We are Caleb Bilgen, Eric Lawrence and Hannah-Lee Lawrence. Our band is called Be Lyrebirds. The three of us are all-out passionate about song-writing, and sharing our music.
It all started a few years back when the three of us still lived in Turkey. Those were the formative years. Caleb and Eric got together most Sunday afternoons to mess around on their guitars and write songs together. Artistically something just clicked, and gradually they started recording their vocal and guitar parts and mixing them. Over time various pieces of recording equipment and a digital drum kit made their way back to Turkey in our summer luggage and things progressed further. Other friends added their voices and instruments to some of the mixes.
Up until this point, it was just a hobby. Then something significant happened. The summer that we all moved back to North America a new song called End Up Here With You was born. There was something magical about this song that made the guys want to just drop everything else and create music for a living.
At this point Caleb had to head off to college, and we were planning a mission trip to Papua New Guinea. We decided to leave our 14 songs in the hands of a friend who would work on mixing them professionally in his studio.
Something began to brew in me as well. Eric and I travelled to Papua New Guinea in April as planned, and during our months there we were inspired to write music together for the first time. I began to write lyrics for some of the songs that Eric had never finished. I had no piano to play, so I started singing and experimenting with harmonies instead. Eric began the painstaking process of studying the craft of music mixing, by reading everything he could get his hands on. Together, we felt compelled to continue this process and see where it took us when we were reunited with Caleb in January.
When we returned to Canada and got together with Caleb again, it was like we had never been apart. The old songs just clicked and new songs poured out of us. We were eager to hear the finished mix of our old songs so that we could compile them into an album and get it out there to the public. Unfortunately our mixer, Tony, had been dealing with a lot of personal issues over the months we'd been away, so had struggled to get much done. It looked like this may continue for a while, so Eric and Caleb started working on mixing the songs on their own with the equipment they had.
In the mean time, we entered a bandspotting contest, played a gig at a fundraiser, and attended a music festival called "Festival of Faith and Music", all down at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, where Caleb goes to school. We've had a small taste of the band life, but it has all just been a teaser. Without an album to promote on our social networks, we don't have much on which to build a fan-base, which will hopefully lead to a tour and many many chances to perform.
These days, the guys are working like crazy to finish up a four-song sampler to put out there, and to complete the mixes for Dayenu, our debut album. It seems like it's never going to happen, and it's hard to be a band when you live six hours apart on opposite sides of the border, but we are very determined! When you love what you do, it drives you to persevere.
Watch out for our free, four-song sampler, coming in mid-October, and the complete album at the end of October.
It all started a few years back when the three of us still lived in Turkey. Those were the formative years. Caleb and Eric got together most Sunday afternoons to mess around on their guitars and write songs together. Artistically something just clicked, and gradually they started recording their vocal and guitar parts and mixing them. Over time various pieces of recording equipment and a digital drum kit made their way back to Turkey in our summer luggage and things progressed further. Other friends added their voices and instruments to some of the mixes.
Up until this point, it was just a hobby. Then something significant happened. The summer that we all moved back to North America a new song called End Up Here With You was born. There was something magical about this song that made the guys want to just drop everything else and create music for a living.
At this point Caleb had to head off to college, and we were planning a mission trip to Papua New Guinea. We decided to leave our 14 songs in the hands of a friend who would work on mixing them professionally in his studio.
Something began to brew in me as well. Eric and I travelled to Papua New Guinea in April as planned, and during our months there we were inspired to write music together for the first time. I began to write lyrics for some of the songs that Eric had never finished. I had no piano to play, so I started singing and experimenting with harmonies instead. Eric began the painstaking process of studying the craft of music mixing, by reading everything he could get his hands on. Together, we felt compelled to continue this process and see where it took us when we were reunited with Caleb in January.
When we returned to Canada and got together with Caleb again, it was like we had never been apart. The old songs just clicked and new songs poured out of us. We were eager to hear the finished mix of our old songs so that we could compile them into an album and get it out there to the public. Unfortunately our mixer, Tony, had been dealing with a lot of personal issues over the months we'd been away, so had struggled to get much done. It looked like this may continue for a while, so Eric and Caleb started working on mixing the songs on their own with the equipment they had.
In the mean time, we entered a bandspotting contest, played a gig at a fundraiser, and attended a music festival called "Festival of Faith and Music", all down at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, where Caleb goes to school. We've had a small taste of the band life, but it has all just been a teaser. Without an album to promote on our social networks, we don't have much on which to build a fan-base, which will hopefully lead to a tour and many many chances to perform.
These days, the guys are working like crazy to finish up a four-song sampler to put out there, and to complete the mixes for Dayenu, our debut album. It seems like it's never going to happen, and it's hard to be a band when you live six hours apart on opposite sides of the border, but we are very determined! When you love what you do, it drives you to persevere.
Watch out for our free, four-song sampler, coming in mid-October, and the complete album at the end of October.
