Shabby Road Beatles Bash

Well, after the super sweet involvement from musicians across the globe with the Johnny Cash Bash, we had to do another one...hence the Shabby Road Beatles Bash: a cover song challenge for any type of artist out there to record a Beatles cover tune.

Why include the word "Shabby" in the title, you ask? Check out the picture & watch the video for instructions (or read below if you like reading).

HUH? HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
1. Decide on a BEATLES cover tune you'd like to do and record it using 1 mic / 1 video / 1 take with the instrument of your choice (no edits for musicians but if you're a visual artist or dancer etc., you can be more creative)

2. Upload your video to Youtube and include the word TRIBEHOUSE in the title. (Eg. Tribehouse Beatles Bash "yellow submarine")

3. Hop on over to our Tribehouse Facebook event page and click on "ATTENDING".

4. Brush your teeth and hair. (optional)

5. Post your Youtube link on this event page and watch the comments soar in like a flock of eagles but watch your ego batman.

On July 4 we'll post all of the Youtube vids in a blog post. Don't worry, we'll send ya a link and post it here as well.

It'll be a fun little way to see people from all over the galaxy posting their versions of Beatles tunes and who knows, maybe we'll even have some posts from some visual artists & belly dancers.

Have phun.

Lottery Grants with CIRAA - C'mon, it's worth a try

by Nico Boesten

There are a few things that almost every independent artist loves: money, winning the lottery & a good acronym. Like CIRAA.

How about having all of them though. Allow myself to explain myself...

I just found a killer new program that the CIRAA (Canadian Independent Recording Artists' Association) is offering to indie musicians on a lottery basis called the Groundbreaker Grant.

Here's how it works:

You play a gig.
You signup and become a member of CIRAA (free).
You type in a couple of quick details about your gig(s).
20 people will be given a $100 grant (yup, free money) per month.

You can get up to $1200 this way per year and it takes like 3 minutes to put your info in there. And it's free.

All mind-blowing details here.

SOCAN also has some cool ways for you to make extra money on gigs you've already played but this is a new thing that's being introduced. Last I checked, CIRAA has about 4000 members so your chances of winning are (insert math equation here) pretty good I think. If you win or apply, let us know.

PS: If you don't know who the CIRAA is, it's similar to the CIA except it has nothing to do with spies, guns, black suits, movies, or highly classified operations. But they are both non-profits that are tied in to the government...

(from their site)
CIRAA is Canada's only national non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian independent recording artists. They are totally into:

1. promoting progressive Canadian Content rules that will ensure more airplay for emerging Canadian artists; and
2. working to secure increased funding for unsigned artists from government, private radio broadcasters and other players within the music industry infrastructure.

They also have a super helpful podcast where they interview professionals in the music industry who pass on tips about grants, booking, publicity, marketing, and a ton of others here.

Hope you find this helpful. If not, click here for a totally off-topic Sexy Sax Man viral video of the week.