Heartland Marimba Quartet at DMSC ! 08 Mar 19:30 - 21:00 Des Moines Social Club, 900 Mulberry St The Heartland Marimba Quartet, a subsidiary of the Heartland Marimba Festival organization, officially launches in 2017. An exciting and incendiary initiative of HMF, HMQ is an ensemble of four dynamic solo performers that will premier this collaboration with a tour throughout Iowa and Minnesota . It was very important for HMQ to present to the world by doing their first tour in the heart of the heartland where HMF has been growing since 2014. The ensemble will tour the nation regularly in the spring and fall and will be in residence as the artist faculty each summer at the Heartland Marimba Festival Academy at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point . HMQ officially launches with its first concert in the Culinary Loft of the Des Moines Social Club! Doors open for the party at 6pm. Food served and included in admission price. CONCERT BEGINS AT 7:30pm. There will be a cash bar...

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Depending on your musical poison of choice, your family can be competing with the time you need to practice, play gigs, song write, sing in a choir, direct a music ensemble , teach music, or even schmooze with other musicians . Music Pro Tip 1: Be realistic Sure, you might want to play drums in the punk band , direct the church choir , AND give private music lessons , but you also have a spouse and three kids that need you. If you have a spouse that is helpful or you can afford quality sitters to watch your children and clean your home, then by all means, take on two dozen gigs, write the next Pulitzer-prize winning symphony, and go on a whirlwind solo tour of Europe . For the rest of us who have limited means (and time), limiting the number of commitments you have will ensure that the time you spend with your family and music is quality time not hampered by the hectic. Music Pro Tip 2: Balance You cannot take care of your family and be a good musician if you can...

Success in Music During the Digital Age How can a musician achieve success during the Digital Age? Can we all be the next Lady Gaga or Bieber? What does it take to make it in the 21 century?  In the last several years, you might have noticed that some big name "oldies" bands have hit the road again. Why? Because they can make more money on concert tickets and music merch. Some bands need this to survive (or to at least keep up with their mega mansions and lifestyles), but I think that the majority of musicians that are going to make it today will have to be content with less lavish lifestyles and fame. Sure, we will always have the Lady Gaga and the Bieber making their way through the music scene , but there will be thousands of other musicians balancing a "day job" with their love of music. I think that part of the digital revolution is the new definition of "success". Does a successful musician have to have a limo, three mansions, and a dozen o...