Side Roads Sounds Project!

Who doesn't love music? Listening to and creating music is a great way to de-stress, a fantastic outlet for personal expression and for directing energy.  Best of all, good music makes people happy!

The Side Roads Sounds Project is an experimental initiative of Terressentials developed as a way for our small business to give back to the Frederick County community.  We are artisan handcrafters of USDA certified organic body care products and we support many Fair Trade artisan crafters worldwide and Fair Made USA artists. As several of our Terressentials team members are artists and/or musicians, we think it would be great to host local musical artists at our Frederick location and, in the future, at our Middletown location to support our local arts community. For our new experimental musical venture, we coined the name “Side Roads Sounds Project” to emphasize that we want to bring more foot traffic and good energy to other parts of Frederick City other than just Market Street and Carroll Creek (in downtown Frederick), and to more than just downtown Frederick.  Most importantly, however, we hope that our Side Roads Sounds Project will inspire folks to realize that one can often discover great treasures and experience exciting adventures when one takes the road less traveled.

So, what genres of music are we looking for?  If you've got a great, original upbeat sound, a world beat, or your energetic music makes people smile, dance or clap their hands — we want to hear from you!  We welcome acapella singers — we know that man-made instruments aren't always necessary to make truly good music!  On another note, we do also appreciate unusual and handmade instruments. We'd like to share that, as our Side Roads Sounds Project is a family/community-oriented project, at this time, we seek more accessible music so hard rock, metal, rap, grunge, acid rock, etc., is not being considered.

Don't be shy! If you are interested in participating in our project and would like us to consider you or your group, please email us a link to your web site so that we can learn more about who you are and to hear examples of your musical art. Feel free to drop your CD and any of your band art/brochures at our Frederick store at 100 East Patrick Street. If you have a wide variety of music, please direct us to specific songs on your CD/website that you feel best represent your work and that will fit with what we are looking for.  We hope to hear from you soon!