Suzanne Hilleary Music,Film Stuff

What a weekend, opening night of the State Tour with Todd...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:58:01 -0400

Todd Rundgren's Tiki Head Shirt@The Bearsville Theatre

Todd Rundgren with WACBIZ Artist Margaret Valentine

What a weekend, opening night of the State Tour with Todd Rundren Sunday 5/5 and then again Monday 5/6. Prairie Prince and Jesse Gress were up to the task of a highly technical “rave” accompanied by a fab light show!

So honored to have worked as a music consultant on the Spring...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:42:00 -0400

So honored to have worked as a music consultant on the Spring 2013 release of the documentary GHOST EXCHANGE. Katie Peros, it was a pleasure, bravo Camilla Sullivan!

WACBIZ is thrilled that Mieka Pauley’s song Devil’s Got My Secret is featured too!

http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2923281/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/ghost-exchange/id625661651

The Hudson Valley Artists Hurricane Relief Concert Sunday Night...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:07:27 -0500

The Hudson Valley Artists Hurricane Relief Concert Sunday Night 11/11 was a huge success at the Bearsville Theatre. More than 12 garbage bags of blankets, food, personal hygiene products and cases of water were transported by Family of Woodstock to American Red Cross NY Chapter in Staten Island& Queens. Over $5000+ was raised in ticket sales and auction items from many generous folks including Daryl Hall&John Oates, Natalie Merchant, and Elliott Landy!

LUX Benefit for the Maryland Art Institute with Linda&...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:17:00 -0500

LUX Benefit for the Maryland Art Institute with Linda& Elliott Landy, Director Amy Cavanaugh and myself Suzanne Hilleary on Friday Nov 9, 2012 in Baltimore, MD.

www.mdartplace.org/exhibitions/upcoming.html

Heading to the New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth the...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:22:27 -0400

Heading to the New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth the weekend of 10/11-12/14. A panelist on the Music in Film panel with PARMA on Sunday 10/14 from 1-3 and celebrating the feature FAIRHAVEN with the Director/Writer Tom O’Brien that screens at 4:40 pm on Sunday too…I had the honor of music supervising this feature!!!

“Occupy This Album”, a compilation CD (99 songs!)...

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:47:00 -0400

“Occupy This Album”, a compilation CD (99 songs!) featuring David Crosby & Graham Nash, Steve Earle, Tom Morello, Willie Nelson, Ani DiFranco, Third Eye Blind, Immortal Technique and Jackson Browne, Michael Moore and WACBIZ artists My Pet Dragon and Taj Weekes, to be released Tuesday, May 15th. All proceeds from this album will go to fund the Occupy Wall Street movement (all the musicians and songwriters have donated their time and music).

“Don’t Stop Believing” The Journey documentary...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:02:19 -0400

“Don’t Stop Believing” The Journey documentary directed by Ramona S. Diaz features the new lead singer Arnel Pineada and the core members of Journey; Neal Schon and Deen Castronova, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory. The band and documentary rocked the roof of the BMCC Tribeca PAC last night. Congrats to Josh Green, this is one of the best rockumentaries I have seen! This 11th Tribeca Film Festival is one of the best ever! Looking forward to the premier of Tom O’Brien’s FAIRHAVEN tonight, so proud to be his music supervisor and feature so many WACBIZ Artists!!!

I am so proud to be amanging Planet of the Abts, this is our...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:14:11 -0400

I am so proud to be amanging Planet of the Abts, this is our first tour. Look forward to many more dates!! Post WANEE Festival, catch Planet of the Abts this month!!!!:

April-24th-Smith’s Ole Bar-Atlanta,Georgia

April-26th-The Pour House Charleston,South Carolina

April-27th-Pisgah Brewary Company, Black Mt, NC

April-28th-Summit City-Whitesburg,Kentucky

May-31st-Mt Jam-Hunter, NY

Jaik Miller, I could not finish this week without saying that...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:16:00 -0500

Jaik Miller, I could not finish this week without saying that the world is a changed place without you. A Kramer photo caught my eye, a picture from this New Years, doing what you always loved to do, performer for us all. RIP Jaik!!!!
WACBIZ will keep the music playing!!

http://wacbiz.com/Jaik-Miller-Band/artist/237

March 1- Club Helsinki, Hudson, NY- Columbia Arts Team...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:39:08 -0500

March 1- Club Helsinki, Hudson, NY- Columbia Arts Team Fundsraiser

I was pleased to be a panelist with Paul Antonell of the Club House Studio in Rhinebeck, NY and Chris Weink of the AAA & Classical Radio stations WMHT-FM.
We thank Sandy McKnight, Chris Deliea and Liv Cummins, a great team they are!
Also their sponsors The Unger Foundation, SESAC and Club Helsinki.
It was a wonderful evening featuring a performance by singer/songwriter
Darla Pietra .

Monday March 12th, 2012 marks the 1st anniversary of Owsley...

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:31:10 -0500

Monday March 12th, 2012 marks the 1st anniversary of Owsley Stanley’s departure from this life time. We are honored to be helping Rhoney Stanley with her arrangements for this PARTY and Columbia/Legacy Records release of Owsley’s 1968 Carousel Recording of Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company…this is an open event at The Colony Cafe, Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY. Peace Owsley!

POA Is Coming To Town! I am working hard with the band as we...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:14 -0500

POA Is Coming To Town!

I am working hard with the band as we gear for Spring/Summer
shows in the US & Brazil. We are psyched to be working with
Museu Do Disco, the oldest rock label in Brazil!
Save the Date WDST-Mt. Jam, Hunter,NY 5/31/12

photo credit: wendy lowenback

CONGRATS to FAIRHAVEN~ An official selection for Tribeca Film...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:12:38 -0500

CONGRATS to FAIRHAVEN~ An official selection for Tribeca Film Festival 2012!

I was honored to music superivise “Fairhaven” with the writer/director Tom O’Brien. The film features Chris Messina and his brother, WACBIZ composer, Steve Mesinna and his music/band “Blow Up Hollywood.”

WACBIZ artists are shining like These United States, Gar Francis, Too Human, Dave Malowchowski. Also featured are hip bands like The Low Anthem, Crystal Anthem.

Photo credit: Jon Dave Fort

A Creatively Prosperous 2012 to All from WACBIZ!

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:17:18 -0500

Spending the last night of the year, rockin with these fine musicians at the Beacon Theatre. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gov’t Mule spending New Year’s in New York and they will be celebrating in tradition with their very special 3-set performance on New Year’s Eve. They will be joined by my dear friend, the very talented Machan Taylor… Lucky Me!!

Peace Love& Misunderstanding at the Woodstock Film Festival!...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:10:23 -0400

Peace Love& Misunderstanding at the Woodstock Film Festival! It was great to see the Bruce Beresford’s film on the big screen at The Rosendale Theater, feeling the wave of emotion from WACBIZ artist Mieka Pauley’s featured song “Devil’s Got My Secret.”

“Another crowd-pleaser, directed by the veteran Bruce Beresford and giving Jane Fonda her juiciest screen role in years. In fact, she sends up her own image by playing an old hippie — a sculptor and the most popular pot dealer in Woodstock, N.Y., where she at one point attends an anti-war rally.

Fonda easily gets more laughs than Barbra Streisand does in a similar part in “Meet the Parents” and its excerable sequel, introducing her teenage grandchildren (Elizabeth Olsen, a likely Oscar nominee for “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Nat Wolff of TV’s “The Naked Brothers Band”) to weed and helping both of them to lose their virginity (Olsen to Chace Crawford of “Gossip Girls” as an “organic” butcher).

The kids have been brought to Woodstock by their mother, an uptight lawyer (Catherine Keener) who hasn’t had anything to do with mom since her wedding but decides to flee there when her husband (briefly seen Kyle McLachlan) asks for a divorce. There are the predictible mother-daughter culture clashes betweeen daughter and mother, who fixes up the former with a local singer (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), much to the kids’ horror. by Lou Lumenick NY Post

It was my honor to Music Supervise the forthcoming documentary...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:58:52 -0400

It was my honor to Music Supervise the forthcoming documentary WHAM! BAM! ISLAM! for the Director Isac Solotaroff and producer Katharyn Bond. Please tune in next week to PBS or go to ITVS to experience this amazing story.!

“FRONTLINE/Worldran a story from the Middle East that introduced viewers to the fastest selling comic book in the Arab world, The 99. The comic features characters with super powers based on the concept of Allah’s 99 attributes, including wisdom and generosity, as taught in the Koran. Its creator, Naif al-Mutawa, is a 36-year-old from Kuwait who was educated in the United States and who, as a boy, devoured Marvel comics and the Hardy Boys mysteries.

Reporter Isaac Solotaroff followed al-Mutawa as he marketed his comics throughout the Middle East, hoping to spread a moderate, modern image of Islam to the world. In this update, Solotaroff catches up with al-Mutawa in Jakarta, Indonesia, where the comic creator is trying to sell his work to the largest Islamic country in the world, a country that accounts for one in six of all Muslims worldwide.”

HURRICANE RELIEF CONCERT ORGANIZERS RADIO WOODSTOCK 100.1 AND...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:53:12 -0400

HURRICANE RELIEF CONCERT ORGANIZERS RADIO WOODSTOCK 100.1 AND WACBIZ DONATE $10,711 TO FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK
(Woodstock, NY, October 3, 2011) Radio Woodstock’s president and owner, Gary Chetkof, along with WACBIZ founder and president, Suzanne Hilleary, and Gov’t Mule’s Danny Louis present a check in the amount of $10,711 to Family of Woodstock’s Executive Director, Michael Berg, for Hurricane Relief and Recovery in the Hudson Valley (see attached photo). The money raised will be used to help victims in this very difficult transitional time with temporary housing, food, clothing, school supplies and other needed items for day-to-day living.

On Sunday, September 18th, Hudson Valley artists and residents came together at the Bearsville Theater for an evening of music and fundraising. Performers included: John Sebastian, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Robbie Dupree, Happy Traum, Garth Hudson, Danny Louis (of Gov’t Mule) & Phelonious Phunk, Tracy Bonham, Jerry Marotta, Michael Visceglia, Marco Benevento, Donna Lewis, Marc Black, Bruce Katz, Scott Sharrard, Donny Davis, Eric Parker, Mike Esposito, Warren Bernhardt, Randy Ciarlante, Stew Cutler, Machan Taylor, Charlie Knicely, Connor Kennedy, and Roswell Rudd.

Hudson Valley Artists Hurricane Relief Concert 9/18

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:29:00 -0400

WACBIZ Is thrilled to be co-presenting this concert, Sunday 9/18-6pm at the Bearsville Theatre. The benafactors are The Family of Woodstock, aiding the community for 42 years! Donna Lewis, Robbie Dupree, Marco Benevento, John Sebastian, Marc Black, Tracey Bonham, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Roswell Rudd, Garth Hudson, Danny Louis (Govt Mule) Machan Taylor, Charlie Knicely, Warren Bernhardt, Mike Esposito, Randy Ciarlanti, Bruce Katz,Scott Sherrard, Jerry Marotta, Michael Visceglia, Anthony Molina (Mercury Rev) Sirit Kaur, My Pet Dragon….and more!!

Power of One-9/11 Unity and Hope

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:59:50 -0400

It has been ages since I have posted. This weekend is truly a time to reflect about the world, to think where we were and where we are 10 years later. Please enjoy this magnificient tribute, a symphonic-poetic-artistic creation by Magic Beam-WACBIZ Artist ALFIO. Original artwork is by Manju Shamdler, in the video and seen here below, Peace!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFHGS8JzRo

I was hanging with Alexandra and Trevor at ARTSCAPE BALTIMORE...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:46:00 -0400

I was hanging with Alexandra and Trevor at ARTSCAPE BALTIMORE this weekend. Thrilled to see John Lawson at his solo show at METRO Gallery (though too brief). Also caught up with all my DC family. Amy Cavanugh (my cousin) curated John’s Baltimore show through HonFleur Gallery DC and hosted us as well.