"Every picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" Part X
Author: Stan Deatherage | Published: June 24th, 2010
Another Musical Weekend in Washington, North Carolina
Not only was it the latest edition of Music in the Streets, but on Friday and Saturday nights, there were shows at the Turnage Theater, and on Saturday night I attended a rousing show at the Notes Café. The show was Travis Proctor, a singer / songwriter / impromptu producer / guitarist, from Raleigh, NC.
Travis Proctor brought his one-man show to the Turnage Theater on that Friday night. It had been a long week, and I just was not up to participating as a member of any audience. Saturday night, we felt more refreshed, and prepared for a real night on the town.
We ambled down to the Turnage Theater to see a show produced by the East Carolina University School of Dramatic Arts, titled “Random Acts.” The show was a potpourri of song and dance numbers from these ECU students, which served as a fundraiser for the Turnage Theater. Sadly, we were late for the show - the doors were locked - so we continued our amble to the Notes Café on Market Street, and we were surprised to see that Travis Proctor, who stood upon the theater’s boards and sang his heart out for the patrons, was just initiating his first set at Notes.
Travis Proctor, a Class of 1989 ECU Alum, sings his heart out, and songs almost as good, or better than the original versions he covered at Notes Cafe: Above annd Below.
After spending much of my evening with the melodic chameleon, I understood one thing completely; Mr. Proctor is committed to his craft. That craft, outside of writing his melodies and lyrics, is doing other peoples music very well. Travis is well adept at creating the sound of other musicians’ original work that he not only creates the auditory illusion of that artist, but compliments the artists’ art as well.
Musician Proctor did songs ranging from “The Weight” by The Band to “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor. Throw in Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome,” and Cat Steven’s “Wild World” and we had a walk down memory lane. And all performed by one man and one guitar, however, Travis had some help and hence the aforementioned label impromptu producer. What do I mean by that?
The innovative one man band had digital recording equipment that would allow him to play his guitar, bongo drums as a rhythmic rift into a receiving file, modify that file and copy the melody to use as a background base line - even accompanying vocals. Accordingly, Travis rendered these compositions, many of them classics, quite well and that was the hit of the entire musical weekend in Washington, NC: Hearing classic tunes from my past done quite well.
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Not only was it the latest edition of Music in the Streets, but on Friday and Saturday nights, there were shows at the Turnage Theater, and on Saturday night I attended a rousing show at the Notes Café. The show was Travis Proctor, a singer / songwriter / impromptu producer / guitarist, from Raleigh, NC.
Travis Proctor brought his one-man show to the Turnage Theater on that Friday night. It had been a long week, and I just was not up to participating as a member of any audience. Saturday night, we felt more refreshed, and prepared for a real night on the town.
We ambled down to the Turnage Theater to see a show produced by the East Carolina University School of Dramatic Arts, titled “Random Acts.” The show was a potpourri of song and dance numbers from these ECU students, which served as a fundraiser for the Turnage Theater. Sadly, we were late for the show - the doors were locked - so we continued our amble to the Notes Café on Market Street, and we were surprised to see that Travis Proctor, who stood upon the theater’s boards and sang his heart out for the patrons, was just initiating his first set at Notes.
Travis Proctor, a Class of 1989 ECU Alum, sings his heart out, and songs almost as good, or better than the original versions he covered at Notes Cafe: Above annd Below.
After spending much of my evening with the melodic chameleon, I understood one thing completely; Mr. Proctor is committed to his craft. That craft, outside of writing his melodies and lyrics, is doing other peoples music very well. Travis is well adept at creating the sound of other musicians’ original work that he not only creates the auditory illusion of that artist, but compliments the artists’ art as well.
Musician Proctor did songs ranging from “The Weight” by The Band to “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor. Throw in Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome,” and Cat Steven’s “Wild World” and we had a walk down memory lane. And all performed by one man and one guitar, however, Travis had some help and hence the aforementioned label impromptu producer. What do I mean by that?
The innovative one man band had digital recording equipment that would allow him to play his guitar, bongo drums as a rhythmic rift into a receiving file, modify that file and copy the melody to use as a background base line - even accompanying vocals. Accordingly, Travis rendered these compositions, many of them classics, quite well and that was the hit of the entire musical weekend in Washington, NC: Hearing classic tunes from my past done quite well.
This article provided courtesy of our sister site: Beaufort County Now
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