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September 22, 2007
About RedGorilla Music Fest
RedGorilla Music Fest is held in Austin, Texas, on March 12-15, 2008. Last
year, RedGorilla was an overwhelming success and made a name for itself as the
cool, rebel showcase that caters to its artists and promotes up-and-coming
independent music in all genres to help independent artists further their
careers.
Over 250 bands and solo artists will participate in shows in venues on 6th
Street in Austin. RedGorilla showcases will take place from Wednesday, March
12 to Saturday, March 15 in clubs that are right in the heart of all the
action. The event continues to be a "No Badge Required" event. It is free to
attend and is open to the general public.
RedGorilla Music Fest takes place during one of the most important music
weeks in the year. This is the music industry's premier destination for the
year, where thousands of fans and music industry professionals descend upon
Austin to network and check out new talent at the various music festivals
around town.
RedGorilla Music Fest offers showcase slots to bands and solo artists so that
they can take advantage of this excellent opportunity. RedGorilla Music Fest
is all about showcasing and making it the best experience possible for the
artist and the audience.
RedGorilla Music Fest is not affiliated in any way with SXSW or South By
Southwest, Inc.
Want to perform at RedGorilla?
If you are an artist who is interested in showcasing your music at the 2008
RedGorilla Music Fest, don't wait! We encourage artists from all over the
world to showcase at RedGorilla, and we look forward to having you participate.
All genres of music are accepted. You can either submit online through
SonicBids or through the mail. Just fill out an application and return it to
RedGorilla along with your CD, a press kit or bio, and the entry fee.
Click here for a printable entry form.
Send your package to:
RedGorilla Music Fest
1307 Eastland Avenue
Nashville, TN, 37206
Other contact information
RedGorilla office: (615) 251-4920
General Information:
Info@RedGorillaMusic.com
Marketing Information:
Marketing@RedGorillaMusic.com
RedGorilla Sponsors Include:
DreamScapers International, LLC.
Nimbit
International Songwriting Competition
Sam Ash
Electro-Voice
Jakprints
Tinderbox
Pro-Mark
TroyEdlin.com Promotional Design
The Chuggin' Monkey
The Blind Pig
Touch
Darwin's Pub
Looking for more ways to get exposure for your music? ISC is joining forces
with RedGorilla again this year to promote up-and-coming independent artists.
Hurry, the ISC deadline will be here before you know it! One of the largest
and most prestigious songwriting competitions in the world, this year ISC is
giving away over $150,000 in cash and prizes, including a cash Grand Prize of
$25,000 (US) - the largest cash Grand Prize of any songwriting competition.
ISC also offers the unprecedented opportunity to gain international exposure
and have your songs heard by the music industry's top executives and recording
artists, not to mention the well-deserved bragging rights of winning ISC, so
don't wait!
ISC has been renowned for its prestigious judging panels throughout the
history of the competition. Each year, music's most acclaimed celebrities team
up with dozens of top music industry executives to choose the winners for one
of the most respected songwriting competitions in the world. Continuing in
that tradition, the 2007 judging panel includes Tom Waits, Loretta Lynn, Nelly
Furtado, Ornette Coleman, Michael W. Smith, Ray Davies (The Kinks), Robert
Smith (The Cure), Frank Black (Pixies), and many more!
Visit their site to check out the complete judging panel or for an entry form.
TroyEdlin.com
Promotional design catering to musicians and artists. Logos. Album Inlays.
Posters and Fliers. Flash and Web. Stickers. T-Shirts. Press Kits. Custom
Illustration. Etc. Be seen as well as heard!
Mediabase
Mediabase monitors more than 1,800 radio stations in 180 U.S. and Canadian
markets, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition to providing vital
airplay and programming information to more than 1,700 affiliate radio
stations and every major broadcast group, Mediabase 24/7, a division of
Premiere Radio Networks, is the data source for popular countdown and
syndicated shows like American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest, American Top 20 with
Casey Kasem, After MidNite with Blair Garner, Country Countdown USA with Lon
Helton, Jeff Foxworthy Countdown, Country Top 40 Countdown with Bob Kingsley,
and others. Mediabase also provides its airplay research to every major record
label in North America. Mediabase pioneered the concept of monitored airplay
in 1987. Its charts can be found weekly in numerous trade and consumer
publications and websites.
Visit
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Posted by kier at 5:08 PM
September 7, 2007
In The City
September 6, 2008
Confederation Centre Art Gallery offers art education programs for people of all ages this fall
Charlottetown-The Confederation Centre Art Gallery will be a hub of activity this fall with a wide array of visual arts classes and workshops for people of all ages.
In partnership with the Confederation Centre Public Library, the gallery is offering Preschool Story Time for children ages three to five. The 30-minute program of stories and simple crafts takes place from 1:30- 2 p.m. on Tuesdays, starting in the library on September 18 and in the gallery every second week until December 4.
Free Family Sundays for children ages four to ten and their caregivers take place on the third Sunday of each month in the gallery from 2-4 p.m. Family Sundays this fall are on September 16, October 21, November 18 and December 16.
The gallery is also offering a number of paid workshops and classes this fall in the Schurman Family Studio. Budding young artists will love exploring drawing, painting and sculpture in the gallery's smART (Saturday Morning ART) program on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon, from September 15 to December 1.
ART after school provides children aged 8-11 with an artistic after-school activity. Starting September 17, they will learn drawing, painting and sculpture from 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. This program takes place every Monday, excluding holidays, from September 17 to December 3.
In the ART lab program, "tweens" will participate in activities such as re-crafting vintage t-shirts, a button frenzy, creating artist trading cards and more. Designed for youth ages 11-14, this program takes place on Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. Workshop dates are September 15 and 29, October 27, November 24, and December 8.
Seniors will enjoy exploring the gallery on Wednesdays through its new Look, Talk and Do! program. Each week, participants will tour a different exhibition and respond to it creatively through discussion, painting and sketching. Limited to 12, this program runs from 1-4 p.m. on Wednesdays from September 19 to December 5.
Art educator Chrissy Cerminara will teach smART, ART after school and Look, Talk & Do!
The new early stART program, taught by local artist Michael Stanley, will help parents and children ages 18 months to three years explore art together on Wednesdays from 10-11 a.m., from September 19 to December 5. Participants will experiment in activities such as pottery, painting and paper making.
Island printmaker Debra Percival will give two workshops about her non-toxic approach to printmaking on Saturdays, from 1: 30-5:30 p.m. On October 13, she will discuss aluminum etching, and on November 3, polyester plate lithography. Workshops are limited to ten participants.
Well-known jewellery-maker Ayelet Stewart will teach students basic jewellery-making skills using inexpensive materials and simple techniques. Participants will work in copper, brass and bronze. Stewart has studied in Japan and Israel and has been recognized by her peers for her skill. Limited to ten participants, the course runs on Thursdays from 6:30-9 p.m. from October 18 to December 6.
For information about registration fees and other workshops, please contact the gallery at (902) 628-6111 or by e-mail at artgallery@confederationcentre.com
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Media contact: Anna MacDonald, Publicist, (902) 628-6135, amacdona@confederationcentre.com
Anna MacDonald, Publicist
Confederation Centre of the Arts
145 Richmond Street
Charlottetown, PE C1A 1J1
amacdona@confederationcentre.com
Tel: (902) 628-6135
Fax: (902) 566-4648
The Charlottetown Festival is rockin'! Book your tickets at www.confederationcentre.com
Credit: A double-page spread from Troy Little's serialized graphic novel Chiaroscuro, Chapter 8
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September 7, 2007
Confederation Centre Art Gallery opens new exhibitions in September
Charlottetown - The Confederation Centre Art Gallery starts its fall programming this month with two new exhibitions, ... and other stories: Troy Little, Charmaine Wheatley, Seth, Marc Gallant and Robert Harris and The Life and Art of a Country Painter: Anthony Flower (1792-1875).
On view from September 9 to December 2, ... and other stories explores the art of the graphic novel and book illustrations with works by Troy Little, Charmaine Wheatley, Seth, Marc Gallant and Robert Harris.
The original artwork for two chapters of Island artist Troy Little's serialized graphic novel Chiaroscuro is included in the exhibition. Little's main character Steven Patch is an unemployed artist with a single blank canvas, who lives the introspective, angst-ridden life of an average 20-something. The novel will be released internationally in mid-October by San Diego-based IDW Publishing.
Watercolour studies and "diary" notations created by artist-in-residence Chairmaine Wheatley this summer are exhibited as a work in progress, as well as her first published comic book Beau Fleuve, The Heart of North America. During her residency at the PEI National Park, she interacted with the public and drew her impressions of Island life, which will be developed into a comic book of small and intimate stories of the everyday.
The exhibition also features More Fun with Dick and Jane (Penguin Books, 1986) by the late Marc Gallant, an Island environmental and heritage activist, designer, photographer and storyteller. Gallant updated the popular Dick and Jane children's reading instruction books, written by American Zerna Sharp and published from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Five illustrations by Ontario-based artist Seth are included in the exhibition. An illustrator and graphic novelist, Seth edited, illustrated and designed Bannock, Beans and Black Tea, a book based on his father's stories of growing up on PEI during the Depression.
In 1900, renowned Island portrait painter Robert Harris illustrated A semi-detached house... and other stories by John Try-Davies. Both were founding members of Montreal's Pen and Pencil Club in 1890, which included many prominent Canadian writers, painters and musicians. On display are many of Harris' original illustrations and copies of the original book.
A video interview with Little and Wheatley is included in the exhibition, and a book launch and book signing for Little's Chiaroscuro will take place in mid-October. The exhibition is curated by curator Ihor Holubizky.
Curated by Laurie Glenn Norris, of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, The Life and Art of a Country Painter: Anthony Flower (1792-1875) will be on display from September 23 to November 2.
Born in London, England, Flower (1792-1875) lived and worked in the province of New Brunswick for most of his life. He was a farmer who had a lifelong passion for art and who painted until his death at the age of 83. In his paintings, he recorded the life that he saw around him in rural Queens County, N.B., and events and scenes described in newspapers of the day. He was especially fond of the pictures he saw in the Illustrated London News, an early newspaper, as well as the prints of an artist named William Bartlett.
Other exhibitions on view are Speaking of Islands: Jean-Yves Vigneau, until September 21; Common Threads, until September 23; Annie Pootoogook, until October 7; and Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images, until November 25.
Tamara Gough
Gallery Administrator
Confederation Centre of the Arts
145 Richmond Street
Charlottetown, PE C1A 1J1
902.628.6111
tgough@confederationcentre.com
Posted by kier at 2:28 PM