{"id":984,"date":"2018-10-05T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/?p=984"},"modified":"2018-10-04T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T03:31:00","slug":"you-say-goodbye-i-say-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/2018\/10\/05\/you-say-goodbye-i-say-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello friends! We would like to let you know that we have some changes happening here at Bent River Records, and we wanted to take some time to say a fond farewell and a warm hello (all at the same time). We are taking on a new practicum student who will be handling our distribution and artist presence. What this really means is she will be walking around MacEwan campus ensuring that our artists (and their records) will be available at places like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macewanbookstore.com\/c-159-bent-river-records.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacEwan Bookstore<\/a>. Make sure to say hello to her when you see her carrying armloads of albums from our artists!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-985\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-985\" src=\"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Odessa-Ashbey-credit-Kylee-Thompson-Photography-e1538709300835-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Odessa-Ashbey-credit-Kylee-Thompson-Photography-e1538709300835-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Odessa-Ashbey-credit-Kylee-Thompson-Photography-e1538709300835.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kylee Thompson Photography (Hire this woman! She is amazing!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am thrilled to become a part of the Bent River Records team and can\u2019t wait to apply my 12 years of music industry experience to work at this amazing label! This is really going to be a new chapter for me in the music industry and I am happy to share it with the BRR team.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 Odessa Ashbey, Distribution and placement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odessa Ashbey has been working within the Edmonton metal community as an artist manager for Edmonton death metal\/murder metal band <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/talesofthetomb.bandcamp.com\/album\/volume-one-morpras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tales Of The Tomb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, live music promoter, and arts manager. She has previously been a mentor at BreakOut West and has been working with Asher Media Relations (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ashermediarelations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AMR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) as a publicist for the past 5 years. Some of her past publicity clients include Wormwitch, Protosequence, Death Toll Rising, and other western Canadian metal acts. Her new role at Bent River Records includes distribution and placement of artists. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-829\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-829 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mallory-Promo-shot-DSC_0351-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mallory-Promo-shot-DSC_0351-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mallory-Promo-shot-DSC_0351-768x991.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mallory-Promo-shot-DSC_0351-794x1024.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Batul Gulamhusein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feel free to add her on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/caraashbey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ODESSAYEG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/odessayeg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a new hello comes a very fond farewell and endless gratitude for our own label artist and A&amp;R Representative, Mallory Chipman. Fear not! She is still going to be an artist on our roster, but will be departing to work on some exciting projects, and we want to wish her the best!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mallorychipman.com\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out her most recent release \u2018Rags and Feathers: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen\u2019 here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned for more exciting updates from the BRR team right here on our blog! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends! We would like to let you know that we have some changes happening here at Bent River Records, and we wanted to take some time to say a fond farewell and a warm hello (all at the same time). We are taking on a new practicum student who will be handling our distribution &#8230; <a title=\"You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/2018\/10\/05\/you-say-goodbye-i-say-hello\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"RoboGalleryMansoryImagesCenter":false,"RoboGalleryPreload":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"menu-87.2793x36":false,"menu-36x36":false,"menu-48x48":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"BRR Team","author_link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/author\/brr-team\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Hello friends! 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