RTP-area local music and culture

[Daniel Vaughn <fableclassics AT yahoo.com>]

Hello List.
  Tonight at the Reservoir (for free):
  Second Husband. "New material has been wrenched from the shimmering 
currents of imagination that spider across the astroplane. Tom's squeezing 
his fists trying to grow a pair." and "The lady of the lake gave them each 
the power to write songs!" Alt-rock? Grunge? It's hard to get info from these 
guys.
  The DMV. Three songwriters + drum-dude banded together to perform music 
about cooperation and death. Outside of the group they can be found playing 
sitar, playing in Mothlight, and sitting on the couch. Maybe you saw them 
perform TV theme songs at the Great Cover-Up.
  Both groups contain members of local metal outfit Colossus, though neither 
are metal bands.

                
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From: Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: best way to support artists?
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:27:41 -0600
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I'd have thought that the best way to support artists would be to  
give them a job that allows them to either make their art, or allows  
them the time to make that art without sapping their energy.

Short of that:

1.  Affordable health plans for practicing artists
2.  Affordable rental housing, in general, especially near where they  
work and/or practice their art.
3. SBA or private loans/bridge loans/lines of credit to finance  
intense periods of art-making (touring, completing work for an  
exhibition, working on a story/book that needs some dedicated  
attention.)  Yes, there are grants available, but they are few;  
universal access to supplementary money (within reason) would help  
the creative community, and the rest of the community would reap the  
benefits ultimately. It would also put a few people into debt, I'm  
sure, but no artist makes a breakthrough without taking a risk.

So, you can help create some of this. Or you can give a m-fer a job  
that doesn't suck.

d



On Feb 16, 2006, at 6:48 AM, grady wrote:

> You know, it occurred to me this morning that I never really answered
> this question in the way that I should've:
>
> The best way to support [musical] artists is to go see them play, and
> drag your friends along with you.