cmc live spring tour twenty-twelve!!

Blog-reading friends!

Welcome.

Our weeks here are super jammed packed between classes; managing artists; tour planning and preparation. We spend hours upon hours doing what we love. For the artists, that includes songwriting, rehearsing with a full band (made up of any combination of the 28 of us), performing each week, and recording what they’ve written in our own recording studio! Tech students are always in the mix as they do all of the technical aspects for our live shows (lighting, audio, stage crew…) as well as producing, engineering and mixing tracks in the studio.

Everybody has been working extra hard to prepare for our big project for the semester—a live tour! (no joke, we get to hit the road in a bus & show everyone what we’ve been up to…I’m so excited). Business students like me have been non-stop preparing for everything tour related. We are in charge of everything from budgeting to booking hotels to publicizing in every way possible and more.

(my roomie rachel crafted these incredible posters..& the logo below!)

Last week, we presented everything we’ve done for tour to Nashville local Ryan Lampa (Tour and Road Manager for tobyMac and brother to recording artist Rachael Lampa). He was encouraging in the advice he gave and was impressed by the work we’ve put in, so far. It was very helpful and inspiring to hear from someone who has done nearly every job on the road from the time he was very young. Later in the day, Lampa shared about the ups and downs of the various jobs he’s held in the industry as well as stories about road life with tobyMac and the Diverse City Band. (Did I mention he looks about 30 & came over on a motorcycle? rad.)

Since coming to CMC, we have heard our share of cautionary tales of the industry along with very humorous stories from industry folks themselves.

After 28 or so hours of tour rehearsal at Libscomb University, this weekend, we are all ready and raring to get this show on the road! We leave early Thursday morning and have our first stop in Indiana, that night!

Below is the official CMC Spring Tour 2012 press release that I put together and sent out to each of our venues…

NASHVILLE MUSIC PROGRAM SENDS STUDENTS ON MIDWEST SPRING TOUR

The Contemporary Music Center gives students the opportunity to share their semester of experiences with their peers by visiting college campuses and venues from March 29-April 3.

Nashville, Tenn –March 16, 2012 –With a truck filled to the brim with a state of the art sound system, lighting rig, professional video and killer gear, and a bus filled with 30 Christian college students like you, the CMC is hitting the road on its bi-annual college campus tour. CMC students will play an action-packed concert of original pop, rock, folk, indie and electronic music to audiences throughout the Midwest and will play alongside some of the campus's best original bands.

The Contemporary Music Center (CMC) is a semester off-campus study program for music students from across the country. The CMC is located just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and provides students the completely hands-on experience of planning and executing a week-long tour to various cities.

The tour will take place for just one week, so don’t miss live shows at the following venues:

CMC Live Spring Tour 2012 (all dates subject to change)

March 29—Indiana Wesleyan University/Marion, IN

March 30—The Union/Naperville, IL

March 31—Trinity International University/Deerfield, IL

April 1—Judson University/Elgin, IL

April 2—Greenville College/Greenville, IL

April 3—The Hardscuffle/Brentwood, TN

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Media/Tour Press Correspondent:

Heather Murray, befreex3@gmail.com


peace.
xo-hm