For the past few years, I’ve been hosting acoustic music shows in living rooms throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal is to provide alternative venues to help musicians reach a new niche audience – namely, people like me who don’t get out to clubs much – and give music fans an ideal listening environment that’s focused entirely on the performance.
Now that musicians can easily record at home and distribute their work online, I’m hoping to contribute another piece of the puzzle by creating an offline space where they can merge their tribes, expand their fanbases and network with touring musicians from other states.
As a contributing writer for Acoustic Guitar magazine, I get to hear a lot of new music that I might otherwise overlook. In the past few years, the CDs I’ve received from the magazine have introduced me to a lot of inspired work that somehow stays below the radar. So my goal is to change the radar and tune into new music that gets missed by commercial radio.
So if you’ve got something I should hear, send a link and I’ll try to spread the word here on my blog. Next up on my plate for review: Bob Sima. Check back soon.
1 Comment
January 8, 2007 at 4:57 am
What a cool masthead photo! Love it!