Thursday, August 2, 2007

Berkleemusic.com Interview

You can view an interview that Berkleemusic.com conducted here: http://www.berkleemusic.com/welcome/matt_iorlano

Saturday, July 7, 2007

CBS Boston Coverage

Three staff members from my trip were interviewed for a CBS Boston special that was aired on July 4th that you can view here.

Jason Clinkscales wrote a rap about the trip that he asked me to perform on. You can view that here.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

New Press!

Jazz Times.com has a brief report with the blog link and a picture of Jason atop a ladder here.

The front page of this week's Boston Bulletin, the June 21 issue, has on the front page a color photo of Catherine, Roya, and Rob with a caption and the URL for the blog. You can see it online here.

Friday, June 22, 2007

New Pics

People from my group have been sending me more photos. I made a new page for them here.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

TV Taping

Today I was filmed for a CBS-Boston special concerning our NOLA trip. It will air between 7pm-8pm in the Boston area on Ch. 4 on July 4th. Webcast address coming soon.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Berklee Crew & Friends



More pics of our trip from Jenna here and Chris here.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Last Day!

Yesterday after our fourth day of work we all boarded the Steamboat Natchez dinner cruise along the Mississippi River. They had a Dixie Jazz Band that I shot some footage of.



After that Jason, Brian and I went to Harrah's for some gambling. I played my first table and lost about $15 in ten seconds. I moved on to slots and won $70! After that we retreated to the hotel and I went to bed. The next morning the inevitable happened....I OVERSLEPT! Luckily I woke up on my own at 7:12am, we leave the hotel at 7:15. So I had no shower, no coffee and had to eat my bagel in the taxi. Rough start but so far another great day.

Well it's hard to believe but today was my last day on the work site. I had an absolute amazing time down here. My group and the other cross country volunteers were beyond a pleasure to work with. I gotta say my only complaint working wasn't the heat, it wasn't the workload, it was the desire to do more. Some projects required a job to be done first before we could get our hands in. Other times we were overstaffed and had people with nothing to do at times. I guess when it comes to volunteer work this is not so bad of a problem to have. We accomplished so much yet there is so much left.

After our last day on the work site I went out with one of my co-workers Rob and Jim, the New Orleans video director. Turns out he shot footage for the Imax movie we all checked out in Boston. He had me call the owner of this famous bar that was founded in 1856 called Tujagues and make reservations for our group. As Jim would say "food is a religion here." After that we plan on checking out some jazz at "Ray's Boom Boom Room." Tonight I think we all have some celebrating to do.

I will leave you all with my last set of pictures here and a good bye message I filmed at the work site this afternoon. I will never forget this experience. I'm coming home with a lifetime full of memories. Thanks for sharing them with me.