The Musicians’ Marketplace grew out of a conversation I had with Trevor Burley (cellist and craniosacral therapist) about how marvellous it is to have acquired new skills and what a shame we don’t have more clients. Pondering this, I had one of my (rare) useful ideas - a directory of all of us who have additional skills or services to offer that can be accessed by every musician who would rather employ a colleague than trust to luck and the Yellow Pages. It took me a while, but it’s finally up and running. As well as advertising your services you can sell things, rent houses, find Bed & Breakfast accommodation and post news items (forthcoming events, new businesses, successes etc). Still to come are a book exchange and a forum - they’re exercising my ingenuity a bit. It’s a very simple concept - anyone who wants to advertise on it pays a £5 registration fee and everything else is free. I put out a quarterly Newsletter containing short articles and letters that is distributed around as many orchestras as possible. All contributions are welcome. To salve my conscience regarding the £5 fee, I’m donating 10% of the profits (if and when there are any) to Music for Autism — it’s a great charity that does wonderful work and incidentally provides us musicians with a lot of work. If you don’t know about it, it has a page on the website, so log on and read.	Obviously, the more people who register with the Marketplace the more useful it is to everybody. As an idea it’s a real sign of the times, as more and more of us find our lifestyles are less fabulous than we’d like. I’m awestruck by people’s resourcefulness. There are counsellors, masseurs, decorators, plumbers, IT people, photographers, instrument repairers and even an online lingerie company. The music world has always been a supportive community - my great hope is that my website will build on that so that we really turn our ever changing world into opportunity. Whether you’re a part-time brain surgeon or you do baby-sitting on Mondays - Sign Up! musiciansmarketplace.co.uk Article submitted by Jo St Leon	Current Staffing: Abbie Amy Angela Catherine Jo Lucy Matt Oliver Simon Tania

Diary News In order for us to run your diary more efficiently, we would like to remind everyone of the importance of keeping their diary up to date. You can do this at any time over the phone, by fax or email, or by signing up to mas online. Recently, we have received a number of complaints from fixers about clients not keeping their diary up to date. They are becoming increasingly frustrated by clients who turn work down after we have accepted it believing them to be free. Whilst fixers like the fact that we can accept work, they would like us to remind everyone that turning down work once it has been accepted by us can often cause them difficulties. We would also like to remind you that although we can alert you to your messages via text, we do not have the facility to receive texts. Please do not send us text messages as any information sent to us in this format will not be received. Please call or email us in response.

Staff News We are sad to announce that James will be leaving MAS at the end of the month. As a long standing member of staff we are sure you will join us in wishing him luck and success in the future. We would like to welcome Lucy and Matt to the team: Lucy graduated from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College with a degree in graphic design advertising and she plays the organ, flute and saxophone. Matt graduated from Brunel University with a BA in Creative Music and Technology and plays piano and guitar.

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The MAS clients listed below have recently changed address and/or telephone numbers; please check with MAS for details. Arun Menon (Viola) David Ayre (Double Bass) Helen Cole (Harp) Sophie Ryan (Violin) Alison Alty (Oboe) Will Routledge ('cello) Katie D Pryce (Horn) Gordon Mackay (Violin) Nicola Goldscheider (Violin) Donal O'Neill (Percussion) Jenny Doyne (Flute) Howard Rowntree (Trumpet) Julie Buckley (Double Bass) Marilyn Taylor (Violin) Karen Fotherby (Clarinet) Due to an error, John Elliott (Tuba) was omitted from the new MU Directory and CD ROM. His details remain as follows : John Elliott (Tuba, Sousaphone, Cimbasso, Ophicleïde, Didgeridoo, Double Bass, Bass Saxophone)	Please note that Aurelian Music has a new website: www.aurelianmusic.co.uk Andy Findon (Flute) has released a new album: Andy Findon Tracked To order a copy go to : www.quartzmusic.com/cd/QTZ2029.htm The next update for the MAS CV Brochure is soon to be sent out to fixers. If you are not already included in the publication and would like to be, please post, fax or e-mail us a copy of your CV by 1st December 2005.