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This is part 2 of my post from earlier in the week. It’s going to explain the technical aspects of streaming from different configurations. This is the information that everybody wants, but everybody wishes wasn’t so complicated. Let’s dive in.

If you are going to make internet live streaming an integral part of your career…

Music in the age of Covid-19 – Streaming and more

When I started heavily promoting live streaming back in 2015, I knew it was going to be an important part of our future. Little did I realize it would become an essential technology for so many people just a few years later. I won’t lie. It’s been a hard sell. Humans instinctively hate and fear change and creative people sometimes have a phobia about technology that can hamstring them when they…

Alan Rowoth/Big Orange Tarp – FAI 2020 Rm 1227

This is the first time I have run a full showcase schedule at FAI. The lineup is incredible, featuring over 120 of the finest musicians I know. Many wonderful Canadian artists, guests from Cuba, Spain, Ireland, Australia and more. Great singers, virtuoso instrumentalists, and incredible songwriters. They range in age from 12 to 70+…

Vote Now in the Board Election

Confused? You are not alone,,,

A number of people have complained that they are having trouble trying to vote for me in the ongoing Folk Alliance Board Election. I just did a dozen text searches of the website and there is very little information regarding the board election, no announcement of the final slate of candidates or information on voting in the 2020 board election. Nothing in the…

Alan Rowoth & Sally Johnson Present: Big Orange Tarp – NERFA 2019 Fiske Rm

I’ve been crazy busy this summer. I wanted to do my usual post with all live links to the artists websites, but I just ran out of time. You guys know how to use google. Anyway, Sally and I are super excited about all the fine talent we get to present to you this year!  Here is the list with a handful of videos to whet your appetite. BTW. I am running once again for the Board of Directors of Folk…

Live Streaming – What’s Next?

I’ve been beating the drum about live streaming for a while.I think it may be a way forward for the musicians whose careers were decimated by the loss of CD revenue. Uptake has been slower than I expected in this community. It does represent a shift in the way we do things. And the loss of the immediate crowd can be hard for…

Into the Heart of Yoga with Allie Sibner – Rishikesh, India 2019

I’ve intended to do an in depth travelogue of this trip since my return to the USA in April. I want to share all the minutia with you, but I’ve had writers block. I finally realized I had to preface that with the meta story of why the trip was so powerful.

My deep dive Into the Heart of Yoga with Allie Sibnerwas the greatest vacation of my life. That may sound crazy as I am an atheist, and had…

Making Music Together. The value of Social Music.

The first music was social music. Scientists have found musical instruments dating back 40,000 years or more, but anthropologists feel music is much older, maybe as much as half a million years, predating any recorded history, perhaps even language itself. There is something very elemental about making and sharing music.

My earliest musical experiences were my grandmother singing me to sleep.…

Alan Rowoth & Sally Johnson Present: NERFA2018 BOT Showcase.

Fiske Room (Big Orange Tarp showcase) I will update this with artist links before the conference.

Fri aft 2-2:45 Zoe Mulford, Emily White, Marc Douglas Berardo 2:45-3:30 Black Feathers, Emerald Rae, Jude Roberts 3:30-4:15 Alyssa Dan, Quentin Callewaert, Fiora Laina 4:15-5:00 Ronny Cox and the Heather Pierson Trio

Fri nite 11:45-12:30 Neale Eckstein and friends 12:30-1:00 Matt Nakoa, Lisa Bastoni,…

Big Orange Tarp at FARM 2018

It’s been nearly 20 years since I attended Folk Alliance Regional Midwest (FARM). It was pretty anemic in those early days. (No juried showcases, no presenter presence…) it fell off of my annual calendar. But when I won conference admission in a raffle last year, I knew it was time to give it another try.

I’m not presenting a…

Big Orange Tarp at FarWest Folk Alliance 2018

I will be attending my second FarWest Folk Alliance this weekend in Woodland Hills, California. I’ll be doing my workshop “7 Ways to Monetize the Internet (for Musicians)” at 1pm on Friday in the Hollywood Room.

I will also be showcasing half a dozen of my favorite musicians in the Access Film Blue Room.

Big Orange Tarp Presents:

Friday 11:30-midnight Jaeger & Reid, Ernest Troost, Uncle Bonsaiin…

7 Ways to Monetize the Internet (for Musicians)

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Alan Rowoth’s Big Orange Tarp @ SWRFA 2018

I am super psyched to be returning once again to the Southwest Regional Folk Alliance in Austin TX this coming weekend. I will be doing one on one mentoring in the Elm Room on Friday 1:30-3pm. And a workshop on Saturday morning 10:00-11:30am (also in the Elm Room) “7 Ways to Monetize the Internet”.

And I’m proud to be showcasing these outstanding artists in my Big Orange Tarp showcase in the…