S H O U T N o t e » folk blues indie http://shoutnote.com State of the Independent Music Scene Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Dan Renfro http://shoutnote.com/2008/03/15/dan-renfro/ http://shoutnote.com/2008/03/15/dan-renfro/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:53:26 +0000 admin http://shoutnote.com/?p=3 Dan Renfro is a musician and songwriter who’s been gigging around L.A. for about two years. His music is folk-blues style, and a track or two on his MySpace page shows off his saxophone skills as well. I spoke with him after a recent set at The Joint. When asked how he’d improve the indie music scene, he mentioned a distaste for a practice known as “pay-to-play,” which is a common complaint I’ve heard from other bands and musicians in L.A. Pay-to-play requires bands to pay a set amount up front in order to play at a given club. A percentage of proceeds from door charges then goes toward allowing the band to recover its money and maybe even make a few bucks profit if enough people show. Formerly from Kansas City, Renfro said bands there rarely have to pay in advance to perform at a club.

While I regrettably wasn’t able to capture any footage of Renfro on stage, he gives another unique answer to how he’d improve the scene in the video below:

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