musicSPARK meeting notes 6/15/09
Hi everyone,
I wasn’t at the first meeting, but attended the small group meeting last Wednesday and the larger meeting yesterday evening. I jotted down some notes from yesterday’s meeting, and wanted to give everyone the update.
First, however, we are having another individual meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 6pm at Humble Pie. This will not be a long meeting, lasting at most an hour. Hope to see you there, and apologies for the late notice!
One of the more immediate points we need to address is the call for work:
- Ann Marie has offered to handle working on the actual form, which we’re going to try and hash out by the end of this week. If anyone has anything that they want included on the form (and are worried will be neglected) please send her a quick note (ambaum@cherrymodern.com). Otherwise we’ll use last year’s form as an example and work from there including the basics (Name, contact info, disclaimers, etc).
- It seems that the most space-effective way to handle music submissions is in cd form. Aly had said he could obtain an email address that would hold 1GB of music, but that would fill up too quickly and not allow for multiple songs per group, which seems like it would make for a better assessment. Visual Art Exchange said they would be willing to collect the materials.
- The identifying genres that we briefly and quickly discussed yesterday were as follows:
Rock and Roll, Hip Hop, R&B, Modern Country, Bluegrass, Soul, Gospel, Reggae, Indie, Classical, Theatrical, and Electronic
We know that doesn’t cover everything, but for the sake of our sanity I think that we should have those as options, and then a line for them to write-in a more specific modifier.
- I am going to get in touch with Allison Beale, the fashionSpark coordinator, and get her input for the portion of the form asking whether the bands will be ok with their music playing for the fashion show.
Aly mentioned that Greg Ettenson was the contact for the local venues last year, so I think that we should keep with that this year if he’s ok with that (obviously if he needs any help, we’ll rally as needed). Then, as for the venues coordinating with specific bands, I’m assuming that Greg would have some good insight into how to best go about that, while integrating our call for work in some fashion.
Otherwise, we briefly talked about having people playing on the sidewalks/busking as well (Aly mentioned the need for permits, which we’ll discuss looking into – anyone interested in tackling that?). We also talked about having local restaurants/stores maybe doing a local music happy hour the week leading into sparkCon.
I think that mostly covers the recap!
If anyone has anything to add/questions/etc totally throw it out there, as you most likely have more experience with this than I do 
Mary