{"id":873,"date":"2011-05-02T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-05-02T13:04:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:04:40","slug":"kindiefest-2011-some-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/events\/kindiefest-2011-some-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"KindieFest 2011: Some Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll have some more formal followup from all of us organizers soon &#8212; keep an eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/kindiefest.com\">kindiefest.com<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/kindiefest\">Facebook page<\/a>, where we&#8217;re also posting links to photos, videos, etc.&#8211; but I wanted to take a minute to get some of my first thoughts down.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a terrific year. \u00a0The panels, the music, the people, the everything &#8212; it was just a bucket of fun.<\/li>\n<li>If I were to try to summarize the themes I heard throughout the panels in one sentence, it&#8217;d be &#8220;Be who you are.&#8221; \u00a0Whether talking about branding or collaboration or social networking or PR, everyone seemed to come back to that core notion of authenticity.<\/li>\n<li>I really liked having some people who aren&#8217;t in the family music world on the panels &#8212; Jim Olsen has tremendous &#8220;branding&#8221; knowledge from his building Signature Sounds (and, incidentally, from being a huge part of making our station what it is), and Jonathan Coulton brought a ton of knowledge to bear on the social networking panel.<\/li>\n<li>Even the live acts, I realized as I was driving home, were utterly and purely authentic. \u00a0When I was introducing CandyBand, I mentioned that I once awarded them the entirely fictional award &#8220;Best Kids&#8217; Rock Band That Actually Listens to Rock Music.&#8221; \u00a0They play the music they play &#8212; and they kick ass at it &#8212; because it&#8217;s who they are. \u00a0Same with the (otherwise completely different) Cat &amp; a Bird, and The Pop Ups, and The Not-Its, Shine &amp; the Moonbeams, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>Steph texted me early Sunday morning: &#8220;I feel like I was at one of the best concerts I ever saw last night.&#8221; \u00a0Man, was she right. \u00a0During every single act, I thought, &#8220;Man, I&#8217;d hate to follow that band.&#8221; \u00a0And then the next act would just <em>kill it<\/em>. \u00a0Same thing with Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Shine &amp; the Moonbeams: Gonna be huge. Write it down.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s more, but I need to write an exam. \u00a0Thanks to everyone who attended, who participated, who rocked, who danced, who laughed, who hung out. \u00a0You&#8217;re awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll have some more formal followup from all of us organizers soon &#8212; keep an eye on kindiefest.com and our Facebook page, where we&#8217;re also posting links to photos, videos, etc.&#8211; but I wanted to take a minute to get some of my first thoughts down. It was a terrific year. \u00a0The panels, the music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}