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		<title>June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took my Bad Cactus boys on tour last month, up to Utah and back, and it was a ton of fun! We&#8217;re definitely thinking about more doing a more extensive tour next summer, so let me know if you want us to come visit you! Our traditional album, Arizona Mardi Gras, is coming out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2010/06/30/june-2010/</link>
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		<title>Professor Messer!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month ago I wrote that I was being cut down to part-time at One Light Music, and hoping to use it as an opportunity to find something new, and to move my career forward. And it worked! I was just hired as an adjunct professor of electronic music at Phoenix College, the downtown campus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2010/05/29/professor-messer/</link>
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		<title>April News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the big news is that One Light Music is finally feeling the results of the recession, which means that my full-time professional musician day job as a composer/arranger is being cut to part-time, and I&#8217;m in the market for work. I&#8217;ve had a great two years at OLM and learned a lot, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2010/03/25/april-news/</link>
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		<title>December News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few months since I wrote- I&#8217;ve just been having too much fun with Bad Cactus Brass Band! We had a packed December, performing at the Desert Botanical Garden&#8217;s twenty Luminaria Nights, as well as various tree-lighting parties around town. In the spirit of New Years resolutions, we&#8217;re shooting to record our first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2010/01/07/december-news/</link>
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		<title>September News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bad Cactus Brass Band has been playing a ton of gigs, having a great time, and sounding awesome. Jim Phillips of the Arizona Classic Jazz Society came to our last show at the Lost Leaf, and described us excitedly as what it would have been like &#8220;if Bix Biederbecke had a garage band.&#8221; We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2009/09/23/september-news/</link>
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		<title>August news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been lucky to get out of the Phoenix heat during part of July- a week in Boston and a weekend in Colorado. But I&#8217;m back and diving back into music. At work, I&#8217;m sequencing a musical for Desert Stages, as well as arranging some common hymns and continuing to plow through the Messiah for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2009/07/29/august-news/</link>
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		<title>June News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a lot of musicals in the office this month- one for Desert Stages here in Scottsdale, another for Children&#8217;s Musical Theaterworks in Fresno, Cali., mastering The Wizard of Oz and Little Shop of Horrors albums for Stage Stars, and David&#8217;s orchestrating an original Gerry Cullity musical for Desert Stages- all due in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2009/06/19/june-news/</link>
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		<title>Bad Cactus Brass Band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix has a new sound- it&#8217;s the Bad Cactus Brass Band. We don&#8217;t have any photos of ourselves yet, but we have six music tracks up at badcactusbrassband.com, and more to come. Watch out Phoenix- here comes Bad Cactus! Here&#8217;s a sample from a new track, just to give you a taste: I Found a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2009/06/10/bad-cactus-brass-band/</link>
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		<title>First takes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the first rehearsal for my New Orleans project was very promising. Here are two tracks we recorded. This is a five-man band- we&#8217;ll be getting cutting a demo in a few weeks with a bigger group. Bourbon Street Parade Saint James Infirmary]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2009/05/22/first-takes/</link>
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		<title>New band in development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First rehearsal Monday night- won&#8217;t say more now, but hopefully I&#8217;ll have something to book soon. Also, just finished a first draft of music for a 5-minute comedy short by SCC student Chris Redish titled &#8220;Got Milk?&#8221; I&#8217;ll let you know when it&#8217;s ready to watch-]]></description>
		<link>http://benjiemesser.com/2009/05/16/new-band-in-development/</link>
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