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.fawmers.org/users/rossdurand

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

     

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/

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.

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.

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

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

Ross Completes 50 song in 90 day challenge - Hear Highlights

Late in the night of October 1st, Ross completed his 50th song in the 50/90 challenge. Hear a highlights album in the "Online Music" section of this page or visit the whole deal at

http://5090.fawm.org/fawmers/rossdurand


Also view video of a live set of some of thee songs using the link in the news item below.

Video of Ross at San Dimas Songwriters' Showcase - 9/19/09

Ross played six of his new songs on September 19 in San Dimas - here is some simple video of the set.

http://www.rossdurandmusic.com/sandimas_091909med.mov

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

Follow Ross at 50/90

Ross is taking the challenge to try to write 50 songs in 90 days at http://5090.fawm.org/fawmers/rossdurand
Check out his new material.

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.

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."

Songfight Song Swap

The "False Positive" fight is now live. For this fight, fellow fighter JonEric asked if I'd like to do a song swap, so we each wrote a song for the title and sent a demo to the other, who finished a recording. So at songfight you can hear Jon singing the song I wrote and me singing the song he wrote.

Here are links to the original demos:

My demo for the song Jon Recorded

Jon's demos for the song I recorded.

As you can see (and hear) they both turned out great!

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.