Earlier this year, I indicated that I would be moving this blog to a new home. Well, the move is complete. Going forward, The Gathering Note can be found at www.gatheringnote.com or www.gatheringnote.org. Be sure to bookmark the new site and update your RSS feeds if you subscribe.
The move is important for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, is the ability for the new site to host dynamic content. We will be experimenting with a community calendar, tour reports, audio, live blogging, Q&A sessions with artists, flickr photoblogging, and YouTube. Second, the new site will enable me to experiment with advertising to help defray the costs of maintaining the website.
The Pacific Northwest has long been regarded as a creative incubator for the country. From John Cage to Nirvana, Seattle and the surrounding region have continually pushed the evolution of music across genres. It has always been my goal to compliment the Northwest’s role in pushing the musical envelope with a site that provides accessible, thoughtful, and opinionated coverage. It has also been my goal to experiment with new ways to cover classical music. In both instances we have succeeded. In less than one year more than 40,000 people have stopped by The Gathering Note. Many of you return daily, weekly, or monthly.
I hope you will continue to read The Gathering Note. I am proud of the community that has sprung up and I am grateful for the talented writers who contribute to this site on a regular basis: Philippa Kiraly, James Bash, and Ozni Torres. If you keep reading we’ll keep writing.
