Grace McDunnough http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough Grace McDunnough is an independent singer/songwriter from Atlanta, GA. Grace draws her inspiration from an eclectic mix of folk, soul, alternative rock and blues, and from singer-songwriters such as Damien Rice, k. d. lang, Joan Armatrading and KT Tunstall, yet her music defies categorization. An entertainer and modern bard with heart and soul to spare, Grace throws down a variety of acoustic sets with an old guitar, rich lyrics and powerfully raw vocals for a growing international fan base. Grace began performing live music in the virtual world of Second Life in 2006 where she still performs regularly. If you haven't ventured into Second Life, give it a try. If you are already there, the please join our group. Search Groups for "Votaries' of Grace", or just IM Grace McDunnough for an invite. Group members get notifications of all performances and special events.]]> Virb 2.0 (@gracemcdunnough) en Wish For You http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/audio/315733 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:50:02 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/audio/315733 Plain Jane and Proud Elizabeth http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/audio/315728 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:49:36 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/audio/315728 Fallen State of Grace http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/audio/315694 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:51:40 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/audio/315694 Grace McDunnough MUSIMMERSION.wmv http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/videos/1745876 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:31:52 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/videos/1745876 Grace O'clock 6PM SLT, Heron Island http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1051685 Heron Island, 6PM SLT Tonight

]]> Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:45:27 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1051685 Grace McDunnough - New Year, New Music http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1038707 I'm starting out with four new singles this year and I'm pretty happy with each of them in their own way.

Fly is a Salome Strangelove - Grace McDunnough collaboration and it's a powerful melody with an equally powerful message.  I still want to call it Phly and I think I will and just not tell Sal.

Whispers was adapted from a poem by fellow Second Life Resident Joowa Flatley.  Joowa's words were rich inspiration for a song about those soft moments of intimacy shared between lovers and folks seem to really embrace the "uh oh" parts of the song (in a good way).

The yet to be named song (can you say title block?) was inspired by the empty moments when the one you love is gone.  The first line of the chorus "When I'm here, and you're gone - the days and nights conspire" sort of tells it all.

Finally, tonight at HIPS I'll be debuting Canary In A Coal Mine, another Salome-Grace collaboration that I hope you'll like.   Come out and let me know what you think.  Grab a SLURL.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tanglewood/233/216/21





]]> Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:20:46 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1038707 Stargazers 7PM SL http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1016441 Join us tonight in the clouds at Stargazers.  Tonight is a songwriters night, which means I get to tell you all the deep dark stories behind the songs I sing.    This should be fun. 

Take the slurl and save a tree.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Junapel/183/72/79

]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:13 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1016441 New Widgety Goodness http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1015057 I was unhappy with my current music widget, so instead of picking up the guitar I made a new one!

It's too wide to embed here, but you can find it here instead.

]]> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:58:05 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1015057 Grace plays for Glyph Graves Dec28 4PM SL http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1003916 Join us today on NMC's Ars Simulacra sim and tour the exhibit created by Glyph Graves.   Glyph is a remarkable artist, come on by and enjoy.

From Tayzia:  "Glyph’s pieces are colorful, organic, generally kinetic, sometimes reactive pieces of virtual art and prim manipulation.  Light and color permeates each piece in such a way that you may be mesmerized for hours as they transform shapes and hues.  Glyph has created sculpture and art which responds to  Second Life wind as he explores and utilizes the SL platform, math, and color intertwining  them to create  beautiful reactive sculpture."

]]> Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:06:17 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/1003916 Princeton says goodbye to the voids http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/998407
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The Lucia celebration features a procession led by a woman representing Saint Lucia, who — dressed in white robes, with a headdress of candles — repels the darkness with a halo of light. The procession is accompanied by the singing of traditional Swedish songs. The Lucia event in Second Life gives participants an opportunity to meet a real Swedish Lucia, listen to her entourage of singers, see a Christmas tree, visit Santa, visit a HUGE Christmas market (18 Swedish designers at one place!), receive Swedish freebie gifts, and dance to Swedish and international music, including live performances. By tradition, the identity of this year's Lucia is a well-protected secret until the December 12. The procession will be held twice: First, on December 12, 1pm Second Life time; the procession is then repeated four hours later at 5pm SLT.

The Lucia evening at stage:
Friday 12th December - (time in SLT)
12 pm - Junivers Stockholm - from the now so well known "The Ring" performance in SL. Junivers plays acustic live with 99% of his own material. He also does electric live with backtracks he composed and plays all instruments (drums via midi-keyboard).

1pm Lucia / Disco

2pm - Ernst Edman - One more of our famous Swedish artists in SL - he sings country - and are welcome back as we all remember him from last years succé at Lucia:-)

3pm Grace McDunnough - Grace is an artist, musician and virtual world experience developer. Creator of Musimmersion, founder of the Mill Pond Folk Festival and regularly performing live musician in the virtual world of Second Life, Grace is dedicated embracing virtual worlds to combine the emotional response of audio and visual immersion to deliver unique experiences around the grid.

4pm - Ayden Kruh - Ayden is a musician and a mystic at heart. He approaches life with an open mind, firmly rooted in his identity. As a singer/songwriter, he combines new folk/americana influences with neo-soul vocal melodies to share his take on life, love, faith, pain, ect.

5pm - Lucia 2 / Disco until the sun are seen again... a long night to come!

Where: Second House of Sweden, on the Swedish Institute - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Swedish%20Orientation/49/131/28

]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:20:27 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/977759 SOUL WARMING PARTY Dec 6th! http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/957498

Join us this weekend as multi-talented artist, musician and builder Mia Maxsted opens her venue SOUL JAM.  I love love love that name!

Mia's kicking us off at 11AM, I have the 12PM slot and you do not want to miss Peltzer Hirano and Jaggpro McCann at 1PM and 2PM.

So grab your soul (or someone else's if you are short on soul) and meet us there.

SLurl:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Andromedia%203/73/201/23


]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:04:07 -0800 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/957498 The Storytellers - Come Join Us http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/827602 I love a good story, better yet I love that feeling of being captured by a place that has stories to tell.   Good stories and good lyrics draw you in, make you feel like you've been there or like you surely want to go there.   When I'm not performing (as in now since I still can't stream due to my cable connection being flaky) I like to travel the grid and explore interesting places.

Noelani Lightfoot and I have teamed up and developed a travel story blog called "Indagatricis".  It’s packed with vignettes of places we’ve discovered, the portraits  that have filled our camera lenses and the images that have filled our minds.  Read our stories, then travel to the places and make your own stories -  visit us and join our journey. 

We are always on the hunt for new and interesting places - entire regions or builds within virtual worlds - that are compelling or that have a story to tell.    If you can share some with us, please do!

email us:  indagatricis at gmail dot com

We are also on flickr:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/indagatricis


]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:33:40 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/827602 Triptych Opens Aug 24th 6PM SL http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/782134

Princeton North presents the opening of "Triptych" by the artist Poid Mahovlich. "Tryptich" is a series of 3 conceptual installation areas that explore issues that affect the creation of art. The series was mainly scripted by Talia Tokugawa and the original music was created by Dizzy Banjo.

The opening event will be held on Sunday 24th August at 6pm SLT and I am pleased to be performing live as part of this thought-provoking installation.  Join us there Sunday, get there early to explore and be sure to set your view to midnight and toggle your music on.

]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:09:55 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/782134 SHIP OF FOOLS TOUR STOP AUG7 6PM SL (9PMEST) http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/757814 While The Slip is on hiatus, we are taking to the sea for a whimsical SHIP OF FOOLS Thursday night with Grace tour stop. 

Join us on the high seas at Shengri-la (click here to teleport) and sail around the five sim estate while Grace does her best siren impression and tempts your boat to the rocks.

Details to follow in a group notice.  Not a member?  Join us or be left dry dock!  IM Grace or search for Votaries' of Grace in groups.

]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:27:48 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/757814 SINK THE SLIP! TONIGHT 6PM SL http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/747527 Tonight is the last gig before the Slip's late summer hiatus and we are going out with a bang ... of the cannons that is - it's PIRATE NIGHT ... aruuuumba, I mean arrrrrrrrgggggg.

Bring your booty and that of a friends or six donned in yer piratey rags and make yerself a real pirate name ya scurvy bilge rat.

My pirate name is:
Captain Grace Flint
Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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]]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:09:24 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/747527 Rezzable Global Music Festival --POSTPONED-- http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/742342

Rezzables and Language Lab are bringing a Global Music Festival to Second Life! 

The Festival has been POSTPONED until September.    More details when I have them.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:11:17 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/742342 RFL Wraps Up - Join us Jul 19th at 1PM SL http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/726373

I hope you join us this weekend as the Relay for Life in Second Life activities wrap up with the actual relay.   There are four main live music stages and I'll be playing here on the bayou in  New Orleans  on Heroes 15 at 1PM SL (4PM EST) on Saturday, July 19th.  You can find the complete schedule of live music events here.

]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:49:23 -0700 http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/726373 Grace's Live Music Lounge Opens http://virb.com/gracemcdunnough/posts/text/723189 If you are looking for a quiet place to get away and just chill, join us any time at the Live Music Lounge - complete with pool side bar. Okay, maybe just  a pool, the bar was back-ordered.

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