Virtual Performances

During the 2020-2021 Covid-19 historic pandemic stay-at-home shutdown, the Minnesota Hard Bop Collective brought local and international musicians together to perform on the internet with the music collab iOS software "Acapella". It was a learning curve, and we were all a little rusty from not performing regularly, but we made it happen! The music was recorded individually in our homes using the iOS music collab software "Acapella" on our iOS devices. Jesse Simon put the first track down solo with only a metronome accompaniment. From there, the tracks were recorded in a "layering" fashion in this order: bass, piano, horns/guitar. It turned out to be fun and we were able to bring musicians together not only from Minnesota but from all over the country!