Background Info on Turtle Buddy

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Turtle Buddy’s Facebook page, accessed August 30^th, 2008 provided the following information:

Six people make up the band Turtle Buddy. They include Henry Amankwah, Sunita Pathik, Eric Welkos, Tyler Buisch, and brothers Greg and Keith Adams.

Henry Amankwah was born in Ghana and is the band’s vocalist.

Sunita Pathik plays the violin.

Erik Welkos plays both the guitar and the sitar. He began playing the sitar after taking a music appreciation course at Carroll Community College.

Tyler Buisch is the percussionist. He plays the riqq, an Egyption tambourine and a Spanish percussion box called the cajón.

Greg Adams plays the melodica and the piano.

Keith Adams plays the guitar.

The CD Bright Bright Moon was released on July 29^th, 2008. It is made up of 9 tracks.

The Facebook page includes several articles about the band including one from the Carroll County Times, the McDaniel Free Press, the McDaniel News Center, and an album review. These are also available on the band’s Myspace page blog.

According to the article from the McDaniel News Center the band is characterized as a “progressive rock and folk band”

Keith Adams is quoted as saying “Philosophy and self-discovery drive the music. We talk about life, love, being young, and what the future may hold.”

The band’s goal is to unite different groups through music.

The Carroll County Times article “McDaniel College students use collective interests to form unique band” by Jordan Bartel explains how the band received its name. According to the article, “band member Greg Adams saw a YouTube video featuring a turtle and wrote a jazz composition about it.”

According to Henry Amankwah “It kind of takes the pretentious element out of the music.”

· Three of the band members are music majors: Greg and Keith Adams and Tyler Buisch. Erik Welkos changed from a self-designed South Asian Studies major to Art History. Henry Amankwah is studying biology. Sunita Pathik’s major is not listed in the article.

The band member classes, found on individual Facebook profiles:

Henry Amankwah is part of the McDaniel class of 2010

Sunita Pathik is part of the McDaniel class of 2011

Erik Welkos is part of the McDaniel class of 2010

Tyler Buisch is part of the McDaniel class of 2009

Greg Adams graduated from McDaniel in 2008

Keith Adams is part of the McDaniel class of 2010

Publicity includes a MySpace page, a Facebook page (both of which allow users to listen to songs), and a link to buy their CD. They feature four promotional videos on their websites and also through YouTube. They also have two Facebook photo albums.

Currently they have 117 fans on Facebook

They have 1415 MySpace friends and as of September 8^th have had 2,282 plays of their music and 6,407 visits to their site.