Catching up

Things are going well with the house concert series. We've taken everybody's advice and started this blog for the series instead of starting a new one for each show. We'll keep this URL and change the stuff in the sidebar with the info on the next scheduled event.

Some of you have been following this deal for the past year but most are probably new; Parke and Donna Hedges and Jimmie and I have this concept of having house concerts with all or mostly San Antonio musicians to help them expand their fanbase and sell albums. We're trying to perfect a way to make admission be tied to the purchase of the albums. It's a work in progress.

People see music as national and global but our real responsibility is to support music in our neighborhoods. It's a lesson from what's good about Tejano. This isn't a sudden passion, a lot of our family and friends, Mitch and Glenn and everybody, have been doing things along the lines of our old bumper sticker slogan "Support Live Music In San Antonio" as best we could for decades. It's just about plugging away at it.

We've now done these Sunday House Concerts with all San Antonio artists and we've done it with a bigger headliner and both have been attended about the same. We're experimenting to see what works and what doesn't work. It is nice to have someone from the national scene for our guys to share the stage with but that's going to be the exception and not the rule. After this Tim Grimm show the next one will mostly likely again be all San Antonio artists. After that we hope to see additional shows happening at other people's houses and expand the list of San Antonio artists who want to participate.

We're not gonna be heartbroken if it doesn't expand the way we think it can, lord knows we have hundreds of other projects going on, but you know..... it's moving in the right direction.

Parke and Donna Hedges are the heroes of this deal, they've been great.