Whitesmith CMJ Events, Family's Debut & Help Sydney Get To Her Shows

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We are SO EXCITED to be throwing our first ever Whitesmith CMJ Showcase and Party.

Wednesday October 21st will feature the far majority of or Comedy and Music clients. Hooray!

The show starts at 7 PM sharp with Emilyn Brodsky featuring Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls. Shortly after will be Sydney Wayser (8 PM) as well as Pinky Swear, which are 3 incredinbly talented gals between the ages of 13-15, featuring Rachel Trachtenburg of The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

After a production break, the stage will be graced with the comedy stylings of Sara Benincasa, Elon James White and a special guest. Double Hooray!

Post-comedy, Family Of The Year will blow your mind and ease the night into Rachel's dad, Jason Trachtenburg as well as critic favorite, Alina Simone.

MediaVoxNYC will have an installation and a ton of our friends will be there. The show is a one drink minimum and does NOT require a CMJ badge, so come one, come all! (who are over 21 :))

Can't make it? The night before, we're throwing a party at Crash Mansion with our besties at CASH Music. Sydney (9:15 PM) and Family Of The Year (10 PM) will be playing as well as Whitesmith PR client, Invade Rome (7 PM) and old friends Hooray For Earth (12:15 AM). Everyone is thrilled to be sharing the stage with Demander, Sparrow, Morning Papers, and Yula Beeri.

In semi-related news, Family Of The Year's debut EP is out NOW. Pay what you want and spread the word to all you know. We are super proud of them and thrilled that they'll be on the East coast this weekend opening for Ben Folds at Symphony Hall in Boston as well as touring with Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros in November.

And, Sydney Wayser wants to come to your town! We've been locking shows left and right, but she needs to get to you and to do that, Sydney is purchasing her first ever tour van. Help by donating and you'll get lots of goodies.

Much Love,

Em Wizzle xo

YTT Update

Hello All!

Thank you so much to those who donated to my yoga teacher training. Fyi, I raised about $700 though the internet, which doesn't cover the entire program, but offsets it enough for me to definitely be able to do it. Yay!

Last weekend was the first yoga teacher training weekend and it was AMAZING. It's two 25-hour weekends a month through December + a retreat. We of course have to practice everyday and attend class with one of the instructors at least two days week (not a problem as most of the people in the program are regulars).

I entered the weekend relatively stressed, wondering if I'd have time to pull this off + maintain my usual rigorous schedule. Not only did the first YTT almost completely de-stress me, it definitely helped me work out a few things that were going on with work and life in general.

The instructors (Paul Manza, Leigh Evans, and Summer Quashie) are all fantastic and I knew them before the training. I am in awe of Greenhouse Holistic in general. Greenhouse started as a community based studio that wanted to keep yoga reasonable to the community of Williamsburg and have now expanded to 3 locations. I think it's $35/month unlimited for the first month if you sign up with a friend right now. So awesome! The other folks in the program seem great as well, I knew a few of them the studio.

I went on tour in CA last week for Family Of The Year's first ever tour. I'm super psyched to have a deeper yoga practice for traveling purposes, so it was a great test to dive right into a mini-tour sleeping in an RV with 8 of my new favorite people ever. I managed to practice every day, even i it was short and sweet. I have to teach once a week and Brent Freany who plays bass in the band was my first student. You did great, Bubba! :) Fun fact: Brent is a killer web designer. Check out his skillz and hit him up if you need a gorgeous new website: http://www.product01.org/

I have 25 more hours this week and am feeling the same twang of stress about the time commitment, but it's definitely worth it and I know I won't regret it on Monday.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Thanks again.

Much Love,

Em Wizzle