Music+&+Live+Performance

=Music & Live Performance=


 * Track Page on SLCC Website**
 * Track Documents on Google Docs**

**Track Leader**
Katydid Something



Real world advertising executive Kathey Fatica (SL: Katydid Something) made her first forage into Second Life in September, 2006, with a curiosity of whether it was something she could market to her clients. Her company, Needham Fatica Advertising Agency, is located in Key West, Florida and works with many clients in the travel and tourism industry. Trying to reach a younger, technologically hip audience with disposable income by using new media has been one of the strategies of the agency. “I was intrigued with the medium first, then with the networking possibilities.”
 * Bio:**

As an experiment Katy opened a Second Life art gallery with images of her own real world artwork, sold matted and framed. Soon she opened two more galleries experimenting with different locations in SL. Her galleries are listed in the directory, Art Galleries of Second Life, the premiere listing of original art in SL. The success of her galleries has been marginal, which she attributes to, as any project, not spending the necessary time marketing. Her attention was drawn away from the art galleries by one of her previous loves, the love of acoustic music. As co-owner of Molaskey’s Pub, in August of 2006 Katy started booking Live Music at the Pub on Sunday afternoons. Soon she also had Monday evening shows going, too. “Live music attracts a lot of people in SL, I think because it is LIVE – the musicians are a real musicians, sitting in front of their computers with their guitars as if on stage, which, virtually they are. They can see the audience, take requests, and interact with people. The music is great, people react, chat with each other without disturbing the musician and really have a lot of fun. New people are always amazed when they finally understand that it is Live and not recorded.”

Now with about six Live Music shows a week at Molaskey's Pub, Katy has, herself, entered the world of the virtual entertainer. She performs only about once a week, drawing her influences from the folk/indie music of the ’60s and ’70s. She enjoys the times on the stage but gets frustrated with the lack of time for her mulitple lives! Learn more music or keep her real life clients happy... the clients who pay the bills usually win. She is proud to be the leader for this year's Live Music and Performance track and hopes she can fill last year's leader, Apple MacKay's shoes!

**Track Staff & Volunteers**
Apple MacKay Nasus Dumart gwampa Lomu Tamra Sands Ham Rambler Ayesha Lytton Amy Ferguson Edward Lowell Mia Kitchensink Spinweaver Radmussen Dann Numbers DFox Spitteler Brianna Beresford InWorld: Bree Birke

(Please be sure to list staff or volunteers who are assisting with your track here. They will also need to complete the Volunteer Form.)

Track Planning
We have had three general track meetings, the chat logs of which are posted in our SLCC Music Track Google Group: @http://groups.google.com/group/slcc-music. Our track is divided in to two aspects, Panels and Performances, and have separate groups working on each.

Panels
We have been granted time for 4 Panels and are working as a committee to decide which of the many topics to choose for the panels. (At the 2009 convention we presented 7 panels, all were well attended.)

Times for 2010 Panels are: 9:30 - 10:30 am 4:00 - 5:00 pm (would like to switch this time with Art, Machinima & Theatre to give musicians a little more time to prepare for evening performances beginning at 7:00)
 * Saturday**

11:00 - noon 2:00 - 3:00 pm
 * Sunday**

Performance
SL Musicians have traditionally been featured at the Blarney Stone On Tour, hosted by Ham Rambler. This year the general plan is to hold this on Thursday evening but a venue has not yet been decided.

The Saturday Evening event, which we understood we would produce, has been split into two events, the first hours to showcase musicians and the second portion to provide opportunity to dress to a theme and dance. While the music track understands the importance of including activities to satisfy the desires of //all// attendees, we are concerned that 2 separate events will tend to divide the group. We would rather have one event to be all inclusive -- alternate Live music with DJ and dance opportunities, along with comedy. Anyone who has experience with big parties knows that combining interests builds community and that's why we are here! Rather than have some of the people attend one event and others attend the other, we feel the it would be more successful, more dynamic and simply, more fun to have a combined event.

Because of the split in the Saturday night schedule, there is discussion to create a separate event on Friday evening, somewhere off-site and open to the public, to provide a place to showcase SL talent -- many who are traveling and attending so they can get to play, and would like to be able to do more than 2 songs (which is all we will have time to allow them to do at the Saturday event as it exists now.)

As of 7-1, Musicians who are registered or who are considering coming: Mash Rhode Edmund Collins Gandalf Mornington Debi Latte Dann Numbers Tamra Sands Jean Munro Katydid Something Stratus Mactavish Edward Lowell SpinWeaver Radmussen

Others who would love to come and perform but can't due to the cost of registration: The Follow CraigLyons Writer FunkyFreddy Republic