Who likes you?

There is so much to learn from the music business!!

NPR did a brilliant one hour On the Media on sampling, girl talk, making $, and fans. I love what Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls has to say about selling tshirts ($11,000 via Twitter in 2 hours when she was bored?). And this Band Metrics thing? delineates single-users, fans, and supporters? Helps us understand the full spectrum of who likes us and why.....(Band Metrics beta site is down it seems but stay tuned!)

And here's our own Nick Brooke, music sampler extraordinaire, at WNYC explaining how he is using music samples to raise some dough, build his fan base, and create his next show.

ERPA Clip 4 Nick Brooke from The Field on Vimeo.

The Field Awards $55,000 to Artists!!!

Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) asked, "How can artists make new money for their work?" ERPA challenged artists to propose inventive, replicable, and sustainable models to help revitalize the creative economy.

After more than a year of entrepreneurial investigations, seven ERPA projects were adjudicated by a panel of veteran arts and business leaders to receive up to $20,000 in funds from The Field. The results are in...

Implementation Awards provide grants of $10,000 to $20,000 to continue developing and implementing each project under the auspices of The Field. Awardees: Connie Hall/ Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, JoAnna Mendl Shaw/ The Equus Projects, Jon Stancato/ Stolen Chair Theatre Company, Caroline Woolard/ Our Goods

Replicability Awards offer stipends of $1,500 with additional professional development support from The Field, intended to help document and communicate each project's findings to the greater artistic community. Awardees: Kahlil Almustafa, Nick Brooke, Rachel Chavkin/The TEAM

View the full Press Release!

ERPA Audio Download Archive

Since 2008, ERPA dialogues have engaged more than 500 artists and cultural stakeholders in topics ranging from alternative fundraising tactics, to the romanticization of the starving artist paradigm, to a smackdown exposé on the ‘new’ economy.

Download audio from these Inventive Public Dialogues, or visit the the blog post to stream audio online:

Public Display of Invention at WNYC
Public Display of Invention at WNYC, September 21, 2009
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The New Economy Smack Down
Galapagos Art Space, May 13, 2009
View full blog post and stream audio online.

Artist or Cultural Entrepreneur?
Chez Bushwick, Thursday, October 9, 2008
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No more Grants and Grandma: Alternatives to Traditional Fundraising
Joe's Pub, Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Starving Artist: Fact or Fiction: Non-Profit Doesn’t = No Money
Galapagos Art Space, Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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