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A person who really helped her to gain more audience was David Byrne, a few years ago he asked her to open his shows. It was then that she began to get noticed. Best from Argentina, Ariel. El 14/08/2008, a las 23:30, Rick Walker escribió: > Kris wrote, about Juana Molina > "You should bring her to Y2K9, Rick." > > Oh, I wish, Kris, but she just sold out Yoshi's in San Francisco > at $20 ahead > and the next time she comes she'll sell it out at $30 ahead after > the buzz from the > audience (who gave her a standing ovation at the end of the show). > > She is a very well known international artist in the hispanic world > and flies all over the > world making good money so she's well out of our league. > > She's also in a funny position that an urban center (which draws on > 3 million people) > can bring her to play for 500 people but, in a town like Santa Cruz, > she is not known > in the slightest and we could not get enough people to come to her > show to make it > financially worth her while to come play the festival. > > I've produced new wave, experimental, avante garde, world music and > looping shows for > over 25 years now, and I have a very strong sense of what works and > what doesn't in > this odd little town: one that is very culturally strong and > sophisticated but still > can only draw from a pool of about 50,000 people. > > > > > The fact is that, for better or worse, this festival loses money > generally speaking > and I"m only able to barely cover a couple of headlining artists' > transportation costs > with the generous donations we've received from the Looping Software > people. > > This year, the economy is so bad that I don't have nearly the yearly > donation funds to put the festival > on as I did last year. > > LOL, is anyone rolling in enough dough in their lives that they > might want to contribute > a thousand bucks or two to the festival this year? We could really > use it. > > Last year I actually paid my staff for the very first time in our > history, and > we're STILL asking people to both come to the festival and play on > their own dime. > > It's testimony to how strong and involved our community is that this > festival is > so strong and creative every year. We run it on fumes, trust me!! > > yours, Rick >