David Doig: News

Students from the Bayport School of Music will perform at The Meadow Croft Estate located on Middle road in Sayville, NY on Sunday December 7th between 3:00-4:00 pm. The event showcases many of the talented music students from the local community. Come on down show your support!

Students from the Bayport School of Music will perform at the Bayport Expo 08. The event will take place on Wednesday October 15th between 6:00-8:00 pm at The Bayport Flower House located at 940 Montauk Hwy. in Bayport, NY.
The event showcases many of the areas local businesses. Come on down and support your local community!

For Complete information about The Bayport School of Music, please visit www.BSM.practicespot.com

The school is currently auditioning students interested in becomming the next "guitar hero". Rock School performances are now being coordinated for the 2008-2009 season. Register now to reserve your performance date.

Dr. David Doig attended a focus group hosted by D'Addario at their location in Farmingdale NY. Many of the top music educators from the NY metro area attended the conference. The main topic of conversation revolved around the idea that D'Addario would like to become a "hub" for music lessons, providing teaching contacts for people interested in taking music lessons.

CATHEDRAL SIGNS WITH MUSEA

Musea, the French progressive label (Anglagaard, Glass, Ange) has taken Cathedral aboard. After an informal meeting in Metz in October and some negotiations Musea will be distributing Cathedral's latest album, "The Bridge". The band is focusing all their energies on new material and upcoming performances. It's basically a partnering of two entities that love the past, present and future of progressive music and plan to do something about it. Something good is going to happen!

Another excellent review of "The Bridge" recording released by Cathedral in September 2007. This review is from www.progplanet.com

Cathedral…US progband with 2 albums to their name, would you beleive, with 29 years apart?! NO ?! I didnt think so, neither did I !! But the fact is, they released a new
(and second) album in 2007 and what a brilliant album it is!! Now I havent had the pleasure of hearing their first and rare album, which is (supposedly) a classic early prog album! However I can comment, on this new outing!!
And in my honest opinion, it is quite a superb album, with plenty of mellotron, tight themes with drums and solid bass
lines and sometimes powerful highflying guitar soli!!
But also the vocals are splendid, as are the lyrics!
Especially the “Monsterhead” suite are excellent both lyric and music wise!! It has a creeping growing theme that you ( the listener) cant seem to get rid off and believe you me, you dont want to, once you get caught in that fine maelstrom of that superb track! But its not all highflying powering prog, there are intervals of acoustic beauty such as track # 4: “Kithara Interludium” ...oooh, beware Steve Howe!!
“Angular World” has just enough counterpoint and complex arrangements to intrigue you, a brilliant track, with some excellent guitars!!
“The Lake” opening like a jungle soundtrack (sound effects) building up a fine soothing theme, with the superb vocals of Paul Seal on top!!
“The Secret” an epic track (11:59 min.) again with the warm and excellent voice of Paul Seal, weaving in and out of the superb music created by fabulous guitarplayers: David Doig & Brian Moore, keyboardplayer: Thomas Doncourt and aforementioned: Bass and drum masters: Callan & Caronia, in all adding up to the excellent feature this album turned out to be !!

An amazing second album!
It is quite an amazement to me, how on earth these guys can reunite, after that many years and still create this monster of an album!!?
I havent heard their first album, I would have loved to hear it just for the sake of comparability, but who cares, as this
by all counts are masterclass progmusic..from a masterclass band!!

So, I recommend this fine fare to anyone into great progressive music !!

Check out the photos from Telecare 2008. They include photos of "The Group" with Kellen Clemens, Quarterback of the NY Jets, Bud Harrelson of NY Mets fame and "Fingers" from WBAB.

David will be performing with the "house band" for this years telecare telethon. The live event will take place from 2:00 pm - 10 pm January 19th and 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm January 20th.
Telecare is on channel 29 and is now on Verizon Fios at channel 271 (the station went national last night - no longer just a Long Island station), they are also on WLNY TV10/55 this weekend.

I will be performing as a member of the " house band" taping Msgr. Jim Vlaun's Christmas show on Monday Dec. 17th from 6pm-9pm in a "live studio setting" at Hofstra University. The show will be aired on Telecare TV. Stay tuned for more details!

I would like to thank Jim Cisek, Director of Human Resources, Flexible Business Systems - 85 Corporate Drive, Hauppauge, NY 11788 (And his boss Joe S.) for having me perform for the Hauppauge Industrial Associations Christmas event held at Clearvision Optical Co. , 425 Rabro Dr. Suite #2 Hauppauge, NY 11788.
I had a great time performing for a group of very dedicated business professionals!
Best,
Dave Doig

The Kansas City Radio Station show KCUR - 89.3 FM will be using my solo guitar compositions as background music for their morning show. The show has an audience of 40,000!

I am now hosting a new internet radio station called "Acoustic Eclectic Dream". The station is located at http://www.live365.com/stations/dave6325
The station will feature a lot of acoustic guitar music and other types of "progressive" music. The show is on all the time! Tune in and give it a listen. Let me know what you think!

The Bridge
Laser's Edge Catalog
Talk about taking a long time to record a second a...
Talk about taking a long time to record a second album! After a 31 year break Cathedral return for the follow up to Stained Glass Stories. All of the original members are back with the exception of Rudy Perrone who is replaced by virtuoso guitarist David Doig. When you hear about these reformations your expections are automatically set pretty low since very few of them are successful. Cathedral actually pull it off!

The band took the core Cathedral sound (Mellotron is everywhere on this disc) and modernized it a bit - primarily due to current technology. It doesn't sound like it was recorded in 1976 - it has a rather crystalline clear sound. The album kicks off with the 13 minute three part "The Monsterhead Suite" which basically sounds like...Cathedral. In other words a taste of King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Genesis and Yes. The rest of the album follows suit. As you relisten to it you really pick up on a lot of the nuances that made Stain Glass Stories such a classic - but again I have to emphasize that this isn't a retro sound. For me the only downer is drummer Mercury Caronia's decision to use an electronic kit - a standard one would have been much more effective. Here's hoping we don't have to wait another 31 years for album number three - I might not be around!

Many of you have sent me emails like "I tried to download your songs from itunes but I couldn't find them". The wait is over! Click on the buy link of this site to go to either CD Baby to buy the CD or itunes to download it. THANKS!

I will be performing original compositions for acoustic guitar on Friday October 5th from 7:00-9:00pm at Colorful Visions Art Glass Studio Inc., 813 B Montauk Hwy., Bayport NY.
Visit their website: http://www.cvglassart.com/
for more details!

Fingers from WBAB homegrown will be playing "Satellite" from the new Cathedral CD "The Bridge" tonight Monday Sept 17th at 11:50 pm. If you miss it you can check it out tomorrow on the web at www.bab.com

The new CD, "The Bridge", will be available on Sept.20th. You can purchase the CD through www.cdbaby.com or download single tunes from the CD through www.itunes.com Thanks for your support. I have posted another sound clip from the CD, Kithara Interludium, the solo guitar piece from the CD, in the music section of this site. Enjoy!

I would like to thank all the friends, family and fans who came to Saturday's concert at the Boulton Center for the performing arts in Bay Shore. The show was a huge success (It was sold out!). The audience participation was outstanding!
Please join the mailing list so we may keep you informed about future events. We are planning concerts at IMAX and The Patchogue Theater in the not too distant future.

The full length CD "The Bridge" will be available through www.cdbaby.com or in download format from www.itunes.com on September 5th 2007. Please buy it and SPREAD THE WORD!

A Special Thanks to Rafer Guzman of Newsday for his Cathedral Redux paragraph which was published in the Aug 23rd edition of Newsday and the wonderful staff at the Boulton Center, Bravo!

Yup! It's finally going to happen. After a year of rehearsal and recording, Cathedral has booked its first gig at The Boulton Center for the Performing Arts (located at 37 West Main Street in Bayshore NY,
Telephone 631-969-1101).
Tickets may be purchased online through their website: www.boultoncenter.com/home.asp Click on events, click on Cathedral (Aug. 25th on the calendar), click on tickets, click on the calendar (Aug 25th 8:00 pm),
click on the seating chart to select seats. Pay! That’s it! (You can print the ticket on your printer).
Thanks for Your Support!

IT'S HERE the first sound clip from the progressive rock group Cathedral. Click on 2nd Movement of Monsterhead Suite in the Music section of this site!