First, Kevin Macleod at Incompetech is a fantastic musician and offers lots and lots of tracks for free use — without any payment. These are all original works so this is just a wonderful contribution to the world. He does request a $5 donation if you use his works, but it is completely voluntary. Full details are on his site.

Next, a major hat tip to the folks at the MusOpen! site. This ambitious project is making free use recordings of public domain music available for anyone anytime. They even have a live streaming option so you can play the music in your gallery, restaurant, store or any other public arena — without ASCAP / BMI or anyone else asking you for money. This is a neat endeavor and it deserves our support!

Finally, if anyone would like to use any of the tracks from my own contribution to posterity — they are certainly welcome to…

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Kevin

Yankton RiverWalk is a non-profit organization hoping to promote sculpture installations in their community. Being a newly formed group, they needed to get the most bang for their buck — and we helped them do just that! We used WordPress to deploy a low cost solution up front — that will be easily expandable in the future.

Project Accomplishments:

• Online Artists Application.

• Blog, News and Events sections.

• Integrated the site with Facebook.

• PayPal donation setup.