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 Coming up:Kortijk, Belgium April 10, 2010 The next GigSwap Motel series will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium! Check out the program here: Calendar The GigSwap motel travelling series started early 2009 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. We hosted 6 monthly live music parties in the Kargadoor cultural centre together with the lo_friday music organisation. ____________________________________  Little birdies, on your doorstep! Do we Twitter by now? Yea, sure we do! So keep yourselves posted through our tweets, and subscribe here! ____________________________________ new! GigSwap on Wiki and Myspace You can also read about best practices and how things work on our new wiki page, check on that here: The Short Guide to GigSwapping And since recently we also have our very own Myspace page! http://www.myspace.com/csgigswap ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Tips or Questions to Share? Support or bother fellow GigSwapping group members and just Post on it in the group! ____________________________________ |
GigSwap.org is about: Global Gig Exchange This site helps you, as a musician, (stage) artists, venue or promotor, to connect internationaly and exchange concerts, find a bunk, organise or join an event, a even set up tour projects together. For that we work through a group on CouchSurfing.org, named 'Gigswapping'. ______________________________ 2.0 GigSwap on Facebook  We're present on the facebook now too! Both as a group and a s an organisation. Get involved or become a fan and check us out now, click here and become a fan of the organisation or click below to become a member of the group. That's right. We're no control freaks. We'll just like to keep things complicated for now and than sort it out later! ______________________________ The GigLadder View our past and future tours, meetings and events, and check our 'Gigladder'!  (click image)
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 CS Midsummer weekend editions 2009 / 2010We have had such a sweet line up for this weekend in 2009! Check out the GigLadder for the line up we had. Preperations for 2010 have already begun! Visit this link on Couchsurfing for the 2010 meeting. Alternate concept The SongSwap sessions Another concept we work from are SongSwap sessions. Basicaly, three or more  international songwriters play their
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songs, plus a 'cover' of one another. But any other type
of act is welcome too!"the best friends you make on the road" The first live party Kick off of this concept wa organised for friday february 13, 2009. On stage for this premiere are the following names: Thomas Wissing (Germany) Carolyn Anona Scott (Scotland) Channah (The Netherlands) Skiff (The Netherlands) Click the link below for more information: Song Swap Session # 1 Call for artists' entries We are still working on details for the entire series of ten nights that we have set up, so check in with us!!! We are also considering including visits to open stages in closeby Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, to turn this into a small tour. As a travelling CS musican, should the Netherlands be on your route, do come by Utrecht, we can certainly help you set up a nice little Dutch tour too! ______________________ DANMARK CALLING DENMARK SUMMER FESTIVAL We are working on joining a small festival and setting up a small tour visiting our friends in Denmark, for august 2009. If you want to join, check it out here: TAPPERNOJE MUZIKFESTIVAL ___________________________ Other events for 2009 We will be organising some bigger single events this year too - for instance we'll take part in a big outdoor event during midsummer, the CS Netherlands' 'Midsummernight in the Park' meeting, the last edition was a great friendly meeting, with over a 150 participants. Set up a GigSwapping event yourself Should you be able to find a venue and occasion to also host Song Swap (or GigSwapping) sessions for our travelling CS musicans, anywhere on the planet, please inform us, as we'd love to join up with you! Keep in mind, from our experience till now, we've discovered it makes sense to : - Organise in close connection to your local CS community and to - Involve CouchSurfing ambassadors. Make sure to - Tie your project with some centraly organised existing CS regular meeting or special event, and - Be realistic and funny in your expectations and acessments. Especialy - Promotion and publicity are a lot of work. The force be with you! ____________________________ November 29, 2008 the ROTTERDAM ROCK EXCHANGE First things first though, still in 2008 there will be a final GigSwap show in Rotterdam november 29. A group op CS GigSwapping musicians will be performing a 100% interest free set of rock, soul and other covers at the annual Sinterklaasfeest! Venue will be 'Zaal De Unie', and it will be a big party, with at at least 200 people expected! For details, check out the GigLadder! Mostly after that we will be taking it slow... ...to do more of next years planning, site maintainance and backups, and picking up on communications. Like sending christmas cards! So for now there will be no additional shows after the 29th of november, at least not centraly organised ones. However! ______________________________ Where would you like to go next? This community project is completely open to your input and initiative. So if you have a great idea for a tour, just post your proposal! _____________________________________ special report Utrecht MidSummerNight Weekend: Real
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 We gathered in the city of Utrecht, blessed with beautifull wheather on a perfectly suitable hill in the Utrecht 'Griftpark'. There was an entire program for the weekend, starting with a great beertasting of some great Utrecht local beers on friday evening in the 'Thisty Heart', beer which unexpectedly did not hit me too hard.  Saturday afternoon the program was continued by a 'medieval city treasurehunt' on saturday daytime, some people even carried actual couches from town to the park as 'treasure', which was appreciated mucho and of course gave them the grand prize! A variety of workshops was than enjoyed in the park after which we shared a great dinner in the park, made with tons of love by our much applauded kitchen crew. As an appetizer for dinner we had live music by Skiff and the Utrecht pride Andy's Diary, who are Anna and Wendy, which treated us with a beautiful set of their latest and greatest songs.   So we have been together wittnessing the midsummer sundown while enjoying nice wine and the continuous cool live music, good company. Some of us (O, had they not!) headed for a club to watch the soccer match the Dutch totaly lost from the Russians. The decepted and broken hearted were generously accepted back in the circle, comforted and mended, when they came back to our hill. A hill we held all through the night - soothing a growing crowd of drfiting and lost characters in Orange outfits in mourning, seeking oblivion. Some of them even jumped into the pond, to wash off the memory... We concluded this weekend with a sunday 'afterparty' cooldown brunch wth some fun and games, the Dutch making it to the semi- finals or not... Links There were a lot of great photo's taken. If you have a profile on CS you can link in here: Photo's of the MidSummer meeting The original CS meeting page is here: Enter: a Midsummernight in the Park. Stay in tune! If you want to keep track of the latest preparations & progress, check out our group on CouchSurfing here: CS GigSwapping. Check this link for some GigSwap tour photo's...  Neil Adams (The Layers) in Vienna, Austria, @ the Back Music Club, on our first GigSwap tour... |
New The GS Google Agenda Above you see the GS google agenda, which is still brand new and therefore, a bit empty... If you want your (open) tour dates and schedule to be diisplayed, send us an email and we will enter the dates. Keep us posted! City Swaps Frankfurt & Amsterdam David Stray Ney , Channah and Skiff played in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, travelling together was great fun. David is an amazing driver, even with out a speedlimit on the German autobahn, and we made it safely from Amsterdam to Frankfurt and back! Though we found ourselves doublebooked in Amsterdam, still, David got to play there! In Frankfurt we each got to play a fair set which turned out great. We even played twice each, which made up for Amsterdam! ;o) It turned out as a well matched combination of personal styles of music which gave all attending a very good vibe to take home...  _____________________________ Keep us posted of your touring schedule and gigs! We're interested in keeping track of where you will be... So, where will you be performing in 2009? If u have news of shows, tours, gis, events, festivals big or small, please let us know! We will put it on the agenda to also keep your fellow group- members up to speed. Just copy+paste your agenda as text in a post on the site or email us @ info@gigswap.org. If you want to get involved in the planning, organising, promoting, writing copy or doing interviews, just let us know too! _____________________ Radio Free Carmela (US) & The Layers (UK) @ the CS NY CouchCrash festival! Two of our most esteemed group members, Radio Free Carmela & the Transmitters from the US and 'The Layers' from the UK have performed @ the CS CouchCrash festival in New York. Check out the link above for details. They have promoted the GigSwap cause across the ocean and we are very gratefull!!! ____________________________ 1st Gigswap Relay Tour Reported on Czech National Television! Check it out below on our Videopage (PS - It's in Czech, of course!)  special report GigSwap Showcase @ The DANCE VALLEY festival 2008 amsterdam, juli 12 2008 - We did it... We performed on a big fat stage on a huge one day festvial where over 50.000 visitors attended. We jumped to this unique chance to showcase 6 CouchSurfing amsterdam, juli 12 2008 GigSwapping acts at this high profile event just outside the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. And we outdid ourselves! We were a bit 'off topic' so to speak, as we brought song and roots to this house and techno fest, still we did not go unnoticed, as the photo's and filmmaterial shot of this event will show... They will be on line soon! We were exemplary international, we were Rome meets Amsterdam, Prague meets the USA, Belgium meets Maleysia and some other mad experiments... Our crew We were soooo lucky to find a last minte replacement for Sofie Nickel, who fell ill, in the gifted Nathalie Giannitrapani, another extremely talented singer songwriter. Nathalie played accompanying herself guitar, as the piano didn't make it to the main stage... Which was made up for the next day, where she performed in Utrecht at a small festival on a piano, even her own model! Nathalie has proven to be an exquisitely talented singer and we are excited to have her on board! Swinc.'s unique 30's and 40's Gypsy Jazz and standards repertoir got everybody' juices flowing and feet moving; both with their steady singer Mariange aswell as accompanying the living legend Shai Shahar, who made the sun come out with his beautiful, soothening and warm voice and great stage presence. 'The Tower of Dudes' are a notorious acordean driven cowpunk band, acting out a Czech' variation of unleashed Cajun Tex Mex Polka. They were mostly appriciated as a refreshing diversion for all the electronica driven techno stuff. Saer Ze, the queen of electroglam and selfproclaimed 'dirty disco doll', gave a great show, complete with the Faya dancers, and made a two pack deal with Belgian notorious MC Dusaar. Finaly, last but not least, Matthew´s Workshop, also from the Czeska Republica, pumped up some unexpected funky rap and roll form underneath the amsterdam hills! On this event we worked closely with Cindy Pielstroom, who's organisation 'Connecting People' has brought together a great company of artists, and was so completely enthousiastic about our CS GigSwapping program whe she heard of it, she just had to have us! And we never say no anyway, do we? You can read on about this, on the GigSwap blogpage about this unique program, here: Gig Blog For the GigSwap line up, check the calendar below: The GigLadder Finaly the Dance Valley website is here: http://www.dancevalley.nl Great exposure Ou presence on the festival gave our project some more established profile and appeal... It's already given us a great appeal from national radio twice, we were named and praised in two breakfast shows by two reknowned personalities in Dutch radio, Giel Beelen and Ruud de Wild. Thanks guys! ___________________________  AMSTERDAM, sunday may 25 - This weekend we played Amsterdam, a gigswap organised by Channah van't Riet, working together with the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild, A.S.G., at the Winston Kingdom. Channah let us in to have a showcase, featuring from our GigSwapping group, most notoriously: Carmela Pedicini (US), Ruben Poncia, Channah van 't Riet and Skiff. From the A.S.G., Robin Block, Ro Halfhide and The Secret Love Parade appeared on stage. The show went likeGigSwap.org is about A Global Gig Exchange... This site helps you, as a musician, (stage) artists, venue or promotor, to connect internationaly 'A ringing a bell'! |
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february 13 'The Song Swap Sessions' +++++++++++ doors open 18:00 Reception with free food & drinks! showtime 20:00 afterparty 00:00 +++++++++++ Location: 'de Kargadoor' Oudegracht 36 Utrecht the Netherlands. CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS |
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Songwriters Night "A tribute to contemporary songwriting." Thomas Wissing (Germany) Carolyn Anona Scott (Scotland) Channah (The Netherlands) Skiff (The Netherlands) After party featuring DJ Scotty, aka MasterPeace, spinning vinyl, D 'n B infused Reggea, from Manchester, UK Check out and sign up for the CS meeting on line here: CS SongSwap meeting  |
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saturday, november 29 GigSwap Coverband +++++++++ doors open 20:00 showtime 21:00 ++++++++ Location / venue: Zaal DE UNIE (click for site) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. |
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CS GigSwapping event of 2008!!! the one and only 'GigSwap Coverband' CS Rotterdam 'Sinterklaas' party THE ROCK EXCHANGE line up Henk Skiff van der Veen guitar Karst 'Stunt guitarist' van Oosten, On bass MISTER MYSTERY ! and on drumms Tom 'TomTom' Raaff |
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| october 2008 Amsterdam / Frankfurt cityswap the Melodyline, Amsterdam, Landungsbrücken, Frankfurt |
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GigSwapping Relay Tour through Ireland, England & Scotland featuring The Layers (England) Channah van 't Riet (NL) Skiff (NL) Thomas Wissing (D) Carolyn Anona Scott (SC) Tommy Beavitt (Scotland) Not in This Town (England) and many others... |
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Netherlands JULY 12, 2008 The overall program of this day is organised by Connecting People and will also headline: MC Cato Cora Emens Gaya King Jack, Compagnie with Balls, and many, many others! Presentation will be handled by: Merel Moistra Tickets through: www.dancevalley.nl |
The Ultimate Showcase! 6 GigSwap Acts @ Dance Valley 2008 Amsterdam, the Netherlands  Tower of Dudes Cow Punk, USA / Czech Republic Saer Ze Electro pop, Maleysia ft. MC Dusaar MC, Belgium Matthew's Workshop Funk / Rap'n'roll - Czech Republic Nathalie Singer songwriter, Italy The Phonetics ft. Dj DNA High Energy blues + Vynil scratching, with special guests: Karst van Oosten & Dennis Verkerk The Netherlands Swinc. ft. Mariange Jazz and Gipsy Jazz, The Netherlands and also with Shai Jazz singer / crooner, USA |
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The CS GigSwapping group proudly presents: GigSwap Live! Midsummernight In The Park Weekend Andy's Diary Ruben Poncia Skiff Swinc |
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The CouchSurfing
GigSwapping group proudly
presents: Live Music Night ft. international travelling bands! LOGATHORE (Austria) DUKE (Mexico) TOMMY BEAVITT (Scotland) poet / musician SKIFF ft. Ruben Poncia and also Blue Blondine & her mighty fine Daisy Belles (nl) singer songwriter, folkrock & country THE LAYERS (uk) indy / rock STAMPEDE (nl) redhot lowlands SKA + After Jam / DJ's from 23:30 at Cees Place, oude gracht 275, Utrecht. |
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& Saturday april 5 from 20:00 - 0:00 location: Bach Music club in Vienna, Austria. For details check: www.bach.co.at Entrance fee € 7 (single night) € 12 (for both nights) |
The CouchSurfing
GigSwapping group proudly
presents: Live Music Night ft. international travelling bands! SKIFF (nl) THE LAYERS (uk) LOGATHORE (aut) DUKE (mx) TOMMY BEAVITT (sco) poet / musician MATTHEWS WORKSHOP (CZ) |
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april 8 from 20:00 till 0:00, at the Ponorka Music club in Pardubice, Czech Republic. For details check: zlutypes.freemusic.cz Entrance fee € 4 before, and € 5 after 20:00 |
The CouchSurfing
GigSwapping group proudly
presents: Live Music Night ft. international travelling bands! SKIFF (nl) THE LAYERS (uk) LOGATHORE (aut) TOMMY BEAVITT (sco) poet / musician FUNKTOMASS (CZ) |