SAT AUG 21
PARK CITY MARATHON,8 - 11 AM
SWANER BARN, HWY 224
MUSICGARAGE, JANE LYON, KARSYN ROBB, JEFF LAWRENCE
WED AUG 25
METALMUSIKAMP, HEBER CITY
DEER VALLEY RESORT, 5:00 PM
WED SEP 1
ROCKGARAGE, SALT LAKE
DEER VALLEY RESORT 5:30 PM
- meet like-minded musicians
- choose the music that you want to play
- rehearsals, gear and facility included
- award-winning staff of producers
- venue and festival bookings
- record in one of our two recording studios
musicgarage is a musicians' community: a place where musicians of virtually any age or style can meet, rehearse, perform and record music with professional coaching.
Phone: 801.577.2263 (BAND)
Email: steve_musicgarage.org
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Music Performance Programs
Play the music that you want to play - on stage. Meet like-minded musicians, in your age group, playing your style of music, organized and coached by our staff 2 hours weekly for ten weeks. Then at the end of ten weeks, we produce your show at one of our two in-house venues or at local all-ages venues, arts festivals and music festivals. Cost is $100/month.
Recording Arts Program
Once you are rehearsed and have played some shows with your musicgarage friends - or added new people to your band's line-up just ask your musicgarage producer if you're ready to record at our studios. Cost can be as low as $75 per song depending upon efficiency of group
Sony MusicStudio Classes
Our Sony-sponsored recording and production software instruction class available through the Salt Lake City School District and Utah and Utah Arts Allinace. $10 per hourly class.
press
Ogden Standard-Examiner
Garage band dreams get boost in Bountiful(click link to on-line article)
By Linda East Brady (Standard-Examiner staff)
Dec 10 2009 - 10:12pm
Many of our young and old, sitting alone in the garage or basement, picking the guitar or plinking the piano, would love nothing better than to get out of their home studios and work live with other musicians.
But there always seems to be something that gets in the way. Maybe you are just a kid, and haven't met other like-minded musicians. Maybe you are a parent, and Little League and church obligations take up the time you might use to ferret out others who like to play the style of music you do. A college student certainly doesn't have much time to fool with going out on auditions.
Steve Auerbach and his new nonprofit organization want to help you make those dreams a reality, by providing an opportunity for the meeting of musical minds.
MusicGarage.org is the brainchild of Auerbach, who founded Utah's branch of the School of Rock. He has also worked extensively as a record and concert producer, musician and musical educator. He left School of Rock in 2008, and since then has developed his own musical performance program in conjunction with the Park City and Salt Lake school districts' community education departments.
This new program, which launched in March and started working with its first class of kids in July, has produced concerts, workshops and musical summer camps for area schoolchildren ages 13 to 18. The kids in the program, who performed Monday in Park City, continue with a second show this evening at the Bountiful/Davis Art Center. A third concert is Saturday evening in Salt Lake City.
Tonight's event in Bountiful will showcase a new performance and recording facility in the Bountiful/Davis Art Center, and will help launch a MusicGarage program for Weber and Davis county students and adults.
"The show at Bountiful/Davis Art Center is the final section of a sort of final exam of the kids in Park City and Salt Lake," said Auerbach. "This is part of the curriculum of their session. And the new facility is fantastic. We're pleased to showcase that with this program, and hope to round up students to work out of it for their own session early next year."
Recital service
Auerbach is best known in the area for managing and teaching at the Utah School of Rock from 2005 to 2008. (He also oversaw and developed schools in Colorado and Texas.) During his tenure at the Utah school, he produced more than 200 School of Rock concerts.
But one of the drawbacks, he says, was having children age out of the program -- they had to leave at 18. Also, the tuition costs were insurmountable for some families. Thus, when the School of Rock downsized staff, eliminating Auerbach's position at the end of last year, Auerbach decided to begin his own not-for-profit recital program.
"When I looked at programs in the community already, they are running at least $200 a month, even up to $350 a month. And most families, especially now, can't afford that. Plus, what I was doing before competed with private teachers in the community, teachers who could not offer the performance options we did.
"So the model that I came up with was to accommodate both that cost factor and actually facilitate the private teachers in the community, by offering a recital service of sorts to their students, at a cost of about $10 an hour."
With this program, Auerbach does not have to hire teachers, or worry that teachers won't refer their students to him. In fact, youth students are required to be taking some kind of private lesson to attend MusicGarage. Thus, he hopes for a sort of symbiotic relationship with the teaching industry.
"What we are looking at is a community-based plug-in service for performance opportunities," he said.
For his Northern Utah outreach, Auerbach is partnering with Jane Joy, director of the Joy Foundation. The foundation works with youth in correctional facilities to enrich their lives through music. Along with providing grants and donations to other nonprofits, the foundation helped build the facilities at the Bountiful/Davis center.
Auerbach and Joy met when he answered an ad to teach the youth in her program recording techniques. Auerbach said they ended up being kindred spirits.
"It all happened quite serendipitously," said Auerbach. "And lo and behold, they have a beautiful facility in the lower level of the arts center -- glass-windowed recording area, a 50-seat stadium-seating-style theater, an isolation room, and a venue with a digital projector, with ProTools and a mixing board. It is a fantastic facility, just waiting for us."
Band incubator
As for the adults, Auerbach's goal is to get amateurs together and performing.
"Look, the audition process is a pain in the neck, and finding musicians with similar technical ability is like fishing," he said. "You cast out and try to find the right people, but it is hard to do. Musicians playing in the basement don't really have a place to play in public. Well, we provide the facility, the venue, and they just need to chip in $10 per hour to keep the lights on and the rent paid. Then each week, we'll have a two-hour window of guided rehearsals, where we can rehearse and I can coach."
In addition to coaching by Auerbach, the enterprise has a future commitment from area professionals. That includes Kate MacLeod leading a Celtic music workshop, John Flanders for folk music, and Michael Lucarelli for classical guitar.
Auerbach's best hope is to have musicians making connections in an initial workshop and taking it into specialized groups from there.
"Then with the next session, maybe two people who hit it off can both sign up for a blues session, or whatever. They don't have to commit forever, but instead can constantly keep meeting new people and trying them out. Hopefully, the program will end up being a band incubator."
Auerbach hopes the Bountiful facility workshops can begin the second week of February. After that, enrollment will be open as students come along, with prorated rates as needed.
Cost will be $200 for a 10-week session, plus a $25 performance fee to cover the "final exam" concert, compensating staff needed for that event for both adult and teen participants. A $100 deposit will be required upon sign-up.
"The idea of these open-house shows this week is to create a desire and get some waiting lists going," said Auerbach. "We are not looking for anything grandiose at first. The way I see it is this -- if I've got four people, I've got a band. And if a new person comes along, we'll work them in.
"It is not a money thing -- it is more like, let's make some music happen here and now."
PREVIEW
l WHAT: MusicGarage Holiday Tour Open House
l WHEN: 7 p.m. today
l WHERE: Bountiful/Davis Art Center, 745 S. Main St., Bountiful
l ADMISSION: Free. Information, www.musicgarage.org.
l ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES: 7 p.m. Saturday, Utah Arts Alliance, 2191 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City. Free.
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CITY WEEKLY
MusicGarage.org
Come Together: SLC's MusicGarage is an all-inclusive club. (click link to on-line article)
By Randy Harward
Utah Arts Alliances loft is prime garage-band practice space. Located in industrial South Salt Lake, its open and remote. The only neighbor to annoy is RC Willey, and its spokeswoman, Paige Davis, doesn't seem the type to complainunless the dulcet tones of fledgling rockers (sometimes out-of-tune or off-time) are her pet peeve.
Those very sounds - a croaked cover of Crimson & Clover emanate from a small room down a back hallway at the UAA building. A four-piece band of teenagers (two guitars, drums, keys) and one big dog stand crammed into the room, where teacher Steve Auerbach wildly waves his arms, signaling chord changes. The song and the class conclude, and Auerbach praises the bandespecially the tow-headed guitarist who bravely stepped up to sing.
"They're getting better", he says of the group, part of Auerbach's MusicGarage program.
A lifelong musician/producer/engineer, Auerbach helped establish the Paul Green School of Rock in Utah. When PGSoR downsized its Utah presence last year, Auerbachs position was eliminated. Hoping to continue in that line of work, he started MusicGarage.org. A different kind of youth music academy, the program exists as an affordable alternative, not necessarily a competitor to schools like PGSoR and the Rock n Roll Academy.
According to Auerbach, fees for those programs range from $200-$350/month, and include private lessons, rehearsals and shows. While not unreasonable, the rates can be tough for some families to afford.
MusicGarage is not a music school and were not a business, he says. Were more like a music club or a community. Private teachers keep on teaching; MusicGarage is an add-on service where musicians of all ages and stylistic leanings can get performance training for the rock-bottom price of $10 an hour. The only restriction is that, due to the band-performance emphasis, only intermediate-to-advanced players may enroll. Ya gotta have some chops if you wanna get in on the gigs MusicGarage sets up after their 10-week cram sessions. Students might even have to lay down some tracks at MusicGarages sister facility, Midnight Records Studio.
In its short existence, MusicGarage has put down real roots in the community, teaming with the Salt Lake City School District on a Sony-sponsored music-production computer lab, and Park City Community Education for a rock-specific performance program. Early next year, MusicGarage will open a rehearsal space/venue/recording facility in Bountiful. Auerbach is stoked. If I had a day job, Id volunteer to do this work because it is fun and important work.
Deseret News
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
Musicgarage gets all ages onstage
Kids, adults get a feel for what it's like to perform in concert
By Jennie Nicholls
Getting your first gig is a big deal for any struggling musician or beginning musician for that matter.
Steve Auerbach, former coordinator for the Paul Green School of Rock, thinks he has created the solution for getting musicians that stage experience. His latest venture, musicgarage, gathers 16 like-style musicians and forms them into a music group, which after 10 weeks of jamming and rehearsal, performs a concert. "It's for musicians to actualize their musical skills on stage but it's a lot cooler than a recital," Auerbach said.
The group of 16 meets once a week for two hours and is cast to songs rather than forming definitive bands.
Musicgarage focuses on collaborating with kids who are taking private lessons in jazz or rock, and connecting those students with others in an interactive, band environment.
"It creates a whole social aspect, a social platform, to help create a new music community in Salt Lake's music scene," Auerbach said.
Students will report back to their instructors about their performance progress.
"A report goes to the private lesson instructor. Then we can connect their lessons to their rehearsals to perfect their efforts," Auerbach said.
Aside from young rockers, those of an older generation, possibly still reveling from the latest Cream reunion tour, can pull out their guitars and play with a group via musicgarage. The Web site address is www.musicgarage.org.
Auerbach believes there are adults who don't have the time to start up their own band but have time to practice two hours a week. "This will keep music in people's lives," Auerbach said.
Auerbach referred to the project as "recession proof" because musicgarage is based on simply keeping kids involved in music and doesn't require a hefty fee. "I want to be more accessible. Who can afford a couple hundred dollars a month on an after-school program in this economy?" Auerbach said. Musicgarage is $10 an hour for two hours per week.
The cost covers a practice facility, drums, amps, mikes, keyboards and a producer to manage the group.
Auerbach said musicgarage will help musicians reach their rock potential and help them get over the onstage jitters.
"These people already know how to play. They know how music works and how to play their instruments, but this teaches them how to utilize their craft, learning how to be a musician in a real setting with confidence," Auerbach said.
Auerbach, who will be a group producer, said is excited to be working with talented kids again, since he left School of Rock in early 2008. Interested musicians need to be at an intermediate to advanced level to participate.
Musicgarage just started its fall session, which runs through Nov. 17.
Park Record
Park City, Utah Newspaper (link)
Out of the garage, into the classroom
Parents push for after-school rock program
Greg Marshall, of the Record staff
August 15, 2009
A group of parents and students is urging the Park City School District to adopt an after-school program for the fall. The subject: rock 'n' roll.
Called musicgarage, the course would be geared mostly toward junior high students and would be held once a week for 10 weeks at Treasure Mountain International School. Classes are for kids who have at least a year of instrument study.
Organizers have tentative plans to hold classes Monday afternoons beginning the first week of October.
Jane Toly, the leisure learning coordinator for the district, said a decision about the program will be made by the start of September. "We definitely want to offer it," she said. "We're in the process of getting approval. If students want to perform, we want to help them." The status of the program will be published on the community education section of the district's website, pcschools.us.
One of the aims of musicgarage is to allow intermediate and advanced musicians to rehearse together, and eventually form their own groups, said instructor Steve Auerbach.
Auerbach concluded a 10-day pilot workshop Friday. Students learned an assortment of classic-rock songs by the likes of the Beatles, Stevie Wonder and U2. A cover of Bob Dylan's sprawling "Desolation Row" also made the list. The group performed the set Friday at O'Shucks at Quarry Village.
"They chose the music," Auerbach said. "The whole goal is to provide something that's a little different and let students actualize their skills through recitals."
Parents are enthusiastic about the idea of an after-school program, even if enrollment remained slim in August. Six kids signed up for the summer session. Auerbach said he hopes a program in the fall would attract about 16.
Having the district sponsor rock classes after school would be convenient for kids, and their road-weary parents, advocates say.
Patty Deden looked on as her daughter, Christine, played keyboard on a cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles She said band rehearsals complement Christine's traditional private lessons on piano. Christine has taken keyboard lessons for about a year and is enjoying the experience, according to her mom. Her wardrobe suggests as much. At the rehearsal, Christine wore a T-shirt branded with images of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
But the most important lessons have little to do with rock.
"She's learning teamwork by playing with kids around her own age," Deden said.
Park Record Park City, Utah Newspaper (link)
gabe and friends
Gabe Reilly, a musicgarage student. (Greg Marshall/Park Record)
Steve Auerbach (click for web site) is an award-winning musician and music producer who founded musicgarage.org.
Steve's Career Highlights
Dec, 2009 Stonecircle -Synthesizer. Winter Solstice Concert. Rose Wagner Theatre, Salt Lake City
Aug, 2009 Smokerman - Music Producer/Vocalist for Crowell Advertising's award-winning series of anti-tobacco TV spots for the Utah Department of Health.
Jul, 2009 The Utah Kid -Hammond B3 recording session, Salt Lake City
Oct, 2008 The Utah Kid -Pre-production, development sessions
Sep, 2008 Smokerman - Television commercial recording sessions for Crowell Advertising client, Utah Department of Health's anti-tobacco campaign. Producer and vocalist.
Oct, 2007 School of Rock - Opened Denver, CO branch
Sep, 2007 School of Rock - Promoted to Western US Manager
Sep, 2007 School of Rock - Opened Park City, UT branch
Sep, 2005 School of Rock - Opened Sandy, UT branch
Feb, 2005 School of Rock - Opened Salt Lake City, UT branch
Jun, 2004 Axonix Corporation - Presented streaming media workshop at Florida Education Technology Conference
Apr, 2003 Axonix Corporation - Presented streaming media workshop at Consortium of College and University Media Centers
Aug, 2002 Uwanna Records - Performed with Ike Willis (US) & Ossi Duri (IT) at Zappanale Festival, Bad Doberan, Germany
May, 2002 Uwanna Records - Produced CD, Ike Willis: Selected Works with Grammy Award-winning producer Douglas Spotted Eagle
Oct, 2001 Project Object, Irving Plaza - NYC
Special Guest keyboard and vocal performance Frank Zappa memorial concert with Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ike Willis, Don Preston, Roy Estrada, Bunk Gardener, Billy Mundi, Jerry Outlaw, Ed Palermo
May, 1999 Planet Agency
Performed, produced, booked, managed Ike Willis & Chungas Revenge
Oct, 1999 Planet Agency
Booking and Publicist: Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction) band, BANYAN Anytime at All tour for CyberOctave Records
Jun, 1998 Planet Agency
Booking. Publicist. P-Funk All-Stars Detroit funk mob ENEMY SQUAD tour
Oct, 1996 Planet Agency
Management of international booking agency
Dec, 1995 Successful Directions
Paper published in the journal of the Utah Psychological Association
Nov, 1995 Successful Directions
Grand Rounds presentation at University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute
Aug, 1995 Successful Directions
Utah Department of Corrections Conference panel discussion
1987-1989 University of Utah
Graduate School of Social Workbstance Abus
1988-1989 Odyssey House of Utah
Volunteer practicum for above
1987-1988 University of Utah
Music Department - Electronic Music Laboratory
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Vladimir Ussachevsky, Composer in Residence
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Tracy Peterson, Electronic Music Curriculum
1984-1988 University of Utah
Undergraduate studies in music, film and psychology
1983-1984 Avatar Records, Malibu CA
Staff Arranger and Synthesizer Programmer under legendary Detroit producer Harry Balk
1981-1984 Steve Bach Synthesizers, Sherman Oaks, CA
Free Lance Synthesizer Programmer and Session Player
Clients included: Harry Balk, Sonny Burke, Victor Feldman, Ronnie James Dio, Rick James, Kansas, Kenny Loggins, Teena Marie, Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters), The Rastafarians (Orthodoxy), The Record Planet, Smokey Robinson, Rockwell (Kennedy Gordy), Alan Silvestri (Romancing the Stone), Edward Van Halen, Ike Willis (Frank Zappa)
1982-1983 Goodman Music Co, North Hollywood CA
Keyboard Department Manager
1982-1984 Yamaha Music Corporation
Certified Yamaha FM Synthesis Clinican
1982-1984 Roland Corporation USA
Certified Synthesizer Clinician
1981-1982 Guitar Center, Sherman Oaks
At The Fillmore in NYC
Sep 11 & 12
ROCKGARAGE, JANE LYON,
KARSYN ROBB, RAKATANGA,
STEVE AUERBACH & 18 MORE!
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