"Make art happen or DIY trying"
An Independent Artist How to Workshop Series

Spanganga Gallery* 3376 19th Street - (19th Street and Mission), San Francisco
Thursday - July 24
from 6:30PM to 8:30PM,

From the gargage to stage, from club to CD....

BEING HEARD IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Jay Jaworski - KUSF
Madigan Shive - Bonfire Madigan
Maiko Hara- Alternative Tentacles
Tony Brooke- Silent Way

Make sure when you are submitting CDs or tapes to radio stations to have the name of your band, the website, and way to contact you, and especially for college radio stations, if you are local. This is one of the many things that was covered in this workshop. Also, other topics that were covered were tax laws around being an artist, choosing a recording studio, the value of doing your recordings at various studios with different quality levels and expenses, how to approach getting your CD to radio stations and record labels, best ways to promote yourself, and find and connect with venues and shows. Musicians were encouraged to play as much as possible in as many places as possible.

One thing of the many things that made me happy at the workshop - we had this 18 year old boy - ripped shirt with a CD in a newspaper made cover, that got to give it to the KUSF music director and a rep from Alternative Tentacles - he was so happy - it was cool. It made me happy.

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