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RE: Success! I’m Teaming Up With Five Local Music Influencers To Launch a Steem-Powered Venue in Raleigh :-)
This is awesome. I'm involved in DIY music in NYC, been touring in bands & reieasing music for other artists via a label I run for years and the possibilities here in terms of Steem facilitating "tactile" projects are extremely appealing to me. I'm involved in a space here called Silent Barn in which a team of developers here launched an independent fundraising platform called withfriends.io. I think the real future of underground arts will utilize both models & clearly the relationship to monetized content is amazing for creatives. When are you planning on opening? I travel to Raleigh often & would be stoked to hit a show.
Nice dude I've been to several shows at The Silent Barn, you are legendary! I used to live in Brooklyn before moving down here (rent is $300 per month for me here, soooo yea lol)
This specific idea of opening a steem-powered venue hasn't really panned out - but I'm already moving on to new stuff. Right now we're using a decentralized process to create the definitive "Musician's Guide for Steemit" to help other musicians join on here.
I feel like Steemit is a huge resource for the kind of thing that Silent Barn stands for - empowering DIY musicians regardless of personal identity, social status, etc. Any musician with a computer, regardless of their personal story or situation, can get on here and start earning money to improve their life (or fund music projects, etc)
I basically see Steem as a giant bucket of money that I'm trying to funnel into the DIY music scene as hard as I can haha
Please do be in touch when you're planning to come to Raleigh next, dude! I live right near downtown within striking distance of at least half a dozen great indie-minded venues. We should definitely grab coffee next time you come down here, it sounds like we have a lot in common.
Love it dude & im with you on all points. Even if the venue doesn't pan out it's a great thought experiment at minimum. Truly a big future here for the arts especially DIY music. I'll be in touch no doubt!