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Strongly recommended: Adams Ave Street Fair, this weekend

The Adams Avenue Street Fair, Southern California’s largest FREE two-day music festival, will celebrate its 31st anniversary on Saturday, September 29, from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, and Sunday, September 30, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. Click the poster for the full line-up.

Carl Durant is playing from 11am-11.45am on both Saturday&Sunday at Lestat’s West.
It’s free, all ages so come on down.

Lestat’s West: 3343 Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA 92116

 PS: between Starbucks Stage and Lestat’s Stage, the schedule itself is a list of my recommended acts. YES, it’s really that good. I can’t cut it down further. Highlights on other stages would be The Jade Element on Saturday and Tori Roze&the Hot Mess on Sunday.

“A talented engineer ” – dixit Michael Laskow of Taxi

Last Monday, the San Diego Songwriters Guild organized a Skype meeting with Taxi founder,  president&CEO Michael Laskow. “Taxi” is a company that creates an online forum to submit music for consideration to be used in TV series&films,  “pitch” it to recording artists or to try and get a record deal. After some interesting remarks and general guidelines about how to be successful in this business, Michael went on to listen to songs submitted by about a dozen local songwriters from San Diego.
He’s a great guy and has extensive experience in music production and recording. And of course, in music placement. So he was able to give a lot of feedback that was useful for everyone, even those who didn’t submit.

I sent in my track “Losing Time”, since it was already used in a couple of short films and I wanted to find out if that had just been blind luck or if Michael Laskow would also like it.

Guess what? He DID ! Michael’s first reaction (after opening his eyes again): “It’s really pretty ! It puts me in this … well… relaxed mood. I guess that’s what you were after.” And then he went on to say “it’s a nice aural landscape that you created.” After confirming that I engineered it myself he read from his notes: “talented engineer. That’s what I wrote down.”

So that was my start of the week. One of the biggest names in unsigned-artist music placement called me a talented engineer. And confirmed my music has exactly the intended impact on him.
Not too shabby !

Now off to more music creation !

And here’s the track Michael Laskow reviewed:

Video Thursday – Staying local with Raelee Nikole

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Yes, she might still be in high school but that doesn’t prevent her to dream big. Or sing wonderfully. Check out her cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Give me one Reason”. The guitar player on the original recording is Adam Levy. The same Adam Levy I opened a show for at Lestat’s in 2010. Great small world of music !