Electronic music in a Church?
Hey all I wanted to get your opinions on something... Recently, I was given the opportunity to run a weekly event at a local church. To give you a little background the church is quite large, several thousand attendees each Sunday and they have quite an impressive audio/video setup. I myself have been a Christian my entire life. Even though I do hold some slightly different views on some matters my core belief system is the same. In my life there are 5 top things that are above all else the most important things to me.
1. God
2. Family / Relationships
3. Electronic Music
4. Technology
5. Business
Over the last 10 years or so I've constantly tried to find a way to combine these otherwise different aspects in way that complements each one of their categories. To give you a little background on me in the late 90's I was heavily involved in the Detroit rave scene. Mostly, on the administrative end. I worked with different production companies and vendors to help aid in throwing some of the larger parties Detroit had seen. After the DEA started cracking down on the party scene and every single one of my friends got arrested (but me) I decided it was time to figure out something new. Over the last couple of years I've thrown a couple of parties at private venues and one or two churches. Each event pulled in a couple of hundred of people but I lost a ton of money every time. Now, I've been presented with an opportunity to run a weekly event with almost no overhead cost to my company where there would be a (nearly) guaranteed number of people attending...somewhere between 500-700. My goal is to bring this form of music that we love so much to an entirely different audience, one that has NO CLUE what real music sounds like.
Most of the kids in this area have been grown in a bubble never setting foot outside of their MTV, POP culture, world and I'm trying to get a feel for how receptive they will be to techno in general. Now, REGARDLESS of your own personal religious convictions, whatever they may be, I ask for your honest objective opinions to my situation. You don't have to agree with the way I believe, that’s not the point of this post.
The point is that I want to see how you all feel about trying to expand the music reaching a demographic of kids/adults that have never heard it before...
Last edited by djrodimus on Jun-14-2006 at 16:31
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