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Today, May 25, is National Tap Dance Day, and not much embodies all the wonderful qualities of tap quite like Rhythmic Circus. This group of Minneapolis-based musicians and tappers has a fun show, filled with dance, music, funk, beatboxing, and most of all, a lot of humor. Our whole family
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Here it is, the end of May, and for most dance studios, that means that Regional competitions are over, and it's Recital time! As the dance season winds down, and studios get ready for Nationals, Summer Intensives, and Summer camps, now is the perfect time to start getting
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Now that it's the middle of May, and many competitive dance studios have wrapped up their Regional competition season, it's time to get ready for recitals and Nationals. If your music is not all that it could be, it's not too late to get
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Dancemom.com's online competition for the Dance Mom of the Year has just wrapped up. Squirrel Trench Audio is proud to be a sponsor of the contest, and will be providing a free music edit to two winners from Week 2 of the contest, and two music edits
Music Selection Ideas
Over on the DanceMom.com discussion forum, it was brought up that some dancers really don't care about the music that is used for a routine. Some people just want to dance, no matter what the music is. While that is certainly a true statement, I also want
Congratulations/Results
We are pleased to report that dancer extraordinaire Brianna Roland has won yet another title award, this time at StarQuest competition in West Springfield, Massachusetts, winning the title of Miss Starquest, with her lyrical performance called "Looking Back". The music is an edit of a Sigur Rós track
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Crank this song up if you have a good sound system connected to your computer: [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/44600639" iframe="true" /] This song comes from the Weathervane/Shaking Through project; independent musicians and bands are tracked, and then the stems are raw
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In the process of re-editing a custom music remix for one of my clients, I realized that many things that are common knowledge in the audio and music world are not common knowledge for dance parents and others who don't have an extensive music background. So here are
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This past weekend, Squirrel Trench Audio was honored to be in the audience for the performances of two amazingly talented young singers at Star Systems' Worcester Regional Competition. These two young talents have been rehearsing their singing skills all season long, and with the backing track of Squirrel Trench-mixed
Audio Editing Tips
For those of you who make, create, remix, cut, or edit music for dance competition, there is NO worse feeling in the world than watching your dancers get announced, take their opening position, and then..... nothing. Silence. The competition emcee then asks the dancer to leave the stage while the
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It's been a busy and exciting week for Squirrel Trench Audio! Not only are we sponsoring this week's contest in the Dance Mom of the Year competition on DanceMom.com, we also have 23 routines with Squirrel Trench music debuting in competition this weekend! Out of
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Welcome! Squirrel Trench Audio is proud and honored to be the official sponsor this week of DanceMom.com's Dance Mom of the Year Contest! It's only fitting, since this week, the contest is all about the music used in dance. Break a leg to all of