January Artist Showcase

We welcome ’2014′ with amazing talents which is always the sign of an Awesome year to come. With performances by Ben Cook, All Hell,  The Nazarene & The One Us Band. You can Read more on our Featured acts Casey Conroy and Go 80 from the showcase below!

Casey Conroy

_talented 15 year old singer-songwriter TO WATCH!!_

What had OrlandoBands.com done for you?In addition to including me in shows, Orlando Bands has featured me in a couple of their newsletters, which I am very grateful for, as well as making me their “Music Crush” Monday J What are your thoughts on ‘indie vs label’? As of right now for the beginning of my career I’m thinking definitely indie.  I love the creative freedom and control that comes with it.  My music is so important to me so when it comes to it I can be a control freak.  However, after my EP is finished and I have really established myself as an artist and the kind I want to be, a label could be an amazing thing.  So I guess, I’ll just have to see how everything plays out.Do you have any 

 Funny/Dramatic Show Experiences? Well, at the last Orlando Bands show I played at High Society, the microphone fell off my stand onto my keyboard while I was playing, which was pretty funny.  I haven’t really had many funny or dramatic show experiences though, not yet anyways, but I’m sure there are plenty to come. Who are some local bands you would like to play with or enjoy playing?I love playing with The Edge Effect, they are amazingly talented guys and are also super funny and awesome to be around.  I have had the opportunity of playing with some other great artists as well such as Ciaran Carmichael and Aidan Rivera (and Fernando Varela soon, which I can’t wait!). What songs influenced you from your early childhood? I remember when I was really little, after putting me to bed, my Dad used to put a Phil Collins CD into to my CD player with the song I’ve Forgotten Everything, and I used to fall asleep to it every night.  I think there I really started to fall in love with music.  Plus, my dad used to play his own songs a lot around our home so early on I had an appreciation for songwriting.  Songs that influenced my current style, however, hadn’t really come about until I was around 12, and I was old enough to comprehend the idea of a “style” per say.  Then it was songs by artists like Adele.   http://www.iamcaseyconroy.com/

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Go 80  

We caught up with the band’s Drummer Franco Campanello who answered some vital questions for us!

There IS NO other choice. Go 80 is terminally infected with a disease called music for which there is no cure.

What has OrlandoBands.com done for you? We are very new to Orlandobands.com and have only played one showcase so far which was an awesome experience for us & provided us with some much needed Promotional pictures. Who are some of the local bands you would like to play with, or enjoy playing with? Since we are a band comprised of season musicians spanning some 30 plus years we would like to play with well-established rock bands well rooted in the a circuit clubs in central Florida. What do you think of the Orlando Scene, and if you don’t like it, what would you do to it? The Orlando scene from what we see is very diverse & full of talent. The only thing we would like to see is more clubs investing in house PA systems which will cut down set up time for bands & give the clubs a more consistent sound from band to band. -Besides social media, and flyers do you practice any unique methods of promoting upcoming shows? As a matter of fact we do. We are probably the only Band in all of Central Florida with a downloadable app which can be downloaded to your Ipad or Android device. Just go to Appcatch.com and search for Go 80 band. Scan the QR code and download to your smartphone device. What songs would say influenced you the most growing up?Beatles, Stones, Clapton, Jaco Pastorius, Rush, Van Halen… The list goes on & on.