Thanks for the comments on the pics. It's hard to take a bad photo in the Rockies. All these great shots keep lining themselves up for you.
Re your nephew's band... Do I take it their repertoire is jazz? Most of the festivals I'm familiar with are folky but there's nearly always an element of participation, either a come-all-ye event or a hiring fair or - in some cases - young musician showcases and competitions. Our own festival in Birdsedge has a youth music competition open to all gentres of acoustic music. (www.birdsedgevillagefestival.com)
Folk festival organisers are always open to approaches from young bands (backed up by a demo to prove they can play) and will often give them a showcase spot in a concert (for no pay, of course, until they've established themselves). There are some frighteningly good young musicians about. I'm guessing jazz festivals are the same. Arts festivals tend to be a bit more stuffy.
If you google jazz festival and hit 'search UK' you get about 666,000 hits, so it's worth just doing a bit of web research, targeting your festivals and making polite enquiries via the e-mail on the web site.
Tell your nephew to check out my agent-blog on the agency myspace page which I'm just getting underway with handy hints for performers. Also there might be something of interest on the Jazz Services website at http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/
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Date: Jan. 7th, 2008 05:59 pm (UTC)Re your nephew's band... Do I take it their repertoire is jazz? Most of the festivals I'm familiar with are folky but there's nearly always an element of participation, either a come-all-ye event or a hiring fair or - in some cases - young musician showcases and competitions. Our own festival in Birdsedge has a youth music competition open to all gentres of acoustic music. (www.birdsedgevillagefestival.com)
Folk festival organisers are always open to approaches from young bands (backed up by a demo to prove they can play) and will often give them a showcase spot in a concert (for no pay, of course, until they've established themselves). There are some frighteningly good young musicians about. I'm guessing jazz festivals are the same. Arts festivals tend to be a bit more stuffy.
If you google jazz festival and hit 'search UK' you get about 666,000 hits, so it's worth just doing a bit of web research, targeting your festivals and making polite enquiries via the e-mail on the web site.
Tell your nephew to check out my agent-blog on the agency myspace page which I'm just getting underway with handy hints for performers. Also there might be something of interest on the Jazz Services website at http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/