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Joel Pomerantz Enters the Computer Generation

My Interests

Television:

Don't watch any. Too busy listening to music.

Heroes:

Alfred E. Neuman.

My Blog

Electric Maid needs you and NERFA needs you

Two Things I have to mention- A.  The Electric Maid Community Living Room (website at www.electricmaid.org/ ) at 268 Carroll Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012 (One block from Takoma Park Metro Sta...
Posted by joel on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:40:00 PST

Help start a new performance space!!Thursday 12/28-Takoma DC

If you want to help restart and staff a great performance space, please come to the Electric Maid Community Living Room at 9 PM on Thursday 12/28 2006.  It is located in Takoma,DC one block from ...
Posted by joel on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:35:00 PST

I am headed to NERFA next week (9-12 November)

I am, hopefully, barring health or financial or other issues, headed to attend NERFA, which is the conference of the Northeast Region of the Folk Alliance (don't let the word Folk scare you, this is a...
Posted by joel on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:47:00 PST

Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, New Song Festival, NERFA

Just to let songwriters and singer-songwriters and performers know, there are three things coming up that I would like to give folks' attention to: A.  The new deadline for submission of entries ...
Posted by joel on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:41:00 PST

I am still looking for a house for house concert series

If there is anyone on here who is in the immediate DC Metro Area (not Baltimore,Richmond,Hagerstown,Frederick, Leesburg), I would really like to host some more musical shows, but I am looking for the ...
Posted by joel on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:29:00 PST

Try the Mystechs at Sangha on June 20th

These guys, the Mystechs, out of chicago (www.myspace.com/mystechs ) are on of the GREAT acts of this age.  They are beyond description. PLEASE go to their show at Sangha in Takoma Park on June 2...
Posted by joel on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:35:00 PST

Musicians and Songwriters Networking, try something else

To the folks who post on the DC area musicians craigslist and at the DC City paper, there is better networking out there.  Try joining and posting at SAW (Songwriters Association of Washington at...
Posted by joel on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:49:00 PST

Some of My Favorites

Just a few moments to post a not wholly inclusive list of some of my favorite singer-songwriters, some of whom have Myspace sites and are linked to me and some of whom don't. In no particular order of...
Posted by joel on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:25:00 PST

NERFA! Wow!!!

I just came home from NERFA (www.nerfa.org/), which is the Northeast Regional Conference of the Folk Alliance (www.folk.org/ or www.folkalliance.net/ ), which will have its main conference in Austin,T...
Posted by joel on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:15:00 PST

How my House Concert went,NERFA upcoming,Electric Maid back

I put on and presented a house concert in Burke,VA on Sunday 11/06 with Rob Thorworth (www.thorworth.com  -check him out) and Leah Morgan (www.leahmorgan.com/ -check her out).  It went excep...
Posted by joel on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:17:00 PST