Rich Holly's Percussion Place

Assorted ramblings and occasional updates in the world of percussion.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Make Plans to Attend PASIC


If you haven't yet made your plans to attend PASIC, now is the time. For those of you short on funds, I recommend you apply to be a member of the Logistics Team - you don't need to work that many hours, but you do get your registration free of charge and you're automatically entered in a drawing among the logistics workers for several great prizes. Check out the PASIC website for a list of the awesome clinics and concerts scheduled this year. As usual, there are about 150 sessions over 4 days. It's the "can't miss" percussion event of the year.

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Off to Indy

I'm leaving this afternoon for Indianapolis, for 3 days of meetings with the Percussive Arts Society Executive Committee (the officers of the Society). Although we hold conference phone calls 1-2 times a month throughout the year, by far I believe we get out best work done when we're all sitting around a table discussing items face-to-face, which we only get to do 3 times a year. It's a great group of people.

Just about every time I mention to someone that I'm going to Indianapolis (and I go there about 3-4 times a year), they say something about there not being much there. In my opinion, Indianapolis has really grown up in the past 10-15 years. There is a great deal of world-class culture, several professional sports teams, and many, many good or even great restaurants. No, I'm not getting paid to say anything nice about Indy! But I do really appreciate what the city has been and is continuing to do to make it a really vibrant place.