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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Local artist Tony Hotel to play SXSW
The annual South-By-Southwest music festival is internationally one of the largest independent music events of the year.
Last week the line-up for this year’s South-by-Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas was announced at www.sxsw.com.
Among the band’s making the pilgrimage to Austin in mid-March will be local artist/musician Tony Hotel.
“It feels wonderful to be going to the SXSW Music Festival,” said Tony. “It’s like there is life out there, and I’m heading toward it,” she added.
Her project, entitled Tony’s Hotel, is an experiment in sound and instrumentation.
“My project is what I call playing art,” said Tony. “It is a series of musical pieces I have created in Garage Band in which I play live drums to.”
As a drummer by trade, Tony puts the drums upfront as the face of her sound instead of the backbone. She appropriately named her debut cd Drums Is Art.
“The music allows me to play my drums without having to comply to the many boxes, rules and categories that exist for drummers,” said Tony. “The music is a new path for drummers, who are creative and get bored with the common roles we are forced to play,” she added.
Tony has been a musician since she was 14. She studied music at Berklee College in Boston and spent three years playing and performing punk/nu-wave music with her band Noh Mercy.
Ten years ago Tony returned home to Dayton and has been teaching children how to play guitar and drums.
Tony says her new musical project is a “culmination of her life’s work.”
“The whole point of the creation of this music has been an inspiration from listening to my other friends around the globe who are playing and creating a myriad of experimental music that we just never get exposed to on the radio, or in the concerts scheduled locally,” said Tony.
Visit www.myspace.com/jogtown to stream Tony’s Hotel. She also encourages comments and questions from those of us from his ‘hometown’.
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