A month ago I wrote about Alana Warfel and her Christian rock band “Hollow” in the blog post “Surprise, your preschool teacher is a rock star!” In that post I mentioned her band was looking forward to the GMA Music in the Rockies conference both for the learning experiences it would offer them as a musical band and the opportunity it could afford to “be noticed” (remembering we live in an emerging “attention economy”) and possibly get picked up by a publishing company / record label.
Well, according to Alana, the conference was GREAT! Her band, Hollow, won in the category “Artist Band 2007 Grand Prize Winner” and she personally won runner-up recognition in the category “Pop-Rock/Alternative Song” for “Remedy!” They won some recording time as a result of the conference, and are now working with a publisher to market them to several record labels formally. How cool is that?
I spoke to Alana about doing an audio interview for a podcast with her and other members of the band in upcoming weeks to discuss what they’ve learned in this process of trying to “break in” to the music industry. I think their story would be of interest to many who find music to not only be enjoyable to consume, but also to CREATE and share with others on a global scale.
Alana reports that her band’s MySpace site was very important in contributing to their success at the GMA conference. One of their judges had previously heard some of their music and contacted the band through their MySpace page. They are now looking into options for also creating a website under their own domain name.
Social networking continues to empower creative artists wanting to share their voices and ideas with a global audience, and Alana’s band provides proof of this right here in Edmond, Oklahoma. 🙂
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