Hoping to put together a benefit

Fellow trumpet players Birgit Ulher and Leonel Kaplan are going to be coming to America in February. We are currently putting together some concerts on the East Coast. We need help however. So far we haven't secured a well funded concert (i.e. besides door money) that will help pay for their plane tickets from the West Coast to East Coast. As we all know, the funding available for such concerts has dried up due to the recession. I am a person who has been fortunate to benefit from these fundings in the past. At the same time, I don't know the system, and I have found it to be a massive pain in the ass to try to write grants or whatever the hell else. I don't know that. But I know the grassroots. And so what I'm hoping to do in the very near future, is put together a benefit event or two. Possibly at the Zeitgeist Outpost in Cambridge. If you live in Boston, I'd like to hear from you as far as what you think might be fun. I am thinking of doing another performance of "Today's Media", and maybe having some DJ's afterward and/or food.

Baliset

I added some trumpet sounds to my former bandmate Greg Massi's project Baliset. Tommorrow night he's doing an album release party at Felt in Boston. I'll be there, stop through and check it out!!

You can check out a great interview with Greg here!

Timeframes

Hyde Park Avenue

119 Gallery

From the Petite Animations exhibit currently up at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA. Had a great gig there tonight with Wild May.

I'm on Twitter now

I don't know what to think of it but follow me here:
http://twitter.com/forbesgraham
If you click on the link you'll find out that I'm playing at 119 Gallery in Lowell tonight with my quartet Wild May.

Watching the print media die

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest paper to bite the dust. I have never read it and I probably never will. I won't miss it either. The fates of those who lost their jobs are more on my mind than what is happening to the fourth estate.

In a shrinking market, players are squeezed out. I did an interview recently where I remarked that in the creative realm, everyone can, so everyone does, but everyone shouldn't.

The last two paragraphs were a long winded way of saying that I'm going to keep putting out records even if nobody buys them because I want to. I'm not going to stop because of market conditions. Instead I will focus on improved quality.