Welcome to the Virginia Ave Music Forum

Hello. Thanks for tuning in! Welcome to the Virginia Ave Music Forum podcast. I’m really excited to present this Podcast to you. These episodes were all recorded at the 5th annual Virginia Ave Music Fest back in May of 2019. As a big 5th anniversary treat, the fest founders (Mike & Pat also from Square Cat vinyl) wanted to do something special for the Fest’s fans & attendees. Along with 5 fantastic days of independent music, they tasked me with creating the forum. So across 4 days, I organized 11 panels (stared ones are the panels you'll be able to listen to): Music & Social Justice * Music Licensing * All Ages Music Community * Live Performances * Classical Music Indy * WFYI Public Media Home Recording * Music Business 101 * Girls Rock Indy * Vinyl Music Videos Personally, I had a fucking blast with this! Sure, maybe I chose topics that I find super interesting… but also, I purposely chose those topics to cover as many relevant areas as possible. I wanted the panels to be interesting for fest attendees, as well as being beneficial for independent musicians from across the region. We were only able to get quality audio from 8 of them, but I really think you’re going to enjoy the conversations. The panelists mostly came from Indy… but we were privileged to bring in some brilliant friends from around the region as well. For now, the Virginia Ave Music Fest is no more. But fear not, the guys that brought you that fest aren’t done yet. Check out their new venture, Interstellar Overdrive Events. Through this brand they’ll be bringing Indy a variety of events with music from a lot of genres FB: Interstellar Overdrive Events IG: Interstellar Overdrive Events As for me. I’m working on some ideas to continue to help Indiana musicians, and maybe one day independent musicians from other cities. I’m still getting the plan for that together, but for now you can follow me along too FB: Headlong IG: Headlong Media IG: Me - Jeff This podcast isn’t really brought to you buy anyone. I didn’t get any funding or a sponsor to put this out. It’s just the Fest and me. It was recorded by the great team from Pioneer (R.I.P.), and then mixed, tracked, edited, and put together by me. So if you do wanna sponsor it…please let me know! Any money received for this project will first go to the artists whose songs are featured in each episode, and then into future projects that Interstellar Overdrive and Headlong work on. Now…let’s get into it. Thank you so much for listening. In these 8 episodes I hope you have some fun, learn something, and get motivated to push your own music career further. Please reach out to us on social media if you have any questions or wanna continue any of the conversations.