It begins....
This year is the second full year for our little Baroque ensemble... and even though we had a bit of a whirlwind first year with more concerts and engagements than we had ever expected, this second year is starting to shape up to be a little bit more involved than the first! And again, we are still in a bit of a shock... now, if we still have the audiences coming and liking what we are doing... then that will be a big huge bonus! But of course, me being me... I worry that the shiny new first year gloss has worn off, and that people might start getting bored and start looking for some other new shiny group!
All the administration for the year programming/organisation is now behind us... and we are now heading into the per-concert/project planning. It is much more specific, and there are already little incoming snags that will need to be ironed out and solved... but the first of those hurdles isn't until August. However, like many things... these things have a way of creeping up on you if you put them off... and when they do, you are suddenly hit with a lot of stress when your options start to close off rapidly.
... but now we are in the publicity runup for the first of the 2024 Chamber Music Series... musicians are booked, music is finalised, marketing material is all ready to go... and ticketing just went live.
Tomorrow, I will need to write the 2024 Season Reveal newsletter (ooops, I should have done that a few weeks ago!), populate the online calenders, and get the media release out there into the wild... and hopefully line up an interview or two!
Then it is time to hit the footpaths and get the posters and flyers for the first concert out there... Thankfully this year, we also have a professional distribution and printing for the year-long postcards... and these have gone up in places that we normally couldn't get access to... and then there will be a framed poster campaign as well that will also get into cafes that we can't normally access.
... and then, somewhere in there... I have to actually prepare the music side of things!
There is always that little nagging worry that each concert will be the start of the downhill slope... I guess that is the danger from having a successful first year, that you wonder if it was all just a bit too good to be true.
Anyway, the performing side of our ensemble this year kicks off with a concert of poetry and music for an Easter reflection... something that got born when our Poetry and Music concert sparked an interest in the organiser of this concert, who wanted to do something similar but in an Easter setting!
So... 2024, here we come! As soon as April starts and the "main" 2024 seasons starts... it is a rollercoaster of engagements up until August... and then we have a short breather before the end of the year run!
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Do people that are interested in music really just keep looking fro shiny new groups ad nauseum? XD Even the music enthusiasts that I used to know (the type that like to have their super high quality "mp3z" and collected albums religiously and actually listen to music properly (ie not doing anything but listening not just having it on in the background) had favourites that were in constant rotation even if they were the type constantly trying to discover new things.
I don't know any hardcore music enthusiasts now, all the ones I did know were from uni days a million years ago
Good luck with your second year, seems you're off to a great start :)
Who knows... Although I think we are decent enough to grow a sticky following, I'm never going to take it for granted. I'm sort of always surprised and grateful that there is more than family and a random stray dog each time I step out.
As long as you don't get used to the numbers XD I remember youngest and I watching a thing that Taraz often talks about (very quickly getting accustomed to better situations) from the perspective of an online content creator (mostly videos and whatever) where when they're tiny and have a handful of followers they can get back to everyone that commented and OMG 100 VIEWS THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH and then things snowball and then one day a million views is not enough XD
I don't think you'll get like that but apparently it's a thing that can happen