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Hmmmm, I think I’ll chime in here
being from First off to Jim Goodin, yes indeed,
Amazing Grapes (http://www.amazing-grapes.com/
) has music there pretty regularly. A friend of mine, an amazing fingerstyle
guitarist, John Sheehan plays there at least once a month, so the venue is
friendly to that as well as being open-minded enough for the prog-ambient style
of Stone Document. BTW…Mark, I listened in to your music on myspace and
it’s impressive!! I may be there on Friday the 23rd. OK, so back to the potential East Coast Festival
of Looping…I know a few possible venues that can be approached for
feasibility. One is the NJ Proghouse, run by Jim Robinson, who is no stranger
to the progrock scene, but is also open to looping as he’s hosted my
friend, Peter Biedermann and Trio White Light in the past with a favorable
audience response. He uses a theater in Metuchen or that area that has good
acoustics and is not a “watering hole” as someone previously
mentioned that they DIDN’T want to hold it in. Agreed. He’s on the
web and can be contacted through his website which is http://www.njproghouse.com Also, FWIW he
and his staff (staph as they call themselves!) will be taking the reins for
NEARFest next year and many more after that, so he has the experience to
provide us with a decent place to play, knowledge of sound, etc. My second thought had always been to
approach Dominic Frasca who owns The Monkey in NYC. This room is a very cool
performance venue, on the 12th floor of a building filled with
rehearsal spaces and other such spaces, with a cityscape view behind the stage
and a damn fine sound system. I’m sure Dominic would be receptive to the
idea of promoting looping as he’s hosted none other than our own Andre
Lafosse in the past, too. The problem with this is that it is logistically
painful to hump one’s gear up and down, although that is negligible with
others willing to pitch in and “roadie” a bit. Find him here (http://www.monkeywest.com/ ). Another interesting place would be in and check them out. Their stage area may
be a bit tight, but I’ve seen my friends Monkeyworks (http://www.monkeyworksmusic.com/ ) there
and I believe that 5 or more of them fit just fine onstage. Soooooooo, there you have it. We had a few
other great coffeehouses but unfortunately, we are losing them one-by-one. Loop on, Ed in NJ From: Jim Goodin
[mailto:jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com] So maybe it's timely. When I left Y2K last October Rick sort of
"passed the torch" in a sense to me and Michael K (Philly) with the
edict of why don't you guys get a eastcoaster going. I'd really like to
get after this this time and will do my best not to "flake out" as I
did last time partly due to feeling overextended at the time and just partly
feeling like it was kind of just sitting on the fence as the Jungle Book
vultures. I know it's not that hard has a former project of mine called the
Language of 3 which was like a mini-mini-festival in a sense, a performance
concept similar in scope to the Int'l Guitar Night, I put together half dozen
shows managing the additional artists involved. It is sort of a 'lonely
at the top' kind of gig and I'd like to see a northeast loop/experimental fest
take place with several of us driving the boat. The chief obstacle seems to be a venue or host. Two years ago I
went to the NY Fretless Guitar festival which was held in the Tap Bar of the
KFactory over a Friday and Saturday which kind of amazed me that the KF would
give that much time to it. The Friday PM draw was modest for KF
@30. This fest had some sponsorship from Godin and a couple of other
places and musicians attending globally. My point is I guess a host could
easily be a bar place like that but in Manhattan it seems a tougher sell albeit
Michael Vick organizer of the above mentioned fest got in there. I would prefer something more of a performance space than a liquor
wagon but that's me. I've even had the thought of something like this
festival could exist running almost in a house concert atmosphere in a large
enough home and a generous enough host. Y2K's fest was in a modern office
park kind of room almost akin to a corporate theatre. So a place, then a date. We're here in spring and something like
this is too late in the fall hits around Y2K time so maybe I'd say either
something like a mini fest scheduled for August though that atleast in the City
is often dead time but possibly in NJ or PA or upstate NY probably not so dead. I would do a website for the event. Another thought is what I'm
sure Kris and Rick have dealt with is for msuicians traveling long distances if
we had such, getting financial assist for them. I've got contacts with
two company's that I have prod endorsement through though neither has ever
given me any sense of financial committment, those being GHS and Godin so doubtful
they would kick in money though GHS has certainly support Muriel Anderson who
has an annual series at NAMM called Muriel's All Star Guitars. The next
possibility is grant money which I understand is a long trail to success. These are all just idle thoughts but I'm pretty interested in getting
behind getting an event going this time but I don't want to be alone in
it. I do have a few shows this summer wtih Chinapainting and my other duo
East of WHere but have more time to give to this idea. As I think about
it August might not be be as my family and I will be away a week, maybe early
July to have a mini. Anyhow your thoughts? Best Jim On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:42 PM, David Beardsley <db@biink.com> wrote: Jim Goodin wrote: It has led me to think though about helping getting something going in
the northeast neck of the woods. This is easy to talk about but hard to
get to come to be. I'd like to get behind getting a festival together out
here but can't do it totally on my own energy/or dime. The most clear
obstacle is finding a host venue which I'm game to start exploring seeking.
Did you do your mini one at Strangely enough, just
yesterday, I was just thinking about everyone who was interested
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