Our inaugural entry for this category is the City of North Miami, Florida. As we worked in the community to help assist with revitalization and redevelopment, we started looking for things that were present, but unseen, and making connections to them. As I started looking, the connections quickly became apparent. I realized that as a musician, I visited North Miami to rehearse. To record. To buy my gear. To get my gear serviced and to shoot the...
There are many types of musician entrepreneurs. They go into ventures that are as diverse as there are genres of music. They include investments in record labels and production, real estate, beer and spirits and many other industries. But our interest is in those musician entrepreneurs that build brands around places. Places where people can engage with each other as part of a community, and places that contribute to the area as a whole. Sammy...
Often, songs are the connection that people make to a place, either through an event that happened while the song was playing, and sometimes because the song itself is about a place where the lister would rather be. Our first entry on this list defines placemaking through song, because it started only as an idea of a place, a fantasy of an ideal place that for its legions of fans became a defining lifestyle. It also eventually became real...
There are some music related businesses that help define TheMusicCities. These are places that even non-musicians seek out or find when they are visiting these places and are embedded as part of the city's character. Our inaugural list of businesses that help define music cities is: Ernest Tubb's Record Store (Nashville) Gruhn's Guitars (Nashville) The Haight Ashbury Music Center (San Fransisco) Rudy's Music Soho (New York City) Goner Records...
