Hiya,
I just wanted to draw all of your attention to my music page, which has three brand new songs of mine posted for your listening pleasure. ("Holden Caulfield" for all the J.D. Salinger fans, "Luck" featuring the coolest three-stringed instrument in the world, the strumstick, and my new ukulele tune "6th Avenue")
They were recorded live at Crash Mansion, NYC in November, and I'd love to hear your thoughts (I mean only if you love them... kidding, kidding...) I'm working on recording studio versions of these new songs and more for an upcoming EP, details to follow. Enjoy!
Love,
Hailey
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
VideoStatic.com Feature, YouTube views break 275,000, Ramona Forever!
Whew! It's been quite a record-breaking, exciting few days here at Wojcik HQ (read: my studio apartment and my laptop...)
Today the number of views of my video on YouTube broke 275,000... Woo-hoo! Thanks so much for watching and listening. You all have no idea how great all your positive messages, comments and support have been. :)
And the online love keeps coming; this week, I'm also featured on an awesome blog called VideoStatic! Just scroll down a wee bit on the homepage and you'll see the great review they wrote of my video. (Ramona Quimby forever! Wait isn't that actually one of the book titles? Er, Ramona Quimby in the house!- that should be one of the book titles...) Anyway, check it:
http://www.videostatic.com
til next time,
hailey
Today the number of views of my video on YouTube broke 275,000... Woo-hoo! Thanks so much for watching and listening. You all have no idea how great all your positive messages, comments and support have been. :)
And the online love keeps coming; this week, I'm also featured on an awesome blog called VideoStatic! Just scroll down a wee bit on the homepage and you'll see the great review they wrote of my video. (Ramona Quimby forever! Wait isn't that actually one of the book titles? Er, Ramona Quimby in the house!- that should be one of the book titles...) Anyway, check it:
http://www.videostatic.com
til next time,
hailey
Sunday, December 2, 2007
YouTube update/ i love you!!!
Thanks so much to everyone for the positive feedback on "Dinosaur Bone" being featured on YouTube.com! The video has gone from under 3,000 to nearly 150,000 views within only 48 hours. It was a labor of love shooting it this past summer just after moving to Brooklyn. My girlfriend, Faith, made the outfit and shot it for me; it was a neat creative DIY adventure for the both of us. Almost no one turned a head at the sight of this dinosaur walking down the street. Ahhhh, New York.
On to a new season, I am taking this time to write some new songs for an EP I hope to release around Spring 2008. It is sure to feature more songs on ukulele, guitar, keyboard, and Strumstick. You can preview the newly-written and -performed "Sixth Avenue" (with me in Halloween costume) at ukulelecabaret.com/hailey, along with other tunes. Also, I have another video in the works for "Bad Modern Art." Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/haileywojcik) for newly added video. And check back here for more updates and songs!
Thanks again for the comments and messages of support. You're all so awesome!
ps... except the haters. You know who you are and y'all need to get a life.
But the rest of you, I LOVE you!
xoxoxo,
hailey
On to a new season, I am taking this time to write some new songs for an EP I hope to release around Spring 2008. It is sure to feature more songs on ukulele, guitar, keyboard, and Strumstick. You can preview the newly-written and -performed "Sixth Avenue" (with me in Halloween costume) at ukulelecabaret.com/hailey, along with other tunes. Also, I have another video in the works for "Bad Modern Art." Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/haileywojcik) for newly added video. And check back here for more updates and songs!
Thanks again for the comments and messages of support. You're all so awesome!
ps... except the haters. You know who you are and y'all need to get a life.
But the rest of you, I LOVE you!
xoxoxo,
hailey
Friday, November 30, 2007
Dinosaur Bone is a featured video on YouTube!!!
I am SO excited today! Why? Because my music video "Dinosaur Bone" is a Featured Video on YouTube - selected by YouTube Music Editors! They really like me! :) And I'm not gonna lie, it feels damn good. Here's what they say about "Dinosaur Bone":
"Indie-O-Saurus...
In a green dino suit with a colorful keyboard slung over her shoulder, singer-songwriter Hailey Wojcik cutens up the streets of Brooklyn (and the indie music scene)." - YouTube.com
Check it all out here today and *all weekend*!!!
http://www.youtube.com/categories_portal?c=10&e=1
Happy Friday!
xoxo,
Hailey
"Indie-O-Saurus...
In a green dino suit with a colorful keyboard slung over her shoulder, singer-songwriter Hailey Wojcik cutens up the streets of Brooklyn (and the indie music scene)." - YouTube.com
Check it all out here today and *all weekend*!!!
http://www.youtube.com/categories_portal?c=10&e=1
Happy Friday!
xoxo,
Hailey
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Recap... Opening for Ingrid Michaelson, my car dies in Chinatown, i'm a ukulele disco queen...
PART I.
So I haven't written in a while. So much has happened though that I feel the need to recap. In September I had the amazing opportunity to open for Ingrid Michaelson, who in case you live under a rock, is totally fucking famous, & getting famous-ER by the minute it seems. Anyway, she was very good and fun to meet. I played with her 4 days before she was on Carson Daly's show, a week after the Grey's soundtrack (featuring her song) dropped, and also a week before her ubiquitous old navy commercial came out. It is kind of surreal and it all happened due to a random connection through my drama director from high school. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the show was at my high school alma mater, DeWitt H.S. in DeWitt, Michigan. On the stage that I used to spend most of my time on at drama practice. It was a total mindfuck. In the best possible way. And i've decided that I need to play more shows at high schools (high schoolers out there reading this, please book me at your school! I love you!) high schoolers are great, they actually buy cds!! Who knew??
Right now i'm on a train coming back to nyc from connecticut. I was on a Business Trip. That makes me sound so old. You can attribute any typos in this entry to the fact that this is the bumpiest train ride i've ever been on. Except the subway. The subway doesn't count. And the conductor just announced that there's actually alcohol being served on this train. Bar Car, two words i'm very fond of hearing...
PART II
Then I played this really amazing show in October at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. I was so glad for a weekend escape from the city not to mention FINALLY getting to make use of the car I keep in New York despite the fact that I can almost never drive it here. Of course it promptly died. In the middle of Canal St. near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. In the middle of Chinatown, which if you’ve ever been to Chinatown you know it is like hell on Earth. So I’m sitting in the middle of morning rush hour traffic in New York City, blocking a lane of traffic. I’m not sure, but I think that’s grounds for murder here. It was certainly grounds for a hit and run apparently because a man in a white van hit me from behind and literally pushed my Jeep forward a little instead of backing up and going around me. And anyone who ever has been in a car with me knows that I was a little upset by this. And it just so happens that at the same moment, I was calling my parents in order to get my AAA number so I could get towed, and while I was waiting for their answering machine greeting to end, White Van Man hit me. So I flick him off and scream something to the effect of “What the fuck? Fuck you, motherfucker!!” (I’m paraphrasing) at which point I realize, Hmm I don’t hear their answering machine greeting playing anymore, I wonder if this is being recorded... “Mom?...” So it’s all on tape and my mom has saved it. I plan on listening to it when I go home for Thanksgiving and sampling it into a song. So anyway, eventually the car started, but I still didn’t trust it. I was about to just throw in the towel and forget about the paying gig and chance at a weekend escape. Then I just thought, Fuck It. So we drove back to Brooklyn, got a rental car and got back on the road (now having lost hours, but luckily we had left at 8 am so we were still ok.)
And it turned out to be one of the most fun and best shows I’ve been a part of in a while. The people were great and the campus was beautiful. I finally got to see the leaves changing color. For some reason everything is still green here (I mean the few trees that do exist in the parts of town I frequent) and according to some sources they never change, rather they just die one day and fall off the tree. Brilliant. Fall being my favorite season, I really miss driving down a back road and seeing all the colors on the trees.
I felt like a real musician, being put up in a nice, nice room for two nights and getting asked to play a second show at the campus while I was there. And the people were amazing. Amazing, amazing, amazing. We ate Indian food and talked about music and New York and everything. At the first show I played my rendition of Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” and everyone sang along after the first three notes. (this was not at all the response I got the first time I played it, at the September Ukulele Cabaret. No one knew the song and they all thought I wrote it. Anyway...) Ever since I heard the HORRIBLE original version sung by Sean K., it’s been calling to me to re-do it on ukulele and with some actual soul and feeling behind it (Could he possibly sound more vapid and brain-dead singing the words “Suicidal Suicidal” ?) But anyway, I digress. The people at the Chatham shows were wonderful and if any of you are reading this, I’ll come back any time. (thanks Liz!)
PART III.
Jason Tagg – the brains behind the Ukulele Cabaret here in NYC – also has a weekly public television show called Midnight Ukulele Disco, which I was on in October. It was really fun and I hope to make another appearance soon! (I'm thinking of trying to put my Dinosaur Bone music video on nyc public tv too.) Anyway, for Midnight Ukulele Disco I got to pre-tape some songs, standing on Jason's roof (my first nyc roof experience! We haven't gone on ours yet. They say they'll evict us if we do, plus our neighbor's always up there and I feel like it could be a rumble if we try invading the turf. I envision a dramatic fight scene. Those happen on roofs right? Maybe that's just Train roofs. Might explain the tumult of this particular train right now (bringin it all full circle...)) Anyway, check out the uke disco footage at the URL below, including a live recording in the studio of my rendition of Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girls (see PART II).
http://ukuleledisco.com/haileycomplete
I guess that’s all the rambling I’ll subject you to for now. For those of you still reading, thanks for sticking it out til the end. I wish I had a prize for you or something.
xo,
h
So I haven't written in a while. So much has happened though that I feel the need to recap. In September I had the amazing opportunity to open for Ingrid Michaelson, who in case you live under a rock, is totally fucking famous, & getting famous-ER by the minute it seems. Anyway, she was very good and fun to meet. I played with her 4 days before she was on Carson Daly's show, a week after the Grey's soundtrack (featuring her song) dropped, and also a week before her ubiquitous old navy commercial came out. It is kind of surreal and it all happened due to a random connection through my drama director from high school. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the show was at my high school alma mater, DeWitt H.S. in DeWitt, Michigan. On the stage that I used to spend most of my time on at drama practice. It was a total mindfuck. In the best possible way. And i've decided that I need to play more shows at high schools (high schoolers out there reading this, please book me at your school! I love you!) high schoolers are great, they actually buy cds!! Who knew??
Right now i'm on a train coming back to nyc from connecticut. I was on a Business Trip. That makes me sound so old. You can attribute any typos in this entry to the fact that this is the bumpiest train ride i've ever been on. Except the subway. The subway doesn't count. And the conductor just announced that there's actually alcohol being served on this train. Bar Car, two words i'm very fond of hearing...
PART II
Then I played this really amazing show in October at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. I was so glad for a weekend escape from the city not to mention FINALLY getting to make use of the car I keep in New York despite the fact that I can almost never drive it here. Of course it promptly died. In the middle of Canal St. near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. In the middle of Chinatown, which if you’ve ever been to Chinatown you know it is like hell on Earth. So I’m sitting in the middle of morning rush hour traffic in New York City, blocking a lane of traffic. I’m not sure, but I think that’s grounds for murder here. It was certainly grounds for a hit and run apparently because a man in a white van hit me from behind and literally pushed my Jeep forward a little instead of backing up and going around me. And anyone who ever has been in a car with me knows that I was a little upset by this. And it just so happens that at the same moment, I was calling my parents in order to get my AAA number so I could get towed, and while I was waiting for their answering machine greeting to end, White Van Man hit me. So I flick him off and scream something to the effect of “What the fuck? Fuck you, motherfucker!!” (I’m paraphrasing) at which point I realize, Hmm I don’t hear their answering machine greeting playing anymore, I wonder if this is being recorded... “Mom?...” So it’s all on tape and my mom has saved it. I plan on listening to it when I go home for Thanksgiving and sampling it into a song. So anyway, eventually the car started, but I still didn’t trust it. I was about to just throw in the towel and forget about the paying gig and chance at a weekend escape. Then I just thought, Fuck It. So we drove back to Brooklyn, got a rental car and got back on the road (now having lost hours, but luckily we had left at 8 am so we were still ok.)
And it turned out to be one of the most fun and best shows I’ve been a part of in a while. The people were great and the campus was beautiful. I finally got to see the leaves changing color. For some reason everything is still green here (I mean the few trees that do exist in the parts of town I frequent) and according to some sources they never change, rather they just die one day and fall off the tree. Brilliant. Fall being my favorite season, I really miss driving down a back road and seeing all the colors on the trees.
I felt like a real musician, being put up in a nice, nice room for two nights and getting asked to play a second show at the campus while I was there. And the people were amazing. Amazing, amazing, amazing. We ate Indian food and talked about music and New York and everything. At the first show I played my rendition of Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” and everyone sang along after the first three notes. (this was not at all the response I got the first time I played it, at the September Ukulele Cabaret. No one knew the song and they all thought I wrote it. Anyway...) Ever since I heard the HORRIBLE original version sung by Sean K., it’s been calling to me to re-do it on ukulele and with some actual soul and feeling behind it (Could he possibly sound more vapid and brain-dead singing the words “Suicidal Suicidal” ?) But anyway, I digress. The people at the Chatham shows were wonderful and if any of you are reading this, I’ll come back any time. (thanks Liz!)
PART III.
Jason Tagg – the brains behind the Ukulele Cabaret here in NYC – also has a weekly public television show called Midnight Ukulele Disco, which I was on in October. It was really fun and I hope to make another appearance soon! (I'm thinking of trying to put my Dinosaur Bone music video on nyc public tv too.) Anyway, for Midnight Ukulele Disco I got to pre-tape some songs, standing on Jason's roof (my first nyc roof experience! We haven't gone on ours yet. They say they'll evict us if we do, plus our neighbor's always up there and I feel like it could be a rumble if we try invading the turf. I envision a dramatic fight scene. Those happen on roofs right? Maybe that's just Train roofs. Might explain the tumult of this particular train right now (bringin it all full circle...)) Anyway, check out the uke disco footage at the URL below, including a live recording in the studio of my rendition of Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girls (see PART II).
http://ukuleledisco.com/haileycomplete
I guess that’s all the rambling I’ll subject you to for now. For those of you still reading, thanks for sticking it out til the end. I wish I had a prize for you or something.
xo,
h
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