In any given field you’ll find ground breakers, innovators at the forefront of a new movement, who forge a path out of the wilderness that others inevitably follow. It is no exaggeration to say, in the cross-over world of extreme sport films and music, Taylor Steele & San Diego’s Sprung Monkey are pioneers.
News flash: A cappella is hip! Seriously, there’s a growing interest in a cappella music that has crossed over to the MySpace/Facebook generation. It has officially become cool to be in an a cappella band! There are groups springing up on college campuses across the country, many inspired by The Blanks. Leading this pack of cool is a quartet of friends, The Blanks, who appear on the worldwide syndicated television show Scrubs as “Ted's Band.” In a case of life imitating art (or is it art imitating life?), the group was written into the script as a quartet of friends who like to sing a cappella music. Bizarre, huh? Group member Sam Lloyd played the recurring role of character “Ted Buckland” on all nine seasons of Scrubs on NBC and later ABC, now airing on Comedy Central, TV Land, WGN, and a host of other local/regional channels just in the US.
Dates
07 March 2012 - Various Venues,
15 March 2012 - Wollongong University Bar, Wollongong