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This info is directly from this public page on our site. If you have comments, tips, questions, suggestions, etc. please post here and let's have a discussion! How Showcases Work Tickets to Attend or Perform Every person needs a ticket, including performers, accompanists, managers, spouses, friends, etc. We don’t have any comp tickets available except for members of the press that we invite. Performance Slots Due to the fast-paced nature of Indie Collab showcases, only solo, duo or trio acts are allowed. Setups must be accomplished within your entire 5 minute time slot, which means that bands are out of the question - we simply don’t have enough time for that. Backing tracks and video/multimedia are also not possible. The idea is to show your peers in an intimate and supportive setting what you are all about, and what you can do by yourself. Note - certain types of artists and industry professionals don’t (or can’t) perform alone or with only an accompanist or two. In those cases you can use your time slot to talk to the room and tell them what you do. This might apply to lyricists, for example, or music publishers, or orchestrators, etc. You can use your 5 minutes however you like, within the constraints mentioned above. Exceptions to the above can be made at the discretion of the Indie Collab. Certain venues and even structures may allow us to have one or two bands performing, because the setup time can be done without interfering with the fast-paced nature of our events. These slots are available by invitation only and are extremely limited due to the nature of our events. Five Minutes Is Really The Limit No matter how many times we say it, performers (aka “headliners”) have 5 TOTAL minutes to do their thing. That includes setup, tuning your guitar, adjusting your piano bench, describing the song you’re about to play, etc. If it takes you four and a half minutes to do all of that, you will have exactly 30 seconds left to play a song. Think about that! Please practice your presentation with a stop watch or timer, so that you can get your whole presentation in within the 5 minutes. This is not a concert… it’s a short showcase of what you can do, for a room full of your peers. Ticket Cancellation / Refund Policy Tickets are non-refundable except in extreme cases, such as natural disasters that prevent the event from occurring, or which prevent travel to the event.

The best way to get started here is to read the basics about how our showcases work: There's a section called "How Showcases Work" on this page of our website: Those are the basics. Further discussion, helpful tips, questions, etc. are welcome here in the forum!

In this group we talk songwriting - the ups and downs, and the ins and outs! By the way, I have written several blog posts about how I write, so I would like to share them here as well. Here are links to read them: Writing To The Emotion: 5 Ways to Improve your Songwriting https://www.grant-maloy-smith.com/post/5-ways-to-improve-your-songwriting

Welcome to the forum. This is the first step in creating an on-line forum exclusively for IC members to share info in a private setting. Please do not post FYC requests in here, or lobby for votes in any contest. Please don't post commercially here (anything that leads to getting someone to buy something from you). And of course please nothing political, or which could lead to arguments that have nothing to do with the world of music. There is enough of that stuff out in the wild world - we don't need to bring it in here!