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The show was rounded out with a headling performance by DrumJam, now emerging as one of Austins' best new groups.
-Charles Mcclure
3/8/07 - Charles Mcclure
Septmeber 2007
This group of remarkable young men make up DRUMJAM. 17 year old Zack Hennig is a senior at Lake Travis High, as is Dylan Saad who's also 17, his brother Chris Saad is 19 and a music business major at St. Edwards University. 20 year old Michael Ihnat is an advertising major at UT and 22 year old Ryan Dennis also attend UT and majors in Geography. DrumJam is a high energy, percussion based performance group. Their unique of music creates a visual experience unmatched by any other group I've had the pleasure of watching. Though their show is only seven months old and they're all back in school, their dream of a career in the music industry seems to be on the fast track. DrumJam won the Grammy Artist Showcase in the Texas Chapter. Most recently they placed in the top five of the world-wide FameCast competition. Viewers on-line pick the winners who receive $10,000. They tell me their main focus is to have fun and engage the audience. DrumJam recently had their first recording session bringing them one step close to their PASSION to become the premier visual and music experience of the world. - Austin Wide Open
GRAMMY U Band Showcase
April 26, 2007
Austin, Texas
The GRAMMY University Network — Texas capped off its inaugural year with the GRAMMY U Band Showcase on April 26. The showcase featured seven GRAMMY U bands/artists including Martha Trejo, Pace Rommel, Poetry For A King, Crosscheck, Blue Stone, P.U.L.S.E. and DrumJam. GRAMMY U members in attendance had the opportunity to network with Recording Academy professionals, including Chapter President Malcolm Harper and Governor Ande Rasmussen. Musician Haydn Vitera emceed the event, and Texas Chapter Executive Director Theresa Jenkins was on hand to welcome everyone and introduce the panel of judges, which included three Texas Chapter Governors: Erykah Badu's manager Paul Levatino, studio musician Mike Mordecai and art director Dick Reeves.
DrumJam's distinct sound and visual presentation won over the judges and the crowd as they were named the winner of the Band Showcase. They received a certificate commemorating their victory and won the opportunity to perform at the Chapter's membership event in June. All competing bands received a critique sheet with comments and suggestions from the judges.
http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Chapters/Texas/News/ - Grammy.com
"The Ultimate Showmen"
-Stephen Moser, Austin Chronicle - The Austin Chronicle
"Ecstatic!"
Michael Barnes, Entertainment Editor-The Austin Statesman - The Austin Statesman
Discography
-opened for Los Lonely Boys
-performed on the main stage at the Texas State Fair
-won the Texas Grammy Band Showcase
-placed 3rd out of 478 bands in the Famecast online talent competition
-performed for hundreds at the Pecan Street Festival
-performed on FOX National Television for the FORD Holiday River Parade on the San Antonio Riverwalk
-performed at Blue Man Group's VIP Dinner at the Frank Erwin Center minutes before their show
-Performed the headlining spot for thousands at the First Night Austin new years eve celebration.
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Man and machine.
Are they so different?
You may, or may not, be taken by surprise...
Your hard drive may, or may not, be processing any of this....
However, you most likely have experienced a compelled encounter between the frenzied pattern of every day life, and the very beat of your own heart.
This is the story that ties it all in. Humanism, mechanism, musicianism, and other "isms"...
Five young men, gliding through the ever-flowing rivers of society, somehow found each other amongst the rest of the customary gliders.
There was something too genuine about this meeting.
Electric wind sent shock waves through the roof, into the atmosphere, and into the deep abyss of uncertainty.
The people in society were concerned, yet fascinated.
This electrically induced combustion was the cause of an uprise of severe involuntary body movement and uncontrollable head bobbing.
Something big had happened.
DrumJam had surfaced.
It rapidly revealed itself as one assembled piece of musical apparatus.
Vibration and innovation.
Put them together in the same room. Then see what happens.
Resonance and silence .
The beat of your very own heart can relate to those two small expressions. One after the other, an infinite persistence of rhythm.
DrumJam asks only one favor of you,
Can you feel the rhythm?
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