08/28/2010
50 songs in 90 day?
It's that time of year again and Ross is trying to write 50 new songs in 90 days as part of the 50/90 challenge. Check out his progress at
Http://fiftyninety.fawners.org/rossdurand
06/19/2010
Songfight! and Ross fan Spintown makes videos highlighting poor decision making by skateboarders called "Pain for Laughs." The most recent episode just got a blog bumped and topped 30,000. The sound track is Ross' songfight song "Let's get Bloody."
WARNING: this videos shows real people getting hurt, not for the squeemish. Ross did not make this video, but did agree to have his song used in it at Spintown's request, I think it is an inspired fit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz1YREL_32Y
Grab the song here:
http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=ross_durand
Check out Spintown's blog here:
http://spintown79.blogspot.com/
04/25/2010
Ross Live - April 30, 2010
Ross will be live on April 20, 2010 at
John Aust Realty
219 E Chapman,
Orange, CA 92866
7:00 pm - whenever
Come on in for night of nice intimate music and friendship
Edit: Thanks to all who came. I had a blast, and I hope you did, too.
03/06/2010
Ross Completes a draft of a mini album as part of FAWM.
As part of February Album Writing Month Ross wrote 9 more songs in his "Hard Rain" cycle. Listen to them at the
FAWM website or download
this zip - available as long as the FAWM 2010 site is live.
Please keep in mind that these are demos recording at quick pace and be sure if you ever type in the fawm url that you use .org and not .com - especially if there are children nearby.
01/18/2010
Ross-scored film wins award!
The Cineclipse series pilot for
Ketch My Drift premiered last week at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Ross wrote original music for the film which won the Renate Award for best film by an educator.
Learn more here
12/03/2009
Photosynthesis Song hits 50,000 views
"I Need a Little Light (The Photosynthesis Song)," a song I wrote to amuse his science students, hit the 50,000 view mark on Youtube this week. Since it was posted by a student two years ago I have received emails and comments from all of the USA and the world - Canada, Russia, Germany, Poland, Australia.
If you haven't seen it - you can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IV-E68rh18
09/03/2009
Ross Live in San Dimas - Sept 19 2009
I will be playing a 15 minute set as part of a songwriting showcase run by Steven Guiles - a colleague from February Album Writing Month. I will probably be plaing a few of my new tunes generated during 50/90 (see news below).
It starts at 7:00 and I have no idea when I'll be going on. but if you are near the San Dimas Area - it's a pretty cool little (big) coffee house.
Home Brew Coffee,
661 W Arrow Hwy,
San Dimas, CA 91773, (909) 394-1964
Get Ross Music Online
You can buy Ross's first 3 CD online at iTunes,
Amazon.com and
emusic.com
Check the "Music" link for other music available, and, of course, Ross is a regular contributer to
songfight.org.
06/28/2009
Ross Wins!
Ross sings a Generic song tied for the win at songfight.org last week. While Ross had no song in for "World's Greatest Dad" look or an interesting tune for "Amsterdam."
NEW WEBSITE
Welcome to my new website. I made it with a new amazing webpage machine designed by my friend, Spud. I hope it will help me be able to keep you more update to date and give you more access to what is going on in my music.