{"id":112668,"date":"2009-12-29T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091228\/1748127524.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-29T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:50:00","slug":"musician-christopher-bryant-opens-for-himself-to-connect-with-fans-and-to-find-new-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112668","title":{"rendered":"Musician Christopher Bryant ‘Opens For Himself’ To Connect With Fans… And To Find New Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re always interested in cool promotional and marketing ideas from content creators, and Hypebot alerts us to the news that musician Christopher Bryant is planning a neat concept for his solo shows: throughout 2010, he’ll “open for himself” when playing live<\/a>. Basically, he’s playing two sets, but the first set<\/i> will all be music by another artist. The first such artist is Ben Harper, who is apparently a huge inspiration to Bryant:
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We’re always interested in cool promotional and marketing ideas from content creators, and Hypebot alerts us to the news that musician Christopher Bryant is planning a neat concept for his solo shows: throughout 2010, he’ll “open for himself” when playing live. Basically, he’s playing two sets, but the first set will all be music by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}