15 Full Tuition Workshop Scholarships June 24-26

Double bassist Donovan Stokes (a former Contrabass Conversations guest) has full-tuition scholarships for the Bass Coalition Summer Workshop!  Details follow: We have 15 Full Tuition Scholarships for our 2010 Bass Coalition Summer Workshop! (June 24-26, 2010) Full...

next Musicians at Work forum

The next Musicians at Work forum is taking place on Monday, May 10 at the Chicago Cultural Center. I appeared as a panelist on one of these panels in 2009 and had a great time–here’s a link to the audio from my appearance, and here are the details for...

May raffle topic – best concerto for auditions

Here’s this month’s bass raffle topic–enter for a chance to win a free Upton Bass Solo Revolution pickup: What concerto is the best choice for auditions…and why? As with the previous raffles, you’ve got to write at least a couple of...

and the winner is…

The winner for April’s Upton Bass pickup raffle is: Kells Nollenberger Upton will be sending Kells one of their Revolution Solo bass pickups. Kells also entered the March raffle, so it’s great to see him walk away with the pickup for this month. Stay tuned...