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Budding Music Industry Moguls Stage Gigfest 07

CLEVELAND, OH - Friday, December 7, Gigfest 07 will be staged as a
final exam for students from four Recording Arts & Technology (RAT)
classes at Cuyahoga Community College.  Collectively, these budding
music industry moguls will co-produce Gigfest 07 at the Beachland
Ballroom in Cleveland.  This event will be part of the Crooked River
Groove Records CD release concert featuring top regional acts, part
showcase for emerging urban artists and the performance debut of the
first crop of "vintage" rock bands, a new initiative by Tri-C's
Community Arts & Music Program. Show time is 7:30 pm.

Tri-C's CRG Records will release CDs for headliners Jackie Warren's
Hot Salsa Quartet and veteran Akron alt rockers Half Cleveland, a band
that includes members of Tin Huey, the Waitresses and Chi-Pig.  Both
acts recently performed at the College's Metro Campus "Live @ the WiFi
Café"noon concert series, and their sets were recorded, mixed and
mastered by RAT students. Special guests closing the show are Hip-Hop
producer Phatty Banks' hot new artists, Kenyan international reggae
sensation Hardstone and emerging Cleveland female vocal quartet D.O.C.
Showstoppaz.

Wait, there's more! Opening the show will be first-ever performances
by vintage rockers Everyday People and The Casual Mondays. Musicians
in these "hobby" bands include a Tri-C campus president, the Chief of
Police, executive VPs, faculty, administrators and staff who attend
band practice after work. Dr. Belinda Miles, who by day is Tri-C's
Eastern Campus President and on Monday nights vocalizes with The
Casual Mondays, remarked that "Some might be surprised to see a campus
president fronting a rock band. But the Vintage Band experience
provides a perfect venue to express another dimension of our lives and
talents, the musical passion within us. We do it because we have to!"

Are Concert Promotion, Record Label, Concert Technical Production and
Location Recording students ready for their finals? Instructor and
veteran rock mercenary Markey Ray sums it up, "I'm proud of these
students. They show up at the Beachland every week learning to be
stagehands, but what they're really learning is that it doesn't matter
if you're a performer or part of the crew, a successful show is all
about teamwork."  Class dismissed!

Opened in 1963, Cuyahoga Community College is Ohio's first community
college and now the state's largest, serving 55,000 students each
year. More than 700,000 county residents have come through Tri-C's
doors. The college offers two-year associate degrees, certificate
programs, and the first two years of a baccalaureate degree. The
curriculum includes over 1,600 credit courses in more than 130 career,
certificate and university transfer programs.

Gigfest 07 is brought to you by:  Cuyahoga Community College, The
Recording Arts and Technology Department, Crooked River Groove
Records, Free Times Magazine, Councilman Michael Polensek, Amoris,
Heavy Drama, Phoenix Coffee, The Exchange,  and Ante Up Recording.

http://www.gigfest.us