{"id":2109,"date":"2017-07-16T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2017-07-16T06:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:53:15","slug":"hotter-update-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/hotter-update-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotter Than July! Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

#SORonTour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shortly\u00a0after the concert, I left the venue and headed straight to the airport. I had to fly\u00a0to Chicago so that I could be a mentor for the School of Rock at Summerfest in Milwuakee!\u00a0Thankfully, my travel wasn’t\u00a0terribly delayed (Beirut to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Chicago, 90 minute drive to Milwaukee), and I was able to get to\u00a0my first group of students\u00a0with 20 minutes to spare.\u00a0Now that’s the Musical Life!<\/p>\n

This annual event, School of Rock OnTour (#SORonTour), showcased over 450\u00a0students in dozens of\u00a0bands from\u00a0several of the School of Rock locations around the USA. Over the course of three\u00a0days, the students rocked the Summerfest audience from numerous stages, performing iconic rock songs with professional guest artists from legendary bands – AKA The Mentors.<\/p>\n

I was paired with guitarist\u00a0Robbie Angelucci<\/a>\u00a0to listen, evaluate and offer feedback to dozens of bands. Both of us, and all of the other mentors, were very impressed with the young musicians. We were all\u00a0taken back in time to when each of us were that age, our burgeoning thirst for music just starting. The students reminded us of how special it is to learn music; that it’s a gift. I was so excited and thrilled to be there, and to offer whatever nuggets of wisdom I could.<\/p>\n

The Mentors were an eclectic bunch, with a solid portion coming from the world of Rock. Since I’ve spent most of my career in the R&B\/Pop world, it was lovely to get to meet and bond with musicians from other genres. The Mentors were\u00a0Tanya O Callaghan<\/a>,\u00a0Robbie Angelucci<\/a>,\u00a0Allen Blickle<\/a>,\u00a0Dan McCafferty<\/a>,\u00a0Kudisan Kai<\/a>,\u00a0Julian Coryell<\/a>,\u00a0Tariqh Akoni<\/a>,\u00a0Phil Xenidis<\/a>,\u00a0Glen Sobel<\/a>,\u00a0Rachel Z Hakim<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Peter DiStefano<\/a>. I enjoyed meeting and spending time with each of you. Thank you for your\u00a0high level musicianship, your insight, talent and beautiful hearts!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Tania for the referral, VIP and VP Stacey Ryan for keeping us in check, and all of the other\u00a0SOR top brass<\/a>, including\u00a0Rob Price<\/a>,\u00a0Elliot Baldini<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tony Padulo<\/a>\u00a0for making it all possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#SORonTour Shortly\u00a0after the concert, I left the venue and headed straight to the airport. I had to fly\u00a0to Chicago so that I could be a mentor for the School of Rock at Summerfest in Milwuakee!\u00a0Thankfully, my travel wasn’t\u00a0terribly delayed (Beirut to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Chicago, 90 minute drive to Milwaukee), and I was able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}