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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

News Portland City of Music?

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:29 PM

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Cute art shows at City Hall are nice and all, but why doesn't Portland do something similar to Seattle City of Music?

Mayor Nickels to announce formation of city music commission and collective 12-year strategy to solidify Seattle as a home to music business, musicians and live music.

And according to this article on Idolator, Seattle City of Music will provide "health care to musicians and spur a music education initiative beginning with K-12" for local musicians, who reportedly add $2.2 billion to the local economy (Is that even possible? That seems like an awful lot.). Plus it's not just the city that is involved, Sub Pop is ponying up a $13,000 annual grant to "promising new musical entrepreneurs."

So why not here? It would seem that Portland's music scene is as strong as it has ever been--your personal quality assessments aside--with numerous national acts both hailing from here, and relocating here as well. Plus there is clearly a demand for music tourism as well, at least, if this Travel Portland campaign is to believed.

Besides, when it comes to music tourism, what does Seattle have that we don't? And no, Hendrix's grave does not count. That's in Renton.

 

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I realize this comment is a few years later than the question was asked - but I've been wondering the same thing lately. I'm going to see if I can meet up with them and find out more about their program in person. Portland would absolutely support a program like this.
Posted by awine on May 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM · Report

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