John Grillo and The Princeton Festival

Contrabass Conversations guest and bass blog contributor John Grillo is playing principal bass for The Princeton Festival, a summer music festival that opens this Saturday(6/23/07) with a performance of Bizet’s Carmen. John has mentioned that the singers and...

On freelancing and auditioning

John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).Here are...

How to grow an audience

This interesting story from Polyphonic.org ties in well with my thoughts and observations on future directions for the music business covered in Road Warrior Without an Expense Account Part X – Refocusing (Musical Entrepreneurship). You can find this complete...

John Floeter’s Double Bass Studio – great resource

Double bassist John Floeter (Northern Illinois University bass instructor, Grant Park Symphony section member) has really been turning his double bass studio blog into an excellent resource. In addition to offering up technique downloads for students (via...

Bass shot of the day

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