Where Are The Musicians?

Pretty interesting, if flawed, article online from The Atlantic on where musicians live. Richard Florida contends that more and more musicians live in Nashville than ever before. He postulates that Nashville "turned into the Silicon Valley of the music business, combining the best institutions, the best infrastructure, and the best talent."

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Not surprisingly, the number of musicians in Nashville takes the cake, with others concentrated in NY, LA, and San Francisco. Not many musicians in the midwest and a surprisingly large number in Florida. What Richard Florida (er, the writer, not the state) fails to break down is the genre concentration. How many non-country musicians live in Nashville? What about non-Latin musicians in Florida? Nonetheless, this is pretty interesting and worth a quick scan.

Eli "Paperboy" Reed's Gallery Debut

This week the New Yorker and Campari teamed up to present an art exhibition in Soho featuring 25 promising New York artists. To celebrate, they threw a party complete with live entertainment provided by Eli "Paperboy" Reed and The True Loves.

Reed and band's red hot soul music made sure to distract the the crowd from the hot sticky weather as NYC was experiencing its first heat wave of 2008.

Performing on the middle level of the three floor exhibition space, the whole building seemed to be shaking along with the party goers as a thunderstorm rolled through.

Below: Carrie Tolles and Lauretta Charlton of Shore Fire were at the party and keepin' cool.