'The 61' at Gardenstock

Vote for your favourite virtual live music performance & reward your fav musician with 10 000 L$, a Greenies Avatar of his/her choice and a paid gig on a Rezzable Sim. (Of course, votes will not be accepted before saturday! ;)) Votes that count must be made between Saturday June 7th, 8AM SLT and Monday June 9th, 8AM SLT.

Music in the virtual world is thriving: lot's of DJ's, great parties and awesome Live Performances which you can attend regardless what 'real world' continent you inhabit. Just like the internet, this offers musicians the opportunities to get their songs heard by a much broader public, gaining new fans and feedback from people they would probably else never reach. The virtual world added another aspect to that: interaction. Although there is that '20 seconds delay' between what the artist plays and when the audience hears it due to the streaming, this is still an awesome thing. Artist can see - and hear - their virtual audience applaud, dance, faint and rezzing panties on the stage.

The 61 'Bump Group'

One of the most active musical groups is 'The 61 Music Group'. This group exists out of musicians using both Second Life as well as The SixtyOne website to promote their music. Such a smart - and organised - use of Real World, Virtual World and a lineup of performances that 'would not be possible IRL' makes that they get their own, special day at the Garden of NPIRL Delights Garden Stock festival.

Saturday the 7th of June the stage is all theirs! We're honoured to have such nice 'gang' to do the kick off for the Gardenstock festival. A big 'woot!' goes to Suka Nishi for organising all this.

The Line Up

• 07AM SLT - Soundcircel Flanagan
• 08AM SLT - Mike00 Carnell
• 09AM SLT - BaBBleGraBBle Swindlehurst
• 10AM SLT - Dolmere Talamasca and Mimi Carpenter
• 11AM SLT - Kaklick Martin
• 12PM SLT - The Virtual Live Band (VLB!)
• 01PM SLT - Relaycast show with: Dolmere Talamasca, Toby Lancaster, Mimi Carpenter and Maximillion Kleene
• 02PM SLT - Quinton Whitman
• 03PM SLT - Neil Morrison
• 04PM SLT - Djai Skjellerup
• 05PM SLT - The Professor
• 06PM SLT - Juel Resistance
• 07PM SLT - Cylindrian Rutabaga
• 08PM SLT - NANCE Brody

The Stage and How To Get There

Rob Balder, Madcow Cosmos and a few other geniuses designed a very NPIRL stage, filled with little 'develish' music and party fanatics. All Gardenstock performances will take place on that stage on 'Rezzable Design'. We enabled direct TP, so clicking here puts you on the front row where you can enjoy the show the best. We also stream the music to the 3 other Garden of NPIRL Delights sims - Explore, Create and Discover - so more people can enjoy the music. This also creates the possibility to explore the Garden Builds whilst listening to great live music!

Guestbook Functionality Enabled

At the Gardenstock stage we will set up a 'magical guestbook'. If your avatar is registered with rezzable.com, this guestbook enables you to send comments directly to this 61 music artist's page, using only a few in-world clicks. So if you want to say 'Oh, my god, this was a great show!' and the comment to be preserved for the artists so they can check on it later, this is the way to go.

The Musicians

More information about the music artists. If you can't wait until Saturday 7th to listen to their music, follow the links to their respective profiles on thesixtyone.com. They all uploaded a few songs for you to enjoy.

Soundcircel Flanagan

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I've been playing guitar for about 30 years now ( god, i must be old *lol* ). I played in several bands, did my partying on ( and off ) stage, but then discovered for myself that music is a thing that I do best without limitations of a band. So I learned myself to play bass and keys, bought some nice toys ( euhhh equipment ) and here we are...

All tunes are written and performed by me, recorded in my own little studio. In Sl i am also known as "Trouble in da House"( thanks Foxy for naming me ) but im a cute harmless person ????

Soundcircel Flanagan's profile on thesixtyone.com

Mike00 Carnell

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Mike Carnell originates from Hamburg in Germany. He plays different kinds of music, ranging from blues over funk to rock. He's an 'Virtual Worlds Only' artist.

Mike00 Carnell's profile on thesixtyone.com

BaBBleGraBBle Swindlehurst

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BabbleGrabble is a guitarist and vocalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His style ranges from "folksy ballads" to "naked rock" and is heavily influenced by "Power Pop" music. Visit BabbleGrabble to hear his latest shows.

BabbleGrabble's profile on thesixtyone.com

Dolmere Talamasca

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He's the hottest skeleton in the virtual world, and the only one that can do 'Basstastic Perversions'. Dolmere Talamasca is a resident of Second Life who has worn many hats since his account creation in September of 2005. He's been a volunteer and greeter at The Shelter. He has built game shows, hosted game shows and booked live music at The Shelter and The Shelter in Swinside. He's been a vendor with free items from his Building Shelter game show, inexpensive T-Shirts and more.

Dolmere's most recent endeavor is as a live musician strictly within the virtual world of Second Life. Dolmere uses GarageBand to pre-record backing tracks with his bass guitar and sings live over the top of that. By recording multiple tracks he is able to "round out the sound" of a song with an instrument that is not typically used in solo performances.

Towards the end of 2006 he decided to look into the idea of performing solo shows with just his voice and his bass guitar. He started listening for and making notes of songs that would be best "basstastically perverted" or performed with a few bass tracks while still managing to convey the meaning of the original piece. Around the middle of May in 2007 Dolmere started performing his live shows in Second Life. He's been adding songs and friends since then.

Dolmere Talamasca's listener profile on thesixtyone.com

Mimi Carpenter

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Salut, I am French...living currently in Germany...started playing the guitar AND singing more "seriously" since September 2006... Acoustic style, just because I don't have any other means.

My brand new and first original is called "You Never Know" (January 2008)...I worked on it with my good friend Raspbury Rearwin, awesome songwriter you all need to check out... if I could handle words as he does...I'd be so glad. He just analysed and find the exact words I needed... I made the music, totally inspired by the text.... Always working on..."stuff" ^^

Mimi Carpenter's profile on thesixtyone.com

Kaklick Martin (Bryan Baker)

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Bryan Baker (or his virtual persona Kaklick Martin) makes some music that can be best described as the honkey tonk meets the metaverse, in the album "Roadhouse Ranch and Saloon" he sprinkles ideas like cybersex, furries and pose balls right along with the sawdust, traditional and futuristic at the same time. He also offers straight ahead rock along with social and political commentary in his album “Big Bad World”.

Kaklick took the stage in Second Life for the first time back in late 2005, so he is among SL’s veteran performers and an early evangelist for the live music scene.

Kacklick Martin's profile on thesixtyone.com

The Virtual Live Band (VLB!)

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VLB or Virtual Live Band is a band of 4 members from 3 different countries and 4 different locations. They use Ninjam Software to stream their music into the Virtual World of Second Life.

BlueTom Haller (RL Thomas Diederich),lives in Germany near Hannover. He has been playing guitar for the past 4-5 years, and began playing with others in Ninjam about a year and a half ago. He is currently the lead guitarist and founder of VLB.

Foxyflwr Cure (RL Dawn DeSimone), is a Jersey Girl,USA. She has been entertaining since childhood. Her website is musicbydawn.com. She started performing in SL in Feb of 2006.Foxy is the lead singer for VLB and she RAWKS!!!!!

Mambo Welles (RL Trevor Tweedy): Based in West London,UK,Mambo has been playing bass for +25 years. During the 80's he worked with several unsigned bands in and around London. After a break from the music scene for a few years, he returned to playing live with the rock covers band, limeburner.

Vicki Nilsson (RL Victoria Lee) resides in Upstate NY,USA. She has 25+ years experience as a drummer and has played in marching, symphonic, jazz and many local bar bands, with styles ranging from classic rock, folk, country, and more. After seeking some technical advice from BlueTom, she tried out as VLB's drummer and the rest was history!

The Virtual Live Band's profile on thesixyone.com

Toby Lancaster

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Toby is a musician from the south of England. Although guitar is his main instrument, he also play keyboards and use computers to make music. Toby Lancaster composes in a number of styles including solo acoustic guitar, rock, blues, jazz, and experimental. You can find more about his music at toby.weebly.com.

Toby Lancaster's profile on thesixyone.com

Maximillion Kleene

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No sixtyone profile.

Quinton Whitman (RL Tallan White)

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Tim White (Quinton Whitman in Second Life), his style is some what unigue style has been shaped by a myriad of influences - from the traditional Appalachian mountain music and storytelling of his grandparents and artist such as Woddy Guthrie; to the bluegrass and country music that surrounded him growing up by such as Doc Watson and Johny Cash; to the folk and political songs of singer/songwriters like Muddy Waters, Pete Seager, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, David Bromberg and Crosby, Stills & Nash that inspired me in his teens; to the intricate, haunting picking styles if an assortment of artists. I spent 4 years performing country with the Flaherty Brothers Band, a 12 year jaunt with the jass/fusion band Still Portrait, then 5 years with the rock band The Ride.

Born in the the mountain state of West Virginia, he began playing guitar when he was 12 years old. Though he always continued to play guitar, for most years he was primarily known as a bass player - transiting from rock to country to jazz back to rock.

His first love though was, and is, the guitar and he has returned to it full force when heI discovered the virtual world of Second Life and began streaming in live shows as a solo performer.

Tallan White's profile on thesixtyone.com

Neil Morrison

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Neil Morrison is 'Scott' in Real Life. His fellow band member is Russell Eponym in Second Life. More information about the both of them at SpinningMuleMusic.com.

Spinning Mule's profile at the sixtyone.com

Djai Skjellerup

Djai Skjellerup is an English singer songwriter writing simple timeless songs and performing them live in the virtual world of Second Life. Visit him at djaiskjellerup.com. His album "Ice Age Diaries" should be out later in 2008.

Djai Skjellerup's profile at the sixtyone.com

The Professor

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Ed Lamoureux (Professor Beliveau) performs as "the Professor".

The Professor's profile on the sixtyone.com

Juel Resistance

Suzen JueL a.k.a. JueL Resistance, is a self taught musician who has been performing since 1979. She has perfected the weaving of her mind's eye and heart's passion into lyrical paintings richly embedded with emotional hues from her personal experiences.

Her lyrics feed the listener's soul and stirs the heart and sentiment of any who have been privileged to hear her perform them. Suzen "JueL" Resistance's creative roots are deeply entrenched in a family of french musicians, artists and writers. Her Grampa Jule made a guitar in 1967,that he later gave her when she showed a keen interest in music. With her newfound passion she began writing and playing at every opportunity. JueL moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1989 and enjoyed ten amazing, successful years playing at The Fine Line, The Loring Bar, Club Metro and numerous other cafes and coffeehouses.

She recorded her first CD during that era and with high hopes waited for her star to rise. Soon after, she met and married her soulmate and became a stepmom to his 4 awesome boys who lived with them. As often happens in life, her ambitions were pushed to the back as she became a wife and mother to her new family. Years later with the boys grown, she found herself tickling the guitar strings once again.

Her style and sound have been compared, both lyrically and vocally, to such legendary greats as Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Sue Foley, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Mazzy Star, Curt Cobain as well as a generous handful of other talented acoustic musicians. As one of the first indie musicians to join and perform in Second Life, she has built a strong presence in the virtual world. A world where she is also known for her visual art work; her paintings, drawings and photography are displayed in various galleries throughout Second Life.

In addition, she owns and performs at the infamous "Living Room #13" where she has headlined and hosted Naked Acoustic Sessions for almost 2 years, bringing in only the finest seasoned and raw musicians of SL. JueL is currently working on her latest CD while preparing for her 2nd adventure to Mahoneyfest in Georgia. Her latest work in progress is a compilation of both recent and past experiences blended soulfully into a deep groove of blues, americana, folk and "unplugged acoustics". To listen to and support JueL's music you can find her web presences at TheSixtyOne.com and MySpace. You can also hear her perform live in Second Life by searching in-world for "Juel Resistance", "Dirty Pirate Whores" her fan club, and/or "Living Room #13". In addition, you can find more photos, podcasts, news, stories, art and information by performing a Google search on "JueL Resistance".

JueL Resistance's profile on thesixtyone.com

Cylindrian Rutabaga (RL Grace Buford)

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Southern pine forests, winding rivers, and muddy bare feet are luxuries to this Atlanta, GA. native. It is life experience, both good and bad, that are the fuel; passion for music, which is the spark, that ignites to create Grace Buford's unique style of songwriting. Whether it be a rhythmic acoustic song about facing negative thoughts in a battle for the mind or a flowing ethereal keyboard that exposes the vulnerability of facing change, Grace's songs and concerts are a versatile emotional ride.

You can experience her music online on Internet Radio Stations and in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life as she broadcasts live from her home studio or local venues with web access. Look for her in Second Life(tm) as Cylindrian Rutabaga.

Grace Buford's profile at thesixtyone.com

NANCE Brody

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Nance is an online blues performer, it is where her fans are, so she's not going anywhere else. Her stage rezzes in Second Life solely.

Nace Brody's profile on thesixtyone.com