Jansen Art Center
Lynden, WA:
JANSEN JAZZ BAND: Thursday, April 19, 7:30 PM
Join director Steve Herrick in the April performance of the Jansen Jazz Band, featuring drummer Eric Vanerstrom in Neal Hefty’s "Cute" - read more about the concert and link to buy tickets in this newsletter.
This Quiz Will Reveal What Your Punk Band's Name Should Be
5 signs your band is doomed
Does your musical project have an expiration date? For what seems like a lifetime, but is probably just a few short years, your band has been your life. Every waking hour is spent rehearsing, perfecting and writing your material, and every sleeping hour is spent dreaming of the next level of success. You’ve planned your …
Study Finds Most People Find Their Favorite Band At The Age Of 13
A new study has found that most people discover their favorite band at the age of 13.
Why Your Band Needs A Practice Schedule
As much as we’d all like to think that inspiration and the pure love of music is enough to keep us musicians motivated to practice, challenges like work, school, or relationships tend to get in the way of our goals. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then becoming a serious and
Why An All-Or-Nothing Approach Is Bad For Your Band
There’s something about making music that has the ability to bring out hard-line attitudes within a person. Maybe it’s because the process of writing music is often jarringly intimate and revealing for some of us, like an urgent accounting of how we truly perceive the world as human beings. Or perhaps the competitive you vs.
A Linguist Has Some Tips for Choosing Your Future Band Name
What the Who, Slayer, and Guns N’ Roses all have in common.
Why Trying To Be Different Might Make Your Band The Same As Everyone Else
Time and time again, the sort of music that finds its way to the top of relevance, prominence, and appreciation are ideas that manage to blend listenability with stark originality. When musicians create new, fresh musical ideas presented in accessible, engaging ways, listeners take notice. With this in mind, it makes perfect sense why so
How 11 Famous Bands Got Their Names
From wartime slang to public bathrooms, find out the surprising (and hilarious) ways these famous bands got their names.
How a New Band With No Fanbase Can Start Building Local Buzz
Use these field-tested tips to start building a buzz – and a career – around your music, even if you're just starting out.
Why Keeping A Band Together Is So Difficult
Music is one of the world’s most beloved and widely consumed art forms. It can do things like help us sleep, cope with a breakup, and give us the boost energy we need to focus while working at a boring job. But as vital as music is, most non-musicians ever consider how incredibly hard it
Can We Guess What Instrument You Played In Your High School Marching Band?
Nope: Why You Shouldn't Say ‘Yes’ To Everything In Music
There’s something so exciting about when a band transitions from looking for opportunities to getting asked to be a part of them. From other bands hoping you’ll open for them at a show to local nonprofits asking you to donate your music for a good cause, play music long enough and you’ll start to get
Simple Jazz Widget Tricks
This is a simple and quick post on how you can add a table to a widget on your Jazz dashboard. It is not rocket science (in fact it is just simple HTML), but it does allow you to show data that mi…
Why Balance Is Essential For A Successful Music Career
Balance is essential to the success of any band’s career. This article discusses in detail how to balance your music career, whether you’re just getting started or attempting to juggle an ongoing tour.
A Guide to the Hottest Icelandic Bands
The hottest Icelandic bands are a mix of some that you already know and others that you have probably never heard of.
How to Describe a Jazz Sound to Beginners with Adrian Barnett
When your saxophonists want to venture into the world of jazz, how do you give them a great start? It starts with their sound. Learn how to explain the
How to Bring Your ‘Jazz Brain’ to Work
Why this author says a 'jazz brain' can help you get a job and do yours better
Who knew? Scientists say sharks prefer jazz to classical
Australian scientists have discovered a little-known musical secret about sharks.
Want to do your job better? Use your ‘jazz brain’
Using your “jazz brain” to improvise can help you get a job, do it well and advance your career. Here’s how.
Is Your Band Sexist, or Are Womxn Just Annoying?
Is your band name sexist? Let’s find out!
