12 Bands

NOW ACCEPTING 2012 SUBMISSIONS

joe — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:01:03 +0000

It’s easy!

Guidelines:

1) Write an original composition

2) Record the Song

3) Send an MP3 to director@12bands.org

12 Recordings will be selected and included on this year’s vol. 9 release.

Deadline for submission is July 1st 2012

Success! 12 Bands Concert 2011

joe — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:59:48 +0000

Thank you to all of the Bands, Volunteers, Donors and Concert Goers for a very successful night of music for a great cause. Everything ran smooth, all of the bands were very professional and looked like they belonged on the big stage! The 12 Bands of Christmas has become an Augusta Christmas Tradition thanks to you all. We are looking forward to a very successful year of 12 in 2012! Please continue to support your favorite bands from this year!

GREAT PRESS FOR 12BANDS TODAY

joe — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:13:16 +0000

Today all 3 publications in Augusta GA had stories on 12Bands. Our print media sponsor VERGE also had a special pull out. Thanks to VERGE, Augusta Chronicle and MetroSpirit for the coverage.

http://www.vergelive.com/

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2011-12-14/12-bands-focuses-helping-kids

12Bands Spreads Holiday Cheer at the Children’s Medical Center

joe — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:15:26 +0000

Today 12 Bands Board members Patti Ann Smith and Alex Wier visited the Children’s Medical Center for a little holiday music and art. They decorated CDs and turned them into ornaments.

Check out this great picture. Don’t forget the concert is only 4 Days from tomorrow!

Augusta Area Stores Carrying 12 Bands Bands of Christmas Vol. 8

joe — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:54:26 +0000

Hammond’s Ferry Sales Office – North Augusta

Shane’s Rib Shack – Evans (Washington Rd)

Inner Bean – Martinez (Davis Road)

Fat Man’s Mill Cafe (Enterprise Mill)

Rock Bottom Music (Downtown Aiken and Augusta)

Imperial Theater (Downtown)

St. Mary on the Hill – School

Jone’s Creek Golf Club

Soho (Surrey Center)

Surrey Center Pharmacy

Metro A Coffee House (Downtown)

More to be added…

HOLIDAY SHOPPING MADE EASY

joe — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:42:53 +0000

CLICK IMAGE FOR ORDER FORM

12Bands – Bands for 2011

joe — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:04:52 +0000

This year 12 Bands asked each artist to deliver one original Christmas song for The 12 bands of Christmas Vol. 8. Each band stepped up and delivered instant classics. Below is a little info on each band including what inspired their songs. Content is complements of VERGE.

Five’s a Crowd

Members: Luke Amerson (keyboard, acoustic guitar, vocals), Pen Chance (drums, backing vocals), Patrick Reagan (lead guitar, backing vocals), Tim Fogle (bass).

Musical Genre: Jazz Punk

Website: facebook/fivesacrowd

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album?

All the band members brought together their own stories of the holidays and each contributed something special to the song.

Fried Goat

Members: Westy Bowen (vocals, goatar, harmonica, bass), Deke Wiggins (goatar, vocals, bass), Brian Brittingham (drums), Bian Heinbaugh (vocals, bass, goatar, mandolin).

Musical Genre: Rock, Americana.

Albums: Bon Appetit – 2011

Number of Times on 12 Bands: This is the first time.

Website: friedgoat.com

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album?

In college down south, I had the pleasure of sharing Christmas with my girlfriend in a little town of Blue Ridge, S.C. In their living room on the fireplace, they had a manger scene – hay, animals, and of course the new born King. It seemed like we had brought a barn into the house. The song is about that Christmas Eve. – Heinbaugh, the song’s writer

Jaycie Ward

Musical Genre: Country/Pop

Albums: “Dreams that you dare to Dream” – 2006

Number of Times on 12 Bands: This is the first time.

Website: Facebook music page

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album? I didn’t write this song, it was given to me by Joe Stevenson, the director of the 12 Bands of Christmas. When I first heard it I fell in love with it because the lyrics are very powerful.

*see the video at http://youtu.be/_ATIo9ajVUQ?hd=1

Joy Krueger Performing with THE WESLEY UNITED METHODIST PRAISE BAND
MUSICAL GENRE: Contemporary Christian

WEBSITE: joykrueger.com

The inspiration for my song was a soldier I saw standing at the
Augusta Regional Airport in his uniform obviously heading somewhere
for deployment. I thought of what that must be like for him and his
family. My father served in World War II, before my birth I might
add! Through the years, I’ve listened to his stories of the lonely
life of a sailor away from family and home. This song was intended to
capture the feelings and emotions along with the sense of duty felt by
those who serve our country overseas in times of war.

Livingroom Legends

MEMBERS: Ken and Mindy Stephens, Dr. Michael Wilson, Steve Howard

MUSICAL GENRE: Southern Americana Country Rock

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Livingroom-Legends/205211446173714?ref=ts&sk=wall

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album? THE CHRISTMAS M3N began with the first line “Old reindeer must be hard to steer” and, from there, developed into a song paying homage to three of the men associated with the holiday: Dad, Santa and Jesus Christ. The song wraps the message of Jesus’ birth and ultimate sacrifice in a Dad/ Santa Claus analogy.

Sibling String

Members: Dave Mercer (drums), Michael Baideme (lead guitar), Henry Wynn III (violin), Deveran Roof (bass), Jacob Beltz (vocals, rhythm guitar).

Musical Genre: rock/bluegrass

Website: siblingstring.com

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album?

I went to Belize this summer on a medical mission trip. A lot of Americans around Christmas time worry about buying gifts, but in Belize they are very religious even when they can’t afford to put food on the table, so I wrote the words to try and contrast the American Christmas story with that of a lot of poorer areas. – Jacob Beltz

The Radar Cinema

Members: Jordan Sudak (vocals, guitar), Will Duckworth (guitar), Eric Parton (drums), J.P. Hare (keyboard), Nick Laws (bass).

Musical Genre: Space Rock

Website: theradarcinema.com

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album? We were just trying for a more festive, happy Christmas song to get people in the mood for Christmas.

The Unmentionables

Members: James Maples (bass, vocals), John Welch (guitar), Gary Harden, Jr. (drums).

Musical Genre: country, funk, rock.

Website: myspace.com/theunmentionablesband

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album?

Our music is typically funny, and in “Santa Looks Like Billy Gibbons” we reference a lot of ZZ Top songs and slow it down so that it has a very ZZ Top-esque feel. People who hear our music like to go out and have a good time, they want to laugh and have fun, so that’s what we try to do with our original music.

Vellotones featuring George Croft

MEMBERS: George Croft, Jack Rigg, Lee Joseph, Carl Knoll, Shannon Bonham, John Donnelly, and Mike Vello.

MUSICAL GENRE: Blues, R&B, Rock

ALBUMS: Vellotones original CD in 2003, George Croft’s 60’s The Pallbearers numerous 45’s and toured the East Coast. Jack Rigg, longtime touring musician became a physician in his 40’s, Traumatic Brain Injury Program Director at Eisenhower. Played on 22 records including the Blue Oyster Cult albums “Fire of Unknown Origins” and “Imaginos”, authored and co-authored various songs such as “Joan Crawford” for BOC and other bands, awarded a Gold Record.

WEBSITE: www.youtube.com\thevellotones to see a mix of the Vellotones featuring George Croft.

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album?

Jack sat down to write a Christmas song and he began to think about all the good things he liked about the holiday season. His mind eventually began to drift to all the stuff he did not like, such as the commercialization. Soon, he realized that all the good things about Christmas were actually free! So, “The Best Things about Christmas are Free” became the theme and the hook that the song was written around.

3rd Shift

Caleb Tokarska, Jacob Nelson, Robert Washington III, Meiji Nyguen, Ashley Levin, KJ Pugh, Morgan Bobrow-Williams, Khalil McCullen

Musical Genre: Funk/Jazz/Soul

facebook.com/3rdshift

Our inspiration for this year’s song came from within the band. We tried to have intricate transitions and changes within the song, while preserving a catchy hook.

Jim Perkins Trio

MEMBERS: Jim Perkins, Jason Prouty, George Dale

MUSICAL GENRE: Acoustic Alternative Rock

WEBSITE: http://www.jimperkinslive.com

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album?

Picture a girl at a café in an old tourist town: She is all alone during the holidays. It’s snowing. A guy she has always counted on walks by, their eyes meet and he turns out to be the one she has been looking for all along.

Wombats

MEMBERS: Thom Kelley, Barry Wren, John Phelan, Jason Shepard

MUSICAL GENRE: Alternative rock

WEBSITE: The Wombats via Facebook

What was the inspiration for your original song on this year’s 12 Bands album? Our song was originally written 20 years ago with different lyrics. We kept the original music and Tom, our singer, re-worked the words with a dark, yet redemptive, Christmas message.

YAC SELECTS 12 BANDS AS 2012 CHARITY

emily — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:28:09 +0000

12 Bands is excited to announce that YAC has selected The 12 Bands of Christmas to be the recipient of the proceeds from their 2012 Annual Charity Golf Tournament and Golf Cart Raffle. YAC is made up of independent insurance agents from across the state of Georgia. For more info on the Golf Tournament and Raffle, Click the picture!

DECEMBER 12BANDS / 12KIDS REMEMBERING BRYCE CANFIELD

emily — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:47:09 +0000

The hardest thing about the 12Bands / 12Kids campaign is selecting kids without knowing how their battle with cancer will turn out. Months ago Bryce Canfield was selected as the 12Bands / 12Kids kid of the month and was paired with the legendary Glenn Frey of the Eagles. In June of this year Bryce lost his on going battle with Cancer. Words cannot describe such a loss. This is another reminder of how terrible this disease is. How it steals lives but never memories.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Bryce’s family during this holiday season

Bryce Canfield

MARTINEZ, Ga. – Entered into rest Tuesday, June 21, 2011, Master Bryce H. Canfield, 11, son of Shawn D. and Melissa Carbone Canfield. Family members in addition to his parents include his brother: Chase Canfield of Martinez, maternal grandparents: John and Linda Carbone of Evans, maternal great-grandmother: Vivian Bowman of Augusta, paternal grandparents: Eugene and Barbara Canfield of Trenton, SC., along with aunts, uncles and cousins. A memorial service will be held Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Westside Baptist Church with Rev. Robert Lehn officiating.

2008 Columbia County News-Times Story

School family helps ill boy

Faculty, classmates volunteer support

Posted: Wednesday, January 09, 2008

By Betsy Gilliland
Staff Writer

Once a child becomes part of the Bel Air Elementary School community, it is hard to escape the school’s reach.

Just ask second-grader Bryce Canfield.

Bryce was diagnosed in August with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer that affects children, and he has been unable to go to class since the first week of school.

However, the 7-year-old, who has attended Bel Air Elementary since pre-kindergarten, is still a big part of his school family.

Bryce’s classmates send him tubs full of cards and letters. The school faculty contributed baked goods to a community fundraiser for him, and Bel Air is planning two more fundraisers of its own.

The school will hold a yard sale, “Cleaning Our Closets Out for Bryce,” in February. The student council will sponsor a sports memorabilia sale, “Be a Fan for Bryce,” and asks the students to wear their favorite team T-shirts in his honor.

“That school has really been just wonderful,” said his mother, Melissa Canfield.

Bryce’s teacher, Julie Batchelor, also goes to his house to tutor him three times a week as part of Columbia County’s homebound program in which students who miss more than 10 days of school receive home instruction.

“It is an absolute pleasure working with that family and Bryce,” Batchelor said. “I care about children, and he started the school year with me. And I wanted to provide as much continuity for him as I could.”

Debbie Callan, Bryce’s first-grade teacher, has taken board games to him on the weekends.

“They’re a real special family, and we want him to know that we’re thinking of him,” Callan said.

Bryce, who must undergo 54 weeks of chemotherapy, has completed more than a dozen treatments already.

He will be hospitalized about once a month for some of his treatments, and Batchelor sends Bryce’s notebook with him so his instructor at the Medical College of Georgia can continue his lessons.

Other than a chemotherapy port that has been implanted in his chest so his medications can be administered, Bryce seems like a typical, energetic 7-year-old boy. He adores Spider-Man. He misses seeing his friends, but he does not mind missing school.

“Aside from his hair thinning, you wouldn’t know there was a problem,” said his mother.

She said Bryce first felt sick in early July, but she and her husband, Shawn, were not overly concerned.

“We just thought it was a stomach bug,” she said, and the symptoms passed after a couple of days.

However, he got sick again at the end of the month. At that time, he was complaining more and his stomach was swollen, his mother said. Once he was diagnosed in August, he was hospitalized for two weeks.

“After that I was thinking I would just zoom out of the hospital,” Bryce said.

Canfield said her son is responding well to his treatments. The tumors in his stomach and leg have decreased in size, and the spots on his lungs have disappeared.