{"id":181,"date":"2009-07-21T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2014-08-01T22:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:49:57","slug":"181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Grooveshire Southgate House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a fellow photographer Scott Preston this summer as I have been photographing musicians and live concerts here in Cincinnati. Scott owns a local publication called Cincy Groove Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincygroove.com\/\">www.cincygroove.com<\/a>), which is a great source\u00a0to keep up with the local music scene with interviews and photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scott also manages a local band called Grooveshire, so I decided to check out their show with Indigenous at Southgate House August 19. The band was great to talk to before the show and I was impressed with their sound. They call their sound, &#8220;Louisiana Bayou Grunge&#8221; and the lead vocals of Chris Melfi\u00a0are reminiscent of early Black Crows tunes. The band has a strong local following and are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The band members include: Chris Melfi (vocals), Jason Mollette (guitar), Mike Hennel (drums), Keith Roark (bass) and Bryan Russell (organ).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Catch them at their EP release party at Southgate House Thursday Sept 3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check them out on their website:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grooveshire.com\/\">http:\/\/www.grooveshire.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/grooveshire\">www.myspace.com\/<strong>grooveshire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out my Grooveshire photos on CityBeat.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citybeat.zipscene.com\/photos\/view\/7775\">http:\/\/citybeat.zipscene.com\/photos\/view\/7775<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5387-600pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-182\" title=\"Grooveshire\" src=\"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5387-600pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5387-600pix-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5387-600pix.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5137-600pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-183\" title=\"ANH_5137 600pix\" src=\"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5137-600pix-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5137-600pix-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ANH_5137-600pix.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a fellow photographer Scott Preston this summer as I have been photographing musicians and live concerts here in Cincinnati. Scott owns a local publication called Cincy Groove Magazine (www.cincygroove.com), which is a great source\u00a0to keep up with the local music scene with interviews and photos. &nbsp; Scott also manages a local band called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[527,1463,528,530,529,436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}