This is the first time I have run a full showcase schedule at FAI. The lineup is incredible, featuring over 120 of the finest musicians I know. Many wonderful Canadian […]
Alan Rowoth & Sally Johnson Present: Big Orange Tarp – NERFA 2019 Fiske Rm
by AlanRowoth on November 5, 2019
I’ve been crazy busy this summer. I wanted to do my usual post with all live links to the artists websites, but I just ran out of time. You guys […]
Live Streaming – What’s Next?
by AlanRowoth on September 25, 2019
I’ve been beating the drum about live streaming for a while. I think it may be a way forward for the musicians whose careers were decimated by the loss of […]
The Big Orange Tarp at Folk Alliance International-Montreal 2019
by AlanRowoth on January 28, 2019
In the Access Film Blue Room, Rm 469 I’m super psyched about my showcase lineup for Montreal. Partnering again with Access Film Music in their blue room. I’m not […]
Making Music Together. The value of Social Music.
by AlanRowoth on November 9, 2018
The first music was social music. Scientists have found musical instruments dating back 40,000 years or more, but anthropologists feel music is much older, maybe as much as half a […]
Alan Rowoth & Sally Johnson Present: NERFA2018 BOT Showcase.
by AlanRowoth on November 2, 2018
Fiske Room (Big Orange Tarp showcase) I will update this with artist links before the conference. Fri aft 2-2:45 Zoe Mulford, Emily White, Marc Douglas Berardo 2:45-3:30 Black Feathers, Emerald […]
Group Mentoring Saturday 11/10 at 11:30am Fiske Room
by AlanRowoth on November 2, 2018
I will be doing a group mentoring at NERFA on Saturday Morning in the Fiske Room. 11:30-12:15 (no signup required) “Live Streaming – Techniques, Tips, and Tricks” Discussing the plethora […]
Big Orange Tarp at FARM 2018
by AlanRowoth on October 24, 2018
It’s been nearly 20 years since I attended Folk Alliance Regional Midwest (FARM). It was pretty anemic in those early days. (No juried showcases, no presenter presence…) it fell off […]
Big Orange Tarp at FarWest Folk Alliance 2018
by AlanRowoth on October 9, 2018
I will be attending my second FarWest Folk Alliance this weekend in Woodland Hills, California. I’ll be doing my workshop “7 Ways to Monetize the Internet (for Musicians)” at 1pm […]
7 Ways to Monetize the Internet (for Musicians)
by AlanRowoth on September 27, 2018
For nearly 30 years, technology and greed made possible the model which fueled the explosive growth of the independent music industry. Prior to around 1985, making records was an expensive […]