What Make Project Opus SO Great
Submitted by Mandy on Wed, 2006-03-15 10:41.
In an earlier life, I spent 6 years overseas living and working in countries like Mexico and Thailand. I was young(er), footloose, and definitely into staying up until 3 or 4 am (sometimes until the next morning) checking out the bar scene with its local and imported musicians. It was always a coup to be the first one to find the hot new bar, the latest, greatest up and comer. Live music was everywhere. And somehow, maybe because it was a foreign place, it was easier for me to approach those musicians and strike up a conversation.
Flash forward to my life now, and it seems so vastly different. I'm here in a city with an awesome music scene, great artists and bands popping up all the time, but I never get to see them. I have a family, more specifically a 13 month old son, that has curtailed my ability to go out. That's what makes Project Opus so awesome. Now I'm not cut off from that excitement of watching a new band start up. Being a part of the experience, even if I can't be in the club itself. I can even talk with that band (if I get my courage up) through the site. Now I'm reconnected to music... heck, even outside of Vancouver. It's almost like travelling the world again...
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