So yesterday it was announced that the Iguana Fund from Club
Passim has privileged little old me with a grant so that I can be able to carry
out a project that I have been mulling over in my head for a long while. Before
we get into the details of that…here is a little more about the fund itself:
The Iguana Music Fund was established in 2008 after a
generous donor decided that he wanted to help artists pursue their musical
goals. Artists often have the talent and ideas to create incredible music, but
they do not always have the financial capacity to do so. To help musicians
overcome financial limitations, the Iguana Music Fund awards annual grants
worth between $500 and $2,000 to artists with a residential or tour-based
affiliation to New England.
For more information on the fund, previous winners, how to
apply and all of that goodness head over to the site and read up! http://www.clubpassim.org/about-fund
And while you are over at the Passim site, consider signing up for a membership!
Now back to business, back in August I applied for the grant
on a whim. A friend of mine had won the grant the year previous to fund a new
tour van. That’s what I think is so great about the Iguana Fund, they are
helping people with their musical aspirations but the spectrum of what they
choose is so varied. So I thought “ehhh, 5 minutes to fill out a form to
potentially work on what I consider to be a really great idea come to fruition. Why
not?” What is that idea? I am glad you asked!
My proposal to the committee was to record an album of some
of the brightest local songwriters covering songs from some of their favorite
local songwriters. Yes, I realize this was just recently done (see https://www.facebook.com/BostonDoesBoston),
but I am hoping this will add to that sentiment from a different “pool” within
our vast music community here in town. I felt that my proposal gives me an
opportunity to help bring light to a larger range of musicians in town, rather
than just one artist or group and will be a really wonderful community building
event. I am really blessed that I have been given the opportunity by the Iguana
Fund and Passim to make this happen.
From first glance and a quick and dirty budget look, I
believe that the grant will allow me to record a compilation consisting of 10
songwriters covering a song each. That money will need to stretch across
tracking, mixing, mastering, and a short hardcopy run of the project. I have
already been lucky enough to have a studio to work with called Riverview
Studios in Waltham (https://www.facebook.com/RiverviewStudios)
owned by my good friends Sam Margolis and Andrew Kramer.
Thank you all for the support over the past 10 months of the
existence of this blog. The fact that people are actually reading this stuff
really makes it worthwhile to embark on this project and makes me truly feel inspired
and motivated to pursue this!
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