I'm Rob Birdwell - thanks for visiting! Explore my music, videos, projects, arrangements & articles. Contact me anytime! My latest release is "Quietly" and available on all major streaming platforms.
New Music Alert: ♫🎺The Adventures of Sam and Caw: Winter Is Coming🎹🎤
I'm Rob Birdwell - thanks for visiting! Explore my music, videos, projects, arrangements & articles. Contact me anytime! My latest release is "Quietly" and available on all major streaming platforms.
Quietly contains nine songs written, performed, and produced by Rob Birdwell.
The following is an excerpt from the second track, Punkie and the Spitfires.
It's a song about a three-piece band - perhaps the ultimate band - who save the world!
she was a young woman living in dystopian times
fighting "The Forces" any way that she could...
Rob Birdwell's arrangement of Feeling Good for Halie Loren and her band. Words and Music by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse. Featuring the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra, Halie Loren (vocals), Matt Treder (piano), Mark Schneider (bass), Bill Marsh (guitar), Brian West (drums), Rob Birdwell (arranger/conductor). Audio engineering/recording by George Relles and Diana Robson.
LMNO perform Memories of Senegal live for a Funk in the Forest concert. Featuring Rob Birdwell (trumpet/keys), Nick Rivard (guitar), Page Hundemer (bass), and Brian Bucolo (drums)
I've always been interested in ways to express ideas and emotions through music. As a kid I would write my own lyrics to popular songs. As I learned to play trumpet I would create my own melodies. As I became interested in singing I began to learn more about chord progressions. By the time I was in college I started to get more serious about trying to compose and arrange - turns out it was hard! I attended the Grove School of Music and Dick Grove's teachings would provide me with a solid foundation and I'm still building upon that and continue to learn with every new song, composition or arrangement.
Gazebo Days - for solo Clarinet and Concert Band / Wind Ensemble
https://youtu.be/29_N5ZMCKR0
During the winter of 2022 I hunkered down to write this and the debut performance was a lot of fun, but wow it was lot of work too!
#TheWho may or may not release a new studio album, but what if Pete and Roger wrote songs to each other? Insights, appreciations, sentiments... call it Dialogs? That would be a cool record to hear I think!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbrJ-wnwJGs
Here's a song I wrote called "Busy Day" - it's from an ongoing series I'm working on called "The Adventures of Sam and Caw" - I'm playing #Ukulele, #Flugelhorn, #Bass, #Tamborine and #Vocals in this "live" video version, where I'm also attempting to improve my video editing - long way to go! Enjoy!
Whenever I think of a completely disagreeable person, a despot, a tyrant, (you know who I'm talking about), I imagine if they played an instrument. It wouldn't matter how well, but at least with commitment, skill and compassion - and could share their joy of it with others, so there would be at least some trace of a redeemable quality to that person.
But of course, then they would be someone else entirely.