I’ve been running a radio station for community dance music. Currently it’s mostly contra dance music, though I welcome all styles of music played for community dancing. The idea is listeners are encouraged to support the musicians I play (direct donations, buy albums) in return for having high-quality music played on their computer/phone. I eagerly welcome more musicians to the station. You can learn more here: Country Dance Music Radio <https://radio.contracorner.com/>
It could be an outlet for musicians wanting to make fresh home recordings, perhaps as collaborative progressive mix projects, so you keep your game up. I think it’d be a great thing to do a live hour once a week with different musicians. The stream would be much higher quality than Zoom since it is audio only. \Bob Peterson Country Dance Music Radio - https://radio.contracorner.com [email protected] 395 Concord Road Billerica, MA 01821 (978) 496-6731 > On Jul 30, 2020, at 14:55, Emily Addison via Musicians > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi fellow dance musicians, > > What creative ways are you finding to play dance music these days? Are you > working on any music-related projects? > > The pandemic has certainly slowed me down. However, there's a few projects > that I'm really enjoying... > > -The open band that I lead is still meeting once a month. We gather through > zoom, spending about about 1/3 of the time visiting and the rest playing > music. Only one mic can be on for the music playing but that seems to be > working well. At first, it was either the lead fiddler or myself (piano). > The last two sessions have involved the fiddler and I playing together while > physically distanced outside. > > -I've been wanting to get better at playing fiddle and a friend in the US has > been interested in learning how to play Cape Breton style piano so we've > recently started swapping weekly lessons. We each teach for 15 minutes which > gives the other person just enough to work on for the next week. (We both > have kids so there isn't much practice time!) > > -I'm working my way through a new tune book: Honeywood by Emilyn Stam and > John Williams. It's full of absolutely gorgeous European dance > tunes...https://www.emilynandjohn.com/ <https://www.emilynandjohn.com/> > > -Finally, one of our local contra dancers organized a physically-distant > picnic that was open to all last week. Ontario is currently allowing a > maximum of 100 people to gather outside in groups as long as they maintain > distance. 20-30 people showed up and everyone respected distance. I organized > a few musicians to attend and we played in the background. There was no > dancing but the dancers appreciated the music. > > I'm curious as to what you are up to! > > :) Emily in Ottawa > > _______________________________________________ > Musicians mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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