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| Elizabeth Yates Showcase - Thursday, July 19, 2007 @ 09:00 One of Brantford's best-known musicians has never actually played a live gig. Jesse Stutsman is an Internet phenom, logging more than 200,000 hits for dozens of songs posted on sites including YouTube and MySpace. Cyberspace also allows him to collaborate with musicians as far away as Kenucky and Ireland. And his songs were extremely close to being featured on a new BBC TV comedy show. All this without ever stepping on a stage. The Internet more...is the perfect venue for a 30-year-old multi-instrumentalist and gifted singer-songwriter who's too shy to perform in public. But Stutsman, who works as an apartment building superintendent and is father to four girls, hopes to step out of his bedroom and into the limelight soon. "I'll definitely have to hit the open jam scene to test the waters. But I'm very self-conscious. That's what's been holding me back all these years." Though he played in the concert band at St. John's College and briefly in a local rock band in the late '90s, music was mostly a private obsession for the past few years Then came the Internet - and supportive messages from hundreds of fans who love his songs. "People keep giving me feedback," he says in an interview at home on Freeborn Avenue. "They say, 'You should record an album. You should do a show: I'll buy your album, I'll go to your shows.' "The more it happens, the more you think maybe there's something there." The warm response - up to 100 comments per video - inspires him to keep making music, posting new songs every few days. It also keeps him busy e-mailing fans. "It's really surreal to me . . . I get to maintain a personal connection with these people." Though Stutsman has been posting music to the web for a few years, his popularity skyrocketed after joining YouTube 10 months ago. The video-sharing site is a treasure trove for performers, says Stutsman, who posts his own songs - "dark music with a message" - as well as covers of favo less |
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| live video shoot Aug 9, 08 | | great news everyone..i was chosen to play at the daredevil days festival. where we will be shooting a video aimed at showing the growing community that is starting in the old downtown..slowly transforming ... View More | | | my songs on reverbnation May 6, 08 |
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