Upstream’s first year was focused on educating the Seattle music scene about how technology & community are helping drive better business in music. And also gave them a place to show off their skills live. Upstream’s potential is educating other local scenes by recording the panels and making an effort to distribute them online. In turn driving more people in the music industry to come, so they can in turn see what’s happening in Seattle and other local music scenes.
We did find plenty of musicians this year coming from other local scenes to perform. My hometown Minneapolis had quite a few I adore, but I really only went for one local Seattle musician. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see Gabriel Teodros play while I was there, but I did get to watch his panel during the summit. After, I introduced myself and had the chance to tell Gabriel how his music has affected my life and the blog. He recognized Silence Nogood’s name (I hate saying it in public), but when I got back I had to look up the brief conversations we had over the years. There were some gems.
@SilenceNogood respects! thank you for the support always.
— Gabriel Teodros (@GabrielTeodros) March 28, 2011
@SilenceNogood i said "we the children of blues, rock & all that other jazz, doo-wop, funk, soul…
— Gabriel Teodros (@GabrielTeodros) March 15, 2014
@SilenceNogood …know that hip hop has ageless flows gone from an african past"
— Gabriel Teodros (@GabrielTeodros) March 15, 2014
@SilenceNogood appreciate you
— Gabriel Teodros (@GabrielTeodros) March 15, 2014
Even a gentleman when you drunk tweet him wrong lyrics. To be fair, they weren’t available online (and still aren’t).
@SilenceNogood i love whenever i make someone’s top 5… thank you.
— Gabriel Teodros (@GabrielTeodros) February 23, 2015
@GabrielTeodros any chance Abyssinian Creole and your solo work will ever be on SoundCloud? Would love to do a feature.
— Silence Nogood (@SilenceNogood) March 6, 2015
@GabrielTeodros @SilenceNogood waaaaay over do
— Khingz (@khingz206) March 6, 2015
Still overdue on the Abyssinian Creole sophmore album. Their first was one of my favorite of all time. And it’s still not on SoundCloud, but it is on Spotify.