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According to Weinstein, sibling rivalry was his introduction to music. “When I was eight, I said to my dad, ‘Rachel [his older sister]...dances and plays violin,’ and for whatever reason, he recommended I try guitar.” He started lessons with a neighbor, but summer music camp and the jazz program at Cambridge Rindge and Latin made him more serious about music...
Weinstein’s decision to pursue music professionally stemmed from the community he found in Cambridge and Harvard musicians. Weinstein would go to the weekly blues jams at Johnny D’s in Somerville on Sunday afternoons and found the musicians in the house band supportive and inspiring...
...serious about songwriting and it became very important to me during my junior and senior year of high school,” he said. A Computer Science concentrator, Weinstein said he lucked out meeting the community of Harvard musicians, whom he either lived around or met after a semester in the Harvard Jazz Band...
...Weinstein supported himself doing computer science work after graduating. But he regrets not devoting himself immediately to music: “I took an easy route for a little while and allowed my computer work to support music. I could do whatever I wanted musically because the rent was paid, but I think it would have been wiser to push myself from the start to struggle,” he said...
...Weinstein, who recorded his album at Loho studios in New York City, and Berkeley, whose album is also professionally engineered, have now devoted themselves entirely to the singer-songwriter path. They’ve both been chosen to attend South by Southwest, a country music and folk festival in Austin, Texas, that selects talent from a pool of musicians nationwide. Weinstein has plans for a tour, while Berkeley is recording a second album...