Kulak's Woodshed Museletter

July 13th - 19th, 2009

Mondays

7:30 - 10pm

Singer/Songwriter Open Mic 

We provide all necessary connections for acoustic stage, plus a baby grand piano.

Sign-up begins at 7:00pm, closes at 7:15pm.

Show starts at 7:30pm.

One (max length 3-4 minute) song per performer

For more  information: www.kulakswoodshed.com/openmic.shtml

Tuesdays    

Closed

Wednesdays

7:00 - 10pm

Kulak's Wednesday Night Songwriters Workshop
 

Your Wednesday Nights will never be the same after participating in this Group Workshop. The weekly cost is $20.00, which goes to Kulaks to help pay the rent. The Workshop starts January 7, 2009 (7:00pm to 10:00pm) and is open to the public. We will break up into groups and work on many styles, genres and topics. You will find it challenging and exhilarating. You can bring instruments and will need to have your own small recording device, as well as a pen and notepad.
Marc Platt (from the Sunday Night Performance Workshop) will facilitate with help from Steve Schalchlin.  

Marc has written music for TV Shows like Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and others for many years. Steve Schalchlin is the composer/lyricist of two pop gospel off-Broadway musicals and is the recipient of two LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical Score. His choral/orchestral work "New World Waking" was recently performed in San Francisco.
If you are interested, please email Marc Platt at rotn60@....

Article by Marc Platt for Music Connection

Thursday

July 16th, 2009

8 - 10pm

Steve Dorff and Bobby Tomberlin

$10 Donation

Industry observers have dubbed multiple award winning Steve Dorff an enigma who has evolved into a gifted composer in every musical field. There is no way to capture the diversity he regularly displays scoring major motion pictures, television, theater, or via an array of 1 Song Of The Year honors. His many songs have been sung by some of the greatest artists of our time: Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, George Strait, Vanessa Williams and countless others.
Emmy Nominee for five television compositions, his credits are exemplary and include such stalwarts as "Murphy Brown" and "Murder She Wrote". You'll also find his name on evergreens like "Growing Pains", "Alien Nation", "Spenser: for Hire", "Major Dad", "Columbo", "Reba" and the ABC hit "Rodney".
His many TV and cable movie credits include the Emmy nominated CBS mini-series "Elvis", the Hallmark Hall of Fame "Rose Hill", the animated Christmas classic "Annabelle's Wish", "Babe Ruth", "The Quick and The Dead", "Moonshine Highway" and "The Defiant Ones". Dorffs many movie songs and scores have been featured in "Every Which Way But Loose","Bronco Billy", "Blast From The Past", "Rocky IV", "Pure Country", "Tin Cup", "Michael","Eight Seconds", "Dudley Do-Right", "Dancer, Texas", "The Last Boy Scout", "Curly Sue" and "Honky Tonk Man".
Perhaps Dorffs most ambitious move to date has been a giant leap into his first love, musical theater. He currently has two projects making their way to the stage: "Josephine" (The Josephine Baker Story) and "Pure Country" (The Musical).

Steve Dorff is the musical director for the new CMT hit series, "The Singing Bee"

Check out the new CD STEVE DORFF AND FRIENDS: Theme From Growing Pains & Other TV Themes For more info and to purchase other CDs, visit STEVE DORFF: You Set My Dreams To Music, STEVE DORFF: Pacific Sunrise, www.stevedorff.com or CD Baby or

MySpace - Steve Dorff

Grammy, CMA, and ACM nominee Bobby Tomberlin hails from Luverne, AL. At 11 years of age he began working in country radio and began to develop a love for its music and interviewed legends Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Keith Whitley and many others. After high school, Bobby moved to Muscle Shoals, Al where he worked in radio, started writing songs and was roommates with Shenendoah drummer Mike McGuire and hit songwriter, Billy Henderson. In 1990 Bobby moved to Nashville to focus on a career as a writer when Mel Tillis gave him his first publishing contract. Bobby also wrote for Reba McEntires company and spent four years as Grand Ole Opry Star Bill Andersons sound engineer. Bobby has had great success including the Top 10 single by Darryl Worley, "A Good Day To Run" as well as singles by Chely Wright, Diamond Rio, Ty Herndon,Linda Davis, Russ Taff and Lee Greenwood. Bobbys songs have received 8 BMI awards and he co-wrote the number 1 country and Top 5 AC single and CMA, ACM, and Grammy nominated One More Day and also co-authored the inspirational book by the same name. "One More Day" has recieved over 3 million radio performances according to BMI. Bobbys songs have been included on numerous Gold and Platinum projects including the recent double platinum Faith Hill CD "Fireflies", the gold CD "Everything is Fine by Josh Turner and the platinum CD by Rodney Atkins "If You're Going Through Hell". Bobby has just had a song recorded by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis and T.G. Sheppard for T.G.'s new duet project. Other artists whom have cut his songs include Terri Clark, Kenny Rogers, Joe Nichols, Josh Turner, Faith Hill, Rodney Atkins, Joe Diffie, Eddy Arnold, Billy Dean, Little Jimmy Dickens, Deana Carter, the Oak Ridge Boys, Porter Wagoner, Chris Young and many others. His songs have been on eight Diamond Rio albums. Bobbys song "Its Out There" co-written and recorded by Amy Dalley will be featured in an upcoming Universal film starring Sienna Miller. Bobby Tomberlin works with such diverse writers as Mac Davis, Rivers Rutherford, Steve Dorff, Bill Anderson, Paul Overstreet, Andrew Dorff, Candi Carpenter, Brenda Lee, Hilary Williams, Steven Dale Jones, Phil Everly, Josh Turner, Lee Brice and Steve Wariner. Bobby is a regular guest on the Steve Dorff and Friends songwriter show with performances in the past year in Monterey, Salt Lake City, Miami, Santa Barbara, Muscle Shoals, San Diego, Nashville and Los Angeles. In the past year Bobby has performed numerous times at the Bluebird Cafe,at the Flordia State Fair in Tampa on a Grand Ole Opry package show, at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Awards in Mobile, the Alabama Broadcasters Association Convention in Perdido, was part of Grammys on the Hill in Washington D.C., the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree, performed in Billings, Atlanta and many other venues. Bobby recently took part in the Faith Hill Fireflies TV taping. Bobby also recently appeared in an episode of the Bad Girls Club TV show on the Oxygen Network. Bobby has been featured on other TV shows including a segment of Grand Ole Opry Backstage. Bobby also does voiceover work and his voice can be heard on recent DVD projects for Micheal McDonald, Peter Frampton, Trace Adkins and the B52s. Bobby just completed an interview with Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers at Capitol Records Studio Hollywood that is featured on DVD in conjunction with a new CD release. Bobby is represented by ASE Talent Management of L.A. owned by Terri Apple, one of the top voice over actors in the country. Bobby writes on guitar and has been signed to Mike Curb Music for the past 13 years.

Bobby Tomberlin is one of the singers on the new CMT series, "The Singing Bee" 

myspace.com/bobbytomberlin 

Friday

July 17th, 2009

8 - 10pm

Greg Porée  & Friends

$10 Donation

Greg Porée began his career in Los Angeles in the mid 60's playing and teaching guitar. The 60's were an exciting time for music and Greg was active in the LA music scene while getting his formal training at Cal Arts. His first major break came in early 1969 when he became musical director for Sonny & Cher on the recommendation of the great alto sax player Harold Batiste. During that time Greg was also actively writing with his sister Anita Porée & best friend Jerry Peters for the hit RCA group Friends Of Distinction. In 1970 Greg took an offer from Motown to become musical director for Gladys Knight and the Pips. This began a long association with Motown and over the next few years Greg was musical director and guitarist with such acts as Diana Ross, The Supremes, Thelma Houston, and Syreeta Wright. Greg also played on numerous Motown recording sessions with Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, and The Jackson 5. Other artists Greg traveled with during the 70's included Paul Anka, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin and Isaac Hayes., but with the birth of his sons Emile and Justin, Greg no longer wanted the road life.

He channeled his skills into becoming a top LA studio guitarist working with an amazing range of musical talent such as Donald Byrd, Randy Crawford, The 5th Dimension, Benny Golson, Aretha Franklin, Ahmad Jamal, Syl Johnson, James Brown, Al Green, Albert King, Teena Marie, Phoebe Snow, Dusty Springfield, The Originals, Donny Osmond, Edwin Starr, Stanley Turrentine, Lenny Williams and Joan Baez.

Greg's activities since the millennium include teaching at the prestigious Henry Mancini Institute, arranging for the National Symphony Orchestra and NAACP Image Awards, and producing the CD's Three AM and Brand New Morning for an amazing new singer/songwriter and Lakeshore recording artist Gretchen Lieberum.

The night's music will be all original compositions that are melody and groove driven; the vibe improvisional world jazz.

Paul Cartwright (violin), Keith Jones (bass) and David Leach (percussion) will be playing with Greg.

http://www.myspace.com/gregporee

www.poreemusic.com

Saturday

July 18th, 2009

7:30 - 9:00pm 

Presented by Los Angeles Women In Music

Hosted by Leslie Stoddard

Los Angeles Women In Music (LAWIM) presents “Young Talent Night” - a regular monthly series showcasing performers up to the age of 17. It is part of LAWIM’s commitment to nurture younger artists and reach out to the community through music. Tickets sold by the participants, donations made during the webcast, sponsorships, and contributions received through our website (www.lawim.com) fund our
“Musical Gifts & Scholarship Program” for kids in need. Slated to perform this month are:

Chloe June, Lindsey Jordan, Brianna Provda, Allison Sheppard and Megan Ward from
The American Girls Revue.

Many thanks to our sponsors

For more information on the kids, LAWIM and this program, visit
“Young Talent Night” on our website.

Sundays

7:00 - 9:30pm

The Performance Workshop

with Marc Platt

Cost is $20.00 per week with all proceeds going to Kulak's Woodshed

Limit 10 performers per week

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We're located at 5230-1/2 Laurel Canyon Blvd, North Hollywood, just north of Magnolia and the 101 Freeway.

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