Ed Hale

Ed Hale will be performing a rare solo acoustic set on Saturday June 28th 2008 in New Jersey at the Concert with a Cause Benefit Concert. The TRANSCENDENCE singer/guitarist will pull out a 30 minute set featuring some new gems and some old classics. He is scheduled to go on at 4:30 PM. All proceeds to benefit the Habitat for Humanity Home Building project in Cambodia. See information below for more details.

Time and Place

Start Time:	Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 3:00pm
End Time:	Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 3:00am
Location:	Our House!
Street:	325 south avenue
City/Town:	Garwood, NJ
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Lost footage rediscovered. Live concert footage of the band’s CD release party for their 2002 debut album Rise and Shine to a packed house at Cafe Nostalgia on South Beach. Featuring the songs Minnie Driver, Keep moving on, Mother, Tres Cool, and Better luck next time.

The band performs the song Little Tree in a blistering performance to a packed house in a small club in Miami FL. Last verse and finale of the song only. Recorded in 2003.

TRANSCENDENCE in concert performing the song Junkie from the Sleep With You CD to a packed house in a small club in Miami, Florida. November 2003. Then-keyboard player Jon Rose couldn’t make the show so the band played as a four-piece. Junkie is a song that was not normally a part of the band’s regular sets and the band had never performed it live until this particular night. Ed had been pushing to add the song to their sets but the band was concerned that because of the repetitive nature of the song and because there is no set pattern to the transitions between the verses and the choruses except through the lyrics that there was potential for the band to get lost. Hence bassist Roger plays it pretty safe and sticks close to Ed to hear the lyrics and to cue the drummer.

Early line-up of Ed Hale’s then-new band Transcendence performs song Better luck next time from the Rise and Shine CD in 1999 at the Mardi Gras Festival in Hollywood, Florida. This was back when the band was still being called Ed Hale and Transcendence. Ed had been out of the popular Broken Spectacles for five years by then, released a solo album -  Acoustic in New York - in 1996, and toured up and down the east coast as a solo artist several times before moving back to South Florida and forming Transcendence. Only two of the band’s original members seen here are still in the band today, Ed and drummer Ricardo Mazzi.

Three songs from a 1993 concert appearance by the band Broken Specatcles featuring Ed Hale and Matthew Sabatella when they were still singing together. The songs are Julian, Your face aint that pretty, and Inaugaration Day. All concert footage of the Specs was thought to be lost until these songs recently surfaced. The venue was dark but you can still see why people were so crazy about that special something that “Eddie and Matt” created when they sang together. Broken Spectacles broke up in 1994. Ed Hale and Matthew Sabatella both pursued solo careers. Sabatella first with the band Sabatella, and then using his own name. He released two albums, Where the hell am I, and A walk in the park. He now performs with the group and under the name The Ramblin Gamblers. Ed Hale went solo under his own name just after the break up. He released one solo album, Acoustic in New York and then formed the rock group Transcendence who have released five CDs. Reunion any time soon boys?