Brisbane City Council is co-ordinating an event on 21 June called "Fete de la Musique" - if you go to the Brisbane City Council website at www.brisbane.qld.gov.au and click on the "Fete de la Musique" logo, you will see all the details.
It's an event started in the 80s in France, where any musical group can register, and take part in playing at venues around their city. It apparently happens each year all around the world, but this is the first time the event has been staged in Brisbane. Some of the venues in Brisbane will be Queen Street Mall, Brisbane Plaza, Chinatown. And there's a finale concert at Brisbane Plaza.
At our meeting last year where we workshopped what our future direction would be, one issue that was identified was to publicise our group and try to attract new players. I think an event like this would be a great opportunity to do this.
We could really be proactive and produce flyers to hand out to the crowd as they watched our performance. I'm not thinking fancy (expensive) pamphlets with photos etc. I'm thinking simple flyers we could compose and print ourselves - we could have a working-bee one weekend afternoon to produce them. I'd be happy to contribute to the cost of paper - thinking pink or green paper. We could make them of a size where you could get three flyers out of a sheet of A4 paper.
We could make our gig part performance/part workshop, to get the audience involved.
What does everyone think of this idea? Can we make it fly? Do we want to do it?
NOTE: If we do want to do it, we have to register BY 6 JUNE.
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For sure! My problem at the moment is that I can't really talk, but I've got templates for flyers that we can easily adapt.
Thanks for that Patty!
I just registered!
That's great! Thanks. I look forward to this gig - and let's all talk soon about producing the flyers.
Sounds cool... I'm in! Just for history, this event was created by our French Minister for Culture at the time and that's probably the only thing he wll be remembered for...
Nevertheless, it's a great concept where anybody can go down and play anywhere that particular night... In France, no registration and no constraint on location. For one night, anybody can make any kind of noise (or music) in the street!!
This proves that the French can start something else international than a war!!!
Cocoricoooo...
Yes, thanks for that Patty! Seems great minds think alike. Carolina alerted me to this last week and I forwarded details to Remko. Cheers for putting it on the blog. I'm in!
Yes thanks Claire, sorry I missed that email ... will have to go back to all emails from the last couple of weeks - looks like the drugs worked pretty well!
I'm totally keen.
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