Holiday ex-Lover

Commissioned by UrbanArias
Music & Lyrics by Outcalls - Britt Olsen Ecker and Melissa Wimbish

UrbanArias teams up with the "electronic opera queens" of Outcalls for a new holiday song that celebrates the dudes we dated (and dumped) in December. It's ok when things don't last, but we'll always remember that dreidel tattoo.

 

DOC the Halls

Premieres December 2, 2022

 

Artists

Melissa Wimbish, vocals
Britt Olsen-Ecker, vocals and keyboard
Roxanne Wehking, guitars
Justin Kruger, drums
Rosanna Butterfield, cello

with
Rob Repasi

Production Team

Director: Genevieve DeMahy
Producer: Robert Wood, General Director, UrbanArias
Director of Photography & Editor: Jabari Jefferson
Art Direction: Jess Rassp
Motion Graphics: Maneesh
VFX Artist: Alejandro Garcia David

Recorded at WrightWayStudios, Baltimore
Steve Wright, Audio Engineer
Mastered by Sarah Register

Filmed at Dutch Courage and The Voxel, Baltimore

Special thanks to:
The Voxel, Dutch Courage, Brendan Dorr, Single Carrot Theatre, CCBC, Ari and Sarah Brodsky-Simon

Outcalls

Led by Britt Olsen-Ecker and Melissa Wimbish, Outcalls    uses operatic influence to create pop music that refreshes and refines the structures of songwriting. The vocal power and performance prowess of this collaborative duo summons legends like Kate Bush, Donna Summer, Carole King, and Diana Ross.

Dubbed the “electronic opera queens” of Baltimore’s kaleidoscopic music scene, their third studio album “Greatest Hits, Vol. 1” is a message to the music establishment: Who defines your greatest hits and who says you can’t have hits at the beginning of your career?

Outcalls has toured throughout the United States and Canada. They have opened for national acts such as Wolf Parade, Chicano Batman, Khruangbin, Robyn Hitchcock, and Y La Bamba. Their 2018 single “Keep Falling Over” was voted the #1 Song of 2018 by 89.7 WTMD radio listeners. “A unique style of genre-defying music… Outcalls is a sight to behold.” -Earmilk

Jabari Jefferson

Hailing from Washington, D.C. Jabari Jefferson is a passionate filmmaker with the drive to tell stories that embody inclusivity, innovation, and authenticity. Mr. Jefferson is a proud graduate of Delaware State University, Class of 18′, where he studied Mass Communications. There, he took the lead in filming promotional videos for campus organizations like the Student Government Administration, Divine Nine Greek organizations, and served as a studio technician at WDSU-TV, Delaware State University’s closed-network TV station.

Upon graduation, Mr. Jefferson started his video production company, Mass Comm Guru Productions, where he works full-time in the commercial-video industry. For the past four years, his company has filmed a plethora of videos for a number of clients in a variety of industries such as non-profits, creative agencies, educational institutes, government agencies, and many more.

Genevieve de Mahy

Genevieve de Mahy is an multi-disciplinary artist working in theatre and live performance, video, and audio storytelling. She works primarily as a director, performer, writer, and interviewer. Through interviews and facilitating workshops in story sharing and other theatrical mediums, she cultivates connectivity between and within communities. She is the Artistic Director and a co-founder of Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore, MD and mother of two.