Date: October 14, 2014
Venue: The Bitter End (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Announcement From c3 (The Content Creators Coalition)
“Google is in the process of systematically destroying our artistic future… if the creative community doesn’t intervene now, and by now, I mean, fucking now — we will be bound to a multigenerational clusterfuck that will take 40 to 50 years to unravel.” – Kurt Sutter Attacks Google: Stop Profiting from Piracy (Guest Column) | Variety
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
I really the time has come that all musicians of any genre should understand and accept their status of being a worker or of an employee.
Whenever and wherever they play in front of people – they as a matter of fact – WORK! Composing, rehearsing, whatever they musically do is work. Whoever pays a musician or band is the employer and the musician/band, who receives the money or check, is the employee. According to labor law this is a fact and musicians have to accept that a.s.a.p.!
There’s no reason for a musician to play free in public any more!
Yesterday I went to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant information session. I was told when I receive a grant of x dollars and it’s for a music project, I’m supposed to pay the participating musicians from my grant money. Fortunately, there are some institutions in this city who understand that musicians can’t work free for their work and artistic contribution.
