Jon Tarifa Park Pop Support

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Rockstone Sesisons

Not only is Jon Tarifa a very talented musician who expands his music and mind more and more with every track he makes, but he is also a friend and a big believer in what we are doing here at Rockstone Sessions

Jon did an acoustic track for Rockstone Sessions a few months ago which he wrote exclusively for us!

This track has quickly gone to be the 3rd most watched of all our videos on Rockstone Sessions and is constantly growing in popularity

This year Mr Tarifa is nominated for The ‘Road to Park Pop’ in The Hague. For those of you that don’t know what Park Pop is… shame on you!

Park pop is Europe’s largest free festival which has been graced by the likes of Robbie Williams, Sheryl Crow and The Bangles. Held every year at Zuider Park in The Hague.

Now our friend Jon Tarifa has the opportunity to take to that stage and perform his music on Park Pop’s MAIN stage before this years headliner (Blitz the Ambassador) to some of the hundreds and thousands of people that attend this the festival every year!

Jon is up against 5 other artists on the 30th of May at Paard Cafe which he has to beat to get to the final which will take place on june 16 at North Sea Jam in Scheveningen and be in with a chance to perform at Park Pop 2012.

Now we are urging you to come and support Jon on the 30th of May because half the points he can earn are based on the amount of noise the fans can make when he is performing!

We will be there with bells and whistles making us much noise as we possibly can, will you please join us and help Jon win Road to Park Pop 2012

30th of May 2012 from 19:00 see you all there and good luck Jon

The Rockstone Sessions Team!

Music producers…Rockstone Sessions needs YOU!!!

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Rockstone Sesisons

Rockstone Sessions has been going for a few months now with many exciting new artists and lots of support from people for what we do!

On that note, We would like to say … THANK YOU for your support!

We have recently been thinking of how we could get music producer to showcase their talents on Rockstone Sessions. Music producers are often forgotten about, so we want to make a change to that!

Say hello to our new show ‘Drop-A-Beat’!

Next to our Acoustic and Freestyle videos, we want to invite producers to show us what they can do with their skills for our camera!

We have a few criteria that you must fulfill to be eligible to be on ‘Drop-A-Beat

1- create an original bit of music

2- no longer than 6 minutes

3- build the beat live for our cameras

4- all in one take, no cuts, no edits, and no corrections in post

here is an example of what we are looking for

but you can also do it with samples on an MPC, like this guy

or you can go all out and do what this guy did!

or how ever else you think you can do an original track for us in one take.

Please get in touch by emailing us on film-us@rockstonesessions.com or by filing out the mail form on our website

We look forward to hearing from you

The Rockstone Sessions Team!

New Villager – Cocoon House :: Rockstone Sessions

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Rockstone Sesisons

From the moment we heard that the guys from New Villager were keen to do an acoustic Rockstone Session, we were very curious as to how it would sound. From their music that we heard online, we had no idea what to expect.

We met the guys, Ross, Ben, and Colin in The Hague with about 15 minutes to spare before they had to get on stage. As we introduced our selfs Ben quickly cut to the chase and said “follow me, I’ve found the perfect location to film this!” without even thinking we picked up our bags and tried to keep up with the extremely fast pace that Ben walk walking.

None of the boys carried any instruments, which confused us slightly but we just went along! Ben found a very narrow street and we started filming instantly as we had no time to waste.

What followed but very unexpected, but very cool and very different! Exactly what we love here at Rockstone Sessions. After a kind of mini meditation and a snap of the fingers, the guys kicked off an awesome Rockstone session.

Not only do these guys create very exciting new music,but they are artists too! They paint, and draw and create art exhibitions which they combine with their music! They combine to two for an all round experience for their audiences.

What’s really exciting about these guys is they have what they call a ‘Mythology’, a system which they use to understand how they create art and music. Very interesting stuff

Want to know more… Www.new villager.com

James Vincent McMorrow – We Dont Eat :: Rockstone Sessions

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Rockstone Sesisons

We are actually getting fed up of filming outside with this contentiously dropping temperature, but for this man it was definitely worth it.

James Vincent McMorrow hit the scenes in 2010 with his album ‘Early in the morning’ and ever since then he has just been on the rise. Some of you may not even have heard of his name but if you watched any TV over Christmas then it you surely heard James’s cover of ‘Higher Love’ by Steve Winwood as the soundtrack to several Christmas TV commercials.

We met James at his hotel in Amsterdam, where he played ‘This old Dark Machine’ and “We Dont Eat’ for us in the park behind his hotel. James confidently said said he didn’t said that he is Irish and that this weather wasn’t cold for him, but by the second song he admitted he couldn’t really feel the strings on his guitar any more.

James Vincent McMorrow is one of our featured artists on Rockstone Sessions this week, check out his acoustic version of ‘We Don’t Eat’ and make sure you check out the amazing self played and recorded album ‘Early In The Morning’

Qeaux Qeaux Joan – Final End :: Rockstone Sessions

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Finally after months of preparation and filming artists we are finally releasing our first artist on Rockstone Sessions.

Qeaux Qeaux Joans from Amsterdam with her song ‘ final end’ acoustically with her awesome guitarist Isa Azier.

We met her at Paard van Troje in The Hague (where she performed with Sea Sick Steve that evening) just before her sound check. As she was frantically getting ready in her dressing room, she invited us down to watch her sound check.

From that sound check alone, we knew we were going to get an amazing performance from her for Rockstone Session. As we waited on stage behind the band and in front of a giant banner with Sea Sick Steve’s head on it, we bopped along to the the music itching to film the brilliant talent!

We are so excited to release the first Rockstone Sessions video to you starring the incredible Qeaux Qeaux Joans!

Please share the link if you like it and subscribe to our channel for lots of exciting new artists!

The Rockstone Sessions Team