Dear Creative Improvised Music Audience,
After 10 years and more than 150 concerts, it's time to begin transitioning the reins of Transparent Productions to others dedicated to creative music presentation. Our humble experiment demonstrates that what this community needs are creative, committed, organized people to roll up their sleeves and bring artists and audiences together. The grass-roots paradigm is already in place: 100% of the door to the artists and a DC-Improv-Announce list with more than 500 addresses. Organizing into a non-profit and applying for grants are all future possibilities and we urge you to explore all options.
We still get numerous inquiries from musicians here and abroad for gigs in Washington. Over the last decade we've presented shows at a dozen different venues and more places seem to be made available all the time, so we trust and hope that others may be inspired by the DIY ethos and the track record so far to want to contribute to continuing this tradition. Fortunately, there are also now a small handful of others presenting similar shows here and in Baltimore (thank you Bernard Lyons, Scott Verrastro, Jeff Begato and everyone else) and we trust you will continue to support their efforts.
If anyone is interested, check the "History" of gigs on our website (http://transparentproductions.org) and feel free to get in touch with Bobby Hill, Thomas Stanley or myself to discuss further. In the meantime, you can get a sense for how we see the mission and our related experiences in the following interview with journalist Willard Jenkins: http://www.openskyjazz.com/blog/?cat=7. It was done about a year ago and there are some typos in it but you'll get the idea.
Thank you for supporting creative music.
Keep listening,
Transparent Productions
Bobby Hill
Larry Appelbaum
Thomas Stanley
Herb Taylor
Vince Kargatis
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After 10 years and more than 150 concerts, it's time to begin transitioning the reins of Transparent Productions to others dedicated to creative music presentation. Our humble experiment demonstrates that what this community needs are creative, committed, organized people to roll up their sleeves and bring artists and audiences together. The grass-roots paradigm is already in place: 100% of the door to the artists and a DC-Improv-Announce list with more than 500 addresses. Organizing into a non-profit and applying for grants are all future possibilities and we urge you to explore all options.
We still get numerous inquiries from musicians here and abroad for gigs in Washington. Over the last decade we've presented shows at a dozen different venues and more places seem to be made available all the time, so we trust and hope that others may be inspired by the DIY ethos and the track record so far to want to contribute to continuing this tradition. Fortunately, there are also now a small handful of others presenting similar shows here and in Baltimore (thank you Bernard Lyons, Scott Verrastro, Jeff Begato and everyone else) and we trust you will continue to support their efforts.
If anyone is interested, check the "History" of gigs on our website (http://transparentproductions.org) and feel free to get in touch with Bobby Hill, Thomas Stanley or myself to discuss further. In the meantime, you can get a sense for how we see the mission and our related experiences in the following interview with journalist Willard Jenkins: http://www.openskyjazz.com/blog/?cat=7. It was done about a year ago and there are some typos in it but you'll get the idea.
Thank you for supporting creative music.
Keep listening,
Transparent Productions
Bobby Hill
Larry Appelbaum
Thomas Stanley
Herb Taylor
Vince Kargatis
In a rush? Get real-time answers with Windows Live Messenger.
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