The Weather People

What do you get when you bring together one trombone, one trumpet, two saxophone/wind players, one vibraphonist/percussionist… each of whom are excellent and adventurous musicians?  One tight, multi-faceted, and dynamic group playing tunes that are exciting, unpredictable, edgy, and fun. That’s The Weather People!

This horn-driven ensemble performs original compositions and arrangements by trombonist Cam Millar, which have been inspired by all manner of musical genres and eras of horn-driven music.  Listen long enough and you’ll encounter influences from jazz, rock, Latin, classical/art music, James Brown, Blood Sweat and Tears, Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, Stravinsky, John Williams, Tito Puente, Duke Ellington, Mozart, and more. Did we say eclectic? 

With support from the Maryland State Arts Council, this group came together mid-pandemic in order to safely perform live in outdoor settings for music-starved audiences. Their debut album, “Current Conditions,” was released in January 2022. Since then, they've been giving concerts throughout Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Most recently, the Weather People performed the ‘ReLeaf Suite’ plus other works at ‘New Spire Arts’ in Frederick, MD. They were part of a multi-media concert shared with MAD Dance, in which the theme of the evening was our human relationship to the natural world.

Some past Concerts include:

  • Ashburn, VA, Ashburn Library, (presenting ‘Picasso Suite’ w/multi-media)
  • ‘An Die Musik’, Baltimore, MD  (music from CD ‘Current Conditions’)
  • ‘Y Arts’, Frederick, MD 
  • Potomac Falls, VA, Cascade Library, and the Leesburg VA, Rust Library (two swinging Holiday/Christmas music specials!)
  • Hagerstown, MD Washington County Public Library as part of the ‘Noteworthy Sunday Concert’ series. 
  • Winchester, VA, Handley Library Auditorium (music from CD)
  • Boonsboro, MD - gazebo concert in city park!
  • Shepherdstown Community Hall, Shepherdstown, WV 
  • special House Concert in Hagerstown MD.  (featuring multi-media work ‘The Picasso Suite’ as well as performing other new works in an intimate concert setting for about 40 music lovers.)
  • Brambleton Library (Loudon Cty) in Brambleton VA as part of the county-wide Library Concert Series
  • Frostburg, MD - ‘Clatter Cafe’ (restaurant/coffee house with stage)
  • Boonsboro, MD - gazebo concert in city park!

 

 

'The Picasso Suite'

A very special event at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, MD.

A full audience was in attendance to hear the premiere of ‘The Picasso Suite’, conceived and composed in celebration of the museum's current ‘Picasso in Print’ exhibit. Our friend and fellow musician, Candice Mowbray, was there to conduct the piece. (In retrospect, it was quite fitting to have a world-class guitarist conducting music in honor of Picasso, seeing as the guitar is a subject of much of his art!)


 

 

                 

Cam Millar, trombone
, composer

 

Canadian-born Cam has lived and performed in Calgary, Toronto, and New York. He's also done his share of teaching at the university and college level, private school music programs, and has had compositions performed by dancers, ice skaters, jazz/classical musicians, equestrian riders and others. Read more.

Original music has been commissioned by the US National Park Service, Ice Theatre of New York, 'HorsePower Live in Toronto, MAD Dance, Heather Harrington Dance, Maida Withers Dance, Candice Mowbray classical guitar, and numerous jazz and other chamber music ensembles.

He's a graduate of both the University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC (Canada), with graduate studies at Manhattan School of Music and obtaining a M.Mus from SUNY Purchase Conservatory, Purchase College, NY.

The 'Village Voice' newspaper in New York, upon reviewing a piece for 'Ice Theatre of New York' (in which he skated as well as performed trombone), referred to Cam as a 'Renaissance Man'! (...maybe the dance critic didn't know the difference between a sackbut and a trombone!)


 

 

 Listen to track previews from the album "Current Conditions"

 

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    N'Oreaster 0:44
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    Sundowner 0:51
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    Cierzo 0:32
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    Mistral 0:35
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    Diablo 0:34
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    Washoe Zephyr 0:56
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    Bora 0:50
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    The Hawk 0:44
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    Buran 0:40
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    NYC 6th Ave 0:39
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    Helm 0:43
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    Santa Lucia 0:38
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    Sumatra 0:45
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Each musician has years of educational work and masterclasses/lesson experience in addition to a wide range of professional performing activities.  We'd love to come to your school to share our musical enthusiasm and help inspire your students!