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Festivals & Fun
* Reggae Festivals This Week
* Recipe From Jamaicans.com: Ginger Beer
* Fun & Games: What's Patois for an affectionate title for an old man?
(for answer, see below under Fun & Games)
The Business of Promoting Reggae
* News & Offerings: Israel's 1st Reggae Benefit & Speak to Reggae Fans
* Ask A Question: Got any tips on CD Cover Marketing Design?
* Marketing Tidbit: Flash Web Design: Pros and Cons
* About Reggae Festival E-Guide and Contact Us
Reggae Festivals This Week
Festival listings are believed to be correct. Please
contact the promoter directly for more information.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Peace and Unity Reggae Fest
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, U.S.
Hotline: 808-322-2628
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Charlemont Reggae Festival
Charlemont, Massachusetts, U.S.
www.charlemontreggaefest.com
Hotline: 413-367-9309
Saturday-Sunday, September 11-12, 2004
Trinity Tribal Stomp
Hayfork, California, U.S.
www.trinitytribalstomp.com
Hotline: 707-623-2656
Saturday-Sunday, September 11-12, 2004
Chicago West Caribbean/American Festival
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
www.martinsinterculture.com
Hotline: 312-427-0266
Saturday-Sunday, September 11-12, 2004
12th Annual San Antonio Legends of Rasta Reggae Festival
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
www.legendsofrastareggaefestival.com
Hotline: 281-893-0044
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Recipe From Jamaicans.com
Ginger Beer
www.jamaicans.com
Don't forget about the ginger root - it looks real ugly,
but gosh it sure is delicious mixed in with other ingredients -
especially sugar. There's even a ginger gelato at Trader
Joe's that is real delicious! In just about every culture
there is some form of ginger candy.
Ingredients
1 pound ginger
8 tablespoons of brown sugar
2 1/2 quart water
Directions
Puree ginger and water in blender.
Let it sit for a day.
Add sugar & mix (add more or less sugar based on your taste)
Best served with crushed ice. Serves 6-8.
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Fun & Games
What's Patois for an affectionate title for an old man?
"Tata"
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Reggae Festival Guide News & Offerings:
Israel's 1st Reggae Festival Benefit: Organizer Needs Your Help
Next summer in Israel, a Reggae Peace Festival is being organized to bring the
healing message of reggae to the holy land. Proceeds will go to organizations
such as ones which work with Palestinian and Jewish youth together in summer
camps. Kids arrive hating one another, and leave best of friends.
We need your suggestions, interest/support and sponsorships.
Contact Island Roots Galambos: 707-442-3857 | P.O. Box 4576, Arcata, CA 95518
Email: islandreggaehotmail.com
Speak to Close to 2,000 Reggae Fans by placing information
on your business in this E-Guide. For details please visit:
www.ReggaeFestivalGuide.com/eguide.html
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Ask A Question
Got any tips on CD Cover Marketing Design?
By Marc Gunn
Forward
This guy is a musician in a celtic band who is also a
marketing whiz; his band is sure lucky to have him! His
tips work well for any genre of music. He mentions other
music marketing gurus in this article - their links are
found at the end of this article.
One of the Brobdingnagian Bards' early CDs, Songs of the
Muse is going into it's second pressing. When I saw Christopher
Knab's article "Your CD Cover is Your Best Ad For Your
Music", I decided this was the perfect inspiration I needed
to update the CD graphics.
I've been a fan of Christopher Knab for about as long as I've
been a fan of Bob Baker. He is without a doubt one of the top
Top 10 music marketers in my book.
Well, whenever I create graphics, I find too often that I
forget a bunch of stuff. So this article serves as a great
checklist. But when I read Seth Godin's Best-Selling book,
Free Prize Inside, I realized that it was NOT a complete list!
In fact, the music industry in general has greatly missed out
on an amazing opportunity to better sell CDs.
The idea I got came from the backs of books. Go grab a best-seller
and turn it over. On the back, you will find the secret...
What did you find? You might've seen testimonials, a brief
description of the book, or maybe even an exerpt.
You see, one of the problems I found with Songs of the Muse is
that since we call our music "Celtic music." It wasn't till
much later that I realized that in the Celtic music tradition,
"songs" have lyrics and "tunes" are instrumentals. This album
is all instrumental. So it was poorly named for the "Celtic
music" world.
But if we use the back cover correctly, it doesn't matter!
The new back cover now lists songs titles along with a brief
description of the ideal person who will enjoy this CD. It
includes testimonials. And anyone who reads it will have all
doubt removed as to if this is a vocal or instrumental CD.
Use Christopher Knab's checklist for a better CD graphics.
Then think outside the box. What can you add to the cover that
will make this CD sell better than ever?
Christoper Knab of MusicBizAcademy.com
http://musicbizacademy.com/knab/
Seth Godin - Author of Best selling marketing book "Free Prize Inside"
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2004/07/thank_you.html
Bard Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards has helped
1000's of musicians save and make money with their musical groups
through his monthly newsletter, Bards Crier Music Marketing and
Promotion Ezine. Now you can get free "how-to" music marketing
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Marketing Your Reggae Biz Tidbit
Flash Web Design: Pros and Cons
By Mario Sanchez
Flash is a powerful web technology that achieves a high
level of visual impact from the graphical point of view.
Unfortunately, it is widely misused in web design. There are
still many problems with Flash, especially related to
usability and search engine behavior; we need to thoroughly
understand what those problems are before we decide to use
Flash for our site.
Click here to read the rest of this article
--Mario Sanchez is a Miami based freelance writer who
focuses on Internet marketing and web design topics. He
publishes The Internet Digest (http://www.theinternetdigest.net),
a growing collection of web design and Internet marketing
articles, tips and resources. You can freely reprint his weekly
articles in your website, ezine, or ebook.
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