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Some of you may recall that I participated in an episode of The Late Show with Angelico Babii on 5 May. I’ve just received the news that the episode has been posted. You can find the show at Metaverse-tv.com and at Metaversetv.Blip.tv.

Here’s the video as it stands. Angelico told me that there may be additional editing (sound effects, transitions, and such). I think it stands well as a top-notch show, though!

Update: Apparently this show widget may automatically update to new shows when they add them. If you see a different episode in the player and want to find the episode with my tunes, please visit Metaverse-tv.com and look for the show featuring Ham Rambler.

Blarney Stone Irish Bar

I will begin my day at 7 a.m. [SL time] at the Blarney Stone Irish Bar in Dublin. Yes, I know it’s very early to be finding the pub, but artists recently have been invited to sing at this earlier time so that the UK and European folks can enjoy some live music.

About Dublin in SL

From their web site:

Dublin in SL was designed to be photorealistic, to give a sense of a real place. Dublin in SL has been praised by real Dubliners for its realism and accuracy: “It’s just like being there!”

I-World Music Festival

I will also be performing at the I-World Music Festival at 9 a.m. SLT. This event is in conjunction with the opening of the I-World Island sim. According to Matthew Linden:

…we’ve been thinking about what more our team can do and part of our efforts is to establish I-World Island, a place where we will try to offer additional signposting and guidance for some of the in-world issues that occur.

To officially unveil the island, on Saturday 5th 19th April, we are hosting the I-World Music Festival and want to offer you the opportunity to tune in to our broadcast (stream details to follow) or to drop in on us at I-World Island and enjoy some live music over the course of 24 hours from Midnight PST until Midnight PST…

The broadcast stream

If you are unable to get onto the island for some reason, you are encouraged to listen via the broadcast stream. http://38.96.148.22:4240 This is playable via WinAmp or iTunes.

Land owners are encouraged to set their land media to the stream, as well.

The performance roster

Throughthesewalls Moody is our musician hostess today. On behalf of the many musicians participating, I’d like to thank her for her efforts and dedication to this event. She shared this lineup with us:

12am Mikelec Criss
1am Jackdog Snook
2am Cromwell Hoobinoo
3am Dann Numbers
4am Allister Westland
5am Phemie Alcott
6am Lacoppia
7am Spaceman Opus
8am Erin68 Frog & Satin Galli
9am Rich Desoto
10am POL Arida
11am Jean Munro
12pm Shamanes
1pm Kaklick Martin
2pm SRV4U Conacher
3pm Virtual Live Band
4pm Jaycatt & Frogg Marlow
5pm Friendly Fire
6pm Kyle Beltram
7pm Zed Essex
8pm Forsythe Whitfield
9pm Kelvinblue Oh
10pm Tallguy Kidd
11pm Von Johin

CD Give Away Contest

I invite everybody to check out my show Audio Gumshoe. On the most recent episode I play selections from seven independent artists and offer you the opportunity to win a copy of their individual CDs.

The musicians

Included in the contest are discs from:

• David Martin
• Arianna Solare
• Edible Red
• Devil Doll
• Sky Cries Mary
• Dive Index
• The Handcuffs

Special opportunity

There’s also a chance to win a CD from Grammy nominated artist Alice Smith.

The show site and player

For the details, visit AudioGumshoe.com.

Here’s the contest form.

Machinima Contest

The people at Koinup.com are offering 20,000L and a MachinimaCam to the winner of a contest they are sponsoring. Complete rules and details can be found at the Koinup announcement page.

Basically they say:

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features your first 100 days in Second Life, or create a whole story, directing other avatars! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow, Just remember to add your video a good soundtrack!

They require this to be a music video. You can use Creative Commons based tracks or, if you wish, tracks from some artists in SL that have agreed to provide music for the project (including yours truly).

Regarding the music

Here are the links to download:

• Dizzy Baio (together with: Funk Shepherd)
• Lyn Carlberg
• Melanie Fudge
• Rich Palmer
• Kim Seifert

Pay attention:
you can use these songs, but only for the contest.
you have to type credits (authors, titles and links of the tracks you have used)

If you want use other music, we highly suggest to use only contents released with Creative Commons licences. You can find good sources of CC music here:

http://ccmixter.org/ 
http://creativecommons.org/audio 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts 

Get full details and rules at Koinup.com.

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Collaboration across continents

Recently, many Second Life musicians collaborated in a project to build awareness to music in the virtual world. Djai Skjellerup penned a song called “Get It Together.” With the engineering and production magicianship of Toby Lancaster, the song came together with the talents of the many musicians participating.

The launch

On Saturday, 22 March 2008, the song was revealed to a very full Nitida Ridge sim in Second Life. The crowd was extremely appreciative (and somewhat overwhelmed?) by the scope of the project. The launch of the song followed a full day of performances by many of the collaborators and other active Second Life musicians.

Info About the Musicians Involved

The Get It Together Widget

To help spread the word, I developed this widget. Please click the “share” link in the bottom right corner to get the code for use on your favorite site!

Today I have no voice. This is indeed one of the worst days not to be able to sing. I am scheduled for performances at the Relay for Life Clothing Fair, thesixtyone.com/Get It Together parties, and at the Music Awareness marathon event being held at Money Island.

There is simply nothing coming from the pipes. They rusted. What a drag.

Please support these events, regardless.

Relay for Life Clothing Fair

Many live musicians on the schedule. DimiVan Ludwig will be playing at noon SLT.
Clothing Fair Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Discover/70/185/28

100th Bump Bomb and Get It Together Parties

Here’s the lineup for thesixtyone/Get It Together event:
08.00am Kourosh Eusebio
09.00am Beth Odets
10.00am JueL Resistance
10.30am Leslee McCarey
11.00am Neil Morrison
12.00pm Mel Cheeky

Get It Together Launch Party
1.00pm Zak Claxton
1.30pm Rich Desoto — (oops)
2.00pm Lyn Carlberg
2.30pm Mimi Carpenter
3.00pm Kim Seifert
3.30pm Djai Skjellerup and Toby Lancaster
4.00pm Premiere of “Get It Together” (this is the song that many of us around the world collaborated on with Djai and Toby. I played bass, provided some vocals and - ahem - tambourine)

4.30pm the Professor
5.00pm Von Johin
6.00pm Closing act with Dolmere Talamasca and Mimi Carpenter

Here are the Slurls to this event: Euclidia (stage) side: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Euclidia/5/151/216 and Nitida (walk through the trees) side: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nitida/239/101/228/

Music Awareness 48 Hour Event

48 Hours of Live Music in SL! March 21st 7 pm - March 23rd 8pm!
Money Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Money%20Island/241/102/22

Many apologies

My apologies to the many planners of these events. I simply do not like to cancel anything I schedule.

I posted a show at Audio Gumshoe tonight featuring Second Life musician Dan Octavia. Dan McCall is his real name and he has an album called “Wait With Me” available at several online retailers (as well as from his site).

If you’d like to hear the show, please visit Audio Gumshoe or listen via the player here. Don’t forget to subscribe for FREE so that you never miss an episode!

I want to share with you the music of Grace Buford (Cylindrian Rutabaga). I just love this woman’s voice, her soul, her passion, and most certainly her music.

From time to time I will be sharing links of other Second Life musicians on my blog. It just seems right to share this community of talented musicians. To use this “widget” just click on the button above the prices. You can forward to the next tune and you can purchase individual song downloads or the entire album! These prices are probably some of the best you will find for her tunes online. Support the artists; buy their tunes!
Grace Buford

My new release will also be on this system in the near future. In the meantime, how about buying some safety songs for the kids in your life?
Rich Palmer