Go Listen Boise

Current Projects:
Updated May 12, 2009
 
• Live and Local Series:  Go Listen Boise fundraisers and awareness drives.  We are continuing with our format of two shows in one night (one all ages event, the other 21 and over) and we have a goal of rotating to include as many local venues as possible throughout the next year.
• Go Listen Boise, Inc. Website: www.golistenboise.org  - Publicly accessible local music database and calendar of events.  This database creates accessible contact information available for people trying to book local music and organize local events.  Here everyone (musicians and non-musicians alike) can also be able to stay abreast of Go Listen Boise news and happenings.  Please create a profile now if you haven’t already.
• AA5 Local Openers: Go Listen Boise has arranged for stage time and payment of local opening acts for the entire 18 week Alive After Five Concert Series in 2009.  We hope to be able to do the same for many years to come, and thank the DBA and the City of Boise for their support in this idea.
• Go Listen Boise booth with Think Boise First: info booth each Wednesday during AA5, 4:30-8:30 pm, June – Sept.
• Go Listen Wednesdays/Live Local Wednesdays: From our booth at AA5 we are promoting as much local activity as we can with a focus on trying to get as many bands as possible working after AA5 each Wednesday night.  From our booth we can display a Go Listen Wednesday calendar of events for the rest of the evening.  We are currently working with venue/business owners to try to promote this local music/local business focus for Wednesday nights.
• Boise Buskers “Making Change in Boise”:  Also in conjunction with AA5 and Go Listen Wednesday’s, but hopefully taking shape throughout the downtown core, we are trying to educate and promote the idea of busking in the streets of Boise.  Our city is so safe, and our downtown core is so pedestrian friendly, why shouldn’t the streets be filled with music?
• Hold It! Local!  We are currently creating local playlists that can loop on the City of Boise’s phone system as their hold music.  We have arranged with the city to pay the artists a flat rate for the use of their music in this format.  We are very excited about the partnership and support between the city and our organization!
• Idaho Earth Fest, Idaho Green Expo, and other major event music coordination:  Go Listen Boise has been asked by several organizations to help arrange for local music at their events.
• Downtown Boise Kiosks:  GLB will develop a Kiosk program in Downtown Boise in 2010. Local artists, following a general theme, will design six kiosks, each of which will provide space for local event posters and flyers. The program will be on going and will require maintenance and upkeep. Non-profit status for GLB will allow the organization to apply for funding support to ensure the program’s success.

GO LISTEN BOISE ANNOUNCES A CALL TO ARTISTS: LOCAL MUSICIANS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN THE ALIVE AFTER FIVE CONCERT SERIES

To apply, please email AA5@golistenboise.org and we will forward you the application form.  This form must be completed and returned with all necessary attachments by April 1st, 2010 at 8pm.

We are encouraging all local musicians and bands to apply for these 30 minute opening sets.  Musicians should be prepared to submit band bio, photo, and contact links for listening to web based .mp3 files. 

Artists will be notified by April 15th for scheduling.

Go Listen Boise aims to showcase Boise's strongest and most creative musicians at this summer long concert series.  Audiences for these free outdoor performances on The Grove range between 2,000 and 4,000.  We will do our best to make sure that the local bands get to perform with their ideal lineups and instrumentation, but we do ask the bands to be flexible with their stage-plots and PA input limitations.  

By submitting an application for Alive After Five, artists will also be submitting their band bio and booking contacts for the publically viewable local music database at www.golistenboise.org.  We are planning to launch a new site in May 2010 which is when this local music database will become viewable.   

Local musicians are also welcome to submit their flyers and press releases for inclusion in The Neighborhood Noise, our weekly local music eblast to our over 400 subscribers.  To be included in this, please email .jpg or .pdf files to info@golistenboise.org a few days in advance of your shows.  To subscribe to this eblast, please send a request to "sign me up," at info@golistenboise.org .

For any further questions about the projects or mission of Go Listen Boise, or to offer your support or sponsorship, please email info@golistenboise.org .

What's happening in 2010?

NEW WEBSITE!  we will be launching our new site at www.golistenboise.org in May 2010.   

The Neighborhood Noise:  Now available!  Let us help promote your local music event or show!  Big shows, small shows, house shows… if you’re local, we’d like to help!  Send us your flyer documents or press releases at info@golistenboise.org  To sign up to receive this eblast please email us a "sign me up please" request at info@golistenboise.org . 

Sponsorship and Partnerships:

The Record Exchange

Boise City Department of Arts and History

The Downtown Business Association

The Boise Weekly

The Neurolux

Bittercreek Ale House

The Boise Co-Op

Boise Community Radio 

Music From Stanley

Boise Rock School

Idaho Green Expo

The River

Boise Curb Cup

The VAC

Women of Steel Gallery

Boise City Arts and History, Cultural Initiative Grant:  We received a cultural initiative grant for support of the upcoming 2010 Live and Local Series!  Thank you to the City of Boise for their continued support.

Idaho Commission on the Arts QuickProjects Grant: We received this grant to pay for artists for our Live and Local Series 2010.  Watch for our press information for these exciting events.   

Hold It! Local!  - BW Editor’s Pick!  This project, a partnership between the City of Boise Arts and History Department, and Go Listen Boise, has brought local hold music to the phone systems at the City of Boise.  Thank you to the artists for their support of this innovative project, and to the Boise Weekly for recognizing the project as “Best Musak!”

Boise Buskers, “Making Change in Boise!”  We continue to support and provide education for busking in the City of Boise. 

Alive After Five 2010:  Call to artists press release March 8th 2010.  Please email AA5@golistenboise.org for application materials and information.  Application are due April 1st 2010 at 8pm.

Looking Ahead, Live and Local Series 2010:  We are looking forward to this series of shows and workshops that also act as fundraisers for our group.  More details to come!