...I'm still wondering what the heck I'm doing wrong...two years ago we went to a local wild bird festival...they whole thing to support bird rehabs and protection of bird habitats...full of interesting info booths, crafts, food, etc., held outdoors by a creek on someone's private property...a bird rehabber... so you could walk in big cages with birds having various issues...some getting well enough to release...others finding a permanent home there...etc. We had a great time, and I kept telling my daughter...this place could use some music going...like...gentle-easy folk music in the background.
Once we got back home I contacted the rehabber, told her how much we enjoyed the festival, etc. Then I offered to play next year...which would have been last year...like...I told her I have my own source of electricity and my own sound system...I hate to even think of charging to share my music, but I could put out a tip bucket to donate back to the rescue...I told her I don't do loud crazy stuff...I linked her to my YouTube as a sample of the type of stuff I do, which I thought, anyway, would go well with a day of bird stuff. She wrote back and thanked me and said that sounds great, she'll contact me. Don't call us: we'll call you...lol. Didn't happen...lol.
Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 11/12/2024 07:11:27
Well, sorry for the whining...lol...just sitting here thinking it's too late now. oh well, hey...could always be worse, I say...cautiously...lol.
Peggy sometimes ya gotta make a PIA out of yourself, even for a free gig. Keep trying!
She may have simply forgot.
Let's think that
If it was a wild bird festival, the organizers and participants might have felt that birdsong itself was musical entertainment enough and that additional music would be in conflict.
Although birds themselves often enjoy listening to music, birders tend to be a bit more subdued.
Well I got the invite...so she didn't forget, well maybe she still did. But I didn't go...it just sounded like it needed some music...it wouldn't be loud enough to drown out the birds...I've played outside many times before and the birds didn't shut up. At times even the deer snuck up and crooked their heads around trees to snoop in on what was going on. I don't know. It's getting impossible at this point anyway...living with someone who needs so much now...I think it's too late now anyway. Just kinda hurts and I still can't figure out why this has been the pattern since I lived up here. Doesn't matter at this point...I'm strapped down with a lot of responsibility and difficulty and can't even Strum a banjo for a few seconds without jumping through hoops.
I find the link between bird rehabbers and fiddle also a bit unusual. But Peggy, know that people here would highly value your music ! Maybe in USA they are rather like ...' Oh well... yet another fiddler' LOL.
Here you would be like a rare wonder, and have a big chance and many of you who I hear here on this forum to rise and shine during our festival season and when it's not the festival season dark pubs would be in a row to have a true and authentic OT fiddler in their etablissement.
At least that's my bet! And I don't think I am wrong on this one :-D
Slightly tangential but all this talk about birds is making me think about violin music with bird themes. One could put together a whole program easily.
Edited by - The Violin Beautiful on 11/13/2024 16:50:32
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Originally posted by The Violin BeautifulSlightly tangential but all this talk about birds is making me think about violin music with bird themes. One could put together a whole program easily.
"Quail is a Pretty Bird" was the first song I learned on the fiddle. I'm still learning it.
Hmm I like to play Crested Hens, Lark in the Morning, the Nightingale…:-)
As for gigging…have never tried to get music gigs - but I have tried to get illustration work. 50 postcards sent, 2 replies. 20 more postcards out, 1 phone call from publisher. ( Nowadays it’s all Instagram) But anyway us illustrators are used to what feels like a 1/100 ratio of queries to gigs…All this to say that your ratio (1 query / no outright rejection) is not bad!
A fellow illustrator has had her picture book rejected by 7 publishers so far. (And JK Rowling got rejected more than that…) We just keep going … because we love what we do…
Anyway it sounds like she liked/enjoyed your music, but maybe wasn’t sure it would be a good fit for the event or yea, just forgot! I could definitely imagine you playing at some of the local arts & craft / music festivals around here! Lots of folk music, and we have cloggers…
Very kind and encouraging words, Anja...thanks so much. I appreciate that.
Thanks everybody who responded. You know I've said before where we used to live in a very small area where most people knew each other or at least knew of each other...there were no shortages of places to play...which I always just really enjoyed...no money necessary for me...lol...just playing music off the porch. Anyway, it's been a lot different up here. We've been here over 35 years now so I guess I oughta just get used to how it is here...like...learn to play drums and sax and play hyper jazzy stuff or something...lol.
NC, my grandfather was a newspaper illustrated, back when those relied on artists with hands and pen and paper...lol. I never met him though, he left in the depression years and was never heard from again...but I did see some of his work. It's really kind of a dying art now I guess...I mean, I don't know that, but being that computers do everything and are on the verge of even more...sheesh...people just stand in the background whistlin' Dixie I guess. I remember how good the old cartoons were...the animation and just great art...now they are so stupid-looking...all computer generated...I feel sorry for kids growing up with that.
So...well there's always bears to make I guess...lol...seems to be my old age thang at the moment...lol...bears laying all over the house...running us outta here...at least they don't want anything to eat.
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Originally posted by dorymanquote:
Originally posted by The Violin BeautifulSlightly tangential but all this talk about birds is making me think about violin music with bird themes. One could put together a whole program easily.
"Quail is a Pretty Bird" was the first song I learned on the fiddle. I'm still learning it.
Ha! I'm still learning Soldiers Joy Ha!
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