Live Music - At The Shelter In Exile!!!
I have some progress to report regarding the Shelter in Exile. I'm working on getting live shows running on a weekly basis.
First we need an area to place the event. Mera is actually building us a beautiful skybox stage that we can leave setup permanently all week long. We'll have a Meravator or maybe a Meravator v2 to allow people to quickly access the sybox from the main Exile hangout area.
For now we'll have a one hour show per week with select musicians. Jaycatt Nico and Frogg Marlowe have agreed to play our first event for us! They'll be at our new skybox this Thursday the 9th of November at 5PM SLT. This will be the debut of live music at Exile so I hope ALL of you will come help us try to MAX OUT 3 SIMS!
Cylindrian Rutabaga has already agreed to play the second show. For now we're tentatively setup for the Thursday at 5PM slot on the 16th of November. We'll of course want to get feedback from the first show and decide if this time slot will work out for us.
One of the intents is to provide entertainment for the new folks who occasionally come to the Shelter and also to our frequent visitors. Hopefully it's a bit of a win-win as new residents will get early exposure to live music in Second Life and the musicians might have a portion of their crowds filled out with eager new ears. Another of the basic intents here is to ensure that the musician gets fair compensation for their hour long set.
Reina Quine is working on acquiring sponsorship to ensure that we can afford to pay the musicians who play for us. We'll put out an advertisement for the sponsor and be sure to mention that they're our proud community sponsor making these shows possible. At this time the goal would be a minimum of 2,000L$ per week to allow us at least one good show a week with the option of scheduling more.
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i just want to say thank you to dolmere, reina, mera, coal...all of those who support the shelter in exile...you all are such a great group of people! i am so blessed to know you...and am THRILLED about this opportunity to introduce live music into the Exile's realm. woohooo!! i'll be there thursday to cheer on frogg and jaycatt at the opening and look forward to playing there myself. THANK YOU soooo much for doing this not only for the musician community, but the SL incoming and current community as a whole. ;)
LET'S GET FOLKY!!!
~cyl~
Posted by: cylindrian | November 5, 2006 09:29 PM