[NewMusic] Fwd: Free Public Relations and Marketing Strategies Workshops

[Philip Gelb]

i discovered that if you charge a premium fee, offer some really good  
food before the gig with excellent table service, people line up to  
come hear new music. And people who are not part of the scene come.  
However, those who are part of the scene are rarely to be found at  
this series, oddly.

Recent solo performances on the series by Mark Dresser and Vinny  
Golia have truly been over the top masterpieces.
Shoko Hikage is next on June 14

phil

Philip Gelb
vegetarian chef
shakuhachi player, teacher
phil at philipgelb.com
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On May 21, 2008, at 3:12 PM, weasel walter wrote:

> matt - come towards the light . . . i will book a show sometime soon
> where you will play to actual living people. hopefully it will give  
> you
> some hope. there is hope - it just takes some strategizing and grunt
> work. if musicians aren't willing to accept that aspect of it, then
> "woe-is-me" will rule the day . . . i don't accept it.
>
> thanks to everybody who made it out to the uptown in oakland last  
> night
> for our wacky avant garde concert. there were 70 people in the room by
> the end and everybody seemed to have a great time! siomething along  
> the
> lines of this will take place every third tuesday, so look out for it.
>
> you can't just sit back and be magic on your instrument and hope  
> people
> will magically come to shows . . . for most of us, it's just not  
> going to
> happen. there's a strong social element to getting people to come  
> to gigs
> and if you don't bother to tap into it, then most of the time one is
> looking at an empty room.
>
> i'm sure there's plenty of people who think i suck and i'm full of  
> shit,
> but apparently what i do have is enough moxy and energy to try to get
> people to come out and see this kind of weird music. i try to make it
> appealing to them somehow - you know, try to make them think it's not
> going to be some painfully protracted, drawn-out exercise in repressed
> chin scratching. my music isn't that and some people seem to relate  
> to or
> enjoy that.
>
> find a fucking angle folks. i don't have it made, but i do the best  
> with
> what i've got. we all owe that to ourselves.
>
> ww
>
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) "Matt J. Ingalls"
> <ingalls at mills.edu> writes:
>> my first reaction is:
>>   well you can't even get people to come to concerts!
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