Music

Amanda “The Great” passed the blog torch to me, Angie, and here is my first blog for Wine from the Moon. Exciting!

When people ask me what Wine from the Moon is all about, this is my typical answer: “We are a music management company that dabbles in event planning, marketing, and PR....we work as a liaison between artist and fan.”

Between the numerous tasks, hours, and care we put into our projects, sometimes we forget the most important reason why we do this work; "Wine from the Moon is here for one reason: We love music."

Music can be defined as An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. (http://www.dictionary.com) So, music is an art. It expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms. These forms are through elements of rhythm, melody, harmony and color. Wow. That is powerful.

Think about what music means/has meant to you. I bet you can name the first cassette tape (or record, or CD, depending on your age) you ever bought with your own money. Mine was Vanilla Ice’s "To The Extreme" (don't judge me) that I purchased with my hard earned weekly allowance of $5. I remember the days I would wait by my Sony radio for the DJ to announce the song coming up next is that one I’ve had in my head for hours. Once I heard the first note of that song, I hurriedly hit the record button on my radio so I could listen to it as many times as I wanted thereafter.

Fast forward 20 years later, you could say I partake in the same activities, but in more adult ways. I visit music web sites everyday to read the latest album review. I go to the record store with intentions of buying one album and leave with three. I purchase tickets to a show on Ticketmaster and cuss them out for charging me all the "convenience charges”. I will do these things a hundred times over this year. And it’s all for music. The emotions, ideas, thoughts, and creative outlet it brings to my life.

What are your best music memories? Maybe it was waiting by the T.V. to watch Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video? We all know the lyrics to Salt N' Peppa’s "Shoop". What about the first Indie rock album you heard and fell in love with? Remember that Chris Isaak video "Wicked Games" with Helena Christensen whom the French call "the most beautiful woman on Earth". How about playing Fiona Apple, Mary J. Blige or P.J. Harvey after a terrible break-up? Maybe you have a fond memory of the first band you saw live. Or remember clearly a song that made you feel as if you were levitating into a whole new world. Whatever the memories are, I’m sure they hold a special place in your heart.

All humans have a connection with music. We listen to music when we are happy or sad or feeling goofy or angry. We press play when we want to dance, sing, or make cleaning around the house kind of...fun. We gather in clubs, bars, house parties, and festivals to listen to music. Music makes our commutes to work much more tolerable. I could go on, but you get my point: Music brings joy and clarity into our lives.

There are numerous great quotes about music and I'll end my first blog post with a couple of my favorites:

"Without music, life would be an error" - Friedrich Nietzsche

“By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” – Bill Cosby

"Wine from the Moon is here for one reason: We love music" - Ryan Sweeney, WFTM President

What are your favorite quotes about music?