Church of the Friendly Ghost is a growing community organization dedicated to the proliferation of creative musics, future-minded expressions, experiments in sound, and cutting edge jazz. while we place an emphasis on home-grown music (Austin/Texas) we also seek to connect the local audience with new performers and composers, and to serve as a transom for the creative music community in Austin. By providing an alternative to traditional bars and venues, in addition to serving as a forum for artistic discourse, C.O.T.F.G. seeks to nurture and enable a more diverse range of creative musics, and curate a truly exciting series of performances accessible to the public and inclusive to the community as a whole. we at C.O.T.F.G. believe art is a right and a public resource. In the coming year C.O.T.F.G. hopes to partner with music educators to present a series of public workshops in addition to the concert series. a website is in the works which we hope will serve, in part, as a bulletin board for the creative music community in Austin and offer a public anthology of recoded creative music in Austin and Texas.