Hi Everyone,

Last week marked the return of RSD Summer Camp to New Orleans, LA. This event is another way that we as RSD work every day to support, connect and lift up the indie retail community. It was a week of lively and healthy discussions about the state of the industry on every level and a chance for people to meet face to face to share ideas. In addition to Summer Camp, we held a day of Coalition meetings and, speaking of Coalitions, we were also very excited to welcome new Coalition FAMS to our group! When we took on planning the first RSD Summer Camp in 2016, it was an attempt to bring all of the Coalitions that are the founders of Record Store Day together, every year since then we have worked to open to more RSD pledged and participating stores as well. It is so exciting to me to watch our indie retail community grow and thrive and we are already looking forward to getting to work on 2023!

A massive thank you to the labels, distributors, one-stops and vendors for your support and participation. You all are a HUGE part of what makes bringing this group together possible.

Thanks to all of the stores for showing up to do this thing- we make it happen for you! To our RSD international partners that made the trip to be there with us, thank you! Thanks to Silversun Pickups and Lissie for being the soundtrack to this event (and the Lissie Pop!) and to Jon Darnielle and Dawn Richard for the amazing discussion.

Hugs and gratitude to Michael, Eric and Luann for being such excellent Coalition and RSD partners, to my partner in crime Carrie Colliton who makes the job of planning and running a conference fun, to everyone that was behind the scenes helping to make this thing happen, and to the Hotel Monteleone for making our job look easy.

It was personally great to get to see everyone connect with friends new and old, and I look forward to doing it again soon!

Here are the charts,
Andrea

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
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