Starts and Sputters

I am going to Montreal.

Everything worked out so Claire's coming for the first 3 days to see the city and take it all in with me. And now, since I'm leaving 2 days earlier than I had initially planned, and my train tickets are $30-40 cheaper, I feel better about taking 3 days in transit and in New York to see Spring Awakening, Row G Orchestra.

I now have 2 definite interviews, 2 pending, and 3 pending inquiries:
Associate Dean for the Schulich School of Music, the VP of Programming for les Francofolies; Professor of Communications and Art History at McGill, Quebec Studies Professor; Jim Corcoran (A Propos radio host), Pierre Landry (Daybreak Montreal culture columnist), Osheaga, Salsafolie.

I've also got a very friendly invitation to coffee by a girl who I didn't rent a room from. How nice!

I hope I can get the interviews with the latter 3, especially because I can compare perspectives from 2 different music festivals and get points of views from people that have had a lot of experience studying the music and culture (and in the first case, actually a singer/songwriter in the music industry).

Now I have to work on:
- McGill graduate student in music
- More concert venue curators! (indie/large-scale)
- Recording studio execs/producers/employees! (indie/large-scale)
- Try others that work in radio? what about tv? Fuse?
- ARTISTS (sample a large variety: pop and folk and rock and diverse)

I should work out a schedule from here on out which books, internet sources I should cite and how I should research, exactly. Notecards? Printouts? Memory? What categories?