This article was first published in the May edition of The Allegro, the AFM Local 802 monthly publication.
I landed my first tour because of a little blog I kept about playing keyboards on a cruise ship. I called it the Chronicles of a …
The Lehrer News Hour recently ran a piece on the arts industry and economic stimulus.
The piece discussed a New Deal-type plan that has been a popular topic in the arts community. We discussed the topic in the December article, Should Washington Give $6 Billion …
This article is part 2 of a series by Nathan Whitney, who spent 6 years working on cruise ships all over the world. Please also visit part 1 of this series, which discusses the choice of guitar to bring on a cruise gig:
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A jazz club located in the heart of Kansas City’s 18th and Vine Jazz District will be receiving $143,000 worth of federal grant money to help pay for repairs, according to a report in the KC Tribune. The money is part of a large spending…
Continue Reading →When professional musicians set aside time to practice or take lessons, it is usually on their primary instrument. But in the world of the working musician, doubling on another instrument every once in a while is common, and there’s few instruments more common than the…
Continue Reading →The Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, MO published an article last week about Iraqi oud player Rahim Alhaj.
Alhaj was an out-spoken critic of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and spent, altogether, 2 years in prison for his out-spoken protest songs. He fled the country…
My girlfriend asked me what Google Feed Reader was the other day. I resisted the urge to launch into a lengthy discussion of how uber-geek cool RSS feeds are and the interesting details of every feed that I’m subscribed to. I was pretty sure that…
Continue Reading →May 12, 2009 – The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra signed a new contract this month that includes a 9% cut in base wages for symphony musicians. The base salary of the orchestra will fall from $60,000 a year to $54,600.
Administrative staff members will be required…
photo credit: ~*Bomba Rosa*~
According to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina), the annual Christmas production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker will no longer be played by the Winston-Salem Symphony. Instead, it will be played by University of North Carolina School of the Arts…
This article is part 1 of a series by Nathan Whitney, who spent 6 years working on cruise ships all over the world. Please also visit part 1 of this series, which discusses the choice of guitar to bring on a cruise gig:
Equipment …
Okay, so you’ve had enough of the good ol’ US of A, or you’re just restless. You want to put those two years of middle school Spanish to work, or you heard that the cost of living in Berlin is really low. Whatever the reason,…
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