New Article on Windsorite: Local Musicians Move Upstream With Online Performances
Crissi Cochrane
“As musicians around the world face uncertain times, two local artists have come inside and gone online. Crissi Cochrane and Soul Brother Mike are showing that Covid-19 can’t stop the music. Streaming live concerts on the Soul City Music Co Op’s website, the husband and wife are adapting to life in lockdown.”
I extend my warmest thanks to Marc Rocheleau at WindsoriteDOTca for taking the time to prepare an article about Mike and I and our live-streams! Marc has been a tremendous supporter of our music community, and he always asks thought-provoking questions that make me realize new things about myself and the things that I do. I really enjoyed sharing some thoughts with him - and hearing Mike’s thoughts too - about our transition into regular live-streaming entertainment.
You can read the article on WindsoriteDOTca here:
Local Musicians Move Upstream With Online Performances
I’m having one of those weeks where I feel like there are so many little updates that I want to share on social media, but I have to resist the urge to share everything all at once! Which is why I’m very glad that my blog exists, so that I can be your one-stop-shop if you’re curious about my goings-on!
First off… my very first ever remix for “Only You & Me”, produced by Rel McCoy, drops on Friday! I’m so in love with the romantic, sultry, dreamy vibe of this track, and can’t wait to get it out into the world. I’ve always wanted to hear how a remix artist would re-imagine some of my work, and this just completely surpassed my expectations. It is SO COOL.
Secondly, my song “Hungry Love” made it into the Top 30 East Coast Music chart on 97.5fm Community Radio in Nova Scotia! Thank you to all who voted to hear me in the Top 30! I just barely squeaked in, entering the chart at number 30, but I’m hoping that my tune got heard by some new listeners who’ll help me stay in the chart next week! You can help too, by voting over at communityradio.ca. The list itself is a great discovery tool for new music releases.
Thirdly, we’ve been having a lot of talks about Bandcamp lately, as they’ve been doing these occasional days where they forgo their revenue share, or they donate it to a charity. And while that’s a great thing, it’s gotten us to think about the fact that they take a significant share of our music sales every other day of the year. I do appreciate the platform that Bandcamp provides, but I’ve decided to no longer give them exclusive domain over my early folk/pop releases, the Pretty Alright EP (2011) and my debut album, Darling, Darling (2010). Those will still be available to stream on Bandcamp, but if you want to purchase those, you can do so directly from me in my web shop, where I get to keep 100% of the revenues. If ever you’d like to purchase digital downloads of my music, PLEASE head to my shop first, because that’s the way that supports me the most.
I’m sure there are other things to share, but for now I’ll leave off and get into some work for my Soul City fam! I’ve got to make some one-sheets for Dane Roberts and The Family Soul, to go along with digital submissions to campus radio that I’ll be sending out before the end of the month. Busy bee!