vocal percussion. One of the numbers they had done was a cover of an Aerosmith tune, for which the group arranged themselves like a rock band, with the percussion guy in the back. The percussion guy was using his hands like a drummer, and with the least bit of imagination you could see where he had the cymbals, the set of tuned tom-toms, and so on. So after the performance I got to compliment him on the cymbal playing, and he told me more than I can remember about the history of people doing vocal percussion. I didn’t look at the online videos, guys, I don’t have to, I got to see the band live, and it’s all I can do to find time to blog much less watch online videos; but I hope one of them shows him in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday evening we went to hear SideCar Heroes at Music on the Hill in Windham. They’re a six man a capella group. Most of the six have formal college-level training in music; several are secondary school music teachers. They have an amazingly full big sound for six people. There are music and video links … <\/p>\n

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