Dear Havanah's Debut in Front Room

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Frontier Room was also the place where many bands and local music performers came to rock the ship. Front Room now sustain this tradition. Here Dear Havanah comes.

Dear Havanah is a Boston-based band made up of five members. The detailed musical parts each plays are as follows:

·Dan Htoo-Levine: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
·Adam Ciminello: Keys/ Organ, Background Vocals
·Rob O’Block: Electric & Slide Guitar, Mandolin
·Mike Blong: Drums, Percussion, Background Vocals
·Colin Healy: Electric Bass

--------Stood there, yelling as one of the audience, I’m fascinated by the concert already. Not that I have not been to a grander concert before, but that they are really awesome.

Compared with Celine Dior’s concert I went to before, their stage is surely smaller – The cavern place in Front Room. However, the charm is that they are closer and approachable. Sitting there, seeing them playing and singing, and interacting with them, I’m being a real fan.

Concert itself is always fabulous. The preparation before that and after it are totally different. As i see, the before-the-show section can be described as burning with eagerness, during -the-show as shinning on the stage, and after-the-show as being lost and lonely. I arrived there long before they got started, so I got the chance to see how they set up and prepare. It took them around one hour to adjust the volume of each instrument to make sure the mix sound is appropriate in case any sound of certain instrument being too high to drown out another sound. They wanted to present the best to the audience. Surely, Not only the band are preparing, but also Front Room as well as the audience. Before the concert started, all the light in Front Room are turned off apart from the ones above Starbucks’ coffee section, so that the lighting effect of the stage can be contrasted. Girls were all nicely dressed, and sat as groups, getting ready for the show with their drinks.

When the show started, everyone has their Dan Htoo-Levine, as the vocal, acting as the center of the band, interact much with other band members. For Dear Havanah, the guitarist and the electric bass player interact a lot with vocal, probably because they are free on the stage. Drummer is the person who indulged in his world most, with necking stretching forward and backward a lot, and occasionally casted glance with the vocal too. Keyboard player is the most low-key person. He kept to himself, and speared relatively calm during the concert.

--------Dan Htoo-Levine: “We love to groove all the way from Boston to here with you tonight!”

It is impossible to describe each song, since they are of various genres. Some are blues, some are country music, some are folk music, and some are pop. However, my understanding of what make their music so intriguing is that the shifting and contrast between different elements. Specifically speaking, the contrast between singing without music and singing with music, continuously singing and singing discretely, standing still to sing and singing while jumping, and between playing original drums and heavy mental drums, electric guitar and wood guitar. Want to feel it yourself? Listen to their songs in OU Front Room

They came; I happened to see. No camera was taken with me, and thanks to my mobile. I'm totally overwhelmed by the picture effects at night. The good part is that maybe the blurring effects are what defined my mood at that time----They shook my world.