It’ll be up and running on northcoastjournal.com at 7:30 p.m. — “Flying Fingers” night at the Humboldt Folklife Festival! This’ll be the first of four consecutive nights of live music from the fest, streamed to your home. Then, on Saturday — all-day folk bonanza!
If you read this before 7:30, go on and over now to check out a promotional video from John Henry of the top-secret Venue Project, of which the NCJ is a proud inaugural member. We’ve worked out the kinks with a couple of test broadcasts — Tim Robbins at Dell’Arte, music from Muddy’s Hot Cup — and now we’re ready to go full-bore with this thing.
John Henry lets slip the big secret. After Saturday’s folk events, we are thrilled and honored to be broadcasting leeeeeeee-iiiiiiii-ve from the Roller Derby bout of the year — The Bad Axes v. The Tree Sluggers! Live from Redwood Acres, 8 p.m. on a hot Saturday night!
If only their mothers could see them now! Thanks to The Venue Project, and the North Coast Journal, they can! And so can you!
Hosannas!
This article appears in ‘Save the Trees!’.
Looks like local commercial television is lagging waaaaayyyyyyy behind in live internet telecasting of local events. A consumer camera, a computer and the will do it for free is all it takes. If you can accept the low quality, this is the tip of the iceberg.
read this thing called the long tail theory… wow…right here in backwoods humby.
Copernicus Jones, that is a very astute observation.
Long Tail Theory
Unbelievable! Go Stream Guys!
Low quality is an extreme understatement. It’s a great idea, but streaming video looks like shit. It is totally worthless, virtually non-watchable. It contributes, along with mp3s, to the steady downgrading of consumer crap. Can’t wait until the technology improves. Until then, I’ll stick to live shows and high quality recordings.
Auntie — I hear ya. The Humboldt County telecom infrastructure leaves much to be desired. If these places we’re broadcasting from had real bandwidth, we’d be in business.
On the other had, the sound from folklife was pretty damn good. Wednesday night’s jazz show killed, straight up. I plugged it into my stereo and rocked it out.
The video was just a little bonus.
I am with auntie, I am just going to bitch, the internet sucks in this 3rd world county, and I bet the stream guys arent going to make it through the winter at this rate. Great business model.