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Blackberry Jam is Jammin’ on Song Writing

BlackberryJam 2013Adrian & Julian “Blackberry Jam”

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 School could not end fast enough for Adrian and Julian, 16 year old identical twin singing duo who prefer to spend their time making music.  

After Rivenmaster announced  a chance to win a scholarship to the 2013 Prodigy Camp Project, a summer program that brings together 20 of the most promising teenage songwriters and filmmakers to hone their craft, they actually got a call from the camp encouraging us to apply.  Julian said,

“The chance to collaborate with other artists from around the world was really exciting to us.”

 

Blackberry Jam has come a long way since third grade where they got their start entertaining their classmates with comedic singing routines at “Lunchbox Special”. This past year, as high school sophomores they took a songwriting class and spent 90 minutes each day writing music and lyrics. For 6 weeks the twins work through the creative process, trying out different lyrics and riffs on their new song Seven Seas.  Adrian said,

“Songwriting is hard! The music part is easy, but the lyrics just don’t sound right.”

A breakthrough came when their teacher suggested they collaborate with Desiree Hazleton, a classmate who was particularly skilled at writing lyrics.  

“In the first session we had an entire verse and chorus written. Desiree would just crank out the lyric and it was so easy to put the music and vocals behind her words.”

Within a few sessions they had an entire song, and ideas for 4 more projects. Collaboration was the key to success.  By the end of the semester, their latest song, “End of the Night”, was finished.

End of the Night“End of the Night” Original By Blackberry Jam

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Happy New Year from Rivenmaster (2013)

New Year 2013

A New Year always births new hopes and dreams as it marks the beginning of a new chapter in our life. While we look ahead with anticipation, we also look back at some of the things that made our year memorable and exciting. 

This has been our finest year at Rivenmaster’s Place since the conception of the site more than four years ago.  More records were broken this year than any previous year and we enjoyed a 68% increase of overall yearly views.

While we had many successful articles the following three features shared the honors for the top 3 most read in 2012.

This year twenty new singers, two new sibling singing groups, and two new actors enjoyed their first time articles at Rivenmaster’s Place. (New artists depicted with (*)

The following is an updated list for each and every artist currently featured on Rivenmaster’s Place. We would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every-one of them a very Happy New Year and Best of Success in 2013.

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