I just spent a week in Jinja, Uganda, speaking as part of the Doadoa East African Performing Arts Market. I gave a presentation about music marketing. It was, it has to be said, a very different presentation about music marketing than the one I gave at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival the previous weekend – though [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: music business, Uganda, unconvention
I was invited to Uganda today. I suspect somebody pulled out or became unavailable at the last minute, but as it turns out, I’ll be at Un-Convention 49: Doadoa, East African Performing Arts Market ’13 from the 6th to the 11th of May. I’ve travelled a fair bit, but I’ve never been to Africa and [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: Africa, surprise, Uganda, unconvention
If you’ve been following along with this blog for any time at all, you’ll know that I’m involved with and a big supporter of Un-Convention, who organise grassroots and independent music knowledge and networking events around the world. They asked me to do a video for the Un-Convention Hub website, and just answer a few [...]
Categories: Video
Tagged: unconvention
About six weeks ago, I went to Venezuela with some friends and colleagues for Un-Convention Caracas. I shot some video while I was there, and you can find them here. But the official video – complete with translation – is now available. You can watch that here.
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
