As you may know, I'm involved with organizing First Fridays at Messiah. It's pretty much just me running the show.
My basic idea was that there needed to be a larger music community within the kids at Messiah. Since I have a ton of equipment, I just decided to go out and buy some lights and, in that, be able to throw little DIY First Friday events.
Back in September there were maybe like 10-20 people throughout the night ...including musicians. Last month, February, we had around 40 at once with at least 70 throughout the night. This was an attentive audience, standing or sitting on the floor because of a lack of seating. It was great.
I had asked a friend of mine to write up an article about it in the school paper, The Swinging Bridge, to further publicize the event. I ended up with a half page article with pictures, including a half page picture of myself on another page. Not bad.
You can check out the article HERE.
*I would like to note that there is a slight change that needs to be made to the article. The radio station mentioned should be the college station, WVMM, not Philly-based, WXPN.
My basic idea was that there needed to be a larger music community within the kids at Messiah. Since I have a ton of equipment, I just decided to go out and buy some lights and, in that, be able to throw little DIY First Friday events.
Back in September there were maybe like 10-20 people throughout the night ...including musicians. Last month, February, we had around 40 at once with at least 70 throughout the night. This was an attentive audience, standing or sitting on the floor because of a lack of seating. It was great.
I had asked a friend of mine to write up an article about it in the school paper, The Swinging Bridge, to further publicize the event. I ended up with a half page article with pictures, including a half page picture of myself on another page. Not bad.
You can check out the article HERE.
*I would like to note that there is a slight change that needs to be made to the article. The radio station mentioned should be the college station, WVMM, not Philly-based, WXPN.