MFM Presents Music Is Essential Webinar #9 with Banning Eyre – Expanding Our Conception of the Guitar in Africa
Report by Dawoud Kringle
Report by Dawoud Kringle
Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, April 22nd, 2022)
“Sitting on Top of the World” written by Walter Vinson & Lonnie Chatmon, rearranged by Howlin’ Wolf – Covered by Cream (1968) and The Grateful Dead (1967)
“The Old Ways of Music Monetization are Gone, and We Have to Think of Other Ways of Monetization” – Ariel Hyatt
In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews Ariel Hyatt. Ariel is a digital marketer, writer, and teacher who assists independent musicians in career development. She is the author of Music Success in 9 Weeks (2009), Cyber PR For Musicians (2013), Crowdstart (2016), and other books. Hyatt worked at New York City’s WNEW-FM, and the What Are Records? record label. She moved to Boulder CO, where she managed and handled publicity for the funk band, Lord of Word. She is also the founder and owner of the New York-based public relations firm Cyber PR. Her clients included the Toasters and George Clinton.
Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, April 1st, 2022)
Photo by Roberta Bayley
“Marquee Moon” by Television, from their first album released in 1977
Artist: VOYAGERS
Title: Chasing Light
Label: Lion Songs Rec
Music Genre: West African trad music
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
MFM members are familiar with our brother Banning Eyre. (In July 2021, Eyre was the guest on an MFM webinar on bringing African music to the American music scene: https://musiciansformusicians.