I had the pleasure last Friday to address a class of music business majors at the Hayes School of Music on the campus of Appalachian State Univ. in Boone, NC. Their professor, Kim Wangler, and I had spoken a few weeks earlier about some project ideas I had and she thought my story was interesting enough to share with the students. She introduced me as someone with a music background that had built a business promoting and producing music. She also explained that this was not what I had envisioned myself doing 30 years ago.

After breaking the ice I showed them a brief slideshow of shots from different events that Celtic Force had been involved with the last few years. Then I told them my story. Surprisingly they seemed to enjoy it and no one fell asleep! There was some good energy in the room that day. At the close of my talk I pitched my project ideas and was again surprised when several students stayed around afterward to introduce themselves and say they enjoyed my talk and thought the project ideas were interesting.

So next week we meet again to talk more details of the projects that I feel will be very popular and which you will have to wait to learn more about. Could be a very interesting experience to see where the ideas of these young musicians and this old rocker might take this. Stay tuned.

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