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The article in the Ticket is out!

Thanks so much, Dawn E. Scire, for the wonderful writeup in the Ticket on Thursday.  The submissions are starting to roll in!

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091119/ARTICLE/911191033/2406/FEATURES?Title=Local-beats

NOISE ORDINANCE

On a California vacay, Elysian Sex Drive drummer Claire Franklin thought of Sarasota/Bradenton’s growing original music scene. “Everybody’s really supportive of everybody,” she said, “and it seems to be like a ‘family’ kind of thing, you know. And I just figured, ‘What better way to, kind of, embrace that than by putting everybody together on a CD and letting everybody kinda cross-promote each other?’” As owner of Blue Medusa Studios, she’ll oversee/produce the compilation, and already conducted a Facebook naming contest. Attorney Barbara Day Welsh chose the most popular entry: “Noise Ordinance.” (Welsh gets mentioned in the credits and a free copy.) Of the disc’s namesake, Franklin said, “It’s caused a lot of things to get shut down and go away. It’s just been a problem. Kind of, naming the CD ‘Noise Ordinance,’ I thought, ‘That’s just so fitting because that really has been the one common thread throughout all these years in Sarasota music — the Sarasota noise ordinance hangin’ over everybody’s head!’ ” Franklin envisions a “wild assortment” of musical styles on the disc (or two discs if interest is considerable), with each participant sharing printing costs (estimated at “well under $100 per band”) and getting an equal number of finished CDs when done. Interested original music makers, sponsors, whomever, may find contact/submission data at www.noiseordinance.wordpress.com.

We are launched!

Hey, everyone! We are officially launched. The project details and information on how to submit are up.. Check out the “THE SKINNY” and “Submit Here!” pages on the menu (top right). 

Plus: Dawn Scire is going to write about this project in her weekly column. Be sure to pick up this Thursday’s copy of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s TICKET. Thanks, Dawn!

The CD has a name!

Congratulations to Barbara J. Welch for submitting the winning entry through our little Facebook contest to “name that cd!”  The Sarasota music compilation cd will officially be called “Noise Ordinance.” 

I think this is a perfect name since the one thing that has tied all us SRQ musicians together over the years is that pesky noise ordinance. Yet, despite that annoyance Sarasota has still managed to host a diverse and fantastic music scene. So, let the games begin!