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Since 2003, TheMuncieScene.com has been a little site chugging along with the mission of bringing together the art and music community of Muncie, IN by serving as a communications hub, media and info repository, and promotions vehicle.
It's your scene! Register, post content, and help promote what's going on in our community!
 Click for full-size flyer Muncie’s annual yard-sale styled art-sale is happening this year on September 19th. Yart 2008 will be an all-day event at University Green (adjacent to Shafer Tower), starting at 8:00am and ending at 8:00pm. Artists are encouraged to sign up early for tables, set up whenever they’d like, and stay for as long as they wish. Bring any type of art for either display or sale: paintings, sculptures, sketches, CDs, large pieces, napkin doodles, amateur work, masterpieces, and everything in between. But remember that the price of anything sold is capped at $40 to keep the event accessible to all of us non-rich folks. Email graham@phantomwatson.com to reserve a table, or if you have any questions about the event.
 Tommy (of Tommy and the Tommies) has just released Tommy and the Tommies - Tommy and the Tommies (A Self-Titled Album), which is the first release from this project (which I am to understand is called Tommy and the Tommies). It's free to download and has been released under Creative Commons (meaning the tracks are fair game for all of you mix artists out there).
 Project Muncie Scene is looking for eager volunteers to assist in the planning, development, promotion, and maintenance of TheMuncieScene.com. If you'd like to help this scene information directory, communications hub, promotions tool, and local media repository get off of the ground, post in the message board or send me a message via the site contact form.
What can I do?
Planning: The vision of what a Muncie art/music community website should be needs to be developed with as many voices as possible. We need to all get together and discuss what the community needs, and what online tools can be developed to help meet those needs. Project Muncie Scene got started with a big community meeting at the MT Cup back in 2003, so let's plan out some more roundtable discussions and chat on the message board in the mean time.
Development: I'm volunteering to take the lead in developing the software behind whatever awesome web applications we dream up, but the project will still benefit from the involvement of more web developers! Furthermore, designers are desperately needed to help develop the project's image.
Promotion: The website will be most useful as a networking and promotional tool if more people are visiting it! Flyers, stickers, link exchanges, and word-of-mouth will get us far.
Maintenance: We need volunteers to help hunt down events to place on the community calendar (in development), post event flyers that they find scattered about the internet, and submit stories about our community to be published to the front page.
What's on its way for this "Muncie Scene" website thinger?
Revisions of old features: The old 'Scenester Database', along with the listings of local bands, artists, and venues are all coming back to help people find their way around our tangled scene and network with likeminded Munsonians.
Community calendar: A new calendar, maintained by the public and integrated into the band/venue database, is on its way. The goal here is to provide the city with a centralized resource for event information. Concerts, community meetings, art exhibitions, and anything else will be fair game.
Media repository: I want all of the downloadable/streamable music and videos relevant to Muncie to be accessible in one place.
Apply to the Grahammys now!
"The Grahammys" is the affectionate nickname that's been picked up by the first annual Muncie Music Awards. Conceived by Jimmy Dayton, bar manager of Doc's Music Hall, the event will be hosted by general manager Graham "Phantom" Watson as well as a series of presenters and guest performers to be announced.
The Grahammys will take place this September at Doc's Music Hall and, sadly, will be a 21-and-over event.
The time and exact date that the event will begin has yet to be announced, as has the price of the modest admission fee being charged to help fund the prizes awarded to the bands.
The awards will be decided by a combination of popular vote (through online polls) and the vote of an impartial committee of local promoters.
Some awards will be kept secret until the night of the Grahammys, but the following awards will be open to voting on March 1st:
- Band of the Year
This is the band or solo artist deemed most worthy of praise for their performances in 2007.
- Best Ball State Musical Act
This award honors a band with members hailing from Ball State University.
- Best Solo Artist
This award honors a Munsonian who performs solo.
- Best Album
This award is given out to a band or solo artist in praise of their 2007-released album.
- Ex-Band of the Year
This award is given out to a Munsonian band that no longer performs.
- Venue of the Year
This award honors one of the city's concert venues that stands out in its service to the arts.
- Concert of the Year
This award honors a promoter or group of promoters for a concert deemed especially memorable.
- Newcomer of the Year
This casts a spotlight on our favorite band that has just recently broken onto the scene.
If the first Grahammys go well, they will be held in an all-ages venue next year, with more awards and more guest performances.
The Grahammys are, of course, not affiliated with nor endorsed by the Grammys.
From the message board:
 How does a SOLD OUT crowd of 35,000 people sound?
The 500 festival is looking for entertainers to be part of the largest four-hour music festivals in the nation. Applications are now being accepted from live bands, cheer groups, DJs, and dance groups to cheer 35,000 runners and walkers to the finish line of the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon and Finish Line 500 Festival 5k. Live entertainment will provide motivation for participants making their way through the 13.1-mile course on Saturday, May 3.
Last year 120 live groups performed along the course of THE NATION'S LARGEST HALF-MARATHON. The application deadline for those who would like to participate is March 1st. The 500 Festival urges those interested to apply early- space is limited.
Along with performing in front of 35,000 runners and walkers, all entertainers will have the opportunity to:
- have their group name and link to group website listed on http://www.500festival.com
- group name listed on the WISH-TV Channel 8 Mini-Marathon Telecast
- group name listed on "Thank-You" ad placed in local newspaper
- Personal signage can also be displayed at location
Groups can register online at http://www.500festival.com or by mailing an entertainment registration for to Allie Mantel, 500 Festival, 500 Festival Building, 21 Virginia Ave, Suite 500, Indianapolis, IN 46204. A demo tape or CD and photo must be included with the application.
For more information, call (317) 614-6118 or email Allie at amantel@500festival.com
One of the long-term goals of Project Muncie Scene has finally completed. We now have the internet's answer to a flyer kiosk. Now, you can get your promotional material on the front page of this website as easily as tacking a flyer up at the campus Scramble Light.
Head over to the left side of the page, click on Post Flyer, upload your JPEG image, and specify the date of your event. The staff here will approve the image and it'll be online until it reaches its expiration date.
If this resource gets utilized like crazy, it'll get more real estate on the website (like a full page of current flyers instead of just the little box on the right).
Spread the word!
 This is a few weeks old, but still worth a plug. Philadelphia band Soraia came through Muncie (twice) on their December tour and wrote about their love of our humble town in their MySpace blog. Read on for quotes.
These bands will be featured at Doc's Music Hall on Saturday, January 12th. Give them a listen and come out and join us to see them live!
| Breaking news! Saturday, March 1st, Doc's Music Hall will host The Grahammys: The First Annual Muncie Scene Awards Banquet. We're gathering together all of the bands that have played at Doc's Music Hall over the past year and giving out awards to the most outstanding, notable, unique, and bizarre performers that have graced our town with their talent. Presenting the awards will be the event's host and namesake: local promoter, emcee, and founder of TheMuncieScene.com, Graham "Phantom" Watson (hey, I know that guy!). Ticket information will be announced soon (don't worry, tickets will be in the range of $3 to $5), as will the guest performance lineup. Spread the word about the Grahammys! |
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