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Know how to hold it.

Spending as much in Austin as I have and following closely the travails through the Texas Hill Country of now-defunct Team US Postal-cum-Team Discovery Channel as led by Lance Armstrong, I am without question a TDF junkie. From time to time, when I don’t jump up between segments to hastily fold laundry or unload the dishwasher, I do intently watch television commercials with the goal of learning more and improving my craft. This past weekend as le Tour began, I immediately noticed an ad illustrating crippling ignorance of musicians and their craft. In some feeble attempt to demonstrate the concept of “unfriendly”, a front desk attendant at a hotel whips out a violin and begins to play. Not only is the attendant not using his fingers upon the fingerboard, but he’s holding the instrument on the wrong side, bow in the incorrect hand.

Please, ad folks, as a professional musician I implore you … Read more »

Lottery Likeness

I’ve just gotten a high-quality image of the print ad for the Massachusetts State Lottery campaign. Here it is! Can you see me beneath the lottery ticket? (It’s big.)

Good Credit

Yesterday, a former choir member of the Old South Church Sanctuary Choir emailed me with a screenshot he’d captured a week ago. Apparently, he was surprised to find my face on the WCSH6 weather page. I was surprised as well!

This turns out to be a screen capture from a TV commercial I worked on a few years ago for the Maine Credit Union League. The Credit Union League website has a wider image of the same shot under the “Find A Maine Credit Union” link:

Don’t I look happy to be using a Maine Credit Union? I think I do. And, in fact (and if you’re interested), they’ve got the whole commercial up under the “I Saved” link. I hope people who check the WCSH6 weather forecasts online feel as though they, too, would be happy to use a Maine Credit Union. I’m sure they’re great!

Everything I’ve seen

Recently, I’ve seen a slew of TV commercials for which I’ve auditioned once or, in some cases, more than once, but in which I haven’t been cast. And, I guess since they’re out now, I can actually tell you which spots they are. In no particular order:

American Express: with Tina Fey and Martin Scorsese: the script is quite different than the one we had in draft, and the spot is rather short. I wonder if they’re saving a longer version for later.
Sovereign Bank: I was put on “first refusal” to do background work in this spot. However, I wasn’t booked and a good friend of mine who ended up working the spot told me they “were only casting for color” (i.e., they were only casting non-white people).
Dunkin’ Donuts: a new lunchtime product, the flatbread chicken sandwich. I could have been the business woman or the server at the “mobile table”. Wait. Did you … Read more »

Know how to hold it.

Lottery Likeness

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Everything I’ve seen

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