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Friday, October 26, 2007

Music The Future of Portland Live Music

Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Fri, Oct 26 at 4:25 PM

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This past week Cary Clarke wrote an excellent column about the OLCC and the future of Portland all-age music. As he puts it, this issue “is arguably the single most important thing that we can do to ensure the continued vibrancy, diversity, and prosperity of our city’s music community.”

I agree. This will help not just musicians of all ages, but the local economy as well.

That being said, PDX Pop Now! has established a handy little page where you can contact the OLCC directly. If you are in a band, work for a bar or just care about this sort of thing, please do this. It takes less than a few minutes to write your own email, or even less time if you use their boilerpoint template.

Consider this your good deed for the weekend.

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Oh, and they write back too! I already got a nice response from the OLCC that they will add my "written comment to the rule record for this matter."

Rad!

I wrote in! Thanks for the link, Ezra.

This is a good idea that is a long time coming. Shortly after moving hear over 5 years ago, I stopped going to the Crystal Ballroom since they made all us old-fogey alcoholics stand in the back of the room, where it's increasingly more difficult to appreciate the guitar solo wankery of Doug Martsch the older you become.

As long as this doesn't means I have to stand on the far side of a barrier at more places because kids are allowed in - I'm all for it!

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