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Posts from 2018
Everything we published in 2018, newest first.
December 5, 2018 · Events
New Album from Rose Winston
Sunburst instructor Rose Winston has released Quartz, an album of “Moody, melodic hand-crafted beats for your easy listening pleasure.” Each track is a delightfully off-kilter…
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December 5, 2018 · Events
New Tribute Song from Sunburst Student Duvy Burston
Our friend Duvy Burston is out with a new song Ki Ata Imadi paying trib- ute to the Tree of Life victims. Duvy pairs his silky vocals with some earthy guitar chords and delicate…
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December 5, 2018 · Events
Sunburst House Band Chosen for WYEP REimagination Project
In addition to the House Band, a number of other Sunburst students including the Allies, Sloane Simon , and Eli Alfieri were selected as well. We’d like to congratulate all of the…
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November 29, 2018 · Events
Ernie’s Pick of the Month - Durand Jones & The Indications - Durand Jones & The Indications
TL;DR: Want to feel like you’re on Queens Blvd in 1959? Put on this record. Key Tracks: Make A Change, Giving Up, Can’t Keep My Cool
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October 3, 2018 · Events
Sunburst Partnering with CMU Cognitive Development Lab
Sunburst is well, partnering with the CMU Cognitive Development Lab to help with some studies involving learning in adolescence. If you’re interested in having your child be a…
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August 17, 2018 · Events
Greeting from Camp Studio 2018
This years Camp Studio was the biggest and most fun yet! We had a great team of creative young musicians and producers, who really worked hard on the camp's number one goal…
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August 2, 2018 · Events
Instructor Band CD’s for Sale!
Here are a few of the selections available now: The Buckle Downs - Hard Truths (Ernie, Kiki, Jonathan G) Starship Mantis - self titled (Ben R) Buffalo Rose - The Seed and the soil…
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August 2, 2018 · Articles
Sunburst Music Production Guide to Buying Software and Hardware
Whether you’re taking music production lessons with us at Sunburst, recording your band, making beats, or composing chart topping EDM there are a lot of directions music…
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July 23, 2018 · Events
Greetings from Robot Takeover Camp
When our Robot Takeover campers arrived on monday morning, all they had was a pile of wood, 16 servo motors, one controller, and a computer. Using their imaginations and some…
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July 2, 2018 · Events
So Mikey, What Are You Up To?
Over the past few months students and parents have been asking me “so what are you doing with your music?” I’ve spent the better part of two years focusing strictly on…
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May 24, 2018 · Events
Ernie's Pick of the Month - John Prine - Tree of Forgiveness
Ernie’s Pick of the Month John Prine - Tree of Forgiveness You would think after decades of using familiar chords and melodies–no matter how genuine and clever–things would begin…
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April 18, 2018 · Events
BurghSong Concert Continues with Kayla Schureman and Tim Grimm
Kayla’s debut album “Kiss the Ground” released in 2017 was a local focus on WYEP and got excellent reviews nationwide. Tim has been performing and touring for 15 years and had a 1…
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April 18, 2018 · Events
Getting Wired with the Sunburst Robot Takeover Camp
We are going to work together as a group to build a robot that will actually play music! Then we are going to compose pieces of music and learn how to program the robot to play…
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March 9, 2018 · Events
BurghSong Concert Series Returns this Month
This month’s show features local songwriting legend Brad Yoder. Brad has had a long career of writing and performing as well as hosting concerts and songwriting workshops in the…
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March 9, 2018 · Events
Ernie’s Pick of the month
TL;DR: it’s just dance music Key Tracks: oh baby, american dream
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January 4, 2018 · Events
Greetings from the Ableton Loop Festival
Each year, the German city of Berlin creates an amazing, scenic backdrop for an audio/visual festival put on by local music production software company, Ableton. At this eclectic…
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January 4, 2018 · Events
Group Program Recording Days
Some of the groups opted to recreate a favorite cover song from this season and others decided to cut new ground and write and record a new song in the same day. For all of the…
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