Our First Mention in New York Times

This past Friday, Little Grey Girlfriend was mentioned in the music section of the New York Times! The article Embracing the Renaissance and YouTube, Too discusses all of the exciting things happening with Grammy award-winning a cappella ensemble Chanticleer, including their premiering a choral arrangement of our song, “Cells Planets,” on their upcoming world tour!  (Our mention is in the 10th paragraph of the article.)

I can’t help but think of how and when that song was written: on a $75 keyboard, in a 7′ by 9′ “room” I was subletting, when I first moved to Brooklyn in 2005.  No one besides my room mates and Brad even heard it for almost a year.  I felt like a tiny speck in a big cosmos, I couldn’t make a wave if I tried.  But, eventually we formed a band and people did get to hear it and it actually became an audience favorite.  We performed it in clubs all over the city and won a battle of the bands with a first prize of a day at a recording studio.  Thanks to modern technology that album was spread all over the world.  It caught the ears of the right people at the right time and now an incredible arrangement, by director and composer Vince Peterson, is going to be sung by an incredible choral ensemble in cities across the globe.

If that isn’t an illustration of the lyrics of that song, I don’t know what is.

I’ll be sure to keep you posted on Chanticleer’s upcoming season and the process of this song’s choral arrangement and performance!

So Excited,

Erika Lloyd