Community Movement Building Through Music Series 3: Last October I had the chance to talk with Poptimes Magazine community builders Ted Reyes, Sheryl Garcia-Reyes and Brijo Miguel about the the scene they are helping to build, their amazing accomplishments and the future of Poptimes and the whole national scene in general.

Poptimes Magazine and its community has been up and running since 2006… actually, it seem more like a sprint! In just a few years, they have released two major North American music compilations Rock in the Box 1 & 2 with the later including a print zine, three holiday Rock the Yuletide compilations, helped produce a number of other local projects and show and continues to be a force that is helping shape the future for Filipino-American Music.

 Also features music from the very first Rock in the Box Music compilation. Listen in on the podcast now!

 

 The Poptimes Story [54:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At one of the Chicago Pinoy Music Scene fundraiser shows a few months back, we we’re all given a special treat. It was already late in the evening but many people stuck around to to hear one solo artist perform on stage with just her guitar. For those of us who were there, it was an unforgettable performance which gained new fans to her music. Imelda DeLaCruz has been composing and performing her own original music for over a decade now and continues to woo our hearts to her melodic stories on stage.

Each song is moment, captured through verse and melody… introducing you to characters that you can’t help but recognize. For many of us who listen to her music you can’t help but feel you know every person she is singing about… or you swear to god that you have lived through those same moments in one time or another…. from the innocent anxieties of high school, to the first moments you realized you believed in love (or perhaps wishing you never believed), to the days when we used to just sit and watch Saturday morning cartoons.

I had the chance to catch up with Imelda after her performance at the Beyond the Barrelman closing at Mercury cafe where we talked about her music, her stories and where she plays a song for all of us out on the side walk.

If you want to know more about Imelda, check out her website at www.imeldadelacruz.com and get her latest album, Noise, Noise, Noise..

Enjoy - RoXin

 

 Imelda DeLaCruz Interview [19:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download