Help: Workshops

Subject: RE: Help: Workshops
From: ddw
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:51 PM

Gypsy,

Don't know what if any group you're hooked up with, but thought I'd pass along what the group I belong to does.

Throughout our year (Sept.-June) we set up "house concert" workshops with musicians on the circuit. Sometimes this is the Sunday afternoon after they've done a legitimate concert for about 200 or 300 people on Saturday night, sometimes it's just a one-hour workshop before a one-hour concert.

Other times, it's just a performer we know will be in the area -- maybe doing a gig 40 or 50 miles away -- who is willing to do it.

We usually pay the performer the entire take from the Sunday (workshop) session -- 15 to 20 people at $20 each. Most seem to like it and it's another way we can learn from some of the best (Rick Fielding did one for us, as have quite a few other top-notch Canadian performers) and gives them a little extra cash too. Everybody wins.

Good luck,

david

Subject: RE: Help: Workshops
From: Gypsy
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:39 PM

Interesting concept. Will definitely pm you, for future reference.

Subject: RE: Help: Workshops
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 11:23 PM

A jam group an hour from here does a workshop at the beginning of each monthly jam. PM me if you would like me to hook you up with their leader via e-mail. I believe regular jam members just take turns doing workshops.

At our newish monthly jam, we are paying a pair of workshop leaders to come to our jam. If it goes well, we will do this quarterly. We have to pay our leaders, so we are charging jammers a slight fee for that month's jam.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Workshops
From: Gypsy
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 11:17 PM

snicker snicker.....just read what i wrote thru your eyes...yer right!

Subject: RE: Help: Workshops
From: Jim Krause
Date: 28 Aug 02 - 11:12 AM

Where's Here? Is it Near Here? Oh, sorry, local joke. Nevermind.

Anyway sounds like a fine idea. Good luck.
Jim

Subject: Workshops
From: Gypsy
Date: 27 Aug 02 - 10:48 PM

Weeeeeelllllllllllll......i can't stand it no more. Just got the latest Dusty Strings flier, with tons of workshops, and we have nothing of the kind HERE. So, as i was bemoaning the fate, the handsome mando player parroted my usual line "don't bitch, change things!" so here i am. Any bright ideas on how to get something like this going, on a regular basis? I was thinking of nothing so ambitious as Dusty Strings (don't have all of Seattle to subsidize it) but maybe monthly? Would love some input (and that means YOU John Peekstock, if you see this thread!) Mebbe i can really get something happening here.