We are proud to welcome Lauren Passarelli to the Barn Productions community!  We are excited to have 50 of Lauren’s songs recently added to our licesing library.  Lior is already hard at work finding placements for these amazing tracks.

Lauren came into town this week to attend Seth Swirsky’s 50th Birthday Party and she was nice enough to bring me along.  Seth, an established songwriter himself, had quite the gathering at his home in Beverly Hills.  Many of the uper-echelon of the music industry were present.  (Seth just finished a really cool Beatles documentary “A Year In The Life”, check out the trailer.)

Lauren & myself had a great time at Seth’s!  We got to chat with former Wings guitarist & record producer, Laurence Juber, as well as Breakfast With The Beatles host, Chris Carter.  I met with both the President and Vice President of Sony Music Publishing (and will be meeting with them again next week!).  We got to have our picture taken by famous rock ‘n’ roll photographer, Henry Diltz (Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Paul & Linda McCartney, The Doors… to name a few).  Star of the music-based TV show of the 60’s, The Monkees, Davy Jones performed a private concert for the party.  Then Lauren had an acoustic jam with Seth & Davy while the rest of the party sang along!  Could not have been more fun!!

Lauren Passarelli has been a professor in the guitar department at Berklee College Of Music for the last 26 years.  What’s even more impressive is that Lauren became the first woman to graduate from Berklee as a guitar performance major in 1982.  Then in 1984, she became the first female guitar instructor at Berklee!

Lauren is Berklee’s resident Beatles teacher; she teaches Guitar Styles Of The Beatles, The Berklee Beatles Ensemble and private guitar instruction to name a few.  I met Lauren when I enrolled in The Beatles Ensemble class my 4th semester at Berklee.  Lauren and I instantly clicked on our love of The Beatles’ music.  I believe Lauren also appeciated my attention to detail when it came to replicating The Beatles records to a T.

Additionally, I proved myself a team player, as I performed three times in the ensemble (only once for credit) and I filled any role needed.  In all three semesters I played various instruments: rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, keys, drums, hand percussion - almost all while singing.  There were many songs I even had to switch instruments for different sections of the song.

I was fortuate enough to have anough time to jam out on some Beatles songs with Lauren for old time’s sake.  I video recorded and multitracked the whole jam session.  I will post it up as soon as I’m done editing out all the boring stuff so keep an eye out for it!