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Dewey Beach Music Festival

On September 28th covering Business, Culture, Leadership, Music, Music Ensembles

I’m at the Dewey Beach Music Festival in Dewey Beach, Delaware. I’ll be presenting tomorrow to musicians attending the conference.

It’s a nice conference, well worth attending. I like these regional music conferences. Earlier this year I was a panelist at the Hyperactive Music Festival in Albuquerque.

They are different in some important respects from psychoanalytic conferences. The dress code is a bit more casual, for one. The daytime is all business and after dinner it devolves into multi-venue pub crawl. Not for the faint of heart. I was impressed with the quality of young bands and artists trying to find an audience. These people are creating our culture.

It’s a little strange explaining my presence there. But the artists and groups that are most serious about going the distance understand my point — that I am here to help people understand the challenges of creating an organization that will carry them to their goal. And anyone who has tried to create a band or music group will tell you, it’s remarkably hard to do.

I have a hunch that a band is about the most primal kind of organization there is — next to a paleolithic hunting squad or hide-scraping circle — and there is much to learn from them. We’ll see if I’m right.

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