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Uwsp playin 07, originally uploaded by double_bass_blogger.
Here’s a shot of Suzuki Bass School developer and Contrabass Conversations guest Virginia Dixon with a group of young bassists at [...]

Arts Addict is now officially part of Inside the Arts, a new association of arts and culture blogs from the Adaptistration blog family.  Site founder (and Adaptistration blogger) Drew McManus calls this association "a new cultural blogging exchange", which is a great way to describe it.
What, exactly, is Inside the Arts?  Well, it [...]

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Bill MacLeod plays bass for the world’s harshest critic, originally uploaded by double_bass_blogger.
Here’s a great shot of double bassist Bill MacLeod in his practice room for a very [...]

I just found a new blog from the Arizona Opera Musicians Association that illustrates a great way to use a blogging platform (Google’s Blogger service in this case) to create a musician-driven ensemble site.  Many orchestra musicians are banding together to create musician-operated community sites for their organizations, and Azooma is a great example, with [...]

We’ve got a few quick news items collected over the past week to start off your week:

Exploring Chamber Music with the Chicago Chamber Musicians now live - We recently launched our new collaborative series between Contrabass Conversations and the Chicago Chamber Musicians.  This project was conceived by Chicago Symphony Orchestra double bassist Brad Opland, and [...]

Matt Wengerd, one of my very first bass blogger contacts back in 2006, recently overhauled his blog, and it really looks great.  Matt’s blog is essential reading if you’re a bassist.  He’s got tons of great content for bassists of all specialties, but if you’re a jazzer then his blog will be of particular interest [...]

Double bassist and ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo wrote a post recently about the New Jersey Symphony and their dubious decision to sell their recently acquired ‘Golden Age’ instrument collection of 30 renowned stringed instruments to investment bankers (and amateur violinists) Seth and Brook Taube.  Although they no longer own the instruments themselves, the New Jersey [...]

I have been remiss in mentioning how much I’ve enjoyed reading posts from conductors (and now bloggers) Bill Eddins and Ron Spigelman on their new blog Sticks and Drones. This blog duo packs a very entertaining punch, and I’ve been having fun checking out their various thoughts, observations, and rants.
Ron wrote a very funny post [...]

Among the 10,000 new options possible with my recent move to WordPress is the option to print any post.  Folks have been asking about this for a while now, and it was really hard (basically impossible in any useful way) to implement on my old Blogger set-up.  Check it out–it’s really slick.
BTW, I’m in the [...]

People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different!  I finally made the move from Blogger to WordPress, which means two things:

There is a huge amount [...]