Cath Roberts Newsletter: Spring 2020.
Friday, May 01, 2020
Saxophonist Cath Roberts has forwarded her latest newsletter including details of new live recordings available via Bandcamp.
Cath Roberts writes;
Cath Roberts Newsletter: Spring 2020
Hello
Welcome to my broadly-seasonal email newsletter, Spring 2020 edition. Hope everyone is okay. I don’t have much to report at the moment with everything on hiatus, but as usual you can always keep up with what goes on (if anything) between these emails by checking in on my website and/or following me on Twitter.
New live recordings Bandcamp site
With all live music off for a while yet, I’m working on a new project that looks back at the gigs I’ve been a part of over the past few years. My hard drives are full of audio from past concerts, and in normal times I hardly ever had time to listen to them. In lockdown, or at least in the rare moments that I’m able to focus on working at something, there’s time to have a good dig around in the files and listen back to some sets. I’ve set up a new Bandcamp site that will act as a kind of scrapbook of old and raw live recordings from my archive. This will be a slow burner, but the first two recordings are up now - a solo set and a duo set with Seth Bennett, both from 2016. All the music on this site will be ‘name your price’, so there’s the option to pay on the door for these old gigs. The money will be split equally between the musicians on the recording.
https://cathrobots.bandcamp.com/
Recommendations for this Friday
As you may be aware of from seeing a billion social media posts, Bandcamp are giving artists some extra support during the pandemic by waiving their commission on the first Friday of the month in May, June and July. We have something in the pipeline at Luminous HQ for the July one, so keep an eye out for that. And as today is May 1st, I thought I’d pull together a few recommendations of music to check out and support some artists close to my heart. Head to my blog to read the post and check out some sounds. If you’re able to support artists by buying music, these fee-waiver days are a great time to do it!
http://cathrobertsmusic.co.uk/blog/2020/05/01/new-live-recordings-site-and-some-bandcamp-recommendations/
Thanks for reading. At this point I usually say ‘see you out there’, but for now I’ll say stay safe! And hope to see you at a gig in the hopefully-not-that-distant future.
Take care,
Cath