Fiyah Marshall on Bermuda’s first music festival accepting cryptocurrency

0:00I'm Ashlyn Addison from event chain for investmentpitch media and FinTech news network and today on blockchain interviews we have fire marshal from hot fire entertainment welcome to show fire it's a pleasure to have you on today thank you thanks for having me Ashton you're very welcome man I would appreciate if you could start by telling us a little bit about hot fire

0:20entertainment and a little bit about you guys is upcoming syzygy music festival they are hosting in Bermuda oh yeah huh fire entertainment is Bermudas leading event boutique event and music production film production company so we're based here out of Bermuda though we're international we have different partners in LA Atlanta down in the Caribbean and worldwide so it's pretty

0:45awesome so we're having what's the largest festival in our country country's history which is called the syzygy Music Festival which is bringing in eight international artists which is unheard of in Bermuda before and yeah so we thought it was pretty exciting and we wanted to put the tickets on the blockchain so we thought event chain would be a perfect partner for that so

1:02yeah it's pretty exciting stuff right now that's great fire yeah it sounds like you know this is the biggest music festival you know that's in Bermuda can you tell us a little bit about when you guys started the company and how many other events you've done leading up to this and this is the biggest event that you guys have done well I mean with my partners which are bass productions as

1:25well we've done tour they've done tours every row we toured the US all over but yeah for half our entertainment this is our largest festival in Bermuda we've done several before and yeah I mean it's all about growing getting bigger so it's awesome we just want to have the whole world come and check out our beautiful island I mean and blockchain tourism is

1:44an exciting new sector that no one's really jumped into yet so this is our opportunity to really grasp the full body horns and take it and make it an awesome experience for everyone that can come down and give our show so that's awesome yeah it's it's great to hear that you guys are the first music festival to start selling tickets on the blockchain in Bermuda and I did see that

2:07you guys were featured on the front page of The Gazette which is what the national newspaper so congratulations for that and I appreciate you guys partnering with event chain as well in doing so so it sounds like you guys have a lot of have a lot of preparation put into this event and what is the exact date and how long have you guys been planning for planning

2:25it forth we've been working almost for a whole year on it it's the December the 29th so it's a it's a day in day and through the night like evening festivals so from like about 5:00 p.m. it'll run all the way up until 3:00 a.m. in the morning so yeah it's been a long planning for almost a year on it right now so that's awesome great work so I also read that you're

2:48going to be performing you know at your event and which is great and you also have made a lot of you know partnerships along the way with these other events that you guys have produced and you're you've been touring with some of the artists that you guys will be having at this event right yes that's awesome yes last year I toured with with sister Kalonji who's one of the the greatest

3:12living reggae artists in the world right now we had a whole bunch of us pressure bus before Lander walked of Marlin Asha and many more we were on tour together we did 13 cities on the East Coast last year and then yeah we've had a whole host of shows before that and yeah I've been fortunate so I mean I'm very excited to bring bring the heat and bring the fire to the stage in Bermuda

3:34and it's gonna be a great show so yeah that's great and do you guys have an anticipation of what the turnout will be like I'm guessing will be a mixture of you know locals in Bermuda plus the international attendance especially accepting international currencies like Bitcoin and these other crypto currencies but have you seen what other major music festivals have done in

3:59Bermuda and you know is this going to be the biggest of them all this is the biggest of its kind in Bermuda ever like I said it's the first time we've ever had eight international artists on one stage I mean even when we had acts like Beyonce come down here we only had like two or three big acts or like when we had Robin Thicke with a mary j blige but

4:18but I have eight eight artists come down and be able to host them here and put on a show it's gonna be a spectacle so yeah be prepared it's gonna be some Aetna Bermuda that's great and as a performer it's interesting that you're also running the production company as well you know is that something that is status quo for you oh and are you planning on performing at all of your

4:40guys's future productions as well most of them yeah but I mean with me I may wear many hats from being in the blockchain sector and also having the entertainment company and few other companies I have so it's all about just you know blending the vibes and yeah I want to get as many people down here having a good time as possible so yeah I mean it's exciting so I'm just gonna see

5:03how many we can get out here hopefully we're hoping to get around five to maybe even 10,000 people done here depends on what the international crowds like because we have a limited base of people in Bermuda but yeah it should be really really really great on the night that's great that sounds like you know quite the party so what is your vision for hot-fire entertainment in the next five

5:24years are you guys planning on making more of the same as an annual Music Festival or do you guys have other music festivals that are even larger what do you guys have in the books we're planning to do this will be an annual festival the syzygy festival and we're also putting on a summer concert series we'll be doing down here in Bermuda which will also will be ticketing on the

5:41blockchain as well as traditional ticketing means as well but yeah we hope to grow and go further we have some negotiations we're doing right now internationally a couple different countries and with some other partners we will be doing this throughout the Caribbean that like they do they do on a regular basis so it's all about expanding and taking it to new places

6:01that haven't heard the music and just bringing the Caribbean vibes and culture to the rest of the world you know there's a reggae music and soca music of – beautiful art forms that it's great for anybody want to experience I mean in the u.s. you used to pop you used to hip-hop definitely there's some good vibes to be heard and in the Caribbean music – definitely I could see how the

6:21vibes will be a little bit different from your traditional you know American music festival yeah wicked awesome so besides purchasing tickets you know for syzygy on event chain using cryptocurrency and Fiat where can other people follow the event and to look at it on social media to find out about the artists and you know what's coming up what's the best social media place to

6:47follow I mean on Instagram is great at syzygy festival XYZ ygy festival you can also go and YouTube any of your favorite artists offered lineup we have many large artists like Bunji Garlin sizzla Kalonji pressure bus pipe Orlando octave Marlon Asha many more to come so yeah just go check them out online or SoundCloud or whatever your favorite streaming platform is or Apple iTunes

7:14music of course you can check me out on there catch my last album blazin we got the new album we're working on right now too so yeah anyway you get music from you be able to find it that's awesome fire yeah I'll throw those artists down in the description box below so people can grab their sound clouds easy we'll put the links to event chain as well do you guys have any

7:34special deals that you're offering for people that are looking to pay with cryptocurrency yeah definitely to encourage the use of crypto we're actually gonna offer discount a 10% on any of our current ticket prices you'll find on event chain all you have to do is use the code that you've got below fire 10 and then that will get you the 10% discount if you're paying in crypto

7:55awesome that's much appreciated fire it sounds like the syzygy festival is going to be super hot and fire as they say and I'm looking forward to seeing what's coming up on social media and let's follow up after the festival and see what's next for hot fire entertainment in the blockchain industry and how you guys are revolutionising music festivals so thank you so much no worries hope to

8:20see you all here awesome you