Greater Eldridge Park Neighborhood Association – GEPNA presents
1st season of Music in Eldridge Park– Musica en el Parque Eldridge
July 19th, 2014 – Julio 19th, 2014
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5:30 to 8:00 pm
Tulane Avenue between Rupert Avenue and Rolfe Avenue
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Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
The Greater Eldridge Park Neighborhood Association – GEPNA is delighted to host The Beagles to our First Music in the Eldridge Park – Musica en el Parque Eldridge.
Rob Freeman and Steve Wolpert began playing music together in 2012, initially launching The Beagles as a duo focused on developing arrangements of Rob’s original material for saxophone, acoustic and electric guitar, and vocal harmonies. Singer Rowena Hess is a trained musical theater performer who has put on her own one woman shows, and was impressed by their catchy tunes, infectious hooks, high energy and musical blend. The rhythm section of Stu Malakoff and Eric Heller are long time members of Princeton favorites, The Pi Fight Band, with whom Rob occasionally sits in. They joined forces to make these pieces the nucleus of a roots driven rock ensemble featuring a three part harmony blend.
If you listen to The Beagles closely you can hear this developmental path in their music as they often lock in with one another to function as a mufti-player expansion of a fingerstyle guitar part, which is now often only implied. Each member takes on a layer or implication of Rob’s underlying guitar part as a sketch to color in with their own personality, freeing him to do the same with his guitar.
If you guessed from The Beagles’ name that they are inspired by The Beatles and The Eagles you would not be far off, and they do enjoy covering songs by these bands and many of their contemporaries. But The Beagles’ focus, like that of their inspirations, is on bringing this same type of energy and innovation to their own music, while mixing it up with enough rock, pop and folk covers and other familiar material including children’s tunes for certain audiences to keep it entertaining for everyone at their gigs.
