New Music Seminar Returns July 19 - 21, 2010

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Published on Monday, 28 June 2010 15:30

Written by Brad Balfour

On a hot 1980 summer day, 220 people met at a New York City rehearsal studio to discuss and debate the problems in the music business. It heralded the birth of the New Music Seminar, bringing new ideas, new talent and new connections to the music industry, along with the introduction of hip-hop, new wave, house and many other new forms of music.

During its 10-year run, the first NMS became the world’s biggest and most influential music business gathering attracting over 8000 people from three continents. The Seminar has since spawned almost every music event worldwide, including SXSW, Canadian Music Week, The Winter Music Conference, In the City and many others.

Now revived, the original NMS is expanding into a multi-day conference and event from July 19th to July 21st, 2010, at The NMS Revolution Hall in M2 Ultra Lounge. The two-day, three-night conference will include a symphony of five “movements” (focused discussions) over the course of two days, 8 TED-style presentations from key industry leaders, 22 mentoring sessions, nightly musical performances and ongoing networking opportunities.

NMS founder Tom Silverman explains, “The New Music Seminar is the epicenter of a new movement. The NMS is the creative crucible where new ideas are hatched and new collaborations formed. The New Music Seminar is a meeting of the architects of the next music business; the creators, the investors, the technological visionaries, those for whom music is a passion that they cannot do without.”

The new New Music Seminar’s mission is to create a music business in which talent can rise to its highest potential based solely on its merit, without regard to its financial resources or connections. To teach artists and their representatives better, affordable and faster ways to achieve success. To create a new economic model that better rewards both artists, their investors and those in artist services.

From the co-founder and director of the legendary New Music Seminar comes a seminar for the NEW business of music. This low-cost event will give you the tools and knowledge to survive in this ever-changing industry and step into tomorrow’s music business today. Two days packed with sessions filled with vital information on how to see it and how to do it. Every delegate receives the NMS New Music Business Guidebook, an invaluable guide filled with useful promotion and marketing tips, contact information, forms and guidelines on how to succeed no matter what genre of music you are in.

The NMS Networking Lounges spread throughout the seminar is the place to meet your next business partners. Visit with NMS Partners, set up a meeting in the comfort of the various NMS Lounges where you can eat, drink and make the contacts you will need to succeed. In addition to the 5 Movements and series of 18-minute TED-style Lectures, on Day 2 our NMS Breakout Sessions throughout the day will give specialized knowledge and instructions on a variety of fields that include influential industry leaders discussing new marketing opportunities, legal, publishing and songwriting, touring and other important areas in which to advance your career.

The New Music Seminar is the must-attend conference for the emerging new music industry. The Seminars will address both the artists’ dilemma of breaking out from the ever-growing glut of music releases and the development of a new business model for a sustainable music business.

NMS featured “players” (speakers) for the upcoming New York City conference will include:

• Eric Garland (Big Champagne)
• Joe Kennedy (Pandora)
• Mike Doernberg (Reverbnation)
• Courtney Holt (Myspace Music)
• Little Steven (Underground Garage and the E Street Band)
• Jay Frank (CMT)
• Gwen Lipsky (Sound Thinking)
• Tom Jackson (onstagesuccess.com)
• Martin Atkins (Tour: Smart)
• John Simson (Soundexchange)
• Corrie Christopher (APA)
• Chris Vinson (Bandzoogle)
• Tony Van Veen (Discmakers)

More to be announced shortly.

The Artist Movement “conducted” by Margaret Cho will feature superstar artists discussing how they got their break and tips on how to apply what worked for them.

Media partners and sponsors include: NARAS, Aquarian, LA Weekly, Music Connection, Digital Music News, Yahoo Music, MySpace Music, Hypebot, Filter Magazine, RevebNation, Bandzoogle, Jakprints, SESAC, Soundexchange, AFTRA, Discmakers, A2IM Indie Label Members and a host of new technology companies

For the NMS tickets please go to www.newmusicseminar.com. Register by April 30th and receive early discount price of $150.

$175 until July 16, then $200 for walk-up registration. For more info go to: www.newmusicseminar.com

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