GoGirlsMusic.com, launched in 1996 to promote, support and empower independent women musicians from around the world through networking and events, partners with Concert Window to host its first-ever online music festival on Sunday, April 24.
Extending from 1-9 p.m. ET/12-8 p.m. CT/11 a.m.-7 p.m. MT/10 a.m.-6 p.m. PT/5 p.m.- on ConcertWindow.com, the online festival will feature female-driven music from 12 GoGirls members: Delia Stanley, Meghan Cary, Dan and Faith Senie, Emma Back, Karen Marrrolli, Lisa and Lori Brigantino, Celestial Blue Music, Christine Sweeney, Laura Zucker, Queen Esther, Olivia Frances Schwartz and Rorie Kelly.
“Think of it like an online pub crawl that you don’t have to leave your home for,” says Kelly, a Long Island, New York-based singer-songwriter and fiery acoustic rocker who recently took the helm of the diverse community of musicians as co-executive director with Stanley, also an indie artist. “All shows are free, but supporting the performers through tipping is definitely encouraged.” A complete music schedule for the online festival, along with information about the artists, may be found at www.facebook.com/events/859122214198229/ or by searching the hashtag #gogirlsmusic on ConcertWindow.com. Here’s a direct link:
“ConcertWindow has been a wonderful way for us to connect more deeply and really support each other’s music,” said Kelly, noting that GoGirls is an international community. “We love what they do and have been advocating for our members to use ConcertWindow since it first started up,” she continued. “For me personally, as a regional musician, it has really allowed me to expand my reach and perform for fans and friends around the globe who would otherwise not get to see me.”
Dan Gurney, ConcertWindow’s CEO, recently engaged in a Q & A session with GoGirls members during a weekly #ggchat on Twitter. The chat was the brainchild of GoGirls founder Madalyn Sklar, a music business coach and consultant and noted social media influencer/social media maven. “We also interviewed him for our blog and got him to share his thoughts on how musicians could make the best use of the medium [that interview can be found at http://bit.ly/1ZJgWsa],” said Kelly. She noted that while chatting with him, they learned that ConcertWindow had already hosted a few online music festivals. “We loved the idea and boom… the first GoGirls Online Music Festival was born.”
GoGirlsMusic.com boasts that it is the oldest and largest online community for indie women musicians. The online music festival is by no means the first festival in which GoGirls has been engaged, nor is it the first time that the organization has made use of the Internet to share the music of indie women-artists and female –fronted bands. GoGirls has previously produced such annual events as the GoGirlsMusicFest and Invasion of the GoGirls during SXSW, and it has hosted showcases at Folk Alliance International conferences that were also streamed around the world.
“It’s an exciting time at GoGirlsMusic,” said Sklar. “In our 20 year history we came, we saw, and we rocked the pants off the music industry. We plan to continue this legacy for many years to come with great events like our online music festival.”
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