Theocles who made his way into the 2020 Great River Folk Fest Songwriting finals with a beautiful a cappella song "Where the Clovers Grow", he's now mastering looping and becoming his own one man band. The song "For You My Love" layers a guitar percussion, vocals, and riffs for Theocles to use within a song written as an ode to his true love. Yes, I'm sure your own true love would love you to work so hard to them a song; many times trying this looping leaves a musician looking like a monkey trying to install a modern child car seat. Theocles has it down and since December has left his temporary Rochester MN home, and focus on music touring, and teaching in his home state of Virginia. During his time at Rochester he found many friends within the strong Rochester Songwriting Group. If you have a desire to write songs, you should look up this group. A strong and supportive group to help you on your journey. https://www.facebook.com/groups/rochsongwriters
Theocles has another chance to reach the finals, and then he'll have a reason to come back from Virginia to MN/WI area because a fest booking is one of the prizes. The contest has one more week to go and will choose the last six finalist by after June 30th. The festival itself is schedule Aug 27-29th at Riverside Park Downtown LaCrosse WI
If you would like to listen to last year's song, Theocles offered it to the fest for a collection that can be bought on Bandcamp. Dave Schipper from the fest likes to say these 14 songs were curated from over 175 submitted songs.
Listen to a studio version of "Where the Clovers Grow" here:
https://greatriverfolkfestival.bandcamp.com/track/theocles-where-the-clovers-grow
Week Seven Highlights has theme of Lucky... check out which videos were lucky to include in addition to Theocles:
https://greatriverfolkfestival.blogspot.com/2021/06/week-7-highlights-lucky.html