| Victoria Vox |
What can one say about Victoria Vox? She plays the ukulele, mouth trumpet and writes tunes while cruising down the freeway. I had the chance to capture Victoria's performance live at the Museum of Making Music on January 26, 2008. The interesting thing (a.k.a. challenge) about this particular performance was the fact that the entire concert featured nearly a dozen different ukulele artists and set changes. Fortunately, Victoria's needs for her 5-song set were few: a vocal mic, input for her ukulele, and condenser mic for Mike Tarantino, her producer & accompanist for the evening (he played the guitar, melodica, toy piano and cardboard box). I find Vox's songwriting very intuitive and charming. Simple, yet captivating. She also holds the record in my eye, as the hardest working, self-promotingest, most travelled, free-range independent artist that I can think of. A hard worker with a gift for writing and performing. This particular event, I was serving as soundman and stage manager. Nick LaBran took over the helm as photographer and he captured some pretty good shots, including the one you see here. I also shot video during her performance and synced up the recording to get a nice sounding YouTube video: Check out more of Victoria here: |
