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30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty-six, Christopher Bill, reinvents an instrument that I associate with military bands and bad high school music. The trombone is made cool again as Christopher covers well-known songs with just his trombone and some creative looping. Currently Christopher has 48 patrons pledging $287.50 per video. See Christopher’s Patreon page.… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #26 – Christopher Bill

30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty-five, Tony Lucca was born into an extended musical family, spent time as an actor, and released his first album in 1997. A grizzled veteran of the music scene who’s been through the record label grinder, he was one of the early-adopters and started on Patreon in 2013. Currently… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #25 – Tony Lucca

What drummer, usually hidden in the corner while the egotistical vocalist laps up the glory, wouldn’t like to be the centre of attention? 30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty-four is drummer Phil J, and in his featured video below you can spend almost the entire video watching, undistracted by any vocalists, his yellow socks… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #24 – Phil J

Into the final week, and 30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty-three is singer Cyrille Aimee. She enjoys jazz improvisation, and with roots in France, the Dominican Republic and now native of Brooklyn, USA, she has lots of influences to choose from. Currently Cyrille has 79 patrons pledging $705 per song or video. See Cyrille’s… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #23 – Cyrille Aimee

30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty-two, pianoist David Sides, has a wildly popular Youtube channel, and makes piano covers from well-known songs. He has been playing since he was ten, uploaded his first Youtube video in 2007, and also makes piano tutorials. Currently David has 5 patrons pledging $9 per music video. See David’s… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #22 – David Sides

30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty-one is clarinettist Sean Osborn. Classical music doesn’t get much attention on Patreon, with both very few classical musicians, and very few followers. So, it’s good to see the highly skilled Sean Osborn making a go of it. Sean has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for eleven years,… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #21 – Sean Osborn

30 Artists in 30 Days number twenty is vocalist and guitarist Ana Free. Originally from Portugal, where she’s had four number one hits, she now lives in Los Angeles. Ana currently has 75 patrons pledging $445.00 per music video. Pledge for Ana on her Patreon page. See all the 30 Artists in 30 Days here.

Sometimes when searching for the artist of the day, I view or listen to a number of their works before making up my mind. With 30 Artists in 30 Days number nineteen it only took one song. And it wasn’t even far into the song that my eyes became tearful at experiencing such bliss in… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #19 – Lauren O’Connell

Most of the fun with the 30 Artists in 30 Days experiment is the joy of finding something new. But there are times, with the midnight deadline looming, when I start thinking of all the artists that I wish were on Patreon. Scott Bradlee’s PostModern Jukebox are one such example, and I’ve already contributed a… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #18 – Scott Bradlee Postmodern Jukebox

It’s been a year where so many notable writers have died, and on the day when I saw the announcement of the death of another, Nobel prize-winner Günter Grass, I am very happy to find someone dabbling in wordplay on Patreon. 30 Artists in 30 Days number seventeen Nika Harper runs Wordplay, a Youtube series… Continue reading 30 Artists in 30 Days #17 – Nika Harper