A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR A FAMILY IN NEED - Thursday 15th December, The Living Room
The Team Bond benefit concert is organised by our very great friend and talented artist, Nadia Ackerman. Elisa and Nathan Bond sadly, were both diagnosed with aggressive cancer within just days of each other. Elisa is combating stage 4 metastic breast cancer and Nathan is fighting stage 3 rectal cancer. Elisa (36) and Nathan (38) currently reside in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with their 18 month old daughter, Sadie, and their dog Griffin. The benefit concert is featuring an array of amazing artists, all performing Christmas songs. Artist include Robbie Dupree, Holidelic, Geron Hoy, Rob Friedman, Nadia Ackerman, Doug Yowell, Bette Sussman, Jonathan Maron, Thad DeBrock, Nancy Magarill, Julie Hardy, Tabitha Fair, The Hipstones, Gabrielle Aimée, Briana Cowlishaw, Chrissi Poland. Come and SUPPORT on Thursday 15th December, at the lower east side's, The Living Room. 7pm-10pm. Get Your Tickets here. $20
Please visit their website (http://www.friendsofnathanandelisa.com/) to see how you can help. Elisa and Nathan are keeping everyone updated on their progress with their family blog (http://familybondingtime.blogspot.com/)
FINAL BAND SHOW FOR 2011 - SAT 10TH DEC, 9pm, 92Ytribeca
On Saturday 10th December at 92YTribeca's mainstage, The Hipstones team up with urban funkster's People's Champs for an old school funky feel-good send off party to 2011.
People's Champs mash 80s electro-accordion riffs, tastyneo-soul vocals and gritty drum grooves to create a sound that’s equal partsPeople's Champs mash 80s electro-accordion riffs, tastyneo-soul vocals and gritty drum grooves to create a sound that’s equal partsPeople's Champs mash 80s electro-accordion riffs, tastyneo-soul vocals and gritty drum grooves to create a sound that’s equal partsExpect to hear some old school funky feel-good groove from The Hipstones, followed by People's Champs 80's electro accordian riffs, neo-soul vocals and gritty drum grooves. Get ready to dance! Tickets $10 in advance or $12 at door. Head to 92Ytribeca.org for tickets or call 212 415 5500.
RECORDING FOR CHARITY: THE BREEDING GROUND NYC
On Wed 16th November at 8PM, The Hipstones will be performing/recording to a live audience atThe Breeding Ground- Live Studio Lounge.
On Wednesday 16th November, The Hipstones seven piece band will be making a LIVE RECORDING FOR CHARITY at the Breeding Ground Live Recording Sessions, in Brooklyn. To a limited audience of 30 people, you can experience a real live recording session with The Hipstones and be supporting a great cause, 'Kids Need a Melody'.
RSVP: you and your friends names/emails to thehipstones@thehipstones.com.au or via facebook
Head to The Breeding Ground and Kids Need a Melody to learn more about it.
We've been at this for some time now, making music and performing in front of audiences in Australia, New York, Japan, Indonesia, and London. But New York is now home. It's an exciting place to say the least. People from all over the world visit NY to see the big city, what it beholds. It's movie scenes, celebrity homes, historical jazz venues, museums, giant sky scrapers, picturesque sky line. Never a dull moment. We feel like we're in the center of the universe, and that all revolves around us and this tiny city.
So while we wait for our "BIG BREAK" we must continue on living and dreaming. It may never come, or be as quantifiable as we'd like, but hey, at least we're trying right? Here, it seems that nothing you do will hinder the bigger picture. No energy is wasted, no task is useless or unimportant. Everything has a meaning, it may inspire a song, an idea, a melody... the streets are constantly singing -and sometimes quite literally - with car horns, sirens, bells, people hitting oil tubs in the subway, four part harmony buskers... it's everywhere! NY is breathing, it's exciting and challenging, and it's welcomed us with open arms. It's constantly rewarding us in little ways, and certainly challenging us to keep at it all... maybe you too have felt this, or feel you need to experience is first hand, and we challenge you to see it differently.
Hello there, Welcome to The Hipstones blog page.... Yes, we are trying to keep up with the rest of the world (you bloggers and blogviewers.) Firstly, we are sad to announce we will be leaving the glories of NYC in a matter of weeks. It's funny, most people think of NY as this fast paced, hustle and bustle city, where people don't stop to say hello and you run the risk of getting caught in a police shootout in Time Square. Well, OK, that stuff does go on, but our NY experience could not be further from this reality. Yes, the apartments are small, let's not kid around here, they are tiinnny (esp compared to Auusie standards, the land of the biggest homes in the world), but practical and charming. The small amount of space you live in just doesn't seem to matter when you can walk out your door step and quite literally, everything is a your fingertips. Mainly for us, MUSIC. Live music is everywhere. You can easily see to 2, 3, or 4 gigs a night, and they are all acts you have never seen before, like, Leah Segal, or Emily King, or, MeShell Ndegeocello, or Dr John, Esperanza Spalding etc etc etc... As a musician, this is the land of inspiration and ass kicking. Experiencing performing here is another level all together. I never thought I could get so nervous to perform, as I was the first performance here at Rockwood Music Hall, not even a week after we arrived to the big apple (Yes Elkanah, we live in a big apple). I was so nervous i forgot words and felt like it was my first show ever, like at one of the "Sing for Joy" concerts (Joy Yates). Admittedly, each show has gotten more comfortable and finding an amazing and incredibly supportive band over here has made it so much easier. We are still in search for a guitarist though (Japes you gotta get over here)!!! Living and surviving in NYC is not easy. Unlike Sydney, gigs don't pay here, you play for tips and ope the audience is generous BUT you are fulfilling something that supercedes that gain. That has been the humbling experience for me. LEaving behind the ego of what I am worth and instead, just simply playing our own music and performing for people who just love hearing new and interesting music. While we are departing before all the good snow really starts, we are pretty happy and ready to hit the beaches and donn our flip flops again (thongs.. funny story about that word, but leave for another time). Looking forward to hearing the cicades and lorikeets and the smell of sun lotion..