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Local Record Label Hosts Showcase, Supports Fellow Underdogs

Find out how local musicians from Ferndale are teaming up to help promote other 'underdogs,' and check out this show Nov. 30 featuring some of the bands.

You have no idea what you're missing.  That's the idea behind Dead Letter Office - a local record label launched last summer, helmed by longtime musical collaborators and respective singer/songwriters Brandon Frye and Kyle McBee, both of Ferndale. Whether it was for the blue collar hero types whose devastatingly beautiful ballads never reached a deserving amount of ears or for the current crop of hipster-chic pop-rockers eager to uncover and flourish a few of their more esoteric or against-type tunes, Frye and McBee wanted their label to be unique by unsealing the lost or undeliverable "letters" (i.e. "songs") of the local music scene.  Dead Letter Office is starting small by featuring their friends' works on cassette tapes. By early …

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Check It Out: Artists Reception in the Ferndale Library on Saturday

Works by local artists on display along with live music and refreshments (5:30-8 p.m.) at the Ferndale Public Library community room. Plus more exciting news from the library.

The Ferndale Public Library has morphed into a mini-museum / ad hoc gallery this month, proudly placing a diverse range of dazzling and provocative pieces of artwork in our halls, spanning every medium - from hand-colored photographs to sculptures with recycled musical instruments. The recently founded Ferndale Public Library Arts & Exhibitions Committee is curating its inaugural Group Exhibition this Saturday inside the main community meeting room, with local artists present for meet and greets and your viewings augmented by a live musical performance. "Ferndale is a vibrant and creative community and the library supports this," said committee board-member and FPL-staff Circulation Specialist Lindsey Harnish. "We feel it is very important…

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