{"id":237,"date":"2009-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-02T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T19:30:31","slug":"title_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/title_6\/","title":{"rendered":"Release party recap, this week&#8217;s shows, and a nod to cross-promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can always book your band in a club, but sometimes I prefer the challenge of making up an event &#8211; at a spot where events don&#8217;t normally occur &#8211; and just seeing what happens. You promote and hope for the best, but you don&#8217;t REALLY know what the turnout might be until that day. <\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/gaither2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dogspeed&#8221;<\/a> release party was a good case in point. With the help of our pal Marky (from the Canyon Acoustic Society), we held a concert at <a href=\"http:\/\/jansenmusicstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jansen Music<\/a> in Watsonville. Marky&#8217;s brother Jody owns the store, so it&#8217;s a natural fit. In the spirit of &#8220;cross-promotion&#8221;, we were able to create an audience from our respective circles of folk, and it benefited all involved. The crowd saw a free concert, CDs were purchased, Marky publicized her February 28th <a href=\"http:\/\/chuck-mccabe.com\/news.php#ni103\" target=\"_blank\">songwriting workshop with Chuck McCabe<\/a>. And Jody sold gear &#8211; at least to most of us in the band. Heh. In addition, we had adoptable puppies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalfriendsrescue.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Friends Rescue Project<\/a>, giving their organization a bit of exposure as well. <\/p>\n<p>I had this wild notion of playing one guitar off the wall for each song, which logistically didn&#8217;t work out. But Aaron did give one of the store&#8217;s Samicks a workout after he broke a string:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=77010&amp;l=91111&amp;id=533781128\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/samick_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBig thanks on my end to everyone who played, helped out, enjoyed the music, or just browsed around the store. It was one of them perfect afternoons. <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s also busy on the music front. Thursday 2\/5 I&#8217;m running the open mic at the Wooden Nickel in Watsonville. (<a href=\"mailto:michael@michaelgaither.com\" target=\"_blank\">Email me<\/a> if you want more info on that.)  The day happens to coincide with my dad&#8217;s 85th birthday, so cake will definitely be involved. <\/p>\n<p>And this Friday, 2\/6, I have two solo things lined up: At 3:00 pm, I&#8217;ll be playing live on <a href=\"http:\/\/kkup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KKUP<\/a> (91.5 FM if you&#8217;re within earshot of Cupertino&#8230;sorry, they don&#8217;t stream). And at 8:00 pm that night, I&#8217;ll be at the Mission City Coffee Roasting Co. in Santa Clara, opening for Chuck Brodsky (who happens to be one of MY favorite songwriters). Tickets for that show are available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiddlingcricket.com\/concertdetails.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Fiddling Cricket Music<\/a>. <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Ftitle_6%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can always book your band in a club, but sometimes I prefer the challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}