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MFM Workshop “Make Music Your Business” #1 with GigSalad

Mark Steiner (GigSalad)Date: Monday, April 11, 2016
Time: 5pm to 6:30pm
Venue: WeWork Bryant Park (110 Wall Street, NY, NY)
Ticket: free, but RSVP via Eventbrite here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicians-for-musicians-mfm-presents-make-music-your-business-with-gigsalad-co-founder-mark-steiner-tickets-24208169286?aff=efbevent
Genre: workshop

Limited seating: 25

Mark Steiner will be leading a special workshop for MFM (http://www.MusiciansForMusicians.org) members and aspiring musicians on making music and business go hand in hand. He will provide real world advice using his experiences starting GigSalad (https://www.gigsalad.com) and from the artists who’ve used the service.

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Event Recommendation: “Circle” Music this Saturday & Join the fundraiser

Text by Craig Shepard

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Join us this Saturday at 8:05 pm for the beginning of Music for Contemplation’s fall series. Please find my text on the program and on my new piece “Circle Music 4.1” below.

Please join Monique Buzzarté, Dan Joseph, Tucker Dulin, Chris McIntyre, Peter Zumo and I to raise $3800 to bring Stuart Dempster to Williamsburg October 3rd.

You can make a tax-deductible donation through Hatchfund here.

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Event Recommendation: The Black Rock Coalition celebrates 30 years of rock advocacy and musical pioneering

Black Rock Coalition 30 logoThirty (Year) Rock: How the Black Rock Coalition Keeps Process Alive, Nurtures a Vivid Scene

For 30 years, the Black Rock Coalition has proved that Black musicians have a central, vital role to play in shaping edgy, righteous, driving rock. Remembering the untold numbers of Black musicians who made rock what it is, while nurturing a scene, the volunteer-powered organization insists on the slow build of process, of people interacting in the flesh, in the face of major tectonic shifts in society and music.

“Everything comes down to the process. There’s a process to everything under the sun. Nothing we see on the surface, for a lot of artists, is the whole,” explains Darrell McNeill, BRC-NY Director of Operations. “The body of work goes way deeper. That’s what sets us apart. After thirty years, we know there’s a process. You have to go work out your thing to make it presentable. You can’t automatically jump from A to Z. You have to be patient enough. That’s what the people we support do.”

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Event Recommendation: AfrikCan (Boston) – The Premiere of America’s First Celebration of Africa’s Intertwining Creativity and Positive Spirit

Afrikcan logoFirst edition of ambitious Boston fest will feature major names, carefully curated newcomers, and a progressive, joyful celebration of African letters, music, fashion, and food

Fashion, food, music, eloquence. They all intertwine in Africa’s staggeringly diverse, universally appealing artistic traditions.

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Recommended Event: DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Full Weekend of Music, Spoken Word, Dance Toward Social Change

The Dissident Arts Festival, the annual gathering of revolutionary creativity, will fete its 10th anniversary with a special weekend-long “2 nites/2 sites” edition. The event takes place on Saturday August 15 and Sunday August 16 at El Taller Latino Americano (Manhattan) and ShapeShifter Lab (Brooklyn), respectively.

A highlight of this year’s special anniversary Festival will be the reunion of free jazz master Daniel Carter’s 1980s hardcore/no wave band Dissipated Face. Other features include modern dance performance by Patricia Parker (producer of the Vision Fest/Arts for Art), neo-beat spoken word by Steve Dalachinsky, Downtown stalwart Trudy Silver’s solo piano, the Nueva Cancion of Bernardo Palumbo, liberation jazz by the Red Microphone, the expansive sound of the 12 Houses Orchestra (conducted by Matt Lavelle), poet Raymond Nat Turner’s Remembrance of the Victims of Police Violence, the “other-world art music” of Sumari, topical spoken word by Chris Butters, Safiya Martinez and Sana Shabazz, and Festival founder John Pietaro’s Literary Warrior Project. The event is sponsored by the Len Ragozin Foundation and endorsed by the National Writers Union-New York and the on-line magazine DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY.

Day One

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