Congratulations to Bryan Vaughan, one of our students here at Belmont, for winning first place in the Self-Employment in the Arts business plan competition held recently in the Chicago area!
His business is Paper Garden Records, which is described this way at their web site:
Paper Garden Records is a new, fresh and innovative independent label based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Its employees and affiliates boast a vast array of experience and hail from locations around the country. Staff members have spent extensive time working with Sub Pop Records, Saddle Creek Records, EMI Records, and Flatstock, as well as with such events as the Grammy's, SXSW, and CMJ. It is a group of friends dedicated to introducing the music community to the artists and the music they themselves have discovered and fallen in love with.The label's first signing is Eagle*Seagull from Lincoln, Nebraska. Drawing on influences as diverse as Leonard Cohen and Pavement, the band takes the New York rock scene of recent days, packs it up, and heads west to their roots- making the sound their own with bittersweet melodies, a broken voice, and the plaintive calling of their instruments.
