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6 hard lessons

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The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is seemingly dissolving

The 2023 festival is canceled, and the non-profit is planning to dissolve for good.

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A complete guide to my FACTOR Artist Development grants

Here's my guide to both grants I wrote and received, now that they're fully complete

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CD Baby, what are you thinking? Re: DIY Musician Podcast

All 5 of the DIY Musician Podcast 2023 predictions are misses; also, I make a prediction

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You're too old for this, part 2 featuring Rollie Pemberton

The no good, very bad Cadence Weapon tour outcome; tour economics is a trending topic

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Why this album, Maybe Eventually, might be my last

Soon, the best musicians won't make albums. The reason is obvious in book publishing

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The tragedy of music industry advice books

It's all In-The-Office-Mix & no YouTube; learnings from the 2006 book Get Media Airplay

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I wanted to quit streaming. I was wrong. Here's why

We can’t afford to skip this opportunity to be heard

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10 years after CapU jazz, here are 10 things I've learned

I enrolled back in September 2012

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These 110 words just went 4-for-4 on local gig bookings

Is it luck, or is there strength here?

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Jazz Office Hours episode 2: producer's notes

Episode 2 of the Jazz Office Hours podcast is out now

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I got more Reels views while on vacation than while here

More while leaving it alone than while I was uploading. Why?

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I have 258 of these left

How to move them?

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Boom times?

5 categories, 30 venues I'm seeing on the gig list right now

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9 concepts for Instagram

For musicians, Reels has changed Instagram for the better

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Instagram thoughts

Revised and republished: 3 reasons why it's not great for music

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Legibility

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Chart watch: healthy Bandcamp sales, wacky Facebook pages

This week on the Earshot jazz charts for Canadian jazz

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The pièce de résistance of jazz campus radio in Canada

What I've learned from all 20 albums I looked at

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What does it take to get on the community radio charts?

10 Canadian charting albums on national campus radio

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Session-style videos rarely match real concert footage

Okay, what do you think about these two kinds of videos?

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The Patreon problem

The platform serves 15,000 music creators but isn't growing much.

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My favourite quote about CapU jazz

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You're too old for this (in the best way)

The tweet by a band called Wednesday about a tour to SXSW

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Caity's razor

Avoid publicity expenses until someone's asking for it.