PUBLICITY

Publicity Committee Report

January 2014

5 Jan 2014

Publicity Committee members: Alicia Weimer, Jeff Saxton, Jim Gartner, Jim King, Joanne Cronin, John Lamb, Michael Mitsch, Nancy Kelner, Pam Robinson, Pat Brangs, Paul Fisher, Loretta Brooks and Cathy Ballard

This report will be somewhat truncated as Nancy was still in charge in December and I did not accumulate all the necessary information while I was trying to shadow her. Next month will be better.

Webmaster Report – John Lamb

The report request was sent out late. It will be forwarded when available.

Facebook Report – Pam Robinson

Report request sent out late. To be forwarded later.

Paul's observation: “Likes” rose to 878.

Chairman’s Report – Paul Fisher

For the month of December, Nancy Kelner handled most of the Publicity work and, in addition, worked on the handover of the Chairperson's job to me. Cathy Ballard and Loretta Brooks have joined the committee and Karen Justin has left.

On December 6^th, Nancy and I met to go over the specifics of the job and to handover information. These handover activities continued throughout the month and Nancy continues to play an active role in getting Paul up and running to this day.

Online

In Print

The February 2014 Issue of the Acoustic Guitar magazine listed the Folk Project, with a general description of our festivals (including the Fall 2013 performers) as THE NJ selection for an article called “50 States, 50 Must-Attend Events”. We should try to see if this generates any responses.

Paul has found that Acoustic Guitar Magazine has a new events page on their website and has entered one or two Minstrel shows there. The intention is to begin to update it as new shows are added. Any subscriber interested in taking on this task would be welcome. For now, Paul will take care of it.

Our new contact with NJ Monthly was informed about The Minstrel.

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Working with Performers and Their Publicists

On the Radio

There is an ongoing discussion on connecting Minstrel performers with local radio stations and how to most effectively provide promotional CDs.

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Other Item

Nancy is looking at redoing our business cards

Press passes for 2014 are being distributed and reconsidered.

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