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My good buddy Matt Gerhardt has just finished up in the studio on his debut album, and I was invited to sing and jam the nylon string on one of the tunes. Our mutual friend slash rockstar Cort Farris also joined us on Steel Pan. Check it out! I’ll post a link once his record is up on Itunes, etc.
Sarasota’s premier newspaper periodically features locale musicians in their arts publication / website “The Ticket”, and they’ve featured yours-truly this week. Journalist Dawn Scire does a bang-on job describing my sound in all its permutations and combinations, and I might just have to steal some of her phrases when describing my music in the future. Rock on for [...]
In 2010 I got to tour all over the Eastern and Midwestern US, and had my camera rolling for parts of it. I decided to finally cobble together that footage into a quick little time-lapsed music video for my summer rocker from a few years ago, “Something New”, which was recently released on my disc [...]
Host RJ Oreskovich invited me to drop by the studio and chat with him for an hour on his show “Center Stage”, of course bringing along the acoustic guitar and jamming out on a couple of tunes from both “[Reasonably] Honest” and my new disc “Solo at Stone Mt Arts Center”. We discuss the role [...]
Mp3 downloads (like from Itunes) are great, but sometimes having physical product is nice, especially when that product includes a professionally produced LIVE BONUS DVD! If you are in Maine, New Hampshire or Florida there are some stores where you can pick it up (and of course it’s available at all live shows and for [...]
Great news! I have been accepted as one out of 119 local Sarasota submissions to be on the second edition of the Noise Ordinance CD. Spanning everything from Folk to Jazz to Indie Art-Noise, this CD catalogs Sarasota’s burgeoning original music scene. I am honored to be chosen, and look forward to playing the festival [...]
Aimsel Ponti just penned a great review of my recently released Live CD/DVD – “Solo at Stone Mt Arts Center” in Maine’s biggest newspaper, the Portland Press Herald. Those of you who read the paper regularly probably already know of Aimsel as a die-hard music fan and a huge supporter of the local independent scene. [...]
Still not sure exactly how I feel about Jango – it’s an internet radio station, similar to Pandora (which I was lucky enough to be selected for with my first album “[Reasonably] Honest“) however unlike Pandora which has a rigorous selection process, Jango has Jango Airplay which is basically “pay-to-play” for indie artists to be [...]
Some great ink on local Suncoast albums in the Ticket CL from Tim Sukits, including a bit on my newest album “Solo at Stone Mt Arts Center”. “And by the end of January, we witnessed the drop of soulful-voiced, beat-boxer Ben Hammond’s first live CD/DVD, “Solo at Stone Mt. Arts Center,” which features 13 audio [...]
http://www.benhammondmusic.com to purchase this Live CD / DVD (13 audio tracks and 6 video tracks including this one). Recorded Live on May 6th, 2010 at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine. Taylor T5 Acoustic / Electric Guitar, Vocals and Vocal Percussion by Ben Hammond. Ben also used a Boomerang+ Loop Station (it’s fun, [...]
