Collette Savard: Blog

 A random person trying to give me advice on my music career once asked me "have you tried being in the right  place at the right time?" I know that sounds like a joke but they weren't joking. The earnest look in the person's face, standing there in front of the sinks in the public washroom, left no doubt that they were serious. They even continued to say that I should get a manager to write songs for me etc. Though I had to work very hard not to laugh you can't deny that it's good advice! How many people get their break by doing just that? So this brings me to my story. I talked about many things in my last blog entry dated October 2010. I talked about the struggles of maintaining my self worth as an artist. I vowed to start writing regular blog entries (oops!) but I also posted a song. I did this very randomly as a joke. This was a song we'd put on a home recording done as a Christmas gift for family and friends. We called the album, John and Collette's Country Classics for [...]

Artists are sensitive and neurotic. Ok I know it's a cliche but it just so happens that I am sensitive and neurotic and an artist. Although there may be some very thick skinned perfectly emotionally balanced artists out there  I'm going to speak from experience and say that the above statement is true. Where am I going with this? Uh not sure...oh yeah, putting myself out there. Recently John (producer/husband/side man etc. see exhibit A below) came up with the idea of raising funds through a community fund-raising site online. I know this sounds like a virtual bake-sale but it's not. What it is is a way to sell advanced copies of your album to your community in order to offset the costs of producing the album. What a great idea! What's the worst that could happen? I agreed with John's point of view that regardless of whether we met our official goal, any help would be welcome. If we only made $100 well that would be $100 less we would have to (magically) come up with. So I set up the [...]