Comments on: DUTTY APPETIZERS

By: Boima

Boima — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:54:33 +0000

there´s also a bunch of promoters who would be into this in San Francisco. Make it a tour. I´ll organize in Oakland-SF.

By: Boima

Boima — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:46:05 +0000

bp in Australia is working on stuff like this with Uberlingua.

By: ghis

ghis — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:22:41 +0000

I predict a big year for all of us in that scene.
Also, lots of big festival started small. Keep that in mind.
The other way, as mentionned, is to integrate an already big festival with one stage and that’s really faisable.

By: Lamin

Lamin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:50:28 +0000

Good ideas all around!

This weekend, there are two ‘world music’ festivals happening in NYC –(artists, interviews, discussion here - http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2008/01/11).

I would love to be down with something like this. I have no background in grant applications, but I think the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYS Council on the Arts are two places to start to look for support to bring global ghettotech to NYC.

NYC is one of the best staging place for this type of event. It has a large African youth crowd—the Senegalese crowd will be pretty heavy. We just have to make sure we bring the right artists.

By: jace

jace — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:52:35 +0000

buzz- that idea is precisely what i was emailing Guillaume about last nite! i think its a the most plausible option. here’s what i wrote: “i wonder about pitching it to an established festival, as a club counterpart, like the opening & closing party of a bigger world music festival. smaller, could be held in small venue but funded by larger thing.”

By: buzz_aldrin

buzz_aldrin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:06:45 +0000

might be a better plan to take your idea to an already existing festival and fill up a stage with your program?

By: vamanos

vamanos — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:28:24 +0000

A festival is a great idea fellers - and one that I personally would be happy to find the time to work on. Logistically it could be tricky. The location as you both say is essential in making it work, finding somewhere with the biggest potential audience with the biggest amount of disposable cash. However promotion and press, especially in somewhere like London would not be a problem - Journalists are currently jumping on this kind of thing. But I do wonder, exactly how many people it would potentially draw…Looking forward to the ‘inspiring text’.

By: Guillaume / Masala

Guillaume / Masala — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:47:20 +0000

“Wanted: Jace to write a inspiring text about cultural importance of a “world ghettotech” festival cultural exchange. hé hé”

PS: Hipsters are buying Iphones and think paying more than 30$ for a show is a rip off. That’s the downside of free music on the internet.

By: jace

jace — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:50:32 +0000

true true true! but hey, hipsters are the new yuppies. they got cash too.

“WANTED: aficionado of new urban music who loves bureacratic paperwork, with a background in grant applications.”

and while the best part of most world music festivals is getting paid to play at them, the one thing they do right is squeeze out the arts funding / sponship angles on the basis of the cultural importance, thats the only thing to really learn.

By: Guillaume / Masala

Guillaume / Masala — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:37 +0000

And also, I mean who likes to go to festival where there’s barely anybody in the audience? There’s also the difficulties of actual interest from people. The whole world music is a different economy also. Usually older crowd with more money to make it simple.