I’m always thinking of new Podcasts to do. Ways to grow the community, and I’m always looking for ways to promote local talent. Music being one of those talents. Yellowknife has a wide selection of music and although I haven’t heard much of it due to my lack of bar going I know it is good stuff.
My idea for a show would simply be a weekly or monthly one hour show featuring local songs. Mixing it up show to show, although I sure I would ended up repeating myself after 8 weeks of music. Anyways, I think this is a great idea but the thing that stumps me is copyright laws. I value that these artist took the time and money to make these albums and I don’t want to rip them off by any means but I think it would be awesome none the less to show off there talent.
I’m not looking to get the rights to play any music I want, although that would be awesome, but expensive, I just want to show off the local music talent Yellowknife has. Does anyone know how I might go about doing this? I realize it will cost some money, the artists do need to be reimbursed, but I don’t know how much and I don’t know what the appropriate channels are to go through.
How would you go about trying to do this? If any local musicians read this, how would you prefer a person wanting to play your music online go about approaching you and how would you like to be compensated?
