A Place for Songwriters

     Songwriters!  Where do you go to convene?  Do you even have a place?  Well of course you do!  And if you’ve never visited www.CtSongs.com, you’re missing out on a place made especially for you.   
      On this website, the Connecticut Songwriters Association has their headquarters. There is a lovely navigation menu bar to the left [...]

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Top Ten Ways How Not To Succeed

      By Bizzy Bender, musician  
         So, you have been singing with the worship band for a long time now, honed your guitar skills, and written some decent songs and now you are ready to break into the Christian music scene.I am here to tell how not to succeed! Yes, that’s correct, how not to succeed! [...]

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Putting Yourself Out There

      Let me paint the age-old picture for you. You’ve just graduated college with a music degree, you’re currently making some semblance of minimum wage at a completely unrelated job, and you’re ready for a change. But what could you possibly do with that music degree in the real world? Your dream of being discovered [...]

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Quite An Establishment

      Trinity Covenant Church in Manchester, CT is looking for volunteer singers to participate in their recording of a CD Album. Trinity has been producing an annual Christmas musical for about twenty years now, and there are some staple songs that they always get requests for. Ten of these will be recorded in June, 2007 and [...]

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Summer Festival

     A great opportunity for band exposure in Conn can be found in the copious variety of summer festivals they have to offer.
     Whether you’re in a genre specific band or just a laid-back we’ll-play-anything group, you can find a spot for yourself in one of CT’s several summer band festivals.   At the Lebanon Fairgrounds, in [...]

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Shopping in the Produce Section

        Want to start a career in music production?  Check out www.FullSail.com . Full Sail School of Recording Arts can jump start those dreams!  Their website boasts that “for more than 25 years, Full Sail has trained some of the most respected engineers, producers, and mixers in the audio industry.  Full Sail’s Recording Arts Degree [...]

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Don’t Miss Out on the Little Things

           Have you been doing your daily check-in?  Remember that list of free musician oriented websites you can take advantage of on a daily basis?  Well, I have’ve been doing it, and I’ve found some great opportunities for musicians that you’re still letting yourself miss out on by neglecting this simple routine.   
           At  www.BackPage.com , I [...]

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There’s A Little Intelligent Life in Cyberspace

     Too many people out there think that they’re alone in the search for band-mates or musical co-conspirators.  The truth is that a Yahoo poll shows that the phrase “musician friend” was searched a whopping 102,000 times in the month of January, 2007 alone!  The word “musician” was searched 37,165 times in January, and “musician [...]

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Rock Em Sock Em Booking

            What’s your favorite kind of concert?  Do you like the experience you get from seeing punk bands?  Would you rather explore your jiggy side and see a hip hop show?  Or do you like just sitting back and experiencing chamber music ?  The people of “Rock Yer Socks” say Yes ! to all [...]

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