"This Sucks" from ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME, performed live by Valerie Vigoda, November 2011

Song #7 - "This Sucks": My first-ever full-length solo concerts happened in November 2011, and I'm very happy that we were able to videotape them. This is a live performance of "This Sucks," the opening song from my upcoming solo musical, ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME.* I'm writing the show with Brendan Milburn and Joe DiPietro, who won the Tony for MEMPHIS; and I'm thrilled to be able to include music from SHACKLETON in my solo concerts. There are pre-recorded tracks in this song (unlike in my other looping videos where I build the arrangements from scratch) -- because the character I play in the show is a composer whose music is huge and symphonic.

*Ernest Shackleton was a famous Antarctic explorer in the early 1900s -- and he gets involved in the story later -- all you need to know now is that Kat is a composer, and we're in her studio.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ableton Live
• electric violin
• Mark Wood Viper
• X-Tempo POK
• video games
• solo musical
• Joe DiPietro

[Husband501]

FINALLY! Someone is doing something interesting in music. Please keep at it. You're on your way...

[TZKeyz]

This is SO GREAT! I love it.

[narrengold]

Great performance, wonderful music and funny story are absolutely fascinating. I have to watch and listen over and over again. Thank you Valerie, it's always a pleasure to watch. Go on girl :-)

Btw I forgot to wrote: "FIRST!" (like all the other foolish prepubescent...ew, not so important ;-)

Greetings from cold and rainy Germany