Hi Folks,

I just got off the phone with Michael Laskow, the CEO of TAXI and he's going to come to Tampa on Jan 29th to do a joint TAXI/JPFolks event. Usually he does a 2 hour free seminar on all the hot topics in the music industry, so what I'd like to do is combine our folks with his seminar and get a really huge turn out.

He did the same thing in Miami last Friday with only a couple days notice and had 200 people show up, so with several weeks notice, I am hoping we'll really have a great turn out and give him a great impression of our first joint effort.

He is going to set up and pay for the meeting room in Tampa. It will likely be near the airport since he is flying in Thursday and can't get there before 5pm. Please plan now to attend and help me figure out what type of turn out we can expect in Tampa? When he visited Indianapolis, we had about 200 people come out here as well. This is a free event, so let me know what you think we could expect both from our current members and also the Tampa music community itself.

This also leaves me with 2 options:

I could come on Wednesday and we could do a regular JPF Roadtrip Showcase for everyone to perform and then meet again Thursday night for the seminar/discussion. Or I could just come on Thursday night if you think having 2 events will water down the Thursday gathering. It's really important to me to have a good JPF turn out because we can explode the size of the Tampa Chapter by signing up all the non members (which should be well over 150..) to the local chapter and overnight you guys could rival the size of LA and the other largest chapters in the group.

If we DO have a showcase on Wednesday night, then I would need your help in setting up an appropriate venue, PA, etc.. And of course we want to get other JPF members who aren't chapter members to come out and perform and join the chapter as well.

I have a newsletter going out over the weekend (the last of the year) and if we can make a very quick decision, I will actually put a notice about this in that issue (and the next one in January as well).

So, what do you all say?

Brian

Brian Austin Whitney
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