Begin Again

I guess that I didn't really explain before what we are doing back out in Colombia again. We have come out to set up 2 recording studios: one in Bogota and the other in in a small town called El Salado near the Caribbean coast. I am out with Tim Giddings and we are the advance party to actually build the studios. The first one is our own studio in central Bogota and will be available to musicians from low income backgrounds, and when I use that term over here it truly means low income.
My mission is also to sign some agreements that will create FairTunes Colombia as a legal entity and will empower some people over here to represent us properly.
As mentioned before our first mission is to set up the Bogota studio before the 4th October when Nick Minton is to begin some workshops in conjunction with a local Hip Hop festival called 'Hip Hop al Parque'. The festival is a city-wide music event pulled together by government organisations who have invited us to work with some underprivileged young musicians in return for some financial support for the running of our studio.
We have a lot to do and, due to us losing a day (see previous blog) we are well behind as we haven't been able to buy the materials or the tools we need yet, as it is the weekend.
However, we are confident that we can hit the ground running and have sourced some tools already and cleaned out the studio space that is housed in a new music venue called 'Boogaloop'.
Luckily for us we we know some amazing people over here from our previous visits and we now have a solid local team who are helping us out in a variety of ways. So, for us, the hard graft starts tomorrow and we can hopefully start something big here before our journey to El Salado where the crazy part of the trip really begins.