Bounce to SXSW: Your Help Needed!
Posted by emynd on | January 28, 2010 |
Just got this email from my buddy Rusty Lazer:
Hello from the Dirty South!
It’s Rusty Lazer (Jay to some of you!), and I’m writing a short letter for some big help!
The Bounce Music performers and promoters I work with here in New Orleans have been invited to a showcase at this year’s South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin to our great joy and surprise! They are all creators and originators of what we call Bounce, which has become the music of the streets of this city over a 20 year period of steady growth. Katey Red, DJ Jubilee, Big Freedia, Partners n’ Crime, Vockah Redu, Magnolia Shorty and Miss Tee are all going with us and we couldn’t be happier!
For those that don’t know, Bounce Music is merely the latest unique offering from a city that defines originality…taking its place among the many historical gifts of New Orleans. It contains elements of everything you’ve ever heard from here before…Voodoo chants, Mardi Gras Indian songs, Jazz, R&B, Soul, Brass Bands…these are its lineage and Bounce Music will, like its predecessors, define the music of the future of this city and possibly much more.
All of these artists are at the top of their game, but none are wealthy, and many have seen the fruits of their labors commercialized by hugely successful artists like Beyonce, Lil’ Jon and more. They don’t complain, they just continue to develop the soundtrack of our reconstruction, bring happiness to their fans and toil in virtual poverty. For a majority here, their music is what makes some of the challenges of post-Katrina life manageable.
Unfortunately, the conference doesn’t pay for any aspect of the event for artists, so bringing 10 rappers and just as many dancers, baton twirlers, DJ’s and more, not to mention leaving lucrative local performances for a weekend, is nearly impossible.
We don’t need much to do this right. Hotels and travel expenses are all we’re trying to cover. We’re asking for donations through an innovative website called Kickstarter which allows us to provide interesting premiums to accompany your donation, but we don’t receive any money if we don’t reach our goal of $1500 by March 1st!
You can see our Kickstarter page here, donate to our cause, and learn more about what we call “Bounce Music” and the people who make it!
Please spread it far and wide, and if you blog please get it up if you can as soon as possible! We’ve only got 1 month to pull off a lot!
Click Here to help support the cause!
Please help us out, and get some cool stuff in return. I for one am hoping for Katey Red’s voice on my outgoing message…stay tuned for that!
Feel free to write with any questions to rustylazer@gmail.com
Thanks everyone, and good day,
Rusty Lazer
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January 29th, 2010 @ 6:29 pm
put 50 on it! bounce at sxsw lets go!!
March 14th, 2010 @ 3:30 am
Hey when yall going to SXSW?? im locatd in austin, but from out that 9 tho, and ready to throw down for my bounce artist who’s comin out here….let me kno what date that is!