Last Friday we featured the first video from a series of clips created by The Queen City Project from footage shot at “The MidPoint Sessions,” a day party at the Art Academy of Cincinnati held during September’s MidPoint Music Festival in Over-the-Rhine/Downtown.
The first clip featured Athens, Ohio’s The Ridges, who curated the acoustic performances, bringing in three fellow Ohio acts to join them. Today we premiere the second video from the great Sessions series to emerge. The new video features talented and adventurous Cincinnati Indie Chamber Folk foursome The Happy Maladies performing their song, “Peter’s Sweet 16.”
The Happy Maladies have been playing a lot of out of town shows over the past year, hitting regional venues, Chicago and the East Coast fairly regularly. The band released its debut album, Sun Shines the Little Children, in 2009, followed last year by the magnificent, mesmerizing EP new again (check it out here).
The band is currently working on a new album, which is expected to release in early summer next year. In July, The Happy Maladies announced “Must Love Cats,” an intriguing project that celebrates the collaborative spirit in creativity. The band is soliciting original pieces written for the group from composers of all stripes. Until Jan. 1, interested artists can send the group new “compositions, songs, ballads, marches, sound poems, farcical musicals, improvisational games, panic attacks, etc.” The musicians will chose five pieces and work with the composers to get it in performance shape. In the springtime next year, The Happy Maladies will play the compositions during a special concert series, which will be documented and turned into a concert film, album and booklet with profiles of the composers.
You can find complete details about the Must Love Cats project here on the band’s website. Here is a video featuring the band members explaining the project.
Visit thehappymaladies.com for more on The Happy Maladies.
