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A Diamond in Downtown Los Angeles

July 23, 2013

Diamondonvinyl-downtown-filmfest-LA (11) Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles highlight–Diamond on Vinyl

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Last weekend Justin and I had the pleasure of attending the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles to watch a feature film that a friend of ours, J.R. Hughto, wrote, directed and produced. It’s really amazing the amount of work and dedication that goes into making a movie, and it was awesome to be able to attend and support. The festival ran a course of 10 days from July 10th-20th, and showcased short and feature films alike. Diamond on Vinyl was originally premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and recently just won awards for Best Director and Best Ensemble Performance for the cast, from the Downtown Film Festival! Congrats, J.R.!

Diamond on Vinyl Teaser from J.R. Hughto on Vimeo.

I’ve stolen the synopsis from the Diamond on Vinyl website: “Henry’s fiancee Beth kicks him out after discovering his audio recordings of their intimate life and his confession that he may no longer love her. A chance meeting with Charlie, a headstrong young photographer, allows Henry to act out his obsession with creating the perfect interaction: spontaneous, rehearsed, both fixed and changeable. Charlie and Henry’s recordings of imagined conversations become a dangerous game where intimacy and identity may be both real and imagined.” So basically a twisted relationship with a socially awkward male who obsesses over recording any and all types of dialogue, and a younger female who is just as strange, but has an intriguingly dark and aura and suicide-girl sex appeal. The tension and suspense between the characters of this film was so well-played and definitely kept my attention!

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Another aspect of the film that I really enjoyed was the music selection. Being a musician, I’m obviously always aware of the soundtrack. J.R. did an awesome job with choosing the music and also creating soundscapes for certain scenes in the movie. The soundtrack was dead-on with the emotion of the film!

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Q & A session with J.R. Hughto and the actors:  Brian McGuire, Nina Millin, and Sonja Kinski.

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Red Carpet photo op time!

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Director J.R. Hughto.

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Our friends Erika and Andrew Hall (co-producer).

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 Keep an eye out for Diamond on Vinyl…definitely a film to watch!

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  1. kelsey says

    July 23, 2013 at 7:48 am

    awesome! i’ve never been to a film festival!
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  2. Kelly says

    July 23, 2013 at 12:37 pm

    This sounds great!

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    • Andrea says

      July 26, 2013 at 12:20 am

      Thanks for stopping by, Kelly! Yeah, it was super artistic and intriguing:)

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Andrea Whitt



Andrea Whitt is an international touring and recording artist. She performs on viola, fiddle and pedal steel guitar alongside Italian artist Zucchero, toured with Shania Twain, recorded on Grammy award winning albums and has performed and recorded with dozens of other well known artists. Bohemian Bunnie was created from her passion for art, style and music. Painting since the age of two, and hoarding clothes since before she can remember, Bohemian Bunnie celebrates the intertwining of all of the arts. With Andrea’s international touring schedule, Bohemian Bunnie has become a creative journey overseas, and has been acclaimed in media and publications such as E! News, Brit + Co, and Marie Claire Taiwan.

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It’s been a while since I introduced myself. Hi! It’s been a while since I introduced myself. Hi! I’m Andrea Whitt, musician, artist, stylist and model. 
I get asked often about my pedal steel playing and thought I’d share a little of my musical journey.

My first instrument was guitar when I was 8. I was given an acoustic guitar for Christmas and by April I had taught myself a handful of songs that I had my friends sing along with me at my 9th birthday. That year I started playing viola, and went on to get my masters degree at University of Cincinnati CCM in viola performance. I was getting so tired of playing the same classical rep that I joined the jazz department. 
I moved to LA after college, and as a surprise to myself was able to support myself doing music full time. Except a gig as a spray tan artist, but that’s another story 🤣 A huge part of my musical career has been teaching private lessons, group classes and conducting youth orchestras. 

I played in rock bands, orchestras, did sessions, random gigs (many shitty ones) until I landed the gig with Shania Twain. I was hired as a violist and fiddle player. I purchased my first violin for this gig and went to local bluegrass jams to learn fiddle styles, definitely fell on my face every time. It was when I was in Shania’s band that I saw a pedal steel for the first time. I was obsessed. I immediately ordered one off of eBay and had it sent to my hotel room in Vegas. Being a Grateful Dead fan I decided the priority was to learn all of the iconic Jerry Garcia pedal steel solos. Note for note, I taught myself steel with all of Jerry’s signature licks.

Shortly after the Shania gig, I got hired to play in Zucchero’s band. A three year world tour to 48 countries. Even though I had only been playing steel for 3 years I got to perform on steel on a handful of songs every show. When you’re sitting at a new instrument in front of 20,000 people you learn fast!

Now pedal steel is just as much a part of my career as viola and fiddle. Thank you for supporting my journey, many of you have been following since my first steel post. I have lots of new announcements coming soon, thanks for joining me on this long strange trip!
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