NSAI Hosts Songwriters Festival and Spring Training in Nashville
The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) stages its 17th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival, March 31-April 4. The songwriters’ festival, which takes place at numerous venues throughout Music City USA, also coincides with NSAI Spring Training (A Songwriter’s Symposium), a two-day intensive seminar for writers of all genres and experience levels.
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1,600 Head to Memphis for International Folk Alliance Conference
More than 1,600 performing artists, presenters, agents and managers, independent label and recording industry representatives, folk DJs, music journalists, folklorists and educators will converge on Memphis, Tennessee, Feb. 18-22, for the 21st Annual International Folk Alliance Conference.
Ranked among the five largest music conferences in North America, it will feature four days of panels and workshops and four nights of artist showcases, feature performances and hundreds of private showcases that extend late into the night (or early morning hours, depending on your vantage point). Roger McGuinn, former frontman for The Byrds and one of the pioneers of folk-rock music, will deliver a keynote address, while other leading and emerging artists will pay tribute to Phil Ochs and Utah Phillips and honor...
Bluegrass Artists Showcase Their Talents During APAP Conference
Bluegrass music may have been a very small part of the recent Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference in New York City, but the few artist showcases were top-notch. Showcasing artists included veterans Rhonda Vincent and Claire Lynch and relative newcomers The Lovell Sisters and Bearfoot.
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Future of Music Coalition Policy Day Set for Feb. 11 in D.C.
The potential impact of media and broadband policy and changes in federal copyright law on the music and technology communities will be explored and debated during the Future of Music Coalition’s second Policy Day. Slated for Wednesday, February 11, at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington, D.C., the day-long event -- sponsored by the national nonprofit education, research and advocacy organization --comes just weeks after the Obama Administration assumes power.
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Folk DJs to Sing During Upcoming NERFA Conference
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On November 13, Folk DJs Graham & Barbara Dean and Wanda Fischer will lift their own voices in song during an AcousticMusicScene.com Midnight Hoot at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) conference at the Hudson Valley Resort in
Seminars in Chicago & NYC to Explore the Future for Musicians
“What’s the Future for Musicians?†That’s both the focus and title of seminars in Chicago (Monday, Sept. 22) and New York City (Monday, Oct. 6) that will explore crucial issues at the intersection of music, technology, policy and law. The seminars are presented by the Future of Music Coalition, a national nonprofit education, research and advocacy organization, in conjunction with the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and the Public Theater in New York.
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Folk Alliance Regional Conferences Fall Into Place
The 21st Annual International Folk Alliance Conference is slated for next February 18-22 in Memphis, Tennessee, while regional conferences of the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance (Folk Alliance) are shaping up for this fall. The conferences provide useful and enjoyable learning and networking opportunities, not to mention plenty of fine listening and performing opportunities for artists, presenters, agents and managers, folk DJs, folk societies and clubs, media, and others actively engaged in the folk music field; they are not intended for casual folk fans.
Booking gigs is the primary objective of some performers who attend these annual conferences, while many presenters and folk DJs come primarily to scout out new artists and those who they have not...
World United Music Festival & Radio Conference, Nov. 14-16
The Roots Music Association’s inaugural convention, radio seminar and music festival, originally slated to take place earlier this summer, has been rescheduled for the fall. Renamed the World United Music Festival and Radio Conference, the three-day event will take place November 14-16 at a 500-acre site in San Marcos, Texas, located between Austin and San Antonio.
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Americana Music Association to Honor Joan Baez, Sept. 18
Joan Baez is slated to receive the “Spirit of Americana†Free Speech Award during the Americana Music Association’s Seventh Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony, to be held Sept. 18 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Past recipients of the Spirit of Americana Award, which recognizes and celebrates artists who have ignited discussion and challenged the status quo through their music and their actions, also have included Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Mavis Staples, Judy Collins and Charlie Daniels.
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Roots Music Association Cancels Conference in June and Looks To Reschedule Inaugural Event for Later This Year
Organizers of the Roots Music Association (RMA)'s inaugural convention, radio seminar and music festival -- Music United '08 -- are looking to reschedule the event that had been slated for June 27-29.
"We had been planning for months to hold the event at the Shrine Convention Center in San Antonio [Texas]," wrote Robert Bartosh in an April 22 e-mail notice to association members that also appears on the RMA's website. "However, due to recent developments, these plans are no longer feasible and we plan to reschedule the event for later this year at another location close to San Antonio."
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NSAI Hosts Songwriters Festival & Symposium in Nashville
The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) stages its 16th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival, April 1-5, in Nashville. The songwriters’ festival, which takes place at nine venues throughout Music City USA, also coincides with NSAI’s Spring Symposium, a two-day intensive seminar for writers of all genres and experience levels, that takes place at Nashville’s Millennium Maxwell House.
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Roots Music Association Slates Inaugural Convention & Festival
The Roots Music Association will host its inaugural convention, radio seminar and music festival -- Music United ’08 -- June 27-29, at the Alfazar Shrine Conference Center in San Antonio, at the edge of the Texas Hill Country. Early-bird registration fees for those who register by March 28 are $125 for the full conference and $50 for the radio seminar only on Saturday, June 28.
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