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The Unstarving Musician


The Unstarving Musician’s Podcast features interviews with indie music artists an industry pros who share their experience and expertise on songwriting, recording, touring, getting gigs, marketing, and much more. It’s all intended to help indie artists to more of what they love–make music.

Oct 27, 2017

George Brandau is a super connector musician who regularly organizes benefit shows for his local community. He’s also a longtime friend and fellow drummer, who's been mentioned on The Unstarving Musician’s Podcast a few times. In this episode George and I discuss his superpower for connecting others, and how he goes about organizing and promoting benefit gigs.

George and his band Chrome Deluxe have raised thousands of dollars for the homeless, underprivileged children and fire victims. It struck me that many of us in the music community would appreciate the opportunity to learn about the art of benefit shows, the charitable giving involved, and the performing that goes along with it all. George says it's part of the hustle, but does get into some detail on how he uses social media, email and printed posters to pull consistent crowds to these events, be they benefit shows or otherwise.

As George says, connecting people is in the fabric of his being. So much so that he has to keep his super-connector side in check, lest it interfere with the act of listening. We had a laugh about this, as I frequently catch myself suppressing the urge to interrupt people for the sake of blurting out something that sounds funny in my head. Truth be told, my brand of humor seldom warrants interrupting anyone. I doubt this is the case for George as the rolodex of his mind starts to spin anytime he meets someone interesting.

George claims to be extroverted, yet he’ll also tell you that he cherishes alone time. Alone time for George is an ideal time to unplug and reflect. This is a topic I enjoyed discussing, as it can appear to fly in the face of being an extrovert, and because I can relate. I think that he and I are both extroverted introverts, because neither of us has issues with alone time. In fact, we both love and leverage it.

Read more and find show notes at UnstarvingMusician.com.