That Viola Kid: Drew Alexander Forde: On Crushing Instagram And Using Social Media To Grow An Audience And A Unique Music Career

What you’ll hear:

• Drew tells the KEY to great Instagramming
• Find out what it takes to grow to over 160,000 followers
• His opinion on current social media marketing for orchestras - and what’s missing on those teams and his ideas for how they could change
• What he thinks is the reason people go to concerts… hint: it’s not only for the music
• What he understands that makes him understand this platform so well

Find Drew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatviolakid/?hl=en

For more about the Holland America/Lincoln Center partnership and to audition:

https://www.rwsnyc.com/lincolncenterstage/ 

Mentioned on the show - Drew's favorites:

Donald Glover: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2255973/

https://childishgambino.com/

Redbone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7eSUU9oy8

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