OlyMusic Experiences

A few weeks back, Rachel from Maze of the Mind Productions sent an email stating,
"on Feb. 10 at The 4th Ave Tav at 6 pm there is an
open meeting for those in the music business. Anyone who is interested in
getting this city networked and more open to each other and other cities is
invited to attend. We ask that you bring ideas on what you would like to see
happen in Oly, as well as ideas on what you can do to help. This is for bookers,
promotors, webmasters, musicians (both in bands and solo), or just anyone
interested in lending a hand. We hope to come out of this with a way to put
Olympia back on the map, and to provide the resources for musicians to play
when they want, in the right type of venues, and with the right type of bands.
This will make it easy for everyone to succeed in getting to where they want to
be in this business.".
I posted the invite on OlyMusic, and went to the meeting. Some things that I came out of that meeting with a sense about include plans for a central calendar, preferably with events on other calendars automatically merging into it, and with events on it merging into a Northwest Music calendar; promotions groups and bands and venues flyering collectively to reduce legwork for everyone, Local music shows being a good idea for airing on KAOS and TCTV; more all-ages venues with better coverage of and promotion of those and the already existing all-ages venues; and things of this nature. There will be more meetings, tentatively scheduled for the second Thursday of each month, location to be announced.