Live Performance(s) Tonight!

I’m very excited for this evening’s show at Mahoney’s.  I’ve still got an hour of practice I want to get in before everything gets set in motion, but I’m feeling confident.  

Luckily for me, the music we’re playing as Absinthe & The Dirty Floors is completely locked in.  I’m completely confident in what I’m doing as a member of The Dirty Floors.

Silvergirl’s songs have been a bit more complex for me to work with.  Some of the Absinthe songs did not have keyboard parts, so I created my own.  Of course I know those best!  Silvergirl’s on the other hand, I’m picking up from chord progressions and listening to the recordings with the previous piano player.  This is a bit more nerve-wracking, but I’ve played everything enough to feel 95% confident.  

Whatever happens, this will be FUN.

Filed under: Events, Music, Promotion, absinthe, dirty floors, live, performance, practice, silvergirl

Promoter

Having a burgeoning audio label and publishing imprint means that I need to learn how to be a promoter. A good one, even. The more I think about it, the more I realize how much of a serious time and energy investment it will be. Finding the right outlets is hard considering the sheer volume of places to talk about things like new recording artists and up and coming authors.

So, where to start? I suppose getting into the mindset is the first step. I could never be an extremely aggressive promoter. I have no problem talking about how great my label artists are, but there’s a line of annoyance I’d prefer not to cross when it comes to talking people up.

Finding the right audience is particularly hard as well, because both my label and publishing imprint are “genre agnostic”.

At any rate, I’ve got a few books to read, and some sites to visit… research to conduct. If anyone comes across this post and has something for me to consider, I’d love to hear about it.

Filed under: Music, Promotion, books, Music, PR, publishing