February 2012
2 posts
December 2011
1 post
My music video is here! Free download of the...
Check out my new video for my first single, “Dresser Drawer” off of my upcoming record due January 31st! You can see it on Performer Mag’s website today, HERE and tomorrow it will be on AOL’s Spinner.
Please check it out and share with your friends! You can also download the single for FREE at my Bandcamp, HERE!!
Yay! Enjoy!
November 2011
1 post
So many things!
So, one thing is pretty clear: I suck at keeping up with this friggin blog but I’m-a do mah best to change that! Sheeeeyet.
There have been lots of things happening and lots of things in the making to be discussed at a later date, but let’s talk about the things we can talk about so we can start talking about something, no?
First of all, a few weeks ago I did an acoustic performance...
May 2011
1 post
July Residency @ the Living Room
When I was graduating college and anticipating my move to NYC, the only venue I really knew about was the Living Room. I heard about how Norah Jones played there and other people I had listened to. To me, the Living Room was like the ultimate place to play in NYC and I dreamt of one day being able to play there. I remember when I first moved here, Jaymay was doing a residency there and I thought,...
April 2011
1 post
Last day of tour! Special Thanks.
Tonight is the last night of my tour and we are finishing it off with a boom with a full band in Philadelphia, PA, my home city, at The Grape Room. Show starts at 9! This will be my first time playing with a full band in Philly, and I’m so excited to be playing with people after playing by myself for the past 2 weeks!
As my first tour comes to a close, I look back and think about how much...
March 2011
6 posts
Tour so far . . .
Oh hey! I know I was supposed to be doing this everyday, but I didn’t, and now I’m catching up to speed. I decided to just break it down to my favorite shows so far!
Sooo, I had my first night of the tour in Houston at a quirky place called Notsuoh. When I first got there, I was basically about to play to an empty room, but two local musicians who were playing in the other room (E and...
Tour Dates!!
Woo hoo! Here I goooooo!! Friday, March 18, time is TBA (but it will be an afternoon show) Hotel Vegas1500 E. 6th Street Austin, TX *Unofficial SXSW showcase
Monday, March 21, time TBA Notsuoh314 Main Street Houston, TX
Wednesday, March 23 @7pm Hotel Indigo 1719 West End Ave. Nashville, TN * As a part of the singer’s in the round series
Thursday, March 24, Doors @8pm, Music starts...
February 2011
3 posts
Tour Dates (so far . . .)
As promised, here are my tour dates for the “sami.the.great’s Cherry Poppin’ Tour”! We’re still working on more but these are the confirmed ones. If you know of anyone in these areas, please send them my way!
March 25 - Charleston, SC @ O’Brion’s Pub on St. James Island, 7pm March 28 - Roanoke, VA @ Kirk Avenue Music Hall w/ Valerie McQueen, 7:30pm March...
January 2011
1 post
sami.the.great's Cherry Poppin' Tour
I am so excited to announce that I will be doing my first tour ever at the end of March! Some of the dates and places have been confirmed already but once we’ve got the other places nailed down (which we are in the process of doing), I will post the whole list of dates. This will pretty much be a southern to the bottom of the north east tour, so if you have friends in the places I announce,...
December 2010
1 post
Happy Holidays! Big show!
Hello out there!
Happy Holidays to all.
In New Years news, I have my first big show of 2011 coming up and I need all the support I can get! I’m headlining the early show at Mercury Lounge on Friday, January 7th. Here is the info:
Mercury Lounge 217 East Houston Street Friday, January 7th sami.the.great - 8:30 French Camp - 7:30 $10 You can buy tix HERE
Bring friends! Be merry!...
November 2010
2 posts
2 Shows This Week!
Wednesday, September 17th I’m playing in Philadelphia at The Fire. Here, my friends, is the address: 412 West Girard Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19123 $5 cover
AND THEN!!
On Thursday, September 18th, I’m playing my 3rd monthly residency at Caffe Vivaldi in NYC. This month’s special guest is Reuben Chess from Qunitus. To check out his music go HERE
Caffe Vivaldi is here: 32 Jones...
Something to get off my chest . . .
Can I just say, that if the following is wrong …
1. Supporting equal rights for everyone. 2. Supporting the right for a person to choose. 3. The first amendment. 4. Health care for all humans.
… I just really, really don’t want to be right.
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
1 post
Monthly Residency @ Cafe Vivaldi
Hello anybody who reads this! :)
I have been asked to play a monthly acoustic residency at Cafe Vivaldi in the West Village. My first show will be this Thursday, September 23rd at 8:00 pm. For the shows following, I am trying to have a special guest come play a cover with me each time. I’m also going to put the options of the cover each time and take a vote as to which song we should...
August 2010
2 posts
Huge Show!
Come all ye sami.the.great faithful’s! I have a really, really big show (as Ed Sullivan would say). I’m playing my first show at the famous Mercury Lounge and I am super excited! And it’s on a Friday so if you live out of town, you can still come and see me! Here are the details!
sami.the.great Full band show @ Mercury Lounge Friday, August 27th 9:30 pm $10
You can buy...
Amazing Review of "Nothing Left to See"
So I’m currently in the beautiful, amazing, fairytale land that is Amsterdam for my 3rd time, and yesterday I was in awesome, if not as beautiful, but yet, still beautiful London, and while I was there, I was sent this almost perfect review of “Nothing Left to See”. Follow this link to read it: Wildy’s World “Nothing Left to See” Review. Please check it out and...
June 2010
1 post
"Nothing Left to See" now on iTunes! →
May 2010
6 posts
Our Cover of "Roxanne" Up On MySpace! →
This is awesome! I can’t take credit for it. To begin with, Sting wrote it. But our version is pretty bad ass. Enjoy!
"Love's a Losing Game" now up on MySpace! →
A 4th song off of my 6 song EP, “Nothing Left to See”. Please take a listen to it and the others! Enjoy! 2 more to go!
Love,
Sami
CD Release, June 2nd!
A lot of work has been put into my new EP, “Nothing Left to See” by a lot of people, so please come help support us when we debut the songs and also play some oldies, at The Canal Room on Wednesday June 2nd! The opening act is TBA and will go on at 8:00 pm and I will go on at 9 pm with a full band! You can go here for tickets:
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"Satisfy" on MySpace →
Another new song is up! Enjoy!!
April 2010
8 posts
New Song Up on MySpace! →
Every week leading up to my CD release on June 2nd at the Canal Room, I am posting a new song from my EP “Nothing Left to See”. Today, the first upload is the title track off the EP. Go have a listen and share with your friends! Yay!
Enjoy!
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Deep breaths.
Have you ever seen What The Bleep Do We Know? It’s basically like The Secret but more scientific. I’m a believer in science, therefore I like it better than The Secret but both will get the job done. The concept of both of these movies is that our thoughts can actually dictate the way our lives unfold. There’s an experiment that is spoken about in WTBDWK where these scientists...
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Question . . .
Do you think everybody who has become successful with what they’ve set out to do had confidence the whole way 100% of the time?
I hope not. Or else I am fuuuuucked.
Great Things About Being an Adult . . . I Think.
As much as I hate to admit it, I guess I’m considered an ad … an adu … an adult. Phew. That was hard.
I miss being a kid everyday of my life. My song “Satisfy” is about missing my childhood. When you’re a kid, you’re carefree, you’re honest, you’re fun, you’re cute, and you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. Then you get into...
March 2010
15 posts
“When awkwardly buying KY at Rite Aid, lean in to the cashier and whisper loudly,...”
– Sarah Silverman
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Positive Post #1: My New EP is Bitchin'
I know that my posts thus far have been a bit, “whoa is me”, but I’m really not all doom and gloom all of the time. And I thought, what better way to show my more positive side than to write about how friggin awesome I think my new EP, “Nothing Left to See” is! Now that the masters are finished (but I’ve yet to hear them), I feel like I can talk about the record...
Life is Just a Continuation of High School
Alright, it gets a lot better after high school (for most of us), but some of the same scenarios stay with us. Namely, cliques. No matter where you go, no matter where you are, there will always be cliques. Show me a place that doesn’t have cliques and I will move there tomorrow. Ok, only if it’s cool.
Cliques aren’t so bad. It’s basically a group of people that one feels...
All my friends are married. A lot of my friends...
I am 26 years old. 27 in a few months (July 2nd, if you wanna send me gifts). I would say that a substantial amount of my friends (and I have a lot of friends, if I do say so myself) are married, quite a few of them are pregnant, and 2 or 3 already have babies. Most of them own their houses! Is this normal? Even if you look at people I went to high school with who aren’t really my friends,...
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien
