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Berkeley and Weinstein say they help each other find gigs whenever the opportunity arises, which takes away some of the sting of being an emerging musician...
Both Berkeley, from suburban New Jersey, and Weinstein, a Cambridge native, have long known that music would be a part of their lives. One of Berkeley’s earliest memories is going for walks with his babysitter and singing for neighbors, who would in turn give him cookies...
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...