How to Endorsing Your Favorite Band Will Earn You Fans

A couple of my groups favorite Celtic bands areapologize to other Celtic artists out there). We play
Enya, Loreena McKennit and the Chieftains. I guess Ithe autoharp, recorder and mandolin. Yes, the sound
kinda liken the Brobdingnagian Bards to these groups.is quite different from all three of those bands. But
Like Enya, we play some beautiful romantic moodhopefully you get the "idea" of what we sound like.
music. Like Loreena McKennit we add a popish flareBy endorsing a popular band or artist, people who
to our performance. And like the Chieftains, we playhave not heard you before will have a general idea
many riling Celtic tunes.of what you sound like, and they will be a little more
So what do you think? Pretty good endorsements?susceptiple to listening to your music. All you need is
Do you have an idea what kind of music my bandone chance to convince someone you are the best
plays? What it sounds like? Guess what? Sure I'dand you'll have a chance to win them over.
"liken" my bands to those and now when you nextOf course, you also run the risk that they will be
hear those names, you will think of thedisappointed and alienated, if you sound nothing like
Brobdingnagian Bards (although you may not be ablethe band you are endorsing, but that is a risk you run
to say it, at least The Bards) and you will think ofdaily so it's nothing new.
me.So your task for this week is to find a band, local or
But you know what, despite what you think WEnational. Start endorsing them. Who knows? Maybe
may sound like, you'd probably be wrong. Enya usesone day you'll even get a chance to open for
synth, Loreena is a pop diva, the Chieftains...well,them...or better yet, they open for you.
honestly, I'm not to familiar with their music (I