I’ve reached a point in my life where it makes sense to downsize, so with some reluctance I’m parting with a lot of musical instruments and equipment that I’ve collected over many years. Some of these items will be appearing soon on eBay, but in the meantime, here’s a list:

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Troubadour Blues received two great reviews (with some video excerpts) on the Americana music website, No Depression. Read Easy Ed’s review here. A review by Terry Roland can be found here.

While you’re at it, look around the site. It is a great community of musicians, writers, and music-loving folks of all kinds, and it has some videos that you can’t see anywhere else.

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In the short time since Troubadour Blues had its World Premiere at the Buffalo International Film Festival, the documentary has been getting some great press from newspapers and bloggers alike. I’ve put together a press kit in PDF form, which you can download here. It’s small enough to e-mail, so please send it on to your friends or anybody who you think could help promote the film.

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FAVORITES AROUND THE WEB

DIRT AND SEEDS is an excellent blog by multiple contributors that covers music, culture, politics and education. They recently reviewed my film Troubadour Blues.

“Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul” is a great new book by Orly Ravid of The Film Collaborative, together with DIY marketing pioneers Jon Reiss and Sheri Candler. Bare-bones PDF version, without images or links, is available FREE through this link.

“Think Outside the Box Office” author Jon Reiss, on how he would release and promote his film “Bomb It!” if he were doing it today. Sage advice from one of the pioneers of grassroots movie distribution.

My presentation from the 2011 University Film and Video Association conference, on “How Not to Make a Documentary.”

 


        


I'm a filmmaker and teacher with a passion for music and 40 years' experience in audio/video production, journalism and graphic design. My feature-length documentary, Troubadour Blues, was released in September 2011. I'm working on another film about "hidden musicians" in local music scenes across the USA. I am a native of western Pennsylvania and currently live in Pittsburgh.

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