No Account Self-Service Band Signup

The majority of the content you see on Catberry today is curated. Typically, when an event partner submits a new concert, I set the artist or band in the lineup before publishing. In these early days that often means, researching them and creating a public profile first. That's time consuming and imperfect.

It is now possible to create band profiles yourself, without an account. We still have a review process to make sure your band doesn't already have an internal non-public record and to make sure the content is suitable for our audience. If you want to have your band in our directory, go to https://catberry.io/band-signup!

Circle Hosts

A driving goal behind Catberry is to tell the story of America though its music. That means creating an intricate graph of relationships between people, bands, events, venues, organization. This is quite challenging at times because y'all are busy. A missing piece was crediting a host of a jam or circle. Hosting is a critical part of successful jams. To acknowledge that effort we added the ability to assign a host to a circle. A good example is Whole Hog’s Ham Jam and their host Whole Hog.

Per-Member Performance Credits

Bands like Tuesday String Band sometimes have events where one or two of their members are not performing. We still want it credited to the band but we also want accuracy and we don't want events to show up for an artist that won't be at an event. See making things hard.

Other Things

• Changing a circle's handle will automatically redirect the old handle to the new one. At least, until someone claims the old handle!
• Fixed a bug that was causing the name search for circles not to work.
• We added two new organization categories, local business and church.

Love!