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About US
Getting To Know Us
Our Mission
Dedicated to presenting, promoting and
preserving all of the culture of our
city and the works of independent
filmmakers, writers, artists and
musicians in the Erie area and to
featuring the local arts and
entertainment community.
E R I Jams Magazine is a free weekly
online publication distributed
throughout Erie County and the
surrounding areas.
Our magazine covers a wide range of
informational and entertainment stories
each issue that includes Erie nightlife,
restaurants, local bands and artists,
events, sports, and other arts and
entertainment topics that are of current
interest to not only our ever growing
readership of more than 21,000 people
each week, but to all walks of the
community as well. E R I Jams also has a
distribution circulation of more than
23,000 people per week, which is more
exposure for your business than any
other publication except for Erie Times
News Showcase.
In March of this year, E R I Jams
Magazine reached a milestone, our
magazine surpassed 1,000,000 views in
only 14 months since erijams.com was
established. We see this as a direct
result of our fantastic and diverse
content, our respect for the environment
along with our talented writing staff
reviewing local businesses, artists, and
musicians all keep our readers coming
back for more week after week, while
giving our advertisers the highest
return on their investment of any
publication available in Erie.
Every art organization has their own
goals and purposes in mind and must work
toward those goals and purposes. Each
and every organization operates
independently of the others.
One of our goals is to pull together all
of the arts organizations in the Erie
area for the greater good of the arts
community.
We at E R I Jams believe the members of
the arts community should work as a
family. When one organization has a
performance or show, we all should pull
our resources and help to promote that
show, collectively, and finally creating
not an arts industry, or even an arts
community, but an arts FAMILY.
The arts are here to open minds to what
can be achieved in a short time period
and with even a small or 0 budget. The
arts are not just for the wealthy, red
carpet type of people, but also for the
guy that lives next door to you with a
wife and 5 kids and wakes up every
morning to head off to the shop, plant,
or the restaurant or store. These are
the people that we try to introduce to
the arts in general.
Testimonials
"This is a great magazine " - Thomas J.
Pysz, - WQLN Public Media
"Want to say “thank you” for the
promotional piece on Tia Fuller. It is
impressively crafted. Your website
continues to be a great source of
information and service to the community
and it continues to get better" -Tom
McLaren - Editor, JazzErie News Notes
"I read your magazine every week, it
gets better and better all the time" -
Jack Kazinski, Subscriber
"I love the variety of things you guys
cover, the kind of off beat stuff you
don't find in the paper" - Cathy
Wallace, Subscriber
"Eri Jams is the new underground hot
spot" - Tim Shaner, Subscriber
"I love your work! Nice job!" - J.
Trychin, Subscriber
"Your staff is doing an amazing job
gathering local information and getting
it out there for many to read. I enjoy
receiving your magazine every week and
reading articles of great interest on
topics that are only a click away. Keep
up the great work and the attention you
give our region." - Sam Jackson,
Subscriber
"I want to thank the ERI Jams staff for
getting the word out to many people
about our benefit. It was a great
success and lots of money was raised for
the benefit. Thank you for putting focus
on smaller events that would go
unnoticed." - Miranda Smith, Subscriber
"Thank you ERI Jams for putting our
community and the people first. You are
a selfless group who shines the
spotlight on the artists, musicians, and
filmmakers." - Brody Hager, Subscriber
"Cindy Hemper is an amazing writer and I
look forward to each week's issue for
the stories she writes." - Shea
Wachalowski, Subscriber
"You guys are great! Your e-magazine
provides information that I find very
interesting to read each week. I
recommend it to friends & co-workers.
It's right up there with GoErie.
Informative and keeps me coming back." -
Stephen Hammer, Subscriber
"Your staff is doing an amazing job
gathering local information and getting
it out there for many to read." - Abby
Wilson, Subscriber
"I enjoy receiving your magazine every
week and reading articles of great
interest on topics that are only a click
away." - Jacob Nagel, Subscriber
"Keep up the great work and the
attention you give our region." - Noah
Fuller, Subscriber
"Bonjour Cindy, I really, really
appreciated your article about my bistro
today. Thank you so much." ~ Chef
Bertrand, Bertrand's Bistro
"Thanks so much for the wonderful story
and your support of Pie. After 20 years
in Erie it's great to be recognized and
relevant! Thanks again."
Carmen Opperman ~ Pie in the Sky Cafe
Our Overview
Founded in 2006, our group of local
industry professionals use their
experience and industry knowledge to
create a different kind of promotional
and artistic organization.
One of the things that make E R I Jams
Magazine unique is our distribution. Our
magazine is produced in a way that
honors people and the planet-completely.
Our publication is completely “Green.”
We don’t feel that our environment needs
to be burdened simply so we can produce
a magazine.
We view our primary job as helping to
bring a world of talent to Erie, while
helping local independent filmmakers,
writers, artists and musicians develop
their careers with smart promotions and
distribution services tailored to their
needs and goals.
Our Magazine puts the spotlight on local
Erie musicians, filmmakers and artists
of all kinds. E R I Jams Magazine will
focus only on the amazing talent that
the Erie area has to offer and the
dedicated people that make it happen
every day.
Our organization strives to accomplish
our mission by publishing the first of
its kind arts and entertainment
magazine, recognizing outstanding
filmmakers, artists, and musicians;
conducting scriptwriting competitions,
and hosting public shows and events.
Music
If there is anything as universal as
time itself, it’s the music that makes
up life’s soundtrack..
With a history of working with
independent musicians helping to advance
music as an art, E R I Jams has worked
with many local, national, and
international musicians over the years.
Matty B. & The Dirty Pickles; Phantasm;
Trevor Huster; Karen Jeffries; Starfish;
Lake Trout; Bedouin Soundclash; DJ Boogs;
Hello Kitty Death Squad; DJ The Real
Truth; Digital Database; The Dogs; The
Killerinas; Duppy Conqueror; Chaka; One
World Tribe; Hayden Sayers Band; Greg
Ropp; The Void; 5 Empty Chambers;
Telefonics: Canadian Friday: Mans Room
Band; Black Rose Diary; Coffin Bangers;
East Ave.; snmnmnm; Johnson Big Band:
Joe Pops Weirdo Theater; GG Allin’s
band, The Murder Junkies; Big Mac Blues
Band; Rodger Montgomery Blues Band; Blue
Fire; Orphean Son; Face Down In High
Water; The Bryan Burton Band; The
Trashed; Darth Johnzo; Singing For
Supper; The Earthquakers; Dj Dollar
Bill; Professor Small; Final Rest; Terry
English of” Night Shift”; Sonic Medusa;
The Sound City Saints; The Cryers; TERRY
SYLVESTER formerly of "THE HOLLIES"; IAN
MITCHELL of "THE BAY CITY ROLLERS"; The
Laundromat ; Mala Sangre ; Brain Dead
Happy ; Argent Heart; Pete Best,
original drummer for The Beatles; Who
Bleeds 1st ; Pangaea; Anti Atom; Ramming
Speed; The Coffin Riders; Local 80; Otis
Freak Tent; Dave Owns; Mystic Flotation
Device; Midnight Jacks and Bad Habits to
name only a few of the performers that
we have worked with.
Our City
One of the unique things about the E R I
Jams is our home, Erie, Pennsylvania.
Our forty-mile slice of Lake Erie
waterfront bears no resemblance to the
major urban centers of Pittsburgh or
Philadelphia, being entirely low-rise
and extremely leafy; indeed you hardly
realize you are downtown until you find
yourself in the shady park-like town
square, on 6th Street between the main
thoroughfares of Peach and State
streets. There are several places of
cultural interest in the city, all
within walking distance of our festival,
several museums devoted to history, art
and science; among these, the Erie
Maritime Museum has a fascinating
display on the geological and ecological
development of the Great Lakes and also
focuses on warships of different
periods; the elegant US Brig Niagara is
usually moored outside and is part of
the museum.
Undoubtedly, Erie's main attraction is
the elongated comma-shaped peninsula of
Presque Isle State Park, which bends
east from its narrow neck three miles
west of downtown until it almost touches
the city's northernmost tip. The park is
maintained as a nature preserve and has
wide sandy beaches good for swimming,
backed by thick woods offering a series
of trails.
Erie is perfect with all of it’s
historic and picturesque locations.
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