I can post the video now!

[solarbird]

So as I mentioned earlier, Leannan Sidhe had a camera rolling for part of the Valentine’s Day show, and I’ve merged that with the monophonic audio feed I got off the board, cropped things a bit, added titles, and voila! Video! I just wish I could pick the preview frame because there are lots of better ones than the one it picked. XD Despite that, enjoy:

(If that doesn’t work in your browser, click here for Leannan Sidhe with guest Dara Korra’ti of CRIME an the Forces of Evil, Live on Valentine’s Day.)

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil.

Comments

[solarbird]

I'm the mandolinist in the video, not the vocalist. (It's an octave mandolin, not a guitar. I can't play guitar. Well, I can play bass guitar, but I don't know chords for normal guitar.) leannan_sidhe - the vocalist of Leannan Sidhe, with whom I was playing as a guest musician - has a lovely voice indeed.

And I don't know who told you women aren't supposed to have head voice, because that's entirely wrong. A lot of classical voice teachers discourage women from singing in chest, if anything.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

my main teacher - she's the one who was insistant that i be ALTO, not soprano, because women aren't supposed to sing with "head" voice - she was the opera trainer/singer. later teachers thought it was awesome, it was just her, and i always assumed it was the opera "way", as it were? i've just been going by what she tells me - which, i grant, doesn't work as well as it used to :/

[solarbird]

I ... don't know what she was on about, honestly. It's not opera talking, I can tell you that much. What you do want is to spend a lot of time bringing in as much of the entire air column as you can.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

that happens, either way.

well, maybe i should... no, nevermind. where were you 5 years ago? sigh. but thanks! :)