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A weekly two minute catch-up for members from the
TMF Director's desk
These are some of the things that have caught my attention this week.
I've been taking a few days off this week, but I find it's almost impossible to disconnect. After five months of working from home, days off at home inevitably stray into work.
Useful meeting earlier this week with colleagues about the possibility of some comprehensive social media training for folk in our sector, finding ways to cut through the noise. Maybe it could start with 'choose several days a month to stay off social media'.
The workshops on creative ways of using Zoom for tutors, led by Mairi Campbell, are filling up. Bookable via Eventbrite, and free.
Like a lot of folk I got a PRS statement this week with its fascinating list of £0.004 for this song, and (eureka!) 20p for that. Disgruntlement with the streaming platforms, and Spotify in particular, is growing, with solutions being proposed from boycotting, to limiting available tracks, to alternative, musician-owned alternatives. We're talking to the Scottish Music Industry Association about exploring the feasibility of that last idea. Hopefully more to report on that soon.
When it comes to 'platforms' I still swear by my record deck and vinyl, and it was a pleasure this week to slide a new release from its inner sleeve and place it on the turntable. Adenine (aka Ailie Robertson) is a beautiful piece of work.
Jeri Foreman's blog for the TMF, 'Mourning Music' is a thoughtful and eloquent account of the realities of life for musicians just now.
I was suggesting in the TMF monthly newsletter that the changes in how musicians connect with listeners are as paradigm shifting as the change from artisan hand-loom weaving to mass production in factories. Maybe a stretch as an analogy, but the tradition has first-hand evidence of the change's effects (as sung by Louis Killen)
Where might traditional music fit into a different economic model, a community economy, for example? Some thoughts here.
I've enjoyed David Mitchell's new novel, 'Utopia Avenue' about the trials and adventures of a band in the late sixties. One of the characters has her roots in the folk scene of the time, and real life musicians like Bert Jansch, John Martyn and Sandy Denny make appearances.
RIP Trini Lopez, who had a worldwide hit with Pete Seeger and Lee Hays's 'If I Had a Hammer'.
All the best
DF
David Francis is Director of the Traditional Music Forum
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A weekly two minute catch-up for members from the
TMF Director's desk
These are some of the things that have caught my attention this week.
I've been taking a few days off this week, but I find it's almost impossible to disconnect. After five months of working from home, days off at home inevitably stray into work.
Useful meeting earlier this week with colleagues about the possibility of some comprehensive social media training for folk in our sector, finding ways to cut through the noise. Maybe it could start with 'choose several days a month to stay off social media'.
The workshops on creative ways of using Zoom for tutors, led by Mairi Campbell, are filling up. Bookable via Eventbrite, and free.
Like a lot of folk I got a PRS statement this week with its fascinating list of £0.004 for this song, and (eureka!) 20p for that. Disgruntlement with the streaming platforms, and Spotify in particular, is growing, with solutions being proposed from boycotting, to limiting available tracks, to alternative, musician-owned alternatives. We're talking to the Scottish Music Industry Association about exploring the feasibility of that last idea. Hopefully more to report on that soon.
When it comes to 'platforms' I still swear by my record deck and vinyl, and it was a pleasure this week to slide a new release from its inner sleeve and place it on the turntable. Adenine (aka Ailie Robertson) is a beautiful piece of work.
Jeri Foreman's blog for the TMF, 'Mourning Music' is a thoughtful and eloquent account of the realities of life for musicians just now.
I was suggesting in the TMF monthly newsletter that the changes in how musicians connect with listeners are as paradigm shifting as the change from artisan hand-loom weaving to mass production in factories. Maybe a stretch as an analogy, but the tradition has first-hand evidence of the change's effects (as sung by Louis Killen)
Where might traditional music fit into a different economic model, a community economy, for example? Some thoughts here.
I've enjoyed David Mitchell's new novel, 'Utopia Avenue' about the trials and adventures of a band in the late sixties. One of the characters has her roots in the folk scene of the time, and real life musicians like Bert Jansch, John Martyn and Sandy Denny make appearances.
RIP Trini Lopez, who had a worldwide hit with Pete Seeger and Lee Hays's 'If I Had a Hammer'.
All the best
DF
David Francis is Director of the Traditional Music Forum
Copyright © 2020 Traditional Music Forum, All rights reserved.
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43-45 High St
Edinburgh, Scotland EHI15 2AU
United Kingdom
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