11 With a brand-new album in tow, rock and roll group Atlas Road Crew will be returning to the 'Boro April 2.
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Hit the road with Atlas Road Crew something of a baptism by fire. “It was hectic, and it was cool,” drummer Patrick Drohan said. “And I think it really kept us on our creative toes.” With three different cities of distinct musical flavors and the guiding mentorship of three different producing musicians, Halfway to Hopkins offers a comprehensive sampling of Southern rock. But make no mistake: The sound is all their own. Together, the six musicians of Atlas Road Crew create a powerful, driving sound that hooks listeners in and takes them on the road with the band. While the band works as a collaborative team on their songs, Drohan and lead vocalist Taylor Nicholson share much of the task of writing lyrics. They draw their inspiration from their common experiences as young guys touring with their best
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friends — an experience that can be wildly fun and intensely gratifying, but also tiring and surprisingly lonely at times. Many of the lyrics in Halfway to Hopkins reference the bittersweet joys and difficulties of life on the road, creating a picture of constant motion. It’s perfect road trip music, slightly nostalgic but, in the end, hopeful and optimistic. That sound is perhaps perfectly indicative of where the band is in their musical career right now. The guys just recorded an acoustic set with the famed Relix Magazine, an experience Drohan
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Lights! Camera! Deadline! You know you've got that award-winning film in you, but you just need a little more time. Well, a little less than three weeks is all you have left to create your work for the 2015 Statesboro Film Festival. The final deadline for submitting a film is 5 p.m. Friday, April 10. That gives you enough time to put together or finish production of a film that could earn you recognition as the Best Film winner. And the Best Film at the 2015 Festival will earn the director $500 cash, as well. The Statesboro Herald and the Averitt Center for the Arts are teaming up again for the seventh annual festival to find and honor the best locally made films. It is scheduled for 7 p.m.,
Friday, April 17, at the Averitt Center in downtown Statesboro. Also, voting for your favorite film will begin shortly after the deadline. All approved films will be available at statesborofilmfestival.com to view and vote on. People can vote up to 10 times per day from a single URL address. Voting will begin April 12 and be open through midnight April 16. Vote totals will not be shown, so the winner can be revealed on the evening
of of the film festival. Like the past five years, the festival offers everyone a chance to do what Hollywood does: Make your own film. Event coordinator Matt Bankhead, video producer for statesboroherald. com and the lead producer for the daily Studio Statesboro vodcast and the Statesboro Herald Report, encourages aspiring filmmakers to go ahead and finish that film. "We received several of our best films the last few days before deadline in the past years," he said. There are a few basic submission rules for the festival. All films can be
called “unbelievable.” They are gaining traction, and even without the help of a record label’s advertising department they are reaching people as far away as the Czech Republic and Australia. “The mood of the band is really positive right now,” Drohan said, adding, “We’re really grateful for where we are right now and the positive feedback we’re getting from everybody. We’re full of ambition right now.” Atlas Road Crew will be hitting the stage at Club 125 April 2 at 10 p.m. Tickets to the event are $5.w
no longer than eight minutes. There is a $15 submission charge through April 3 and $18 through April 11. And, again, the final deadline to submit a film is 5 p.m. Friday, April 10. All rules and information about the festival can be viewed at www. statesborofilmfestival.com, the festival's official website. The winning film and other submitted films will be shown at the 2015 Statesboro Film Festival on April 17. More than 200 people attended the festival in each of the past five years. Light refreshments will be served at the reception and Millhouse Steakhouse will cater the intermission. Tickets for the film festival are $5 and can be purchased at the Averitt Center box office, the Statesboro Herald office or by calling (912) 212-2787. The 2015 Statesboro Film Festival is sponsored by the Statesboro Herald, the Averitt Center for the Arts, Millhouse Steakhouse, Gailey Trophy and Connect Statesboro.w
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Fresh off their hometown album release party, Columbia-based rock ‘n’ roll group Atlas Road Crew will be returning to Statesboro April 2 for the second installment of the Airbound Entertainment concert series, with their brand spankin’ new album in tow. Their newly released first album was produced piecemeal, with three different producers in three different studios in three different cities. The experience gave them a crosssection of several different recording processes, between Rick Beato’s (of Needtobreathe and Shinedown fame) downtown Atlanta studio; Cory Plaugh’s home studio in Columbia, South Carolina; and Charleston with Jump Little Children’s Jay Clifford, where they recorded bits of their songs in a traditional studio and in Clifford’s smaller, personal studio. For a band recording their first album, it was