miraclemanays
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I'm having a little trouble here. I just moved back home to beautiful/sunny Pittsburgh Pa. The past four years I've been living and gigging in NYC where I also studied at The Collective. For financial reasons I moved home. I'm trying to get into the music scene here in Pittsburgh, but I'm slowly finding there isn't much of one. I mean, I'm sure there is one but I don't know where it's hiding. A simple craigslist search will yield 45 yr old guys looking to start a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band or 17 yr old kids with a heading that reads "must be blast beat proficient."
Given I don't know anyone here anymore I don't have any "ins" and I don't know where to get a name for myself. I know this is all really vague and can be a blanket question for all music business but what do you suggest I do? It just doesn't seem like there is a culture of "working musicians" here. I was thinking of maybe trying to find some open jams and sitting in. All I know is the musician classifieds, craigslist and elsewhere, are not doing it for me. I just want to be creative and find like-minded individuals, but it seems creative here means something completely different. Help!
Given I don't know anyone here anymore I don't have any "ins" and I don't know where to get a name for myself. I know this is all really vague and can be a blanket question for all music business but what do you suggest I do? It just doesn't seem like there is a culture of "working musicians" here. I was thinking of maybe trying to find some open jams and sitting in. All I know is the musician classifieds, craigslist and elsewhere, are not doing it for me. I just want to be creative and find like-minded individuals, but it seems creative here means something completely different. Help!