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We moved to a farm when I was 12. I’ve heard it said “You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy”. That is my story in a nut shell. So, after being away from the farm for 19 years, my wife and I found ourselves back in the country in a 100 yr old farmhouse, complete with 2 barns, and several other buildings. Some of our goals included opening up a bed and breakfast, plant an apple orchard, and host “barn dances” (or music festivals on our property) . We’re doing all three and loving every minute of it. This blog has stories from our life in the country.
Neat blog!~ I like your writing style.
Please write more….. am looking forward to food for my soul.
HI!
Just read about your interest in hosting some music on your property. Really?
concertsinyourhome.com is a one year old website to promote house concerts around the country. It is the most complete and up-to-date resource for house concert information on the web. We now have more than 220 presenters in 48 states/provinces who have united to help us promote this wonderful trend.
Except, we don’t have you.
Please take a moment to visit the site, and join as a host if you like what you see. It’s free for you to join, and you can have your events listed on your state’s house concert calendar.
You’ll notice we take great care in protecting you from unwanted emails. Be sure to indicate if you are, or are not accepting artist submissions, and if so, let them know what kind of artists might get your interest.
Thanks so much for doing what you do, house concerts are one of the most important trends in music today.
Best,
Fran Snyder
http://concertsinyourhome.com - the most comprehensive and up-to-date house concert site on the web.
http://fransnyder.com
PS - I’m a singer-songwriter based in Kansas, and I’ve dedicated much time to designing this site and creating new opportunities for performers and music lovers. I hope you’ll find my efforts worthwhile. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at 817-789-2936.
quick links:
to sign up as a host: http://www.concertsinyourhome.com/host_join.html
to list your events for free: http://www.concertsinyourhome.com/hostdates.html
Love this blog! Write more often.
Here in the South, we have a similiar phrase: “You can take the girl out the country, but you can’t take the country out the girl.”
Hello.
I’m writing to you on behalf of an arts festival in Melbourne, Australia, called Next Wave, and we need your help.
For our festival this year we’re using Google.com to find images from around the world as part of the promotion of the festival. The theme for the festival is ‘Closer Together’ and is partly about connecting with people from around the world through the internet.
We found an image on your website through Google and would like to use it for the purpose of promoting the Festival, so we’re writing to ask your permission. The image name is attached to this email (bigger-and-better.jpg). If you are happy for us to use the image, you don’t have to do anything else, we already have the image from your website, just read the information below, fill in your name and the date, and reply to the email.
Also, yours won’t be the only image. On each poster or program there will be between five and ten images with it (as a kind of image sentence). The poster and the program will also incorporate the names and trade marks of sponsors of Next Wave and the 2008 Next Wave festival. The image would be used on around 2,000 copies of a poster or around 30,000 copies of the program, and on the website and possibly in other advertising and promotional materials and Next Wave archive materials.
The poster will be displayed and the program will be distributed in various public places around Melbourne and elsewhere in Australia. The website will of course be accessible anywhere in the world.
We’d be happy to post you a copy of the final poster or program if you’d like to see it.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to hearing back from you.
George Edwards
From Chase & Galley
(we’re doing the promotional design work for Next Wave)
george@chaseandgalley.com
There’s more information about the festival at
http://www.nextwave.org.au/
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2008 Next Wave Festival
Closer Together
15 – 31 May, 2008
I, _________________________________, hereby grant permission for Next Wave Festival Inc (“Next Wave”) to use the attached image(s) as part of the promotion of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.
I hereby grant a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to Next Wave to screen, sample, copy, adapt, publish and communicate to the public the attached image(s), for the purpose of the promotion of Next Wave and the 2008 Next Wave Festival. No fee shall be paid by Next Wave to me for this licence.
Next Wave will contact me and I must agree in writing to any other use of the image(s).
I consent to Next Wave not crediting me as the author of the image(s) and that this will not infringe my moral rights in the image(s).
I confirm that I am the owner of the copyright in the attached image(s) and that no other person(s) have any rights in relation to the image(s) that are inconsistent with the rights I have granted to Next Wave.
I also confirm that I am the creator of the image(s).
Name _________________________________
Date _________________________________