“But I don’t want to be a pirate!” (Band 1) and YES, that’s a keytar.
… and it’s over!
With the support of 25 adventurous musicians we were able to raise about $1,300 for the Ottawa Food Bank with an event I’ve been running for the last three years. I was NOt expecting the amount of support we got from CBC Radio and TV. This year essentially Rock Lotto became 4 events in one (commercial, press conference, band draw and actual event). Needless to say, I’m exhausted from trying to balance all of my work on top of it.
We got coverage in at least 6 major media publications and were featured on CBC’s All in a Day afternoon show (3 hours), 6 o’clock news, in addition to dozens of online , podcasts, community radio and photography sites. The reviews were great too, people were saying it was the “coolest event” they’d ever been to. The club was PACKED and all the music was actually good.
These were all the newly formed bands after we threw them into a guerilla-style photo shoot.
Here is one of the bands performing
Here I am with CBC Radio 1′s Amanda Putz, our host of the evening.
Everyone was having lots of fun at the photobooth between awesome bands…
Here is how I felt once it was over… delirious.
