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Find your fans

It’s all about the music…. it’s what you love, what you live for – but it’s no good if no one else knows what you’re writing, recording and performing. The web offers you so many different platforms through which to promote your band or yourself as a musician. There are a few select sites that you can use to better chat with your groupies and share your latest videos, songs, events and news.

Dancing ‘Sound of Music’ flashmob

Flemish commercial television station VTM used a creative Flashmob approach to launch their newest reality television program “Op zoek naar Maria” which has been launched to find an actress to play the leading role of Maria in the musical version of The Sound of Music.

What did they sing?

How often do you attend a concert and a few weeks later can’t remember what the set list was?

Setlist.fm is a a free wiki-site that allows users to upload and browse concert set lists.

Listen to the music

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.