The Americana Music Association is now accepting showcase applications from artists interested in performing during the 2008 Americana Music Festival and Conference to be held Sept. 17-20 in Nashville, Tennessee. A showcase application form can be downloaded at www.americanamusic.org. Conference registration forms and other information also are posted on the site. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]

“Presenting America: New Ground” was the theme of The Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ 51st Annual Member Conference, Jan. 11-15. The conference drew several thousand professionals engaged in the performing arts community to New York City and featured daily plenary sessions and a wide array of professional development workshops and forums. Notable among these were an early morning session hosted by the Future of Music Coalition on why radio consolidation matters and other issues (in which this writer opined on the efforts to save Internet radio) and another on The Role of Global Music in Geo-Political Diplomacy that included the screening of excerpts from a PBS special featuring Israeli folk-rocker David Broza at Masada. Some 1,000...

Singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will deliver keynote addresses focusing on the power of music during the 20th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference, February 20-24, 2008 at the Marriott in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration deadline has been extended to January 10. After that date, those wishing to attend the conference without pre-registering will pay an additional $100 and their contact listings will not be included in the conference directory. [To read the entire article, click on the headline].

Some 150 acts, from solo to full band, will be selected to showcase on 15 stages over three nights during Singer Songwriter Cape May, a new music business conference set for March 6-8, 2008 in the historic Victorian-lined New Jersey seaside resort community. December 31 is the deadline for performers in all genres to submit applications via mail or Sonicbids. Presented by the folks behind the annual Millennium Music Conference (February 14-17 in Camp Hill, PA, near Harrisburg), Singer Songwriter Cape May also will feature two afternoons of music business keynotes, panel discussions, songwriting workshops, musician clinics, mentoring and demo-listening sessions, exhibits and performances at Congress Hall Hotel & Harrison Conference Center. The conference also will afford...

by Michael Kornfeld
 

More than 600 folk music aficionados – including performers, presenters and promoters – converged on Kutsher’s in Monticello, New York over the Veterans’ Day weekend for the annual Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Conference.  The once venerable Catskills resort that was part of the borscht-belt circuit during its heyday was transformed into a veritable folk Mecca during what many considered to be the best NERFA conference they ever attended.

.... AcousticMusicScene.com hosted late-night showcases and a Midnight Hoot. [To read the entire article, click on the headline. A related article, "Long Islanders' Presence Felt...

Hundreds of folk music aficionados – including performers, presenters and promoters – are expected to converge on Kutsher’s in Monticello, New York over the Veteran’s Day weekend for the annual Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Conference. The once venerable Catskills resort that was part of the borscht-belt circuit during its heyday will be transformed into a veritable folk Mecca. AcousticMusicScene.com’s creators will not only be there for three jam-packed days and nights of music, informative panel discussions and workshops, a large trade show-like exhibit hall, and lots of informal conversation and networking, they will be playing a major role as well... Late-night AcousticMusicScene.com Showcases are slated for Friday and Saturday nights. A very special AcousticMusicScene.com Midnight Hoot on Thursday...