The first podcast for 2008 and the first for a while.
Includes my new song I Tilted.
Sites I mention on the show include:
http://twitter.com/BluesBro
http://ustream.tv/LuigiCappel
http://www.learnpokerfromthejoes.com/PokerJoes/Home.html
http://songcritic.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/357602648/m/66010335341/r/11610735341#11610735341
http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/luigicappel
http://www.songsummit.com.au/Program.htm

In this program we look at lessons from a Music Manager's Forum.
Building a fan base and why.
Touring the US for Kiwi's
Music Festivals
Government funding for Kiwi music
Also more on project 365 to accelerate your music career and what I have been doing on mine.
A preview of the new song Listen by Luigi Cappel
Url's for sites that were mentioned on the podcast:
www.musicianscooler.com
www.geewiz.co.nz
www.apra.co.nz
www.nzonair.govt.nz
http://2007.sxsw.com
www.nzmusic.org.nz

Sorry for the wait folks, I'm back from travelling to Los Angeles, Florida and Jamaica and have some stories to tell.

The podcast includes a way to make sure that you keep working on your career, 365.

I played at the Handlebar & Grill in Longwood Fl and recommend the good folk there to any visitors or locals. Check out their website. Many thanks to Mama Chris for her hospitality and a call out to 7 and Lil' Laura of Dreams The Band who want to do a Steveie Nicks tribute tour. Come on down!

Brickbats to United Airlines who damaged my guitar and told me it was my brand new case that I bought for the trip that ripped itself and damaged my $2,000 guitar. Also brickbats to Dreamer Catamaran Cruises in Montego bay where my watch was stolen while I and all the passengers were doing some wonderful snorkling. All I got after reporting it stolen was a complaint about how small my (deliberate considering the circumstances) tip was and that they should frame it.

Kudos to Air New Zealand who took awesome care of my guitars and the 2 guys who delivered one each to me when I got home.

Kudos to Charly Nice who played some awesome sax accompaniment to my new song which you can hear on thes podcast called You Oughta Run

A Kiwi Songwriter has hit 10 episodes. This episode is about New Media which is about being read and found by your target market directly. It discusses 4 examples:

1. Community Websites
2. Blogs
3. Press Release Wires
4. PR Aggregators

Websites mentioned in the podcast are:
www.itunes.com
http://bluesbro.buzznet.com
www.scoop.co.nz
www.iworldpeople.co.nz
www.prweb.com
www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro
www.myspace.com/luigicappel

The feature song is Raglan Rain by Luigi Cappel

The next podcast of A Kiwi Songwriter is going to be about topics for songs including passion, anger and violence. It will feature Luigi Cappel's new song You Oughta Run.

How to get free PR, the first of 2 podcasts about how to get the media to pay attention to you and tell your story.

This podcast includes how to write a story and 4 ways to approach the media.

This is number 9 in the series A Kiwi Songwriter, where Luigi Cappel shares his knowedge and experience as he works towadrs becoming a fulltime professional songwriter.

This podcast can be found at http://luigicappel.libsyn.com and Luigi's music can be found at www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro

A Kiwi Songwriter Show 8 Marketing.
In this show Luigi Cappel talks about marketing for songwriters and performers. This includes 9 ways of marketing yourself:

1. Music Demo's
2. Upload your music on the web
3. Podcasting
4. Blogging
5. Public Relations (PR)
6. Print Media
7. MP3 Music Gram
8. Live Performance
9. Email

Luigi's music can be heard at www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro

Other sites mentioned in the podcast are:
www.myspace.com
www.indie911.com
www.txttunes.co.nz
http://newzealand.tribe.net/home
www.libsyn.com
www.vistaprint.com
http://mp3musicgrams.com/

You can contact Luigi by email at luigicappel@gmail.com

A Kiwi Songwriter 7 - Learning
Happy New Year for 2007
This podcast continues the journey of Luigi Cappel in New Zealand as he works towards becoming a full time professional songwriter. It is full of information that will be of interest to songwriters and musicians looking to further their careers.
Includes 6 places to find information for learning.
Recommended websites include:
Chordbook - International Songwriter - American Songwriter Magazine - Pat Pattison - Elderly Instruments - Melody Writers - Music Forte - A Kiwi Songwriter
Recommended Podcasts:
Americana - A Miller Tells Her Tale
Diary of a Shameless self Promoter
Indie 911
NPR: All Songs Considered
The Musicians Cooler
The New Zealand Music Show
Song for this podcast is Natural Progression by Luigi Cappel now published by Sidney Skyler Music

A Kiwi Songwriter Podcast 6

The latest in the series of podcasts for songwriters and performers. This program is on networking for songwriters and performers and your host from Auckland, New Zealand is songwriter Luigi Cappel. Comeand check it out and bring your friends.

Items discussed include 7 ways to grow your network:
1. Associate in Person
2. Email
3. Chat networks
4. Web sites
5. Blogs, moblogs and other social netwoks
6. Podcats
7 The theory of six degeres of separation

Links:
Diary of a Shamless Self Promoter by Heidi Miller
The Musicians Cooler
TXT Tunes
My music Forte site
MF Top 20 Country Songs
MF Top 20 Folk Songs
Music Forte Idol
Buzznet
Liz Barry The NZ Music Show
Special delivery Mark
NPR All Songs Considered
The Miller Tells Her Tale

This is a soapbox podcast where Luigi Cappel introduces one of hismost recent songs, a protest song about the official relationship between New Zealand and the USA. Protest songs go as far back as Leadbelly and as recent as Bob Geldorf's Live Aid concerts. It is an area where songwriters use music as a tool to get a message accross and to try to build a better world.

In the mid 1980's the Kiwi's made a decision to ban nuclear powered and armed ships from our ports. The United States couldn't live with this position and decided to penalise us for our decision and suspended us from our regional peace treaty. 20 years later there is a little thawing, but we remain suspended from ANZUS and while Australia now has a free trade agreement with the US, New Zealand is forced to seek trade alliances with countries like China.

Ironically several Kiwi's were awarded US Medals of honour for service in Afghanistan recently.

Luigi Cappel wrote a song last month to protest this position with the words:

Mr Bush i'm asking why we can't be friends
It's our environment we were trying to defend
Our men fought along with yours on a dozen foreign shores
Your logic I just fail to comprehend.

This song was written a month ago and spent the first 2 weeks at Number One on the Music Forte Country Music Top 20. The song is presented in this podcast as well as a personal soapbox in relation to this situation.

Mr Bush Why Can't We Be Friends and other songs can be heard at www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro

You can email Luigi at luigicappel@gmail.com

This week's show from Auckland, New Zealand is about performance. Why perform? Where to perform? Hot to prepare and 15 things to take with you to the gig.

A performance of Telephone Card and some other exciting things like how to drink lots of water to support your vocal chords without having to take extra trips to the bathroom.

Links from the show:
http://specialdelivery.libsyn.com/rss
www.podcastusermagazine.com
www.temple.co.nz

Luigi Cappel's website where you can hear more of his songs and vote for him on Music Forte Idol is www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro and you can contact him by email at luigicappel@gmail.com.