Building a Different Band: Indie Networking

If you are an Indie artist, you have probably familiarized yourself with words such as ‘solo’, ‘isolated’, and ‘individual.’  However, this can be a detriment to you.  Indie musicians, because of the career path they have chosen can find great benefits in finding others with like minds that want to communicate and collaborate with projects.

Indie musicians should create local groups to connect with other musicians to share information and promote each others music. This includes inviting people that work in the local music scene to your group sessions. Connecting with like-minded individuals can be a benefit to your music career.

You can set up meetings in coffee shops, libraries or restaurants every three months just to discuss music, new techniques, new business models and the administrative side of music. You can post notifications for these meetings on MySpace, Craigslist or other community bulletin boards that’s in your town so that people can be notified about your meeting.

You can have an informal meeting or run by a very loose agenda with music related topics. You can have a social session, have someone bring in a guitar and then get into talking about tips and tricks that will assist each other in the career of music.

The Indie brainstorming concept is about getting to the core of possibilities and initiating solutions! The group becomes deeply a part of each other and they may learn, work and grow together in many areas of the music world or complete a project and provide each other support it’s great to have a group of people that sincerely care about you and what you are doing!

In your local circle, try to establish an Indie Music Networking Group. It pays great dividends!