Are Vancouver Musicians Working Against Themselves?
There is a trend in which live music venues are paying less and expecting more from the ever-struggling musician. They expect a high level of talent, sometimes along with posters, publicity, lights, sound, and a ready crowd of fans to pack out their venue. And what do they want to pay for it? As little as humanly possible, in some cases. But can we blame the venue owners? After all,
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The Death of Vancouver's Live Music Scene?
Vancouver has carried the moniker of the No-Fun City for a quite some time. Save for a few blips on the fun-radar during the Olympics and the Stanley Cup Playoffs of 2011 (before the final game, that is...), there has been a sense of 'don't have too much fun or somebody could lose an eye'. It's a shame really – especially when it comes to the live music scene. With the
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What to Consider When Hiring Corporate Entertainment - Part Three!
Welcome to Part Three of what was once a two-part blog series on what to consider when hiring corporate entertainment! You can find posts one and two here and here, respectively. The past two posts inspired us, so we’ve decided to round out the duo with a third! Let’s continue, shall we?
Have you ever been to a restaurant in which the menu leaves a lot to be
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What to Consider When Hiring Corporate Entertainment - Part Two
Things to Consider When Hiring Corporate Entertainment – Part 2
Welcome to part two of our blog series of what to consider when hiring corporate entertainment! If you need to get caught up on part one, click here.
Continuing on, we are going to chat about production requirements, set-up & sound-check, what to include in a standard performance contract and artist
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What to Consider When Hiring Corporate Entertainment
What to Consider When Hiring Corporate Entertainment
Oh, the joys of planning an event! Not only do you have to worry about finding the perfect venue, the best invites, the most delicious food, the yummest drinks and the appropriate decorations, but you also have to worry about what is likely the most important aspect of your event: the entertainment!
Putting
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Why Moon Coin Productions Uses LED Stage Lighting
ABBA certainly knew what they were talking about when they sang songs about stage lighting. Yeah, that’s right. I said stage lighting. Does this sound familiar: “Supertrouper beams are going to blind me, but I won’t feel blue…” (unless, of course, those beams are shot through a blue gel, in which case, yeah alright, I’ll feel
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Know Kindness, No Violence! Why We Created Kindness Rocks!
Ashlynn Conner was an honor student in her 5th grade class. She was a young cheerleader who cheered on her school’s football team. She was also the victim on persistent bullying by her classmates and on the evening of November 10th of last year, she was found by her sister after having hanged herself with a red scarf in her closet. She was 10.
Jayme Rodemyer, an openly
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3 Reasons to Hire a Tribute Band
So, you’re in charge of organizing the entertainment for an event and you think, “You know who would be perfect for this? ABBA. ABBA would be perfect.” You call up Bjorn and the gang and they’re all, “Vi är pensionerade… Vem är denna?” and now you’re confused because you don’t understand Swedish and the cops are
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Welcome to Moon Coin Productions!
Hello and welcome to the first post of the Moon Coin Productions Blog! We’re excited to be adding this new aspect to our website and we hope you will find it informative, entertaining and useful. As this is our first post, we thought we would start out by giving those new to our site and services an understanding of who Moon Coin Productions is, what we do, and how we go about doing
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What's Happening .....
We had a busy November, starting off with Producing The 11th Annual World Kindness Concert at The Centre For Performing Arts, followed by the public debut of our new stage production, 'Sway', a sold-out RnB ICONS show at Belle's in South Surrey, 3 Kindness ROCKS shows, 2 ABRA Cadabra shows and a Retro Diva's show at the Tradex Centre in Abbotsford!
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