Finding Your Community

A common topic that’s been coming up in my conversations is the concept of community: finding it, embedding yourself in it, and growing it. In this crazy music world we live in, community is SO important. And they take many shapes - could be a community of producers, performers, singers, bands, promoters, event producers - across a variety of genres, sub-categories, cities, regions, countries, planets. A community is a group of people who share a common interest and support each other and you can find them both online and in person.

When I lived in San Francisco, despite there being dozens of DJ collectives and crews, everyone went out to support each other. The community vibe was SO strong. And as a result, I grew so much as a person, a professional, and an artist.

It’s important to find your community and as someone who just moved to a brand new city, I’m working on finding my community locally. A tool I used to help with this is Instagram Threads. No, this is not a paid ad, this is personal experience in using a tool to make connections.

You can watch my post about how Threads connected me with dozens of music heads in Denver. The long and short of it is, the algorithm does an AMAZING job of connecting you with the right people if you ask it to. I wrote that I wanted to be connected with this community and BOOM, it delivered. Notably a producer with 200K followers who wants to collab, and an artist relations manager at some of the biggest clubs in Denver.

Community is important. Take advantage of online tools to get involved in your community, and make sure you’re putting your face in the place in person to shake hands and make connections with people in real life as well.