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2010-02-07	In NY – Big Apple Brunch × NARIP Big Apple Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Sunday, February 7 Hosted by Flux Studios in New York, NY Please permit NARIP to assist with your professional music business networking needs! You’re invited to attend NARIP’s first official Big Apple Brunch on Sunday, February 7, 2010 hosted by Flux Studios in New York. Join us, come meet and greet New York-area record and music industry professionals, and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. NARIP brunches are a hit in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Las Vegas, and we’re delighted to bring them to New York at last! Among other activities, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in our industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you. Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, established new business associates and friends at NARIP brunches. So come meet existing friends and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Please RSVP and register online by Friday, February 5 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote you if they don’t know who you are! Special thanks to Flux Studios’ Chris Sipes and to Geodesic Management’s Dan Strader and Keith Ghion for their help organizing this event. WHEN: Sunday, February 7, 2010 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHO SHOULD ATTEND Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Anyone seeking to expand his network, mingle with music biz pros, make deals, encounter opportunity, and make new friends. WHERE: Flux Studios NYC 154 E. 2nd Street, Suite 4a New York, NY 10009-8422 Tel: 917-512-3489 COST: $10 for NARIP members $20 for Non-members We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Click here for map. Cross streets: East 2nd Street and Avenue A Subway: F train to Lower 2nd Avenue stop QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email amy AT narip DOT com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2010-01-30	In LA – New Year’s Brunch × NARIP Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, January 30 Hosted by RockSTAR Music Education You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch on Saturday, January 30 hosted by RockSTAR Music Education in Los Angeles (Culver City). We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, January 28 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up, it will just cost you a bit more! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN: Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHO SHOULD ATTEND Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Anyone seeking to expand his network, mingle with music biz pros, make deals, encounter opportunity, and make new friends. WHERE: At RockSTAR Music Education 10117 Jefferson Boulevard Culver City, CA 90232 COST: $10 for NARIP members $20 for Non-members Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Click here for map. Major cross streets: Jefferson Boulevard & Pearson Street Approx. 1 mile east of Overland and Jefferson Park in lot adjacent to RockSTAR building (see signs posted). QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2010-01-27	In AZ – How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at Mesa Community College in Mesa, AZ Co-sponsored by the Mesa Community College Music Business Program Get a music marketing plan started in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great marketing plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary. But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. Three music marketing experts give you the facts you need to take your artist to the top in this special NARIP session. BONUS #1 Pre-register for NARIP’s event and submit your artist’s marketing plan. Our experts will select one plan and provide an in-depth review of it at our program. BONUS #2 One NARIP member will be selected from our session to win one (1) free hour consultation with one of our guest speakers. GUEST SPEAKERS Jon Bergen, Founder, Bender Music Group Jason Coochwytewa, President, Red Note, Inc. *JUST ADDED* Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group (from Los Angeles) Tess Taylor, President, National Association of Record Industry Professionals (from Los Angeles) YOU WILL LEARN Most important parts of music marketing strategy An easy way to begin your marketing campaign Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t Branding made simple… and effective How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube 5 ways to boost your presence on the Internet How to get press features Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you How to build a brand and get more fans WHEN Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:00 p.m. – Registration and networking 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 8:15 p.m. – Break 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Anyone seeking to create or enhance a music marketing plan or campaign. WHERE Mesa Community College 1833 W. Southern Ave. Navajo Room Mesa, AZ 85202-4822 Click here for directions. REGISTER NOW $10: NARIP Members $25: Non-members SPECIAL BONUS Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy this NARIP program. Because you are registering for the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order. 3 WAYS TO REGISTER 1. Online: www.narip.com (just scroll down) 2. Phone: 818-769-7007 3. Walk-up (if space permits) Advance RSVP encouraged. Pre-paid admission guarantees seating. No refunds. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call us at 818-769-7007 or email info@narip.com. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Jon Bergen, Founder, Bender Music Group Jon Bergen has worked in an executive capacity at major labels in sales and marketing, helping both major and independent artists shape their labels and careers. His experience includes retail music sales, strategic advertising, point-of-purchase, marketing campaigns, Internet promotions and national product placement campaigns, as well as helping connect bands with appropriate labels and vice versa. Jon has helped labels structure a staff and build them from the ground up. While at Mercury Records Jon worked with such artists as Hanson and Kiss to name a few before heading to Restless Records where he helped develop and market artists such as Warren G. and Spain. He then served as West Coast Director of Sales and Marketing Manager for BMG (later UNI) distributed Beyond Records where he promoted artists such as Blondie, The Go-Go’s, Veruca Salt, Lucy Pearl and Motley Crue. Jon was also the National Sales Director for the Sony-distributed Gold Circle Records, promoting product for such artists as Meredith Brooks, Roland Orzabal, Pat Benatar, Jeff Lorber and John Waite. Jon currently owns Bender Music Group, a premier online marketing company that works with labels such as Rhino, Warner Nashville and KOCH among others. Bender Music Group can supplement a record label marketing staff or become their staff. Bender also manages bands and consults labels and artists on all music business related matters. JASON COOCHWYTEWA Jason Coochwytewa is President of Red Note, Inc. With a diverse background in the advertising and marketing industry of 14+ years, Jason Coochwytewa began his work in entertainment in 2000 as an executive at a large-scale Native American casino in New Mexico. It was here that Jason was introduced to the “business-side” of the music industry: booking, marketing, and creating casino promotions around major national headlining acts. However, his appreciation for music in the art form was discovered as a young boy. Deeply rooted in his Native American culture, his father sang and taught him traditional Hopi songs, emphasizing the importance of listening to the words, rhythm and beat. Time spent with his father laid the foundation to what would eventually become Jason’s passion in life: music. In 2005, Jason launched Red Note, Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona, and now works full-time planning and managing intimate to large-scale event productions and promotions including festivals and headlining music concerts. Jason has been involved with over 100 shows, working with legendary to “fresh on the scene” musicians and bands. In 2008, Red Note, Inc. produced two major events during Super Bowl XLII; the Arizona Indian Festival with estimated audience of 20,000 and the Native American component of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLII VIP Tailgate Party for 10,000 individuals. Jason serves as a juror on the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and is an advisory board member for the launch of the World Indigenous Music Awards set to take place in 2010 in Canada. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, and is an alumnus of Valley Leadership – Class 26. He currently serves as the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) Phoenix Chapter Director, is a Board of Trustee with the Arizona Science Center and a board member with both the Girl Scouts of America Arizona Pine Council and the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Arizona. Jason once again serves as co-chair of the Arizona Diamondbacks Native American Day on July 12, 2009 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group Jason Feinberg is the president and founder of On Target Media Group, a music industry digital marketing agency. He is responsible for business development, formulation and management of online marketing campaigns, and Topspin campaign administration. The company has served clients including Warner Bros. Records, Universal Music Enterprises, EMI, Concord Music Group, Roadrunner Records and others. OTMG has marketed artists such as The Pixies, Har Mar Superstar, Flipper, George Thorogood, Steve Vai, Neil Young, John Coltrane, Ringo Starr and many more. You can follow Jason on Twitter @otmg. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO: www.bendermusicgroup.com www.otmg.net NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2010-01-21	In NY: How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan Co-sponsored by Music & Media Entertainment Alliance on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at Fordham University (Lincoln Center) in New York, NY Get a music marketing plan started in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great marketing plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary. But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. Three music marketing experts give you the facts you need to take your artist to the top in this special NARIP session. BONUS #1 Pre-register for NARIP’s event and submit your artist’s marketing plan. Our experts will select one plan and provide an in-depth review of it at our program. BONUS #2 One NARIP member will be selected from our session to win one (1) free hour consultation with one of our guest speakers. GUEST SPEAKERS Rick Goetz, Founder, MusicianCoaching.com Ariel Hyatt, Founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR Jason Spiewak, President, Rock Ridge Music —-> JUST ADDED Steve Gordon, Esq., Entertainment Attorney (moderator) —-> JUST ADDED YOU WILL LEARN Most important parts of music marketing strategy An easy way to begin your marketing campaign Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t Branding made simple… and effective How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube 5 ways to boost your presence on the Internet How to get press features Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you How to build a brand and get more fans WHEN Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:00 p.m. – Registration and networking 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 8:15 p.m. – Break 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Anyone seeking to create or enhance a music marketing plan or campaign. WHERE Fordham University at Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th Street – South Lounge (between Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues) New York, NY 10023-7472 NOTE Upon entering the building, please announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to the South Lounge. Click here for directions. REGISTER NOW $20: NARIP Members $40: Non-members SPECIAL BONUS Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy this NARIP program. Because you are registering for the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order. 3 WAYS TO REGISTER 1. Online: www.narip.com (just scroll down) 2. Phone: 818-769-7007 3. Walk-up (if space permits) Advance RSVP encouraged. Pre-paid admission guarantees seating. No refunds. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call us at 818-769-7007 or email info@narip.com. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Rick Goetz, Founder, MusicianCoaching.com Rick Goetz is a Musician Coach and Music Consultant by way of a fifteen year career as a Major label A&R executive at Atlantic and Elektra Records a musician and a music supervisor. Throughout his career he has played bass for members of the Cult and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings and worked with artists like Kid Rock, Matchbox 20, Sugar Ray and Damage Plan. His current client list ranges from Grammy award wining producers to people just looking to get their foot in the door. Steve Gordon, Esq. Steve Gordon is an entertainment attorney and consultant based in New York City specializing in the production, distribution and financing of music, television, documentaries, feature films, and digital entertainment projects. He also operates a music clearance service for producers, filmmakers, and labels for use of music in feature films, documentaries, concert programs, DVDs, audio compilations and ringtones. He is author of the book titled “The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Technologies, A Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” (Hal Leonard 2008.) Steve’s clients include artists, independent music and TV producers, digital entertainment entrepreneurs as well as major labels and multinational entertainment corporations. Steve won a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture on entertainment and copyright law and was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy in fall 2007. You can tune into MyRealBroadcast.com to listen to his Internet radio show on the music business. Steve has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the New School, an Instructor at CUNY Graduate Center and recently moderated seminars at Columbia Law School, the Wharton Business School, and was a speaker at entertainment conferences in Denmark, Belgium, Bahamas and South Korea. From 1991 to 2001 Steve served as an attorney and Director of Business Affairs at Sony Music (TV/Video). Prior to Sony, Steve worked at Dino Di Laurentiis, a movie studio in Hollywood, and a music publishing company, SESAC, in New York. Steve is a graduate of New York University School of Law and a member of the NYC Bar Association. Ariel Hyatt, Founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR Ariel Hyatt is the Founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR a New York based digital firm that connects artists to blogs, podcasts, Internet radio stations and social media sites. Over the past 12 years her firm has represented over 1,400 musicians of all genres. Teaching and educating musicians is her passion and her philosophy is: combine social networking with Internet marketing to help artists grow their fanbases and increase their income. Several times a year, she leads sold-out workshops to musicians and music industry professionals looking to learn about Web 2.0 and online promotion and marketing. Her bi-weekly ezine and YouTube series “Sound Advice” has over 8,000 musicians and music professionals as subscribers and the list is steadily growing.Ariel has written dozens of articles on how to navigate the “new” music business and her book: Music Success in Nine Weeks is available at Amazon. She is a contributing blogger to New Music Ideas, and Music Think Tank, and she has spoken at countless music conferences over the years including SXSW, FMC, ECMAs & OCFF (Canada), A2A (Amsterdam), CMJ, BMI Music Panel Series, and NARAS. Jason Spiewak, President, Rock Ridge Music Jason Spiewak is the President of Rock Ridge Music, and runs the day-to-day operations of the company’s Newark, NJ headquarters. Rock Ridge Music offers artists a record label with national/international distribution through ADA (WMG), artist management, and a wide range of consulting services. Recent Rock Ridge Marketing clients include Decca, Jive, Rykodisc and Reform Records. Spiewak, 33, is an online marketing specialist with previous work experience at TVT Records, Artemis Records and Takeout Marketing. Spiewak is also a songwriter, musician and producer whose recent production credits include Benjy Davis Project, Pat McGee and Andrew Hoover. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.arielpublicity.com www.musiciancoaching.com www.rockridgemusic.com www.stevegordonlaw.com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2010-01-16	In Houston – New Year’s Brunch × NARIP New Year’s Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, January 16, 2010 in Houston at Main Street Crossing You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s New Year’s brunch in Houston on Saturday, January 16 at Main Street Crossing. Join us, come meet and greet Houston-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, January 14 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. Advance registration is encouraged, but you are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE Main Street Crossing 111 W. Main Tomball, Texas 77375 Tel: 281-290-0431 DIRECTIONS Click here for directions. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email amy AT narip DOT com COST $5 for NARIP members $15 for non-members We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.mainstreetcrossing.com. THANK YOU Special thanks to Matt Davis and Lisa Schneider at Main Street Crossing. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2010-01-13	In SF – How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at SAE Institute in San Francisco Get a music marketing plan started in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great marketing plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary. But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. Three music marketing experts give you the facts you need to take your artist to the top in this special NARIP session. BONUS #1 Pre-register for NARIP’s event and submit your artist’s marketing plan. Our experts will select one plan and provide an in-depth review of it at our program. BONUS #2 One NARIP member will be selected from our session to win one (1) free hour consultation with one of our guest speakers. GUEST SPEAKERS Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group (from Los Angeles) Steffen Franz, Founder, Independent Distribution Collective Bryn Boughton, Chief Marketing Officer, IRIS Distribution & BlinkerActive Tamra Engle, Senior Director, NARIP San Francisco (moderator) YOU WILL LEARN Most important parts of music marketing strategy An easy way to begin your marketing campaign Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t Branding made simple… and effective How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube 5 ways to boost your presence on the Internet How to get press features Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you How to build a brand and get more fans WHEN Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:00 p.m. – Registration and networking 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 8:15 p.m. – Break 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Anyone seeking to create or enhance a music marketing plan or campaign. WHERE SAE Institute of Technology 450 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107-1303 Click here for directions. REGISTER NOW $15: NARIP Members $25: Non-members SPECIAL BONUS Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy this NARIP program. Because you are registering for the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order. 3 WAYS TO REGISTER 1. Online: www.narip.com (just scroll down) 2. Phone: 818-769-7007 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 818-769-7007 end_of_the_skype_highlighting 3. Walk-up (if space permits) Advance RSVP encouraged. Pre-paid admission guarantees seating. No refunds. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call us at 818-769-7007 or email info@narip.com. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Bryn Boughton, Chief Marketing Officer, IRIS Distribution & BlinkerActive Bryn has spent over ten years in the music industry and has experience in implementing comprehensive music marketing campaigns for both independent and major labels. Most recently, Bryn launched IRIS’s dedicated marketing agency arm, BlinkerActive, which specializes in bleeding-edge branded entertainment and music promotion. Prior to starting IRIS Distribution, Bryn worked for The Late Show with David Letterman, Valley Media, Inc., and APG, an independent label group. Bryn frequently participates as a panelist and speaker and recently won NARIP’s 2009 Best of the Biz Award as Top New Media Executive. Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group Jason Feinberg is the president and founder of On Target Media Group, a music industry digital marketing agency. He is responsible for business development, formulation and management of online marketing campaigns, and Topspin campaign administration. The company has served clients including Warner Bros. Records, Universal Music Enterprises, EMI, Concord Music Group, Roadrunner Records and others. OTMG has marketed artists such as The Pixies, Har Mar Superstar, Flipper, George Thorogood, Steve Vai, Neil Young, John Coltrane, Ringo Starr and many more. You can follow Jason on Twitter @otmg. Steffen Franz aka Stand Out Selector Stand Out Selector, aka Steffen Franz, combines the best of art and business with his eclectic background. With major changes in the modern music industry, independent artists and labels seek new ways to get their music out. Steffen noticed these issues as he himself has faced distribution challenges, too. He launched Independent Distribution Collective in 2004 and since then has grown the company from 9 labels to over 250 labels with close to 300 releases in less than 5 years. In addition to launching a physical distribution company, which now includes both digital, film and DVD distribution, SOS has also developed services like “InstantDistro” a turnkey marketing and promotion service, and “A La Carte Management” which helps advance the independent music community and educate developing artists. A dancehall innovator, a DJ / producer / remixer and the owner of PSM Recordings, he has been bringing his conscious reggae vibes to throngs of people from New York to the Hawaiian Islands (and San Francisco in between) for almost 2 decades. A New York City native, SOS moved to Maui in 1991 where he broke the freshest dancehall tracks to scores of locals as well as tourists from around the globe at Studio 505, a Stephen Stills’ nightclub. At that time he also managed and produced Marty Dread & Culture Shock, the most popular reggae band in the islands. 1993 brought him to San Francisco to play venues like Miss Pearl’s Jam House, Kennel Club and others. Together with former partner Stefan G. (video/multimedia specialist), a brand new concept in global sound systems was formed: Positive Sound Massive. PSM features an array of international vocalists, rappers, toasters and musicians, including rapper Wookie J., whom SOS imported from Maui. In the late 1990s, SOS DJ-ed at hundreds of shows throughout California, Nevada, Washington, New York, Australia and New Zealand where he opened for the Beastie Boys “Hello Nasty” World Tour. He has produced dozens of multi-artist stage shows and the Nicodemus “Dancehall Giant Tour,” as well as the Rocker-T “If Yu Luv Luv, Show Ya Luv” national US tour featuring Shinehead and Sleepy Wonder. He has remixed tracks for artists such as: Barrington Levy “Work” (MCA), Capleton “Wings of the Morning” (DefJam/RAL), Beenie Man “Tear off Mi Garment” (Island JA); and produced tracks for artists Nicodemus, Shinehead, Ras Michael, Barrington Levy, Rocker-T, Jamalski, Wookie J., Karney, DJ Collage, Poetz4Peace, and SF local hip hop group New Dealers. SOS worked as Reggae Buyer for Rough Trade Records in San Francisco, and as Reggae Editor for American Music Press, a Bay-Area music monthly. From 1994 through 1998, Steffen was the Production Manager for the Paradise Lounge and Transmission Theater in San Francisco and still found time to write and review for independent publications. He has tour managed Mix Master Mike, traveling the globe on both of Mike’s solo tours and with the Beastie Boys. SOS also fronts an alternative rock group Crocodile Tears, plays bass in a Stoner Rock band called Not For Not, and is a member of “biL” – a dancehall, surf, hip hop, who-knows-what else conglomeration of excellence. SOS is the founder of Positive Sound Management. PSManagement represents Rocker-T, Poetz4Peace, Haji Mike, Ian Collins and Karney, exclusively, and consults a number of other established and developing artists. Recent studio works include production for over a dozen artists and bands. Production and Engineering credits include Nuffsed, Rastrillos, Haji Mike, Jahson Ites and new releases from Essential I and a compilation which includes music from Jahson Ites, Lutan Fyah, Essential I, Chezidek, Ms Triniti, Adrian Xavier, Halfpint with Ishi Dube, Ras Attitude, Promoe, Huckleberry, Prezident Brown, Norrisman with Jah Sun, Wisdom, Oren B Scripture, Haji Mike and Rocker T for Sick Donkey Records. Steffen teaches Music Business 101, 110, 301 and 310 @ Pyramind in San Francisco. Tamra Engle, Senior Director of Marketing and Programs, NARIP San Francisco Chapter Tamra Engle is a social entrepreneur and founder of GuitarTam Music that offers business and promotional consultation for artists and bands to help them succeed in the evolving music and entertainment industries. She helps clients to develop strategic marketing and promotion plans, and offers performance coaching. Blending 25 years of business development expertise in organizations of all sizes and sectors from start-ups to Fortune 15 organizations, Tamra is developing community programs to provide music education programs for school-aged children and a national program to end violence against women. She is also a performing singer-songwriter whose recent album was on the final nominating ballot for the 2008 Grammys in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Tamra began her entertainment career as a studio musician In Los Angeles, has toured the country tirelessly and enjoyed placement of her songs on television and nationally aired commercials. Contact her at tamra AT narip DOT com. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO: www.blinkeractive.com www.independentdistro.com www.irisdistribution.com www.otmg.net www.tamraengle.com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-12-10	In San Fran – Holiday Mixer @ El Rio × Please permit NARIP to Assist With Your Seasonal Merrymaking Needs! You’re invited to attend NARIP’s Holiday Mixer And introducing new NARIP San Francisco Directors Tamra Engle and Nate Beats on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at El Rio in San Francisco Join NARIP’s San Francisco Chapter to bring in the holiday season! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Join us, come meet and greet San Francisco-area record and music industry professionals, and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome at our mixer, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Also, come meet Tamra Engle and Nate Beats, NARIP San Francisco’s new Directors. See Ms. Engle’s and Mr. Beats’ professional profiles below. Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, and established new business associates and friends. We look forward to seeing you at our cocktail mixer! Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. WHERE El Rio 3158 Mission Street @ Cesar Chavez San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel: 415-282-3325 ADMISSION Complimentary admission – happy Christmas & Hannukah from NARIP. RSVP required (below). No host bar. Tamra Engle Senior Director of Marketing and Programs, San Francisco Chapter National Association of Record Industry Professionals Tamra Engle is a social entrepreneur and founder of GuitarTam Music that offers business and promotional consultation for artists and bands to help them succeed in the evolving music and entertainment industries. She helps clients to develop strategic marketing and promotion plans, and offers performance coaching. Blending 25 years of business development expertise in organizations of all sizes and sectors from start-ups to Fortune 15 organizations, Tamra is developing community programs to provide music education programs for school-aged children and a national program to end violence against women. She is also a performing singer-songwriter whose recent album was on the final nominating ballot for the 2008 Grammys in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Tamra began her entertainment career as a studio musician In Los Angeles, has toured the country tirelessly and enjoyed placement of her songs on television and nationally aired commercials. Read more about Tamra at http://www.tamraengle.com or contact her at tamra AT narip DOT com. Nate Beats (N8Beats) Director of Membership & Outreach, San Francisco Chapter National Association of Record Industry Professionals N8Beats is a music producer, certified recording engineer and founder of Make Your Hit Production and N8Beats Production. N8Beats Productions’ objective is to become the number one most sought-after urban music production company in the music industry by December 24, 2013. He produces for Tech N9ne’s record label, Strange Music, and has worked with, or studied under, American Idol judge Simon Cowell, NWA’s Arabian Prince, Rza / North Hollywood Wu-Tang West Studios, engineer Steve Miller, multi-platinum dance DJ Paul Oakenfold, Abduel Hall (PH Balanced Music / Patty Howard), the American Mechanical Rights Agency, author / guru Dan Kimpel, Mac Dre, Cool Nutz, and The Source’s “Unsigned Hype” artists H2-O, Mikey Vegaz & Illaj. He has created music for Nintendo, Adidas, Sun Micro Systems and has completed production of over a dozen commercial independent hip hop albums. Nate has also consulted Web companies HOTorNOT.com and the entrepreneur’s network PerfectBusiness.com. For more information on Nate Beats, visit http://www.natebeats.com or email Nate at nate AT narip DOT com. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-12-05	In LA – NARIP Holiday Brunch × NARIP Holiday Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, December 5 at the Angel Diva Music Studios, home of Jan Linder Koda You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch on Saturday, December 5 at the home of producer Jan Linder Koda in Los Angeles (Woodland Hills). We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, December 3 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up, it will just cost you a bit more! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 1-minute introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN Saturday, December 5, 2009 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE 24201 Philiprimm Street Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Tel: 818-888-5885 PLEASE NOTE This is a Japanese home, you will be asked to remove your shoes. Also, our hostess appreciates no smoking (indoors and out). PARKING & DIRECTIONS Click here for map. Exit Valley Circle off the 101. Free street parking (please read signs!). COST $20 for NARIP members $25 for Non-members Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. All ticket sales are final. We appreciate your cooperation. We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes snacks (bagels and fixin’s), beverage and event admission. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.angeldivamusic.com. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-12-05	In Houston – NARIP Holiday Brunch × NARIP Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, December 5 in Houston Lucky Run Studio You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s brunch in Houston on Saturday, December 5 at Lucky Run Studio. To introduce Houston-area professionals to the greatness that is NARIP brunches, we are delighted to make admission free for NARIP members ($10 for non-members). Join us, come meet and greet Houston-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, December 3 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. Advance registration is encouraged, but you are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN Saturday, December 5, 2009 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE Lucky Run Studio 777 Settegast Ranch Road Richmond, TX 77406 Tel: 281-232-8382 DIRECTIONS Click here for detailed directions. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com COST FREE for NARIP members $10 for non-members (no RSVP) We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.luckyrunstudio.com. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-11-19	In LA – Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Video Games × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL: What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line? How To Market & License Music For Video Games on Thursday, November 19, 2009 in Los Angeles With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media such as video games has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, we bring in top experts to face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music-in-video-game license agreement. Join us for this special session with music and interactive software entertainment attorney Jim Charne and Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, and President of Artwerk Music Group for Electronic Arts Steve Schnur (other speakers TBA). We will also discuss marketing music for video games to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal. Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be. Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process. Get educated about the art of deal-making! YOU WILL LEARN: The right time to make a deal. Major areas of negotiation, including: Terms Options Fee ranges Deliverables Clearances Things to avoid Closing the deal Also: Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why Making the pitch: necessary elements Timing What music buyers such as gaming companies really look for How to increase the impact and marketability of music GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles): Jim Charne, Esq., music and interactive software entertainment attorney Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, and President of Artwerk Music Group for Electronic Arts More speakers TBA. WHEN Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:00 p.m. – Registration opens 8:00 p.m. – Program begins 10:15 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Those seeking music placement opportunities WHERE Los Angeles Film School 6363 Sunset Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028 Major cross streets: Sunset & Cahuenga PARKING Free street parking available after 6pm (read signs!) and paid parking available in the LA Film School parking lot (first lot on Ivar south of Sunset). COST $20 for NARIP Members $40 for Non-Members $75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit Attention attorneys: receive 2.5 MCLE credits for attending this program for only $75. NARIP approved as a Multiple Activity Provider by the State Bar of California. Select Premium Ticket option below. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Jim Charne, Esq. Jim Charne is a California, New York, and New Jersey lawyer who has provided legal representation for clients in all phases of interactive software entertainment since the mid-1980s. After a career in the recorded music industry, he moved to the videogames industry in 1983 as a producer for Activision, and served as VP Legal & Business and CFO of console developer Absolute Entertainment. Jim was President of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) from 1999 to early 2001 and is a voting member of AIAS, IGDA, G.A.N.G. (Game Audio Network Guild), and the Recording Academy (NARAS). Jim has been chair of the Legal and Business tutorial at GDC since 1998, and writes “Famous Last Words,” a monthly column on games contracting issues for www.igda.org. He can be reached by email at charne@usa.net or on the Web at www.charnelaw.com Steve Schnur As Worldwide Executive of Music and President of Artwerk Music Group for Electronic Arts, Steve Schnur is responsible for the pursuit, creation and continuous development of the global vision for music in EA games. He has brought established stars, breakthrough new artists and award-winning composers to top-selling EA franchises, changing the industry’s perception of video games from simple licensing opportunities to a series of groundbreaking and award winning scores and soundtracks. His hands-on approach with composer selection and score production has earned EA over 50 soundtrack nominations over the last 8 years. His extensive relationships with major recording artists and music managers have helped to create a series of original compositions which now fill the EA music library with valuable copyrights. Steve brought this vision into the multi-billion dollar game space from his experience in both the film and recording industries as a successful music supervisor and music producer. In 2005, he created EA Recordings, a digital record label focused on the distribution of EA’s enormous collection of scores and songs. In 2008, he formed Artwerk Music Group, through which EA now directly signs, develops and launches artists for publishing, master recordings, sync deals and distribution. Prior to joining EA in 2001, he held various executive positions with the Warner Music Group, MTV, EMI and BMG, and has supervised and produced music for films including CRUEL INTENTIONS and MISS CONGENIALITY (which garnered a Golden Globe nomination for best original song). Steve has been profiled by the New York Times, London Financial Times and CNN. Additionally, he was selected as “One Of The Most Creative People In Entertainment” by Entertainment Weekly, both “One of the Most Powerful People in the Music Business” and “One of the Top 20 Power Players in Digital Entertainment” by Billboard Magazine, “One of The Top 25 Power Players in the new Hollywood” by The Wall Street Journal and in 2009 was awarded “International Music Person of the Year” by MusExpo. Steve Schnur is also a board member of City Of Hope, a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), a board member of the Country Music Association and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Grammy Foundation. In December of 2009, Schnur will receive the ACLU “Bill of Rights” Award alongside Robert Redford, Michelle Satter and Cara Mertes of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-11-16	In Philly – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of a Producer Agreement × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL: What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line? The Producer Deal on Monday, November 16, 2009 in Philadelphia NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal launched in 2007 year in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and in 2009 in Phoenix and Houston. Live mock negotiations hit the spot! So now we bring you two top music attorneys, Bernard M. Resnick and Kevon Glickman, who will negotiate a modern music producer agreement for us live in Philadelphia. Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But the truth is, as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be. Now, of this latest installment of our special series, two top lawyers face off in a live negotiation of a producer agreement in NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal. Most importantly, you will see HOW a producer deal is negotiated and be involved in the process. Get educated about the art of deal making! YOU WILL LEARN: When it’s the right time to make a deal Major areas of negotiation, including: Producer advance vs. recording fund. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s recording fund? Producer royalty. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s royalty? Recoupment Terms & Options Controlled Composition Clause: what you need to know if your producer is also your co-writer! What does the artist’s recording agreement say?? THIS affects the producer’s royalty, royalty accountings, mechanical royalties, CD reductions, “fake” free goods and much more! And much more. WHO (scroll down for speaker profiles): Kevon Glickman, Esq., President, Invincible Pictures Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., Law Offices of Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C. Tess Taylor, NARIP President (panel moderator) WHEN Monday, November 16, 2009 6:00 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHERE Bat Cave Studios 444 N. 3rd Street Suite C-7 Philadelphia, PA 19123 Tel: 215-238-1500 Free parking. Click here for map. COST FREE for NARIP Members $25 for Non-Members $75 for lawyers who wish to receive 2.5 MCLE credits ATTENTION ATTORNEYS: This program has been approved for 2.5 credit hours by the PA CLE Board. Select Premium Ticket option before to receive 2.5 credit hours for only $75 (includes event admission). SPECIAL BONUS Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This option will be available at the event. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Kevon Glickman, Esq. Kevon Glickman, President of Invincible Pictures, is a well-traveled entertainment lawyer with over 20 years experience in the music, film and media industries. Equally comfortable in the studio, courtroom or boardroom, Kevon has worked for litigation firms, radio conglomerates, record labels, nightclubs and advised publicly traded companies. Kevon spent 7 years as Senior VP/General Counsel of Ruffhouse Records, a joint venture with Sony Entertainment, which sold over 100 million albums, including “The Score” by the Fugees (the highest selling rap album of all time, winning two Grammy Awards) and “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (which won 5 Grammy awards). Kevon has worked with other Grammy award winners The Delfonics, Mary Wilson of the Supremes and D’Angelo, as well as cutting edge groups such as Cypress Hill, Trina, Leela James, Rick Ross, Flo Rida and celebrity DJ Funkmaster Flex. Kevon was COO of Ruffnation Records, a 3-year joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, which charted multiple albums and published songs off the “8 Mile” soundtrack and executive-produced “Snipes” starring Nelly and Jamie Fox’s “Bait” soundtrack. Kevon is a partner in the Radio Woodstock Network in upstate NY, co-promoter of Mountain Jam and head of Blingnot Media, which provides digital distribution, management and marketing services as part of Invincible’s musical arm. Bernard M. Resnick, Esq. Bernard M. Resnick, Esq. is an entertainment attorney practicing in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. His firm, Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C. has earned over 60 gold, platinum, multi-platinum, Billboard #1 and/or BDS Certified Spin awards for deals the firm has negotiated and drafted on behalf of the firm’s clients, representing sales of over 65,000,000 records. The firm’s clientele ranges across many styles and genres of talent, encompassing recording artists, songwriters, record producers, agents, managers, filmmakers, financiers, Internet Web site designers and operators, professional athletes, etc. Clients of the firm vary from “baby bands” and neophyte filmmakers to gold and platinum-selling recording artists, producers and songwriters, Grammy award winners, members of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, record labels, international entertainment businesses and publicly-traded companies. The firm regularly places client music in television programs, movies, and video games. Representative clients (past and present) include recording artists UGK, Bun B., Trina, Peedi Crakk, Us3, Pink, Bahamadia, Steph Pockets, Sebastian, Schoolly D., The Rembrandts, Dave Mason, Lonnie Jordan and “War”, Time For Three, Janita, Grover Washington, Jr. and The Philadelphia Orchestra; record producers/songwriters Timbaland, Jim Beanz, King Solomon Logan, Jerome Harmon, Calvin Miller and Qur’an Goodman; the Estate of Linda Creed, artist management company The Coalition, classical music artist management company/booking agency IMG Artists, record label Nu Groove Music, record label Amalgam Entertainment, film investment fund Cedar Lane Funding, and international medical journal “Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research”. Mr. Resnick’s article “Tips for the Beginning Entertainment Law Attorney” was recently published in the “Barristers Tips” section of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. The magazine, issued May, 2008 is published monthly by the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and is the 24th annual issue featuring Entertainment Law. He also co-authored three chapters in “The Musicians Business and Legal Guide – 4th Edition”, published by Prentice Hall for the Beverly Hills Bar Association, amongst other articles and chapters in journals, textbooks and magazines. His next publication, due in January 2009, titled “360° Deals in the USA,” will be featured in the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers’ forthcoming annual journal. Mr. Resnick has participated on panel discussions, presented seminars and conducted continuing legal education classes for the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University; the Texas State Bar Association’s Annual Entertainment Law Institute; the Independent Music Conference; the Cutting Edge Music Conference; the Beverly Hills Bar Association; Widener University School of Law’s Annual Sports and Entertainment Law Association Symposium; the Albany County Bar Association; the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers at the MIDEM / MIDEMNet convention in Cannes, France and at Les Rencontres convention in Montreal, Canada. He frequently serves as an expert witness in entertainment and sports-related lawsuits; has been named as a “Pennsylvania Superlawyer” by Philadelphia Magazine / Law & Politics Magazine every year since inception; and was recently named in Marquis “Who’s Who in America 2009” and Cambridge’s Who’s Who Amongst Executives and Professionals – 2008/2009. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-11-10	In NY – Touring For A Living: Help Your Artists Get The Mo$t From The Road × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in New York Record sales may not be huge in recent years for many artists, yet some have set income records by touring. Your clients can tour successfully, too! Learn the tips and tricks of the big acts, and get all the info used by mid-line artists, newly signed artists, and indie artists who are making the most of touring opportunities. Plus, learn the best ways to turn concerts into CD sales! This NARIP program will cover: Success for acts in all career phases and stages When and why to go on the road Identifying target demographics Reaching your acts’ ideal audiences Who handles what on a tour Different career options for different types of artists Touring with or without a record deal Leverage with venues and buyers: how to make the best deal Planning and budgeting tours GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for profiles): Marty Diamond, head of Paradigm Talent Agency’s East Coast Music Division Steve Lurie, President of Music Without Borders and Executive Director, NARIP New York (panel moderator) Scott Morris, Music Agent, ICM ———> *JUST ADDED* Brice Rosenbloom, Founder, boomBOOM Presents Alan Wolmark, CEC Management WHEN Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHERE Fordham University at Lincoln Center 155 W. 60th Street – MacMahon Hall Lounge, Room 109 (between Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues) New York, NY 10023-7472 NOTE: Upon entering the building, please announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to MacMahon Hall Lounge. Click here for map. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs COST $25 for NARIP Members $40 for Non-Members PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Marty Diamond Marty Diamond is the head of the Paradigm Talent Agency’s East Coast Music Division. He was previously President of Little Big Man Booking, a boutique music agency that was acquired by Paradigm in 2006. Diamond founded the Little Big Man in 1994 after stints at Arista Records, Bill Graham Management and Manhattan music venue The Ritz. He oversaw Little Big Man’s growth from a two-person operation to the leading small agency in North America, with a roster including Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, David Gray, Joni Mitchell and Blue Man Group. Under Diamond’s leadership, Little Big Man won the Pollstar Award for Small / Boutique Booking Agency 10 out of 11 consecutive years, 1996-2000 and 2002-2006. Diamond was one of the four partners in the wildly successful Lilith Fair festival, which won Pollstar Awards in 1997 for Most Creative Tour Package and Major Tour of the Year. Diamond himself won Pollstar’s highest individual honor that year, the award for Agent of the Year. Steve Lurie Steve Lurie is Executive Director of NARIP’s New York chapter. He is also founder and president of Music Without Borders, LLC, and draws on more than 20 years of experience in the music industry as a concert producer, professor, performer, lecturer, retailer and columnist. Since 2003 he has produced more than 3500 concerts by artists from around the world for venues throughout the United States. As an educator, Mr. Lurie developed the Music Business Certificate for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and taught “Developing Your Own Record Label” from 2000-2005. He was a faculty member at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music from 1999-2004 where he taught courses in music business and music management. He was also hired to develop a music business program at The New School in New York. Mr. Lurie has lectured on music industry issues throughout the US, Canada and Europe. In 1998, Lurie was invited to keynote at WOMEX (Worldwide Music Expo) in Stockholm, Sweden on the topic of record retail in the United States. In February of 2005 he presented several lectures on music publishing and copyright at the Folk Alliance/Strictly Mundial Convention in Montreal. In January of 2006 he presented a lecture on independent record retail and distribution at MIDEM in Cannes, France. Recently, Lurie was asked to be a Grant Reviewer for the Connecticut Department of Culture and Tourism, an honor that is only bestowed upon the most distinguished members of the arts community. As a percussionist, Mr. Lurie has performed with pop, jazz, world music and classical ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As VP and Co-Owner of Al Franklin’s Musical World in Greenwich, CT, Mr. Lurie helped build one of the finest and most highly regarded music and electronics retailers in the U.S. Scott Morris Scott Morris began his career at ICM’s New York office after graduating from Belmont University’s Music Business program in 1989. After 3.5 years at ICM, Scott left to work for Balmur Entertainment Artist & Management company in Toronto where he acted in a management and in-house booking capacity for clients such as Anne Murray, Rita MacNeil and George Fox. Scott was also Anne Murray’s tour manager from 1998-2000 at which time he left to return to ICM where he has been an agent ever since. Scott was nominated for Pollstar’s “Agent of the Year” award in 2008. Brice Rosenbloom Launched by Brice Rosenbloom in the fall of 2006, boomBOOM brings a broad array of live music to thousands of New Yorkers every year. boomBOOM Presents is a New York based live music booking and production company. Showcasing an eclectic mix of artists and an all-inclusive aesthetic palette, boomBOOM Presents is dedicated to providing optimum concert experiences for both performers and audiences. Rosenbloom’s prolific booking expertise within clubs and concert halls is complemented by artistic curating credentials in the performing arts world, representing broad interests in jazz, world, Jewish music, experimental, rock, electronic, and emerging contemporary music. As an active presence in New York’s vibrant cultural scene, Rosenbloom curated the intimate Makor music series beginning in 1999, nurturing developing artists such as Norah Jones, Lila Downs, Regina Spektor, Matisyahu, Antibalas, Amos Lee, Gogol Bordello, Peaches, Erin McKeown, Miri Ben-Ari, Derek Trucks and others. Other productions included a shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration with Wynton Marsalis to establish the launch season of Jazz at Lincoln Center at the program’s new home in Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center, myriad bookings of artists such as Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones, The Bad Plus, Brazilian Girls, Keren Ann, Kaki King, and Henry Threadgil at the iconic Knitting Factory in 2005, and the creation of the NYC Winter Jazzfest, a three-stage, eight-hour festival that has been showcasing premier artists in the jazz scene for the last five years. In recent years boomBOOM Presents has curated music series at Merkin Concert Hall, Stuyvesant Town Oval Concerts, and back at Makor. boomBOOM Presents continues to curate a broad musical vision on additional stages around the city and beyond, including the new world music club Drom on Avenue A; the soon to open le Poisson Rouge (the new Village Gate space) on Bleecker Street; the Jazz Experiment Festival in Palermo, Italy; and the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene. Alan Wolmark After ten years of national radio promotion for major US record labels Atlantic and RCA Records, Alan Wolmark turned artist manager in 1988 offering US representation for overseas-based artists. Alan went into full management in partnership with noted manager Barry Taylor around 1990 as the Management Consulting Team (MCT Management). Starting with a roster including Moby, Pere Ubu, My Bloody Valentine and Firetown (whose members later formed Garbage), among others, he then built on the US-UK worldwide management concept in the early ‘90s, joining forces with UK-based manager Peter Felstead forming CEC Management. Clients included artists like Ben Folds (Five), Deacon Blue, Grandaddy, Lush, The Boo Radleys and others. CEC Management has offices in New York and London, and currently represents worldwide artists Tricky, David Berkeley, Darren Jessee (ex-Ben Folds Five), Simon Collins and others. Alan began his career at trade publication Record World magazine writing album reviews and charting national FM radio airplay. In 1978 he joined Atlantic Records’ album promotion department working with The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, AC/DC, Blues Brothers, Pete Townshend, Genesis, Foreigner and more – a music enthusiast’s dream. In 1983 he became head of national rock promotion at RCA Records, establishing such genre-bending acts as the Eurythmics, Blow Monkeys, Love & Rockets and Mr. Mister as well as breaking Bruce Hornsby and promoting flagship artists like Jefferson Starship, Hall & Oates and Elvis Presley. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.boomboomnyc.com www.cecmgmt.com www.icmtalent.com www.MusicConsultant.net www.ParadigmAgency.com www.TarrytownMusicHall.org www.RMANYC.org/NakedSoul www.LennonTribute.org www.RTRCruises.com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-10-31	NARIP Brunch in LA at Producer Jeffery David’s Home × NARIP Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, October 31 at the home of producer Jeffery David Come dressed as your favorite rock or hip hop star, or favorite record executive! You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch on Saturday, October 31 at the home of producer Jeffery David in Los Angeles (Toluca Lake). We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, October 29 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up, it will just cost you a bit more! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE: At Producer Jeffery David’s House 11217 Kling Street Toluca Lake, CA 91602 310-651-0452 COST: $20 for NARIP members $25 for Non-members Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Click here for map. Major cross streets: Vineland & Riverside Free street parking (please read signs!). QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-10-27	In LA – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of 360 Record Deal × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL: What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line? Mock Negotiation of a 360 Recording Agreement on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 in Los Angeles With major changes in recording agreements over the past three years, multiple rights or so-called “360 deals” have become more common. In this latest installment of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, two top music business attorneys and an artist manager face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues that affect an artist’s rights and income, and a record company’s ability to acquire and monetize additional rights. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal. Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be. Most importantly, you will see HOW a 360 deal is negotiated and be involved in the process. Get educated about the art of deal-making! You will learn eight (8) major areas of negotiation for record deals: 1. Artist advance / recording fund 2. Controlled composition clause 3. Guaranteed release clause 4. Pay or play clause 5. No cross-collateralization / separate “pot” for mastertone, voicetone and DVD monies 6. Tour support / marketing and promotion commitment (videos, etc.) 7. Artist royalty and royalties payable on foreign sales 8. 360 deals: try to limit other ancillary rights (i.e., merchandise, publishing, touring, sponsorships, etc.) This program will also cover: – Multiple rights: what are they? – How to minimize a record company’s involvement in additional rights – How to obligate a record company to monetize additional rights and maximize returns from a 360 deal – Important deal points including new 360 provisions, ancillary rights, digital royalties, a discussion of the new publishing royalty rates for mobile, digital downloads, and interactive streaming services. – The right time to make a deal – 360 deals for developing artists WHO SHOULD ATTEND Record & Music Publishing Executives Producers, Artists, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Music Attorneys, Concert Industry Professionals Brand Marketing & Creative Executives Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles) Dina LaPolt, Esq. – LaPolt Law LLC Doug Mark, Esq. – Mark Music & Media Law, P.C. Lisa Van Zuidam – Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Tenth Street Entertainment and The Eleven Seven Music Group WHEN Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:30 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program beins 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHERE SAE Institute 6565 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028 (across from Cat & Fiddle, between Highland & Vine) Click here for map. COST $20 for NARIP Members $40 for Non-Members $75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit (includes admission) Attention attorneys: receive 2.5 MCLE credits for attending this program for only $75. Select Premium Ticket option below. SPECIAL BONUS Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This way, you won’t have to take notes and can refer back to important points in the discussion later. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION Tenth Street Entertainment The Eleven Seven Music Group LaPolt Law LLC Mark Music & Media Law, P.C ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Dina LaPolt, Esq. Dina LaPolt is an entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. in Los Angeles. LaPolt Law is a boutique entertainment firm that specializes in representing clients in the music, merchandising, film, television, and book publishing industries. The firm’s clientele include recording artists, independent record companies, music publishers, songwriters, producers, managers, executives in the music and film industries, film production companies, photographers, directors, writers, authors, and actors. In addition to practicing law, Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and Publishing Industries” in the Entertainment Studies Department at UCLA Extension and speaks regularly on panels at music industry conferences all over the country. On the film production side, Dina was the co-producer of the 2005 Academy Award-nominated documentary film entitled Tupac: Resurrection. For more information on Dina LaPolt or her firm, please log on to www.LaPoltLaw.com. Doug Mark, Esq. For the past 23 years, music attorney Doug Mark has represented all possible entities in the music and film industries including independent and major record companies, independent and major music publishers, new and superstar recording artists, record producers, film composers, executives, technology companies and others. Founded in 2007, his firm Mark Music & Media Law, P.C. has offices in Los Angeles and New York. The firm’s current clients range from pop stars (Sara Bareilles, Michelle Branch, Jojo and Daniel Powter) to hip-hop stars (The Game, Mims), rock bands (Motley Crue, Lostprophets), alternative artists (Dashboard Confessional, Tegan and Sara, Ladytron), to film composers (Danny Elfman, Trevor Rabin) and others. The firm represents some of the biggest indie labels (Epitaph/Anti, 11-7 Recordings) and divisions of three out of the four major label groups. Other entities receive focus from Mark Music and Media Law as well. Start-ups, financing companies, management companies, writers, producers and executives all receive the finest advice and documentation from the firm. Transactions for these companies include equity financing, catalog sales, mergers, employment agreements and more. Lisa Van Zuidam As Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Tenth Street Entertainment and The Eleven Seven Music Group, Lisa Van Zuidam oversees the financial elements and overall operations for Tenth Street Entertainment and The Eleven Seven Music Group, new models for the successful entertainment marketing and content companies across a range of platforms including music, fashion, book and music publishing, film, live performance and more. Among the companies’ content creation partners are Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, JET, Deborah Harry and Blondie, Sixx:A.M., Drowning Pool, The Last Vegas, Charm City Devils, Marion Raven, Royal Underground and others. Van Zuidam began her career with Tenth Street and Eleven Seven in 2005 as the Controller and expanded her duties to reach her current position. Van Zuidam was previously with Prager & Fenton as a business manager working with artists such as Gavin DeGraw, Neil Sedka, Jimmy Webb and AC/DC. For more information, please visit Tenth Street Entertainment or The Eleven Seven Music Group. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ___________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-10-24	In Phoenix: Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road on Saturday, October 24, 2009 in Phoenix Record sales may not be huge in recent years for many artists, yet some have set income records by touring. You and your clients can tour successfully, too! Learn the tips and tricks of the big acts, and get all the info used by mid-line artists, newly signed artists, and indie artists who are making the most of touring opportunities. Plus, learn the best ways to turn concerts into CD sales! This NARIP program will cover: Success for acts in all career phases and stages When and why to go on the road Identifying target demographics Reaching your acts’ ideal audiences Who handles what on a tour Different career options for different types of artists Touring with or without a record deal Leverage with venues and buyers: how to make the best deal Planning and budgeting tours Important documents including sample budgets, itineraries and more will be included. SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for profiles): Chris Arnstein, CEO, The Arnstein Organization Jason Coochwytewa, President / Owner, Red Note, Inc. Cindy Goldney, radio event producer, artist manager and artist development specialist Other speakers TBA. WHEN Saturday, October 24, 2009 12:00 noon – Registration opens 12:30 p.m. – Program begins 1:45 p.m. – Break for lunch 2:45 p.m. – Program continues 4:00 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs WHERE Prankster’s TOO (NOT to be confused with Prankster’s in Tempe) The Jester’s Room 7919 E. Thomas Road Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (southwest corner of Thomas & Hayden, west of the 101 Fwy) Tel: 480-990-1114 Click here for map. COST $15 for NARIP Members $30 for Non-Members (does not include lunch) You need NOT be a NARIP member to attend. All are welcome. BONUS Because you are registering for this panel discussion, we offer you the opportunity to pre-order the MP3 recording of the program for only $20 (regularly $39.95). To pre-order now, select the Premium Ticket option below, the mastered recording will be emailed to you within 2-3 weeks after our program (if not sooner). PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS CHRIS ARNSTEIN Chris Arnstein is CEO of the Arnstein Organization, performing personal and tour management, record, TV, video and production, talent booking services, product branding, international marketing, multi-media promotions, music supervision for his clients. Arnstein has developed, toured and worked with stadium and arena-level acts such as Julio Iglesias, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Jennifer Lopez, Air Supply, Bad English, Brett Michaels, Rachelle Ferrell, Sam Kinison, Madonna, Journey, Stevie Nicks, John Waite, Joe Walsh, Styx, ELO, The Eagles and others. JASON COOCHWYTEWA Jason Coochwytewa is President / Owner of Red Note, Inc. With a diverse background in the advertising and marketing industry of 14+ years, Jason Coochwytewa began his work in entertainment in 2000 as an executive at a large-scale Native American casino in New Mexico. It was here that Jason was introduced to the “business-side” of the music industry: booking, marketing, and creating casino promotions around major national headlining acts. However, his appreciation for music in the art form was discovered as a young boy. Deeply rooted in his Native American culture, his father sang and taught him traditional Hopi songs, emphasizing the importance of listening to the words, rhythm and beat. Time spent with his father laid the foundation to what would eventually become Jason’s passion in life: music. In 2005, Jason launched Red Note, Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona, and now works full-time planning and managing intimate to large-scale event productions and promotions including festivals and headlining music concerts. Jason has been involved with over 100 shows, working with legendary to “fresh on the scene” musicians and bands. In 2008, Red Note, Inc. produced two major events during Super Bowl XLII; the Arizona Indian Festival with estimated audience of 20,000 and the Native American component of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLII VIP Tailgate Party for 10,000 individuals. Jason serves as a juror on the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and is an advisory board member for the launch of the World Indigenous Music Awards set to take place in 2010 in Canada. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, and is an alumnus of Valley Leadership – Class 26. He currently serves as the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) Phoenix Chapter Director, is a Board of Trustee with the Arizona Science Center and a board member with both the Girl Scouts of America Arizona Pine Council and the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Arizona. Jason once again serves as co-chair of the Arizona Diamondbacks Native American Day on July 12, 2009 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. CINDY GOLDNEY Profile posted shortly. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.rednoteinc.com www.thearnstein.org NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-10-18	FREE NARIP Brunch in Philly × NARIP Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Sunday, October 18 in Philadelphia at Range Recording Studios FREE Admission You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s FIRST brunch in Philadelphia on Sunday, October 18 at Range Record Studios. To introduce Philly-area professionals to the greatness that is NARIP brunches, we are delighted to made admission free for those who RSVP in advance below (RSVP required). Join us, come meet and greet Philadelphia-area record and music industry professionals. Your special and very excellent hosts will be Capps Enterprise’s Barbara Capps and Bravermania’s Roy Braverman. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, October 15 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits (please note that walk-ups pay $20 each, advance RSVP guests attend for free)! So come along to meet friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN: Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE: Range Records/Range Recording Studios 2730 E. County Line Rd. Ardmore, PA 19003 COST: FREE, RSVP required. $20 for walk-ups (no RSVP) We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Free street parking and at school across the street. Click here for map. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.Bravermania.com www.RangeRecordsUSA.com www.RangeRecordingStudios.com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-10-15	In TX: Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road on Thursday, October 15, 2009 in Houston Record sales may not be huge in recent years for many artists, yet some have set income records by touring. Your clients can tour successfully, too! Learn the tips and tricks of the big acts, and get all the info used by mid-line artists, newly signed artists, and indie artists who are making the most of touring opportunities. Plus, learn the best ways to turn concerts into CD sales! This NARIP program will cover: Success for acts in all career phases and stages When and why to go on the road Identifying target demographics Reaching your acts’ ideal audiences Who handles what on a tour Different career options for different types of artists Touring with or without a record deal Leverage with venues and buyers: how to make the best deal Planning and budgeting tours SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for profiles): Barry Coffing, Founder & CEO, MusicSupervisor.com Patrick Whalen, Founder, Fast Paced Management, LLC WHEN Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:30 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs WHERE Houston Community College Spring Branch Campus 1060 West Sam Houston Parkway The Screening Theater Houston, TX 77043 (near the I-10 and Beltway 8) Click here for map. COST $10 for NARIP Members $25 for Non-Members You need NOT be a NARIP member to attend. All are welcome. Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75 more. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS BARRY COFFING Mr. Coffing is CEO and Founder of MusicSupervisor.com and Uprising Entertainment. A 20-year industry veteran who has toured the world and has major credits to his name, Barry is an Emmy-nominated composer and was signed to Warner Bros. Records in the 1990s. He has toured extensively to support his hit songs that have charted around the world, including the #1 “I’ll Come Back To You.” He won Best Producer of the year at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2003, and has written and produced over 200 songs in film and TV including #1 hits and gold-selling soundtracks. He has worked with almost every major film company and television network. His knowledge of both sides of the licensing equation led him to create MusicSupervisor.com which has been used to find music for projects including Dexter, Ugly Betty, Burn Notice, Blonde Ambition, Lost, Love Kill, License to Wed, Swing Vote, Real Girl, Assassination of a High School President, Sexual Healing, Invincible, The Unit, Direct Contact and others. Barry has lectured on the music business at USC, Vanderbilt and The University of Houston. With his professional relationships, especially at major film companies and TV networks on both coasts, and a strong background in the business as an executive and successful composer / artist, Mr. Coffing is uniquely positioned to help NARIP members identify opportunities in film and television, and to create and sustain long-term careers in the music business today. PATRICK WHALEN Los Angeles-based Patrick Whalen is founder of Fast Paced Management and Artists Music Label, performing personal, tour and production management, international marketing and talent development for his clients. Clients include the Olympics, MTV (Asia, S. America & N. America), the BBC, VH1 and he has developed, toured and worked with stadium and arena-level acts such as Incubus, Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Stone Temple Pilots, Match Box 20, REM, Cheap Trick, Quiet Riot, Ted Nugent and others. He got his start in the music business in 1986. His first show was the Black Music Awards featuring Prince. His first major tour was in 1988 (Scorpions, Trixter and Great White). In 1991 while on tour, Whalen wrote the business plan for what would become Backstage Productions which provided sound and lighting for 100s of events each year. In 1999 Backstage opened another office in Las Vegas, increasing production to more than 500 shows annually. In his 20+ year career, Patrick has been on over 100 tours, from Motley Crue to Prince. In 2003 he sold Backstage Productions to focus his efforts on Fast Paced Management. Fast Paced Management’s first client was the International Olympic Committee. FPM provides production management for all live concerts surrounding the main Olympic events. Fast Paced Management eventually moved into band management, producing events, and of course production management. In 2006 Patrick founded Artists Music Label, LLC. Currently AML has over 100 bands signed and released 56 Artists in 2009. Fast Paced Management manages several bands and is building and branding tours for Artists Music Label. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-10-10	FREE NARIP Brunch in Houston × NARIP Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, October 10 in Houston at the home of Charles Davis and Reba Kochersperger AKA Blues House Productions FREE Admission You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s FIRST brunch in Houston on Saturday, October 10 at the home of Charles Davis and Reba Kochersperger. To introduce Houston-area professionals to the greatness that is NARIP brunches, we are delighted to made admission free for those who RSVP in advance below (RSVP required). Join us, come meet and greet Houston-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, October 8 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits (please note that walk-ups pay $20 each, advance RSVP guests attend for free)! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN: Saturday, October 10, 2009 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE: Reba Kochersperger 2307 La Monte Lane Houston, TX 77018 (off Loop 610 North and West TC Jester) Tel: 713-680-0233 COST: FREE, RSVP required. $20 for walk-ups (no RSVP) We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Click here for map. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com ABOUT CHARLES DAVIS Composer and blues/jazz guitarist Charles Davis is owner of Blues House Productions and this fall will release the first of two albums featuring his music. Guitarist for Calvin Owens’ Blues Orchestra for the past ten years, Charles performed on recordings with musicians such as B. B. King, Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush, Ray Price, Guitar Shorty, and Trudy Lynn. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-09-30	In LA – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of Producer Deal × In LA – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of Producer Deal
2009-09-26	NARIP Brunch in LA × Harness the Power of an Independent Commissioned Sales and Marketing Agent to Exploit and Monetize Your Music! A NARIP Series: Intimate Pitch Meetings with Top Synch Agents This Event is SOLD OUT Is your music getting to decision-makers – people who can say YES and write a check? The Synch Agents* featured in NARIP Pitch Sessions are among the top sales and marketing executives who actively place music owned by songwriters, composers and independent music publishers. Many music buyers – directors, producers and music supervisors – name these Synch Agents as among their go-to music providers. These Agents, who NARIP has researched and interviewed, have placed thousands of songs in blockbuster films, hit television shows, trailers, global promotion and advertising campaigns, and video games. At NARIP’s intimate sessions, you get to meet and pitch Synch Agents for current placement opportunities and representation, and get immediate feedback. Come meet these career-makers. BACKGROUND Since 2011, NARIP Music Supervisor Pitch Sessions have secured over 1,000 placements in blockbuster films, hit television series, global promotion and advertising campaigns, and trailers for NARIP members. NARIP members have also secured publishing deals and formed creative collaborations too numerous to mention as a direct result of these NARIP’s Sessions. Topics Trends in synch licensing and agent deals Exclusive, non-exclusive, single-song deals Budgets and fee ranges Royalties, copyright ownership, rights retention Fees and deal points between synch agents and their clients Which synch agents seek a transfer of copyright(s) for their services, and under what circumstances Song re-titling Small, focused NARIP Sessions enable one-on-one time and immediate direct feedback to music presented by participants. At hundreds of NARIP Sessions, we asked every guest music supervisor how to better market music to them. Their one consistent piece of advice? Get representation! At NARIP Synch Agent Pitch Sessions, limited to 16 people, you get to know the synch agents and they to get to know you. Most important, attendees meet these key players, paving the way for possible representation and ongoing opportunities, and giving them an edge in a competitive market. * Synch Agent: A synchronization or “synch” agent represents music copyrights – either the composition, the sound recordings, or both. They pitch music to buyers and their representatives, including to music supervisors. Synch agents are typically compensated on a commission basis and do not own or control the copyrights they represent. While synch agents usually focus on entertainment and media exploitations, traditional songplugger services also include placement of represented songs with recording artists. WHAT TO EXPECT AT A NARIP SYNCH AGENT PITCH SESSION: PREPARATION IS KEY As with NARIP Music Supervisor Pitch Sessions, NARIP’s Synch Agent Pitch Sessions are limited to an enrollment of just 16 people. About one week prior to NARIP’s Session, all registrants will get a brief of the guest’s then-CURRENT music needs. Each registrant will have a chance to pitch in response to the music briefs provided and get immediate feedback to music pitched. Each participant must submit 7 songs (MP3s only please) 36 hours prior to NARIP’s Synch Agent Pitch Session. Please note that due to time constraints you will only be able to pitch your TOP 3 songs for consideration and immediate feedback (more, if time permits). This process takes the mystery out of why a piece of music does or doesn’t fit. On-the-spot feedback enables registrants to re-work tracks and re-submit, which creates a much higher probability to get them licensed (choose well!). If you do not have music that matches the current needs of the guest, fear not! You can still attend and present the top three songs in your catalog. Make sure the songs are unique and captivating. This is helpful because a music supervisor’s needs change constantly. To optimize impact of music you pitch at NARIP’s Synch Agent Session, we highly recommend that you target the briefs. In addition to pitching for current placement opportunities, NARIP’s guest Synch Agents will consider music pitched for representation. Good luck and see you there! BEFORE NARIP’S SYNCH AGENT PITCH SESSION: NARIP prepares a one-sheet for each participant including your photo and bio for the guest to use and review at the event, and to take with him after the event. We will request your photo and bio one week prior to the event. In preparing these materials, we recommend you focus on brief career highlights in your bio and have a professional photo available. Approximately 5 to 7 days prior to NARIP’s Session, you will be sent a project brief describing several cues needed for a current project(s) of our guest speaker. These often include reference songs or links so that you can hear exactly what he seeks or needs to replace. You will submit your tracks with writer, publisher and other rights holder information that will also be supplied to the music supervisor during and after NARIP’s Session. You will get submission and meta-tagging guidelines, and mentoring as to how best to prepare your music for submission. DURING NARIP’S PITCH SESSION: You will get to play at least three songs (sometimes more, if time permits) for the guest music supervisor who will provide feedback to you for each one. NARIP moderator asks very specific questions to help participants learn and understand how to modify their tracks to make these more place-able for the guest supervisor’s specific needs at hand. AFTER NARIP’S PITCH SESSION: NARIP provides guest music supervisor with participant one-sheets and all music from NARIP’s Session, including notes detailing the guest music supervisor’s interest in specific tracks. If requested by guest music supervisor, NARIP conveys additional tracks, remixes, instrumentals etc. to him. If approved by guest music supervisor, NARIP provides his contact details to registrants. DON’T GET LOST IN THE CROWD: SMALL IS THE NEW BIG NARIP Sessions are deliberately kept small and intimate, which is just one reason they work so well and why participants have enjoyed over 1,000 placements to date. Limited enrollment of 16 people per session guarantees that registrants meet and get face-time with our guest. OVER 1,000 PLACEMENTS FROM NARIP MUSIC SUPERVISOR SESSIONS Our small format works! NARIP Session participants have placed over 1,000 tracks as a direct result of NARIP Music Supervisor Sessions. Other benefits include new publishing deals for NARIP members, creative collaborations and co-writes, strategic introductions to other music supervisors and placement experts, new representation for composers and much more. NARIP’S BIGGEST PLACEMENT TO DATE : VODAFONE Click here to read about NARIP’s biggest placement to date in a Vodafone campaign (Oct 2014) that paid handsomely and launched a career. Other brand placements include McDonalds and AT&T ads, among others. Placements secured and professional relationships formed through NARIPs music supervisor sessions have earned praise and many placements! See TESTIMONIALS and PLACEMENTS sections below. ABOUT DANNY BENAIR Before starting Natural Energy Lab, Danny served 8 years (1991-1999) as the Vice President of the Film & Television Department at Polygram Music Publishing. His division continuously exceeded revenue expectations while building a highly respected reputation amongst artists and bands. Danny was responsible for signing the following acts at Polygram Publishing: Tracy Bonham, Redd Kross, Honeydogs, The Tindersticks and Gigolo Aunts. Danny was responsible for The Cardigans writing Lovefool for Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet, as well as having Adam Schlesinger write the Academy Award nominated “That Thing You Do” for the Tom Hanks’ motion picture. Before his tenure at Polygram, Benair was a member of the Los Angeles based band The Three O’Clock. Danny previously played in the Weirdo’s and The Quick, to name a few. TESTIMONIALS Click here to read what people say about NARIP’s Music Supervisor Sessions. NARIP MUSIC SUPERVISOR SESSIONS IN THE NEWS, PLACEMENTS & SUCCESS STORIES See full list of NARIP placements to date here. For articles in Music Connection, Digital Music News, The Guardian (UK), MusikWeek (UK), Musik Woche (Germany), Taxi Drivers: Cinema e Cultura Metropolitano (Italy), MEOW (US) and other publications, and to read about NARIP members and session participants who have made over 1,000 placements as a direct result of NARIP Sessions, click here. Read about NARIP Music Supervisor Pitch Sessions in Digital Music News HERE THANK YOU Special thanks Edgar Hernandez, Melissa Robertson and to SAE Institute of Technology for hosting this event. WHEN – THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:30 p.m. – Registration and networking 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 8:15 p.m. – Break 10:00 p.m. – Program ends WHERE SAE Institute of Technology 6700 Santa Monica Boulevard, 2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90038 Tel: 323-466-6323 CROSS STREETS Santa Monica and Las Palmas. Enter lot from Las Palmas. NOT IN LA? PITCH REMOTELY OR VIA SKYPE If you can’t be here in person, at most locations we can accommodate pitching via Skype, or we can present material and provide the guest music supervisor’s feedback to you directly. If you have questions about this, please call or email us at 818-769-7007 or info@narip.com. PER-SESSION, PER PERSON COST $279 NARIP Members * $359 Non-Members * Available to Professional and Executive NARIP Members only (not to monthly members). Members please log in to receive discount. NARIP reserves the right to refuse admission to anyone. 2 WAYS TO REGISTER 1. Online: NARIP.com (just scroll down) 2. Phone: 818-769-7007 Pre-paid admission guarantees seating, NARIP Sessions sell out. All ticket sales final. No refunds. We appreciate your cooperation. FOLLOW US, LIKE US, LOVE US! TWEET ABOUT NARIP & OUR EVENT! @NARIP @dannybenair #NARIPSynch QUESTIONS Call us at 818 769 7007 or email info AT narip DOT com. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO Natural Energy Lab NARIP NARIP. 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2009-09-22	In NY – Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Film & TV × This event is SOLD OUT! Audio will be available soon. You are cordially invited to NARIP’s ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL: What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line? How To Market & License Music For Film & TV on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 in New York With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, four experts face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music license agreement. We will also discuss marketing music for film and TV to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal. Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be. Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process. Get educated about the art of deal-making! YOU WILL LEARN: The right time to make a deal. Major areas of negotiation, including: Terms Options Fee ranges Deliverables Clearances Things to avoid Closing the deal Sample license agreement will be distributed at event. Also: Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why Making the pitch: necessary elements Timing What music buyers such as music supervisors, ad agencies and gaming companies really look for How to increase the impact and marketability of music SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles): Steve Gordon, Esq., Entertainment Attorney Sara Matarazzo, Executive Producer & Music Supervisor, Search Party Music Leah Streetman, Sr. Director, Strategic Alliances / Film & TV, Universal Motown Republic Group Kevin M. Wilson, Director of Music, ESPN WHEN Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:30 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Brand Marketing & Creative Executives Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs Those seeking music placement opportunities WHERE Fordham University at Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th Street – MacMahon Hall Lounge, Room 109 (between Columbus & Amsterdam) New York, NY 10023-7472 NOTE: Upon entering the building, announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to MacMahon Hall Lounge. Click here for map. COST $25 for NARIP Members $40 for Non-Members $75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Steve Gordon, Esq. Steve Gordon is an entertainment attorney and consultant based in New York City specializing in the production, distribution and financing of music, television, documentaries, feature films, and digital entertainment projects. He also operates a music clearance service for producers, filmmakers, and labels for use of music in feature films, documentaries, concert programs, DVDs, audio compilations and ringtones. He is author of the book titled “The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Technologies, A Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” (Hal Leonard 2008.) Steve’s clients include artists, independent music and TV producers, digital entertainment entrepreneurs as well as major labels and multinational entertainment corporations. Steve won a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture on entertainment and copyright law and was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy in fall 2007. You can tune into MyRealBroadcast.com to listen to his Internet radio show on the music business. Steve has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the New School, an Instructor at CUNY Graduate Center and recently moderated seminars at Columbia Law School, the Wharton Business School, and was a speaker at entertainment conferences in Denmark, Belgium, Bahamas and South Korea. From 1991 to 2001 Steve served as an attorney and Director of Business Affairs at Sony Music (TV/Video). Prior to Sony, Steve worked at Dino Di Laurentiis, a movie studio in Hollywood, and a music publishing company, SESAC, in New York. Steve is a graduate of New York University School of Law and a member of the NYC Bar Association. Sara Matarazzo A passion for film, a proven track records in the world of advertising, a curiosity to explore new forms of media, and over a decade spent as a prominent DJ on the international dance music scene make Matarazzo a standout member of Search Party Music. She most recently music supervised Thomas Campbell’s anticipated new film, The Present and worked with renowned artists Steven Merritt and Britta Philips to re-record a Magnetic Fields track, giving life to the widely acclaimed Puma Spot, LIFT. Matarazzo has been praised for her deep musical knowledge and background in the indie and major label music scene, having spent her DJ years working with such influential labels as Celluloid Records / Subharmonic Records, Liquid Sky Music and Satamilie Records. For fashion designer Issey Miyake, Matarazzo created a musical brand through custom-made compilations to be played in retail stores. She also created a music retail component for the Final Home division of the brand. Prior to joining Search Party, Sara was a music producer at Ogilvy & Mather, New York where she actively worked on a long line of A-level brands including American Express, Motorola, DHL, Unilever and Fanta. While at Ogilvy, one of Sara’s notable American Express spots, a joint effort with Search Party and director Wes Anderson, took home numerous awards, including a Gold Effie, a Silver Andy, and two AICP Awards for Visual Style and Advertising Excellent, In addition to working on commercial projects, Sara served as music supervisor on films such as The Doorman, Murder Party (2007 Slam Dance feature film winner) and Superheroes, a film by director Alan Brown. Leah Streetman As Senior Director of Strategic Alliances/Film & TV, Leah Streetman is responsible for music placement in film and television of Universal Motown Republic Group’s current releases. Working with artists like Amy Winehouse, Mika, Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Colbie Caillat, Tori Amos, Florence & The Machine, Kaiser Chiefs, India.Arie, and Akon, Ms. Streetman helps gain exposure for them by securing placements in films, trailers, network promos, and shows such as 90210, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, CSI, One Tree Hill, Dancing With The Stars, The Hills, and Entourage. With over 17 years experience in the music and entertainment industry, Ms. Streetman’s background is diverse. Prior to joining UMRG, she was the Director of Licensing at BZ Rights, where she consulted on all types of advertising/film/tv/broadway projects using properties ranging from Beatles, Bon Jovi, and Squeeze to Frank Sinatra, Gene Simmons, Miles Davis, and Bob Dylan. She has been an artist manager and founded an independent music publishing company. Starting her career as a performer led her to become a director and producer of live events. As Producer of Music Programs at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side, she served as dept head and produced blues festivals, rock/jazz/orchestral concerts, as well as an annual 12-hr music marathon that featured over 300 artists and was broadcast live on the radio. Universal Motown Republic Group is a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Music Group, Deutsche Grammophon, DreamWorks Nashville Records, Interscope Geffen A&M, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the US) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the US). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, a new media and technologies division. Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company. Steve Lurie Steve Lurie is Executive Director of NARIP’s New York chapter. He is also founder and president of Music Without Borders, LLC, and draws on more than 20 years of experience in the music industry as a concert producer, professor, performer, lecturer, retailer and columnist. Since 2003 he has produced more than 3500 concerts by artists from around the world for venues throughout the United States. As an educator, Mr. Lurie developed the Music Business Certificate for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and taught “Developing Your Own Record Label” from 2000-2005. He was a faculty member at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music from 1999-2004 where he taught courses in music business and music management. He was also hired to develop a music business program at The New School in New York. Mr. Lurie has lectured on music industry issues throughout the US, Canada and Europe. In 1998, Lurie was invited to keynote at WOMEX (Worldwide Music Expo) in Stockholm, Sweden on the topic of record retail in the United States. In February of 2005 he presented several lectures on music publishing and copyright at the Folk Alliance/Strictly Mundial Convention in Montreal. In January of 2006 he presented a lecture on independent record retail and distribution at MIDEM in Cannes, France. Recently, Lurie was asked to be a Grant Reviewer for the Connecticut Department of Culture and Tourism, an honor that is only bestowed upon the most distinguished members of the arts community. As a percussionist, Mr. Lurie has performed with pop, jazz, world music and classical ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As VP and Co-Owner of Al Franklin’s Musical World in Greenwich, CT, Mr. Lurie helped build one of the finest and most highly regarded music and electronics retailers in the U.S. Kevin Wilson Kevin Wilson is ESPN Music Director, promoted over the years from his position as temp hired to type cue sheets. His responsibilities include overseeing Sound Design for many of ESPN’s shows including Sportscenter, ESPNews and Monday Night NFL, record company relations, commissioning original music cues for a wide variety of uses on the ESPN network, securing pre-recorded music, negotiating licenses, overseeing all clearances, etc. He holds a BS in Sound Recording from the University of New Haven and a Masters in Music Business from University of Miami. A native of Bristol, Connecticut he married a Bristol Girl Terry and has two great rocker sons Donovan (10) and Dylan (6). Kevin runs Metal Health, a benefit organization that raises money for the Connecticut Children’s Hospital through Hard Rock Concerts. He values friendship, relationships, and family. Favorite quotation: “Shuffling old music does not make it new.” SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.espn.com www.searchparty-music.com www.stevegordonlaw.com www.umusic.com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-09-16	In LA – Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Film & TV × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL: What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line? How To Market & License Music For Film & TV on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 in Los Angeles With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, four experts face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music license agreement. We will also discuss marketing music for film and TV to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal. Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be. Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process. Get educated about the art of deal-making! YOU WILL LEARN: The right time to make a deal. Major areas of negotiation, including: Terms Options Fee ranges Deliverables Clearances Things to avoid Closing the deal Sample license agreement will be distributed at event. Also: Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why Making the pitch: necessary elements Timing What music buyers such as music supervisors, ad agencies and gaming companies really look for How to increase the impact and marketability of music SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles): John Houlihan, Music Supervisor, Houlihan Film Music Anita Rivas, Esq., Walner & Rivas Tom Rowland, Senior VP Film & TV Music, Universal Music Enterprises WHEN Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:30 p.m. – Registration opens 8:00 p.m. – Program begins 10:15 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Those seeking music placement opportunities WHERE Los Angeles Film School 6363 Sunset Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028 Major cross streets: Sunset & Cahuenga Parking Free street parking available after 6pm (read signs!) and paid parking available in the LA Film School parking lot (first lot on Ivar south of Sunset). COST $20 for NARIP Members $40 for Non-Members $75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS JOHN HOULIHAN Music Supervisor Houlihan Film Music John Houlihan’s select music supervisor credits in film include Fame, The Love Guru, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, Charlotte’s Web, Nacho Libre, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Training Day, Charlie’s Angels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Mr. Holland’s Opus ANITA RIVAS, ESQ. Walner & Rivas Anita Rivas is a partner in the entertainment law firm Walner & Rivas. She has represented a variety of clients including independent labels such as Kung Fu Records (Blink 182), Hopeless Records (Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice), Fearless Records (Plain White Ts), Smartpunk and recording artists such as The Vandals, Anti Flag, Pennywise, The Aggrolites and Finch, and individuals such as Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Kim Deal (The Pixies, The Breeders), Josh Freese (Sting, Nine Inch Nails), Dustin Hawthorne (Hot Hot Heat), Warren Fitzgerald (Gwen Stefani), Taku Hiranu (Bette Midler, Fleetwood Mac), Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion, Tenacious D.), Joe Escalante (Indie 103 radio personality), Moss Jacobs (Bob Marley Days, Santa Barbara Bowl), Kevin Lyman (Van’s Warped Tour & Taste of Chaos owner/concert promoter), Elijah Wood and Chad Gilbert (Newfound Glory). Ms. Rivas has consulted major corporations including Sears, Levis, NBC Universal and Sole Technology on digital rights, asset management and music licensing. Ms. Rivas is currently involved in negotiating and securing various cutting-edge deals including major label multiple income stream (“360”), singles, Myspace marketing and corporate-sponsored record deals, along with licensing on all sides for films, video games, home video and television. She is production counsel (including all music clearance) and associate producer of the Van’s Warped Tour 2007 LIVE! DVD, and music supervisor and music legal counsel for “Endless Bummer,” a Kevin Lyman production, just released through National Lampoon. The soundtrack features Katy Perry, Blink 182 and Joan Jett. Other clients include the sold-out J Rock Festival produced by Yoshiki (9 bands from Japan), the US Taste of Chaos Tour (3 bands from Japan) and M.I.A. (UK), and various entertainment executives. Ms. Rivas has been featured expert and quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on label bidding wars, in USA Today, the Bay Guardian, The SF Weekly and in other news media. Recently she was quoted in the LA Times on her involvement with developing artists in the Los Angeles independent music scene. Ms. Rivas has produced artist showcases for NARAS, ASCAP and BMI. A frequent guest at music conferences nationwide, she has appeared as moderator or guest speaker at SXSW, CMJ, NXNW, NARIP, EAT’M, IPELS (LACBA), ASCAP, NARAS and the DIY Convention which she co-founded in 2000 with USA Today journalist and author Bruce Haring. Ms. Rivas has written numerous articles about performance rights in sound recordings, the Audio Home Recording Act and US copyright law, and testified on behalf of rights holders during the NII hearings held by the Clinton Administration in the early ‘90s. She is a UCLA Law School graduate and clerked at the US Copyright Office, Rhino Records, Capitol Records and The City Attorney’s Office of San Francisco. A former concert promoter (Bill Graham Presents, The I Beam, The Edge and The Kennel Club), Ms. Rivas has produced many special events for political and charitable causes. TOM ROWLAND Senior VP Film & Television Music Universal Music Enterprises Tom began his music career as a recording artist and songwriter before starting an indie label in his hometown of Washington, D.C., where he also wrote a music column for the Washington City Paper. His day job was in political public relations and among his clients were Senator Bob Dole, Vice President George Bush, Philip Morris USA and the Distilled Spirits Council. After relocating to Los Angles, he was hired by the Warner Music Group as a Film & TV Music executive. Tom was then recruited to join MCA Records after its acquisition of Geffen Records and managed to survive the four or five mergers that ultimately led to the formation of the Universal Music Group. He has served as head of the Film & TV division of UMG since 1991. Tom serves as Rob Zombie’s music supervisor (Halloween, Halloween II, The Devil’s Rejects) and has produced many soundtrack albums. He recently produced, mixed and engineered the first posthumous Michal Jackson release, The Stripped Mixes, which charted in the top ten digitally, and has been in Billboard’s top 100 for several weeks. Tom is a graduate of William & Mary, where he studied philosophy and shared a bathroom with John Stewart. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-08-22	NARIP Brunch in Phoenix × NARIP Brunch Eat, Meet & Greet! Saturday, August 22 in Phoenix at Premiere Entertainment You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch in Phoenix on Saturday, August 22 at World Headquarters of Premiere Entertainment (private residence), hosted by Cindy Goldney and Terri Sussman. We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Phoenix-area record and music industry professionals. All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend. Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, August 20 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits! So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating! Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below. Is your network not working? Ours is. They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are! WHEN: Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat! 11:30 a.m. – Introductions 1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues WHERE: Premiere Entertainment World Headquarters (private residence) Hosted by Cindy Goldney & Terri Sussman 2638 E. Emile Zola Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85032-5919 Tel: 602-505-1392 PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Click here for map. COST: $10 for NARIP members $20 for Non-members Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate. We appreciate your cooperation. We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com ABOUT OUR EXCELLENT BRUNCH HOSTS, PREMIERE ENTERTAINMENT: Details posted shortly. NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-08-18	Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Film & TV in PHX × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL: What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line? How To Market & License Music For Film & TV on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 in Phoenix With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, music attorney James Marovich and music publisher / placement expert Les Scott face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music license agreement. As a special bonus, Les Scott will also discuss marketing music for film and TV to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal. Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be. Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process. Get educated about the art of deal-making! YOU WILL LEARN: The right time to make a deal. Major areas of negotiation, including: Terms Options Fee ranges Deliverables Clearances Things to avoid Closing the deal Also: Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why Making the pitch: necessary elements Timing What music buyers such as music supervisors, ad agencies and gaming companies really look for How to increase the impact and marketability of music ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING FORM AGREEMENTS: Collaboration agreement Masters administrative agreement Performance release SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles): James Marovich, Esq. Les Scott, Source Q Boutique WHEN Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:30 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 9:30 p.m. – Program ends WHO SHOULD ATTEND Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys Brand Marketing & Creative Executives Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs WHERE Pyramix Studios 5751 W. Poinsettia Glendale, AZ 85304 Major cross streets: 59th Avenue & Cactus COST $10 for NARIP Members $30 for Non-Members Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75 more. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended. No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation. QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP ABOUT THE SPEAKERS JAMES M. MAROVICH James M. Marovich is a litigation and transactional attorney who, before solo practice and forming his own firm, worked for two multi-state law firms in Phoenix and Scottsdale. Mr. Marovich’s entertainment law practice consists of copyright, trademarks and trade names, and rights to privacy. He provides business, intellectual property, and contract law services for singers, songwriters, musicians, bands, independent film companies, publicists, actors, talent and modeling agencies, authors, artists, photographers, physicians, medical spas, theatre companies, talent management, and record sales and distribution services companies. Prior to legal practice, Mr. Marovich had over twenty years of senior hospital administrative experience. He has served on numerous not-for-profit boards, is a frequent speaker for the Arizona Songwriters Association and community college performing arts classes, and is currently serving as general counsel for the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Arizona. Coming from a family of entertainers (he too has acted on stage and camera), it’s not a stretch to say that the entertainment business is “in his blood,” which gives him familiarity with the unique needs and desires of people involved in the entertainment business. Among his clients are the actor whose short film was selected by the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the photographer whose work was featured at the Phoenix Herberger Theatre, the band who sold music to MTV’s programming division, the songwriter whose songs were used in several feature films and television, and the wordsmith whose feature article graces the cover of the 2007 collector’s issue of Desert Living Magazine. LES SCOTT As a publisher, Les’ company, Source Q Boutique represents over 400 quality songs / masters and over 250 writers. SQB songs have appeared in TV shows, films & other industry uses with over 250 placements. Most recently: Ugly Betty, Californication, Saving Grace, Prison Break, Friday Night Lights, House, Mr. Woodcock. As a producer, Les is commissioned to write / produce projects for companies such as Universal Music Group, BMG, Network Music & One Music. He has produced over 125 bands and artists in all genres of music. As a songwriter, Les’ writings appear on various artists albums (Grammy-winning group “B2K”). His writings appear almost daily throughout the film/TV industry. SQB is directly marketed through its alliances Crucial Music Group, Gimbel Music Group, Fuzeartz and Expressive Artists. Les is available for private consultation. Contact: 480-585-2554 office, 602-705-3554 cel or lesscott AT fastq DOT com. SOURCES FOR MORE INFO www.marovichlaw.com www.fastq.com NARIP. Career acceleration. Get connected. Stay connected. ____________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
2009-07-25	The Art of Artist Management in NY × You are cordially invited to NARIP’s The Art of Artist Management: Steering Careers To Success on Thursday, July 25, 2009 in New York ################### NARIP has assembled three seasoned personal artist managers to discuss proven strategies to advance artist careers and what the future holds in one of the fastest-paced and most exciting industries in the world. Topics discussed at this roundtable include the artist manager’s relationship with record companies including A&R, branch distribution and field support, radio and retail, and building from developing stages into a recognized national and international trademark / brand. Register now for this special session with top artist managers who will share their tips and strategies to manage artists to long-term success. You will learn: Proven strategies to advance artist careers The plateau strategy for success (and other strategies) Domestic and international marketing Finance and deal-making Touring and personal appearances Merchandising and ancillary markets Image cultivation and positioning How to build a brand and get endorsements A manager’s complete toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t And more… WHO SHOULD ATTEND Artist Managers and Artist Reps Record & Music Publishing Executives Music Attorneys, Concert Industry Professionals Producers and Artists SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS Bruce Garfield, Monster Music Management (clients: …) Lou Plaia, Co-Founder/VP Music Industry Relations, ReverbNation More speakers TBA. WHEN Thursday, July 25, 2009 6:30 p.m. – Registration opens 7:00 p.m. – Program begins 9:15 p.m. – Program ends WHERE Fordham University at Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th Street – South Lounge (between Columbus & Amsterdam) New York, NY 10023-7472 NOTE: Upon entering the building, announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to the South Lounge. Click here for map. Click here for map. COST $25 for NARIP Members ($35 AFTER Monday, May 11 at 5:00 p.m.) $40 for Non-Members ($50 AFTER Monday, May 11 at 5:00 p.m.) SPECIAL BONUS Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy the program “Secrets of Online Music Marketing.” Because you are purchasing the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order. PAYMENT METHODS 1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member) 2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card 3. Mail payment to NARIP to P.O. Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Be sure to indicate which program you are paying for, and please include contact details. Mailed payment must be received no later than Friday, June 26. 4. Walk-up QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION Music Dish Reverb Nation ABOUT THE SPEAKERS ERIC de FONTENAY Insert bio here. LOU PLAIA Insert bio here. _____________________________________________________________ The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2010-02-07

× NARIP Big Apple Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Sunday, February 7
Hosted by Flux Studios
in New York, NY

Please permit NARIP to assist with your professional music business networking needs! You’re invited to attend NARIP’s first official Big Apple Brunch on Sunday, February 7, 2010 hosted by Flux Studios in New York.

Join us, come meet and greet New York-area record and music industry professionals, and bring plenty of business cards.

All are welcome at our brunch,
you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

NARIP brunches are a hit in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Las Vegas, and we’re delighted to bring them to New York at last! Among other activities, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in our industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you.

Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, established new business associates and friends at NARIP brunches. So come meet existing friends and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Please RSVP and register online by Friday, February 5 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote you if they don’t know who you are!

Special thanks to Flux Studios’ Chris Sipes and to Geodesic Management’s Dan Strader and Keith Ghion for their help organizing this event.

WHEN:

Sunday, February 7, 2010
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Anyone seeking to expand his network, mingle with music biz pros, make deals, encounter opportunity, and make new friends.

WHERE:

Flux Studios NYC
154 E. 2nd Street, Suite 4a
New York, NY 10009-8422
Tel: 917-512-3489

COST:

$10 for NARIP members
$20 for Non-members

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Click here for map.
Cross streets: East 2nd Street and Avenue A
Subway: F train to Lower 2nd Avenue stop

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email amy AT narip DOT com

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals
promotes career advancement, education and good will
among record executives.

2010-01-30

In LA – New Year’s Brunch

× NARIP Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, January 30
Hosted by RockSTAR Music Education

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch on Saturday, January 30 hosted by RockSTAR Music Education in Los Angeles (Culver City).

We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch,
you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, January 28 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up, it will just cost you a bit more!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:

Saturday, January 30, 2010
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Anyone seeking to expand his network, mingle with music biz pros, make deals, encounter opportunity, and make new friends.

WHERE:

At RockSTAR Music Education
10117 Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

COST:

$10 for NARIP members
$20 for Non-members

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Click here for map.
Major cross streets: Jefferson Boulevard & Pearson Street
Approx. 1 mile east of Overland and Jefferson
Park in lot adjacent to RockSTAR building (see signs posted).

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

2010-01-27

In AZ – How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan

× You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

How To Create A Grand Slam
Music Marketing Plan

on Wednesday, January 27, 2010

at Mesa Community College in Mesa, AZ
Co-sponsored by
the Mesa Community College Music Business Program

Get a music marketing plan started in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great marketing plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary.

But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost.

Three music marketing experts give you the facts you need to take your artist to the top in this special NARIP session.

BONUS #1
Pre-register for NARIP’s event and submit your artist’s marketing plan. Our experts will select one plan and provide an in-depth review of it at our program.

BONUS #2
One NARIP member will be selected from our session to win one (1) free hour consultation with one of our guest speakers.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Jon Bergen, Founder, Bender Music Group
Jason Coochwytewa, President, Red Note, Inc. ***JUST ADDED***
Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group (from Los Angeles)
Tess Taylor, President, National Association of Record Industry Professionals (from Los Angeles)

YOU WILL LEARN

Most important parts of music marketing strategy
An easy way to begin your marketing campaign
Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t
Branding made simple… and effective
How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube
5 ways to boost your presence on the Internet
How to get press features
Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you
How to build a brand and get more fans

WHEN

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
6:00 p.m. – Registration and networking
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
8:15 p.m. – Break
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Anyone seeking to create or enhance a music marketing plan or campaign.

WHERE

Mesa Community College
1833 W. Southern Ave.
Navajo Room
Mesa, AZ 85202-4822

Click here for directions.

REGISTER NOW

$10: NARIP Members
$25: Non-members

SPECIAL BONUS

Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy this NARIP program. Because you are registering for the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

3 WAYS TO REGISTER

1. Online: www.narip.com (just scroll down)
2. Phone: 818-769-7007
3. Walk-up (if space permits)

Advance RSVP encouraged.
Pre-paid admission guarantees seating.
No refunds.
We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call us at 818-769-7007 or email info@narip.com.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Jon Bergen, Founder, Bender Music Group

Jon Bergen has worked in an executive capacity at major labels in sales and marketing, helping both major and independent artists shape their labels and careers. His experience includes retail music sales, strategic advertising, point-of-purchase, marketing campaigns, Internet promotions and national product placement campaigns, as well as helping connect bands with appropriate labels and vice versa. Jon has helped labels structure a staff and build them from the ground up. While at Mercury Records Jon worked with such artists as Hanson and Kiss to name a few before heading to Restless Records where he helped develop and market artists such as Warren G. and Spain. He then served as West Coast Director of Sales and Marketing Manager for BMG (later UNI) distributed Beyond Records where he promoted artists such as Blondie, The Go-Go’s, Veruca Salt, Lucy Pearl and Motley Crue. Jon was also the National Sales Director for the Sony-distributed Gold Circle Records, promoting product for such artists as Meredith Brooks, Roland Orzabal, Pat Benatar, Jeff Lorber and John Waite. Jon currently owns Bender Music Group, a premier online marketing company that works with labels such as Rhino, Warner Nashville and KOCH among others. Bender Music Group can supplement a record label marketing staff or become their staff. Bender also manages bands and consults labels and artists on all music business related matters.

JASON COOCHWYTEWA

Jason Coochwytewa is President of Red Note, Inc. With a diverse background in the advertising and marketing industry of 14+ years, Jason Coochwytewa began his work in entertainment in 2000 as an executive at a large-scale Native American casino in New Mexico. It was here that Jason was introduced to the “business-side” of the music industry: booking, marketing, and creating casino promotions around major national headlining acts. However, his appreciation for music in the art form was discovered as a young boy. Deeply rooted in his Native American culture, his father sang and taught him traditional Hopi songs, emphasizing the importance of listening to the words, rhythm and beat. Time spent with his father laid the foundation to what would eventually become Jason’s passion in life: music. In 2005, Jason launched Red Note, Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona, and now works full-time planning and managing intimate to large-scale event productions and promotions including festivals and headlining music concerts. Jason has been involved with over 100 shows, working with legendary to “fresh on the scene” musicians and bands. In 2008, Red Note, Inc. produced two major events during Super Bowl XLII; the Arizona Indian Festival with estimated audience of 20,000 and the Native American component of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLII VIP Tailgate Party for 10,000 individuals. Jason serves as a juror on the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and is an advisory board member for the launch of the World Indigenous Music Awards set to take place in 2010 in Canada. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, and is an alumnus of Valley Leadership – Class 26. He currently serves as the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) Phoenix Chapter Director, is a Board of Trustee with the Arizona Science Center and a board member with both the Girl Scouts of America Arizona Pine Council and the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Arizona. Jason once again serves as co-chair of the Arizona Diamondbacks Native American Day on July 12, 2009 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.

Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group

Jason Feinberg is the president and founder of On Target Media Group, a music industry digital marketing agency. He is responsible for business development, formulation and management of online marketing campaigns, and Topspin campaign administration. The company has served clients including Warner Bros. Records, Universal Music Enterprises, EMI, Concord Music Group, Roadrunner Records and others. OTMG has marketed artists such as The Pixies, Har Mar Superstar, Flipper, George Thorogood, Steve Vai, Neil Young, John Coltrane, Ringo Starr and many more. You can follow Jason on Twitter @otmg.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO:

www.bendermusicgroup.com
www.otmg.net

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career
advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2010-01-21

In NY: How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan

× You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

How To Create A Grand Slam
Music Marketing Plan

Co-sponsored by Music & Media Entertainment Alliance

on Thursday, January 21, 2010

at Fordham University (Lincoln Center) in New York, NY

Get a music marketing plan started in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great marketing plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary.

But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost.

Three music marketing experts give you the facts you need to take your artist to the top in this special NARIP session.

BONUS #1
Pre-register for NARIP’s event and submit your artist’s marketing plan. Our experts will select one plan and provide an in-depth review of it at our program.

BONUS #2
One NARIP member will be selected from our session to win one (1) free hour consultation with one of our guest speakers.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Rick Goetz, Founder, MusicianCoaching.com
Ariel Hyatt, Founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR
Jason Spiewak, President, Rock Ridge Music —-> JUST ADDED
Steve Gordon, Esq., Entertainment Attorney (moderator) —-> JUST ADDED

YOU WILL LEARN

Most important parts of music marketing strategy
An easy way to begin your marketing campaign
Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t
Branding made simple… and effective
How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube
5 ways to boost your presence on the Internet
How to get press features
Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you
How to build a brand and get more fans

WHEN

Thursday, January 21, 2010
6:00 p.m. – Registration and networking
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
8:15 p.m. – Break
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Anyone seeking to create or enhance a music marketing plan or campaign.

WHERE

Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 W. 60th Street – South Lounge
(between Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues)
New York, NY 10023-7472

NOTE

Upon entering the building, please announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to the South Lounge. Click here for directions.

REGISTER NOW

$20: NARIP Members
$40: Non-members

Rick Goetz, Founder, MusicianCoaching.com

Rick Goetz is a Musician Coach and Music Consultant by way of a fifteen year career as a Major label A&R executive at Atlantic and Elektra Records a musician and a music supervisor. Throughout his career he has played bass for members of the Cult and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings and worked with artists like Kid Rock, Matchbox 20, Sugar Ray and Damage Plan. His current client list ranges from Grammy award wining producers to people just looking to get their foot in the door.

Steve Gordon, Esq.

Steve Gordon is an entertainment attorney and consultant based in New York City specializing in the production, distribution and financing of music, television, documentaries, feature films, and digital entertainment projects. He also operates a music clearance service for producers, filmmakers, and labels for use of music in feature films, documentaries, concert programs, DVDs, audio compilations and ringtones. He is author of the book titled “The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Technologies, A Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” (Hal Leonard 2008.) Steve’s clients include artists, independent music and TV producers, digital entertainment entrepreneurs as well as major labels and multinational entertainment corporations. Steve won a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture on entertainment and copyright law and was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy in fall 2007. You can tune into MyRealBroadcast.com to listen to his Internet radio show on the music business. Steve has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the New School, an Instructor at CUNY Graduate Center and recently moderated seminars at Columbia Law School, the Wharton Business School, and was a speaker at entertainment conferences in Denmark, Belgium, Bahamas and South Korea. From 1991 to 2001 Steve served as an attorney and Director of Business Affairs at Sony Music (TV/Video). Prior to Sony, Steve worked at Dino Di Laurentiis, a movie studio in Hollywood, and a music publishing company, SESAC, in New York. Steve is a graduate of New York University School of Law and a member of the NYC Bar Association.

Ariel Hyatt, Founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR

Ariel Hyatt is the Founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR a New York based digital firm that connects artists to blogs, podcasts, Internet radio stations and social media sites. Over the past 12 years her firm has represented over 1,400 musicians of all genres. Teaching and educating musicians is her passion and her philosophy is: combine social networking with Internet marketing to help artists grow their fanbases and increase their income. Several times a year, she leads sold-out workshops to musicians and music industry professionals looking to learn about Web 2.0 and online promotion and marketing. Her bi-weekly ezine and YouTube series “Sound Advice” has over 8,000 musicians and music professionals as subscribers and the list is steadily growing.Ariel has written dozens of articles on how to navigate the “new” music business and her book: Music Success in Nine Weeks is available at Amazon. She is a contributing blogger to New Music Ideas, and Music Think Tank, and she has spoken at countless music conferences over the years including SXSW, FMC, ECMAs & OCFF (Canada), A2A (Amsterdam), CMJ, BMI Music Panel Series, and NARAS.

Jason Spiewak, President, Rock Ridge Music

Jason Spiewak is the President of Rock Ridge Music, and runs the day-to-day operations of the company’s Newark, NJ headquarters. Rock Ridge Music offers artists a record label with national/international distribution through ADA (WMG), artist management, and a wide range of consulting services. Recent Rock Ridge Marketing clients include Decca, Jive, Rykodisc and Reform Records. Spiewak, 33, is an online marketing specialist with previous work experience at TVT Records, Artemis Records and Takeout Marketing. Spiewak is also a songwriter, musician and producer whose recent production credits include Benjy Davis Project, Pat McGee and Andrew Hoover.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.arielpublicity.com
www.musiciancoaching.com
www.rockridgemusic.com
www.stevegordonlaw.com

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career
advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2010-01-16

In Houston – New Year’s Brunch

× NARIP New Year’s Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, January 16, 2010
in Houston

at Main Street Crossing

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s New Year’s brunch in Houston on Saturday, January 16 at Main Street Crossing.

Join us, come meet and greet Houston-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch,
you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, January 14 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. Advance registration is encouraged, but you are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you
if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN

Saturday, January 16, 2010
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE

Main Street Crossing
111 W. Main
Tomball, Texas 77375
Tel: 281-290-0431

DIRECTIONS

Click here for directions.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email amy AT narip DOT com

COST

$5 for NARIP members
$15 for non-members

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.mainstreetcrossing.com.

THANK YOU

Special thanks to Matt Davis and Lisa Schneider at Main Street Crossing.

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career
advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2010-01-13

In SF – How To Create A Grand Slam Music Marketing Plan

× You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

How To Create A Grand Slam
Music Marketing Plan

on Wednesday, January 13, 2010

at SAE Institute in San Francisco

Get a music marketing plan started in one session. Boost the effectiveness of the plan you already have. A great marketing plan doesn’t have to be complicated. A good one can be just one page long. Spreadsheets, graphs and numbers are not necessary.

But you NEED a plan. Lack of a good plan destroys more careers than lack of talent. Good marketing is simply getting your work to the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost.

Three music marketing experts give you the facts you need to take your artist to the top in this special NARIP session.

BONUS #1
Pre-register for NARIP’s event and submit your artist’s marketing plan. Our experts will select one plan and provide an in-depth review of it at our program.

BONUS #2
One NARIP member will be selected from our session to win one (1) free hour consultation with one of our guest speakers.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Jason Feinberg, President & Founder, On Target Media Group (from Los Angeles)
Steffen Franz, Founder, Independent Distribution Collective
Bryn Boughton, Chief Marketing Officer, IRIS Distribution & BlinkerActive
Tamra Engle, Senior Director, NARIP San Francisco (moderator)

YOU WILL LEARN

Most important parts of music marketing strategy
An easy way to begin your marketing campaign
Your complete digital toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t
Branding made simple… and effective
How to use social networks, blog, MySpace & YouTube
5 ways to boost your presence on the Internet
How to get press features
Sites seeking content – excellent marketing opportunities for you
How to build a brand and get more fans

WHEN

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
6:00 p.m. – Registration and networking
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
8:15 p.m. – Break
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Anyone seeking to create or enhance a music marketing plan or campaign.

WHERE

SAE Institute of Technology
450 Bryant St.
San Francisco, CA 94107-1303

Click here for directions.

REGISTER NOW

$15: NARIP Members
$25: Non-members

SPECIAL BONUS

Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy this NARIP program. Because you are registering for the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

3 WAYS TO REGISTER

1. Online: www.narip.com (just scroll down)
2. Phone: 818-769-7007 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 818-769-7007 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
3. Walk-up (if space permits)

Advance RSVP encouraged.
Pre-paid admission guarantees seating.
No refunds.
We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call us at 818-769-7007 or email info@narip.com.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Bryn Boughton, Chief Marketing Officer, IRIS Distribution & BlinkerActive

Bryn has spent over ten years in the music industry and has experience in implementing comprehensive music marketing campaigns for both independent and major labels. Most recently, Bryn launched IRIS’s dedicated marketing agency arm, BlinkerActive, which specializes in bleeding-edge branded entertainment and music promotion. Prior to starting IRIS Distribution, Bryn worked for The Late Show with David Letterman, Valley Media, Inc., and APG, an independent label group. Bryn frequently participates as a panelist and speaker and recently won NARIP’s 2009 Best of the Biz Award as Top New Media Executive.

Steffen Franz aka Stand Out Selector

Stand Out Selector, aka Steffen Franz, combines the best of art and business with his eclectic background.

With major changes in the modern music industry, independent artists and labels seek new ways to get their music out. Steffen noticed these issues as he himself has faced distribution challenges, too. He launched Independent Distribution Collective in 2004 and since then has grown the company from 9 labels to over 250 labels with close to 300 releases in less than 5 years. In addition to launching a physical distribution company, which now includes both digital, film and DVD distribution, SOS has also developed services like “InstantDistro” a turnkey marketing and promotion service, and “A La Carte Management” which helps advance the independent music community and educate developing artists.

A dancehall innovator, a DJ / producer / remixer and the owner of PSM Recordings, he has been bringing his conscious reggae vibes to throngs of people from New York to the Hawaiian Islands (and San Francisco in between) for almost 2 decades. A New York City native, SOS moved to Maui in 1991 where he broke the freshest dancehall tracks to scores of locals as well as tourists from around the globe at Studio 505, a Stephen Stills’ nightclub. At that time he also managed and produced Marty Dread & Culture Shock, the most popular reggae band in the islands.

1993 brought him to San Francisco to play venues like Miss Pearl’s Jam House, Kennel Club and others. Together with former partner Stefan G. (video/multimedia specialist), a brand new concept in global sound systems was formed: Positive Sound Massive. PSM features an array of international vocalists, rappers, toasters and musicians, including rapper Wookie J., whom SOS imported from Maui.

In the late 1990s, SOS DJ-ed at hundreds of shows throughout California, Nevada, Washington, New York, Australia and New Zealand where he opened for the Beastie Boys “Hello Nasty” World Tour. He has produced dozens of multi-artist stage shows and the Nicodemus “Dancehall Giant Tour,” as well as the Rocker-T “If Yu Luv Luv, Show Ya Luv” national US tour featuring Shinehead and Sleepy Wonder. He has remixed tracks for artists such as: Barrington Levy “Work” (MCA), Capleton “Wings of the Morning” (DefJam/RAL), Beenie Man “Tear off Mi Garment” (Island JA); and produced tracks for artists Nicodemus, Shinehead, Ras Michael, Barrington Levy, Rocker-T, Jamalski, Wookie J., Karney, DJ Collage, Poetz4Peace, and SF local hip hop group New Dealers.

SOS worked as Reggae Buyer for Rough Trade Records in San Francisco, and as Reggae Editor for American Music Press, a Bay-Area music monthly. From 1994 through 1998, Steffen was the Production Manager for the Paradise Lounge and Transmission Theater in San Francisco and still found time to write and review for independent publications. He has tour managed Mix Master Mike, traveling the globe on both of Mike’s solo tours and with the Beastie Boys. SOS also fronts an alternative rock group Crocodile Tears, plays bass in a Stoner Rock band called Not For Not, and is a member of “biL” – a dancehall, surf, hip hop, who-knows-what else conglomeration of excellence.

SOS is the founder of Positive Sound Management. PSManagement represents Rocker-T, Poetz4Peace, Haji Mike, Ian Collins and Karney, exclusively, and consults a number of other established and developing artists.

Recent studio works include production for over a dozen artists and bands. Production and Engineering credits include Nuffsed, Rastrillos, Haji Mike, Jahson Ites and new releases from Essential I and a compilation which includes music from Jahson Ites, Lutan Fyah, Essential I, Chezidek, Ms Triniti, Adrian Xavier, Halfpint with Ishi Dube, Ras Attitude, Promoe, Huckleberry, Prezident Brown, Norrisman with Jah Sun, Wisdom, Oren B Scripture, Haji Mike and Rocker T for Sick Donkey Records.

Steffen teaches Music Business 101, 110, 301 and 310 @ Pyramind in San Francisco.

Tamra Engle, Senior Director of Marketing and Programs, NARIP San Francisco Chapter

Tamra Engle is a social entrepreneur and founder of GuitarTam Music that offers business and promotional consultation for artists and bands to help them succeed in the evolving music and entertainment industries. She helps clients to develop strategic marketing and promotion plans, and offers performance coaching. Blending 25 years of business development expertise in organizations of all sizes and sectors from start-ups to Fortune 15 organizations, Tamra is developing community programs to provide music education programs for school-aged children and a national program to end violence against women. She is also a performing singer-songwriter whose recent album was on the final nominating ballot for the 2008 Grammys in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Tamra began her entertainment career as a studio musician In Los Angeles, has toured the country tirelessly and enjoyed placement of her songs on television and nationally aired commercials. Contact her at tamra AT narip DOT com.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO:

www.blinkeractive.com
www.independentdistro.com
www.irisdistribution.com
www.otmg.net
www.tamraengle.com

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2009-12-10

In San Fran – Holiday Mixer @ El Rio

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With Your Seasonal Merrymaking Needs!

You’re invited to attend NARIP’s Holiday Mixer

And introducing new NARIP San Francisco Directors
Tamra Engle and Nate Beats

on Thursday, December 10, 2009

at El Rio in San Francisco

Join NARIP’s San Francisco Chapter to bring in the holiday season!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you!

Join us, come meet and greet San Francisco-area record and music industry professionals, and bring plenty of business cards.

All are welcome at our mixer,
you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Also, come meet Tamra Engle and Nate Beats, NARIP San Francisco’s new Directors. See Ms. Engle’s and Mr. Beats’ professional profiles below.

Countless people have connected to opportunities and jobs, and established new business associates and friends. We look forward to seeing you at our cocktail mixer!

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote you if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN
Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.

WHERE
El Rio
3158 Mission Street @ Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: 415-282-3325

ADMISSION
Complimentary admission – happy Christmas & Hannukah from NARIP.
RSVP required (below). No host bar.

Tamra Engle
Senior Director of Marketing and Programs, San Francisco Chapter
National Association of Record Industry Professionals

Tamra Engle is a social entrepreneur and founder of GuitarTam Music that offers business and promotional consultation for artists and bands to help them succeed in the evolving music and entertainment industries. She helps clients to develop strategic marketing and promotion plans, and offers performance coaching. Blending 25 years of business development expertise in organizations of all sizes and sectors from start-ups to Fortune 15 organizations, Tamra is developing community programs to provide music education programs for school-aged children and a national program to end violence against women. She is also a performing singer-songwriter whose recent album was on the final nominating ballot for the 2008 Grammys in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Tamra began her entertainment career as a studio musician In Los Angeles, has toured the country tirelessly and enjoyed placement of her songs on television and nationally aired commercials. Read more about Tamra at http://www.tamraengle.com or contact her at tamra AT narip DOT com.

Nate Beats (N8Beats)
Director of Membership & Outreach, San Francisco Chapter
National Association of Record Industry Professionals

N8Beats is a music producer, certified recording engineer and founder of Make Your Hit Production and N8Beats Production. N8Beats Productions’ objective is to become the number one most sought-after urban music production company in the music industry by December 24, 2013. He produces for Tech N9ne’s record label, Strange Music, and has worked with, or studied under, American Idol judge Simon Cowell, NWA’s Arabian Prince, Rza / North Hollywood Wu-Tang West Studios, engineer Steve Miller, multi-platinum dance DJ Paul Oakenfold, Abduel Hall (PH Balanced Music / Patty Howard), the American Mechanical Rights Agency, author / guru Dan Kimpel, Mac Dre, Cool Nutz, and The Source’s “Unsigned Hype” artists H2-O, Mikey Vegaz & Illaj. He has created music for Nintendo, Adidas, Sun Micro Systems and has completed production of over a dozen commercial independent hip hop albums. Nate has also consulted Web companies HOTorNOT.com and the entrepreneur’s network PerfectBusiness.com. For more information on Nate Beats, visit http://www.natebeats.com or email Nate at nate AT narip DOT com.

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2009-12-05

In LA – NARIP Holiday Brunch

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Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, December 5
at the Angel Diva Music Studios, home of Jan Linder Koda

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch on Saturday, December 5 at the home of producer Jan Linder Koda in Los Angeles (Woodland Hills).

We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch,
you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, December 3 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up, it will just cost you a bit more!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 1-minute introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN

Saturday, December 5, 2009
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE

24201 Philiprimm Street
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Tel: 818-888-5885

PLEASE NOTE

This is a Japanese home, you will be asked to remove your shoes.
Also, our hostess appreciates no smoking (indoors and out).

PARKING & DIRECTIONS

Click here for map.
Exit Valley Circle off the 101.
Free street parking (please read signs!).

COST

$20 for NARIP members
$25 for Non-members
Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
All ticket sales are final. We appreciate your cooperation.

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes snacks (bagels and fixin’s), beverage and event admission.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.angeldivamusic.com.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

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2009-12-05

In Houston – NARIP Holiday Brunch

× NARIP Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, December 5
in Houston

Lucky Run Studio

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s brunch in Houston on Saturday, December 5 at Lucky Run Studio. To introduce Houston-area professionals to the greatness that is NARIP brunches, we are delighted to make admission free for NARIP members ($10 for non-members).

Join us, come meet and greet Houston-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch,
you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, December 3 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. Advance registration is encouraged, but you are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you
if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN

Saturday, December 5, 2009
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE

Lucky Run Studio
777 Settegast Ranch Road
Richmond, TX 77406
Tel: 281-232-8382

DIRECTIONS

Click here for detailed directions.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

COST

FREE for NARIP members
$10 for non-members (no RSVP)

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.luckyrunstudio.com.

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2009-11-19

In LA – Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Video Games

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ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:
What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

How To Market & License Music For Video Games

on Thursday, November 19, 2009

in Los Angeles

With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media such as video games has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, we bring in top experts to face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music-in-video-game license agreement.

Join us for this special session with music and interactive software entertainment attorney Jim Charne and Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, and President of Artwerk Music Group for Electronic Arts Steve Schnur (other speakers TBA). We will also discuss marketing music for video games to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal.

These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal-making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

The right time to make a deal.

Major areas of negotiation, including:

Terms
Options
Fee ranges
Deliverables
Clearances
Things to avoid
Closing the deal

Also:

Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why
Making the pitch: necessary elements
Timing
What music buyers such as gaming companies really look for
How to increase the impact and marketability of music

GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles):

Jim Charne, Esq., music and interactive software entertainment attorney
Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, and President of Artwerk Music Group for Electronic Arts
More speakers TBA.

WHEN

Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00 p.m. – Registration opens
8:00 p.m. – Program begins
10:15 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Those seeking music placement opportunities

WHERE

Los Angeles Film School
6363 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Major cross streets: Sunset & Cahuenga

PARKING

Free street parking available after 6pm (read signs!) and paid parking available in the LA Film School parking lot (first lot on Ivar south of Sunset).

COST

$20 for NARIP Members
$40 for Non-Members
$75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit

Attention attorneys: receive 2.5 MCLE credits for attending this program for only $75. NARIP approved as a Multiple Activity Provider by the State Bar of California. Select Premium Ticket option below.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jim Charne, Esq.

Jim Charne is a California, New York, and New Jersey lawyer who has provided legal representation for clients in all phases of interactive software entertainment since the mid-1980s. After a career in the recorded music industry, he moved to the videogames industry in 1983 as a producer for Activision, and served as VP Legal & Business and CFO of console developer Absolute Entertainment. Jim was President of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) from 1999 to early 2001 and is a voting member of AIAS, IGDA, G.A.N.G. (Game Audio Network Guild), and the Recording Academy (NARAS). Jim has been chair of the Legal and Business tutorial at GDC since 1998, and writes “Famous Last Words,” a monthly column on games contracting issues for www.igda.org. He can be reached by email at charne@usa.net or on the Web at www.charnelaw.com

Steve Schnur

As Worldwide Executive of Music and President of Artwerk Music Group for Electronic Arts, Steve Schnur is responsible for the pursuit, creation and continuous development of the global vision for music in EA games. He has brought established stars, breakthrough new artists and award-winning composers to top-selling EA franchises, changing the industry’s perception of video games from simple licensing opportunities to a series of groundbreaking and award winning scores and soundtracks. His hands-on approach with composer selection and score production has earned EA over 50 soundtrack nominations over the last 8 years. His extensive relationships with major recording artists and music managers have helped to create a series of original compositions which now fill the EA music library with valuable copyrights. Steve brought this vision into the multi-billion dollar game space from his experience in both the film and recording industries as a successful music supervisor and music producer.

In 2005, he created EA Recordings, a digital record label focused on the distribution of EA’s enormous collection of scores and songs. In 2008, he formed Artwerk Music Group, through which EA now directly signs, develops and launches artists for publishing, master recordings, sync deals and distribution. Prior to joining EA in 2001, he held various executive positions with the Warner Music Group, MTV, EMI and BMG, and has supervised and produced music for films including CRUEL INTENTIONS and MISS CONGENIALITY (which garnered a Golden Globe nomination for best original song).

Steve has been profiled by the New York Times, London Financial Times and CNN. Additionally, he was selected as “One Of The Most Creative People In Entertainment” by Entertainment Weekly, both “One of the Most Powerful People in the Music Business” and “One of the Top 20 Power Players in Digital Entertainment” by Billboard Magazine, “One of The Top 25 Power Players in the new Hollywood” by The Wall Street Journal and in 2009 was awarded “International Music Person of the Year” by MusExpo.

Steve Schnur is also a board member of City Of Hope, a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), a board member of the Country Music Association and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Grammy Foundation. In December of 2009, Schnur will receive the ACLU “Bill of Rights” Award alongside Robert Redford, Michelle Satter and Cara Mertes of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival.

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Get connected. Stay connected.
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2009-11-16

In Philly – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of a Producer Agreement

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You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:
What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

The Producer Deal

on Monday, November 16, 2009

in Philadelphia

NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal launched in 2007 year in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and in 2009 in Phoenix and Houston. Live mock negotiations hit the spot!

So now we bring you two top music attorneys, Bernard M. Resnick and Kevon Glickman, who will negotiate a modern music producer agreement for us live in Philadelphia.

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But the truth is, as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Now, of this latest installment of our special series, two top lawyers face off in a live negotiation of a producer agreement in NARIP’s Art of the Music Deal. These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a producer deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

When it’s the right time to make a deal

Major areas of negotiation, including:

Producer advance vs. recording fund. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s recording fund?
Producer royalty. Did you know it all comes out of the artist’s royalty?
Recoupment
Terms & Options
Controlled Composition Clause: what you need to know if your producer is also your co-writer!
What does the artist’s recording agreement say?? THIS affects the producer’s royalty, royalty accountings, mechanical royalties, CD reductions, “fake” free goods and much more!

And much more.

WHO (scroll down for speaker profiles):

Kevon Glickman, Esq., President, Invincible Pictures
Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., Law Offices of Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C.
Tess Taylor, NARIP President (panel moderator)

WHEN

Monday, November 16, 2009
6:00 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHERE

Bat Cave Studios
444 N. 3rd Street
Suite C-7
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Tel: 215-238-1500

Free parking. Click here for map.

COST

FREE for NARIP Members
$25 for Non-Members
$75 for lawyers who wish to receive 2.5 MCLE credits

ATTENTION ATTORNEYS: This program has been approved for 2.5 credit hours by the PA CLE Board. Select Premium Ticket option before to receive 2.5 credit hours for only $75 (includes event admission).

SPECIAL BONUS

Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This option will be available at the event.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Kevon Glickman, Esq.

Kevon Glickman, President of Invincible Pictures, is a well-traveled entertainment lawyer with over 20 years experience in the music, film and media industries. Equally comfortable in the studio, courtroom or boardroom, Kevon has worked for litigation firms, radio conglomerates, record labels, nightclubs and advised publicly traded companies. Kevon spent 7 years as Senior VP/General Counsel of Ruffhouse Records, a joint venture with Sony Entertainment, which sold over 100 million albums, including “The Score” by the Fugees (the highest selling rap album of all time, winning two Grammy Awards) and “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (which won 5 Grammy awards). Kevon has worked with other Grammy award winners The Delfonics, Mary Wilson of the Supremes and D’Angelo, as well as cutting edge groups such as Cypress Hill, Trina, Leela James, Rick Ross, Flo Rida and celebrity DJ Funkmaster Flex. Kevon was COO of Ruffnation Records, a 3-year joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, which charted multiple albums and published songs off the “8 Mile” soundtrack and executive-produced “Snipes” starring Nelly and Jamie Fox’s “Bait” soundtrack. Kevon is a partner in the Radio Woodstock Network in upstate NY, co-promoter of Mountain Jam and head of Blingnot Media, which provides digital distribution, management and marketing services as part of Invincible’s musical arm.

Bernard M. Resnick, Esq.

Bernard M. Resnick, Esq. is an entertainment attorney practicing in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. His firm, Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C. has earned over 60 gold, platinum, multi-platinum, Billboard #1 and/or BDS Certified Spin awards for deals the firm has negotiated and drafted on behalf of the firm’s clients, representing sales of over 65,000,000 records.

The firm’s clientele ranges across many styles and genres of talent, encompassing recording artists, songwriters, record producers, agents, managers, filmmakers, financiers, Internet Web site designers and operators, professional athletes, etc. Clients of the firm vary from “baby bands” and neophyte filmmakers to gold and platinum-selling recording artists, producers and songwriters, Grammy award winners, members of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, record labels, international entertainment businesses and publicly-traded companies. The firm regularly places client music in television programs, movies, and video games. Representative clients (past and present) include recording artists UGK, Bun B., Trina, Peedi Crakk, Us3, Pink, Bahamadia, Steph Pockets, Sebastian, Schoolly D., The Rembrandts, Dave Mason, Lonnie Jordan and “War”, Time For Three, Janita, Grover Washington, Jr. and The Philadelphia Orchestra; record producers/songwriters Timbaland, Jim Beanz, King Solomon Logan, Jerome Harmon, Calvin Miller and Qur’an Goodman; the Estate of Linda Creed, artist management company The Coalition, classical music artist management company/booking agency IMG Artists, record label Nu Groove Music, record label Amalgam Entertainment, film investment fund Cedar Lane Funding, and international medical journal “Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research”.

Mr. Resnick’s article “Tips for the Beginning Entertainment Law Attorney” was recently published in the “Barristers Tips” section of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. The magazine, issued May, 2008 is published monthly by the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and is the 24th annual issue featuring Entertainment Law. He also co-authored three chapters in “The Musicians Business and Legal Guide – 4th Edition”, published by Prentice Hall for the Beverly Hills Bar Association, amongst other articles and chapters in journals, textbooks and magazines. His next publication, due in January 2009, titled “360° Deals in the USA,” will be featured in the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers’ forthcoming annual journal.

Mr. Resnick has participated on panel discussions, presented seminars and conducted continuing legal education classes for the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University; the Texas State Bar Association’s Annual Entertainment Law Institute; the Independent Music Conference; the Cutting Edge Music Conference; the Beverly Hills Bar Association; Widener University School of Law’s Annual Sports and Entertainment Law Association Symposium; the Albany County Bar Association; the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers at the MIDEM / MIDEMNet convention in Cannes, France and at Les Rencontres convention in Montreal, Canada. He frequently serves as an expert witness in entertainment and sports-related lawsuits; has been named as a “Pennsylvania Superlawyer” by Philadelphia Magazine / Law & Politics Magazine every year since inception; and was recently named in Marquis “Who’s Who in America 2009” and Cambridge’s Who’s Who Amongst Executives and Professionals – 2008/2009.

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2009-11-10

In NY – Touring For A Living: Help Your Artists Get The Mo$t From The Road

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Touring For A Living:
How To Make The Mo$t From The Road

on Tuesday, November 10, 2009

in New York

Record sales may not be huge in recent years for many artists, yet some have set income records by touring.

Your clients can tour successfully, too!

Learn the tips and tricks of the big acts, and get all the info used by mid-line artists, newly signed artists, and indie artists who are making the most of touring opportunities.

Plus, learn the best ways to turn concerts into CD sales!

This NARIP program will cover:

Success for acts in all career phases and stages
When and why to go on the road
Identifying target demographics
Reaching your acts’ ideal audiences
Who handles what on a tour
Different career options for different types of artists
Touring with or without a record deal
Leverage with venues and buyers: how to make the best deal
Planning and budgeting tours

GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for profiles):

Marty Diamond, head of Paradigm Talent Agency’s East Coast Music Division
Steve Lurie, President of Music Without Borders and Executive Director, NARIP New York (panel moderator)
Scott Morris, Music Agent, ICM ———> *JUST ADDED*
Brice Rosenbloom, Founder, boomBOOM Presents
Alan Wolmark, CEC Management

WHEN

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHERE

Fordham University at Lincoln Center
155 W. 60th Street – MacMahon Hall Lounge, Room 109
(between Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues)
New York, NY 10023-7472

NOTE: Upon entering the building, please announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to MacMahon Hall Lounge. Click here for map.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs

COST

$25 for NARIP Members
$40 for Non-Members

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Marty Diamond

Marty Diamond is the head of the Paradigm Talent Agency’s East Coast Music Division. He was previously President of Little Big Man Booking, a boutique music agency that was acquired by Paradigm in 2006. Diamond founded the Little Big Man in 1994 after stints at Arista Records, Bill Graham Management and Manhattan music venue The Ritz. He oversaw Little Big Man’s growth from a two-person operation to the leading small agency in North America, with a roster including Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, David Gray, Joni Mitchell and Blue Man Group. Under Diamond’s leadership, Little Big Man won the Pollstar Award for Small / Boutique Booking Agency 10 out of 11 consecutive years, 1996-2000 and 2002-2006. Diamond was one of the four partners in the wildly successful Lilith Fair festival, which won Pollstar Awards in 1997 for Most Creative Tour Package and Major Tour of the Year. Diamond himself won Pollstar’s highest individual honor that year, the award for Agent of the Year.

Steve Lurie

Steve Lurie is Executive Director of NARIP’s New York chapter. He is also founder and president of Music Without Borders, LLC, and draws on more than 20 years of experience in the music industry as a concert producer, professor, performer, lecturer, retailer and columnist. Since 2003 he has produced more than 3500 concerts by artists from around the world for venues throughout the United States. As an educator, Mr. Lurie developed the Music Business Certificate for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and taught “Developing Your Own Record Label” from 2000-2005. He was a faculty member at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music from 1999-2004 where he taught courses in music business and music management. He was also hired to develop a music business program at The New School in New York. Mr. Lurie has lectured on music industry issues throughout the US, Canada and Europe. In 1998, Lurie was invited to keynote at WOMEX (Worldwide Music Expo) in Stockholm, Sweden on the topic of record retail in the United States. In February of 2005 he presented several lectures on music publishing and copyright at the Folk Alliance/Strictly Mundial Convention in Montreal. In January of 2006 he presented a lecture on independent record retail and distribution at MIDEM in Cannes, France. Recently, Lurie was asked to be a Grant Reviewer for the Connecticut Department of Culture and Tourism, an honor that is only bestowed upon the most distinguished members of the arts community. As a percussionist, Mr. Lurie has performed with pop, jazz, world music and classical ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As VP and Co-Owner of Al Franklin’s Musical World in Greenwich, CT, Mr. Lurie helped build one of the finest and most highly regarded music and electronics retailers in the U.S.

Scott Morris

Scott Morris began his career at ICM’s New York office after graduating from Belmont University’s Music Business program in 1989. After 3.5 years at ICM, Scott left to work for Balmur Entertainment Artist & Management company in Toronto where he acted in a management and in-house booking capacity for clients such as Anne Murray, Rita MacNeil and George Fox. Scott was also Anne Murray’s tour manager from 1998-2000 at which time he left to return to ICM where he has been an agent ever since. Scott was nominated for Pollstar’s “Agent of the Year” award in 2008.

Brice Rosenbloom

Launched by Brice Rosenbloom in the fall of 2006, boomBOOM brings a broad array of live music to thousands of New Yorkers every year. boomBOOM Presents is a New York based live music booking and production company. Showcasing an eclectic mix of artists and an all-inclusive aesthetic palette, boomBOOM Presents is dedicated to providing optimum concert experiences for both performers and audiences.

Rosenbloom’s prolific booking expertise within clubs and concert halls is complemented by artistic curating credentials in the performing arts world, representing broad interests in jazz, world, Jewish music, experimental, rock, electronic, and emerging contemporary music. As an active presence in New York’s vibrant cultural scene, Rosenbloom curated the intimate Makor music series beginning in 1999, nurturing developing artists such as Norah Jones, Lila Downs, Regina Spektor, Matisyahu, Antibalas, Amos Lee, Gogol Bordello, Peaches, Erin McKeown, Miri Ben-Ari, Derek Trucks and others. Other productions included a shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration with Wynton Marsalis to establish the launch season of Jazz at Lincoln Center at the program’s new home in Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center, myriad bookings of artists such as Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones, The Bad Plus, Brazilian Girls, Keren Ann, Kaki King, and Henry Threadgil at the iconic Knitting Factory in 2005, and the creation of the NYC Winter Jazzfest, a three-stage, eight-hour festival that has been showcasing premier artists in the jazz scene for the last five years.

In recent years boomBOOM Presents has curated music series at Merkin Concert Hall, Stuyvesant Town Oval Concerts, and back at Makor. boomBOOM Presents continues to curate a broad musical vision on additional stages around the city and beyond, including the new world music club Drom on Avenue A; the soon to open le Poisson Rouge (the new Village Gate space) on Bleecker Street; the Jazz Experiment Festival in Palermo, Italy; and the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene.

Alan Wolmark

After ten years of national radio promotion for major US record labels Atlantic and RCA Records, Alan Wolmark turned artist manager in 1988 offering US representation for overseas-based artists. Alan went into full management in partnership with noted manager Barry Taylor around 1990 as the Management Consulting Team (MCT Management). Starting with a roster including Moby, Pere Ubu, My Bloody Valentine and Firetown (whose members later formed Garbage), among others, he then built on the US-UK worldwide management concept in the early ‘90s, joining forces with UK-based manager Peter Felstead forming CEC Management. Clients included artists like Ben Folds (Five), Deacon Blue, Grandaddy, Lush, The Boo Radleys and others.

CEC Management has offices in New York and London, and currently represents worldwide artists Tricky, David Berkeley, Darren Jessee (ex-Ben Folds Five), Simon Collins and others.

Alan began his career at trade publication Record World magazine writing album reviews and charting national FM radio airplay. In 1978 he joined Atlantic Records’ album promotion department working with The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, AC/DC, Blues Brothers, Pete Townshend, Genesis, Foreigner and more – a music enthusiast’s dream.

In 1983 he became head of national rock promotion at RCA Records, establishing such genre-bending acts as the Eurythmics, Blow Monkeys, Love & Rockets and Mr. Mister as well as breaking Bruce Hornsby and promoting flagship artists like Jefferson Starship, Hall & Oates and Elvis Presley.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.boomboomnyc.com
www.cecmgmt.com
www.icmtalent.com
www.MusicConsultant.net
www.ParadigmAgency.com
www.TarrytownMusicHall.org
www.RMANYC.org/NakedSoul
www.LennonTribute.org
www.RTRCruises.com

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Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career
advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2009-10-31

NARIP Brunch in LA at Producer Jeffery David’s Home

× NARIP Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, October 31
at the home of producer Jeffery David

Come dressed as your favorite rock or hip hop star,
or favorite record executive!

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch on Saturday, October 31 at the home of producer Jeffery David in Los Angeles (Toluca Lake).

We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Los Angeles-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend.
Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, October 29 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up, it will just cost you a bit more!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:

Saturday, October 31, 2009
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE:

At Producer Jeffery David’s House
11217 Kling Street
Toluca Lake, CA 91602
310-651-0452

COST:

$20 for NARIP members
$25 for Non-members

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Click here for map.
Major cross streets: Vineland & Riverside
Free street parking (please read signs!).

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2009-10-27

In LA – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of 360 Record Deal

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You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:
What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

Mock Negotiation of
a 360 Recording Agreement

on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 in Los Angeles

With major changes in recording agreements over the past three years, multiple rights or so-called “360 deals” have become more common. In this latest installment of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, two top music business attorneys and an artist manager face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues that affect an artist’s rights and income, and a record company’s ability to acquire and monetize additional rights.

These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the short- and long-term implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a 360 deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal-making!

You will learn eight (8) major areas of negotiation for record deals:

1. Artist advance / recording fund
2. Controlled composition clause
3. Guaranteed release clause
4. Pay or play clause
5. No cross-collateralization / separate “pot” for mastertone, voicetone and DVD monies
6. Tour support / marketing and promotion commitment (videos, etc.)
7. Artist royalty and royalties payable on foreign sales
8. 360 deals: try to limit other ancillary rights (i.e., merchandise, publishing, touring, sponsorships, etc.)

This program will also cover:

– Multiple rights: what are they?
– How to minimize a record company’s involvement in additional rights
– How to obligate a record company to monetize additional rights and maximize returns from a 360 deal
– Important deal points including new 360 provisions, ancillary rights, digital royalties, a discussion of the new publishing royalty rates for mobile, digital downloads, and interactive streaming services.
– The right time to make a deal
– 360 deals for developing artists

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Record & Music Publishing Executives
Producers, Artists, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Music Attorneys, Concert Industry Professionals
Brand Marketing & Creative Executives
Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs

GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles)

Dina LaPolt, Esq. – LaPolt Law LLC
Doug Mark, Esq. – Mark Music & Media Law, P.C.
Lisa Van Zuidam – Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Tenth Street Entertainment and The Eleven Seven Music Group

WHEN

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program beins
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHERE

SAE Institute
6565 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(across from Cat & Fiddle, between Highland & Vine)

Click here for map.

COST

$20 for NARIP Members
$40 for Non-Members
$75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit (includes admission)

Attention attorneys: receive 2.5 MCLE credits for attending this program for only $75.
Select Premium Ticket option below.

SPECIAL BONUS

Because you are purchasing a ticket to NARIP’s program, we offer you an MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. This way, you won’t have to take notes and can refer back to important points in the discussion later. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION

Tenth Street Entertainment
The Eleven Seven Music Group
LaPolt Law LLC
Mark Music & Media Law, P.C

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dina LaPolt, Esq.

Dina LaPolt is an entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. in Los Angeles. LaPolt Law is a boutique entertainment firm that specializes in representing clients in the music, merchandising, film, television, and book publishing industries. The firm’s clientele include recording artists, independent record companies, music publishers, songwriters, producers, managers, executives in the music and film industries, film production companies, photographers, directors, writers, authors, and actors. In addition to practicing law, Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and Publishing Industries” in the Entertainment Studies Department at UCLA Extension and speaks regularly on panels at music industry conferences all over the country. On the film production side, Dina was the co-producer of the 2005 Academy Award-nominated documentary film entitled Tupac: Resurrection. For more information on Dina LaPolt or her firm, please log on to www.LaPoltLaw.com.

Doug Mark, Esq.

For the past 23 years, music attorney Doug Mark has represented all possible entities in the music and film industries including independent and major record companies, independent and major music publishers, new and superstar recording artists, record producers, film composers, executives, technology companies and others. Founded in 2007, his firm Mark Music & Media Law, P.C. has offices in Los Angeles and New York. The firm’s current clients range from pop stars (Sara Bareilles, Michelle Branch, Jojo and Daniel Powter) to hip-hop stars (The Game, Mims), rock bands (Motley Crue, Lostprophets), alternative artists (Dashboard Confessional, Tegan and Sara, Ladytron), to film composers (Danny Elfman, Trevor Rabin) and others. The firm represents some of the biggest indie labels (Epitaph/Anti, 11-7 Recordings) and divisions of three out of the four major label groups. Other entities receive focus from Mark Music and Media Law as well. Start-ups, financing companies, management companies, writers, producers and executives all receive the finest advice and documentation from the firm. Transactions for these companies include equity financing, catalog sales, mergers, employment agreements and more.

Lisa Van Zuidam

As Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Tenth Street Entertainment and The Eleven Seven Music Group, Lisa Van Zuidam oversees the financial elements and overall operations for Tenth Street Entertainment and The Eleven Seven Music Group, new models for the successful entertainment marketing and content companies across a range of platforms including music, fashion, book and music publishing, film, live performance and more. Among the companies’ content creation partners are Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, JET, Deborah Harry and Blondie, Sixx:A.M., Drowning Pool, The Last Vegas, Charm City Devils, Marion Raven, Royal Underground and others. Van Zuidam began her career with Tenth Street and Eleven Seven in 2005 as the Controller and expanded her duties to reach her current position. Van Zuidam was previously with Prager & Fenton as a business manager working with artists such as Gavin DeGraw, Neil Sedka, Jimmy Webb and AC/DC. For more information, please visit Tenth Street Entertainment or The Eleven Seven Music Group.

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
___________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement,
education and good will among record executives.

2009-10-24

In Phoenix: Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road

× You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

Touring For A Living:

How To Make The Mo$t From The Road

on Saturday, October 24, 2009

in Phoenix

Record sales may not be huge in recent years for many artists, yet some have set income records by touring.

You and your clients can tour successfully, too!

Learn the tips and tricks of the big acts, and get all the info used by mid-line artists, newly signed artists, and indie artists who are making the most of touring opportunities.

Plus, learn the best ways to turn concerts into CD sales!

This NARIP program will cover:

Success for acts in all career phases and stages

When and why to go on the road

Identifying target demographics

Reaching your acts’ ideal audiences

Who handles what on a tour

Different career options for different types of artists

Touring with or without a record deal

Leverage with venues and buyers: how to make the best deal

Planning and budgeting tours

Important documents including sample budgets, itineraries and more will be included.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for profiles):

Chris Arnstein, CEO, The Arnstein Organization
Jason Coochwytewa, President / Owner, Red Note, Inc.
Cindy Goldney, radio event producer, artist manager and artist development specialist
Other speakers TBA.

WHEN

Saturday, October 24, 2009
12:00 noon – Registration opens
12:30 p.m. – Program begins
1:45 p.m. – Break for lunch
2:45 p.m. – Program continues
4:00 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs

WHERE

Prankster’s TOO (NOT to be confused with Prankster’s in Tempe)
The Jester’s Room
7919 E. Thomas Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(southwest corner of Thomas & Hayden, west of the 101 Fwy)
Tel: 480-990-1114

Click here for map.

COST

$15 for NARIP Members
$30 for Non-Members
(does not include lunch)

You need NOT be a NARIP member to attend.
All are welcome.

BONUS

Because you are registering for this panel discussion, we offer you the opportunity to pre-order the MP3 recording of the program for only $20 (regularly $39.95). To pre-order now, select the Premium Ticket option below, the mastered recording will be emailed to you within 2-3 weeks after our program (if not sooner).

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.
We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down).

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

CHRIS ARNSTEIN

Chris Arnstein is CEO of the Arnstein Organization, performing personal and tour management, record, TV, video and production, talent booking services, product branding, international marketing, multi-media promotions, music supervision for his clients. Arnstein has developed, toured and worked with stadium and arena-level acts such as Julio Iglesias, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Jennifer Lopez, Air Supply, Bad English, Brett Michaels, Rachelle Ferrell, Sam Kinison, Madonna, Journey, Stevie Nicks, John Waite, Joe Walsh, Styx, ELO, The Eagles and others.

JASON COOCHWYTEWA

Jason Coochwytewa is President / Owner of Red Note, Inc. With a diverse background in the advertising and marketing industry of 14+ years, Jason Coochwytewa began his work in entertainment in 2000 as an executive at a large-scale Native American casino in New Mexico. It was here that Jason was introduced to the “business-side” of the music industry: booking, marketing, and creating casino promotions around major national headlining acts. However, his appreciation for music in the art form was discovered as a young boy. Deeply rooted in his Native American culture, his father sang and taught him traditional Hopi songs, emphasizing the importance of listening to the words, rhythm and beat. Time spent with his father laid the foundation to what would eventually become Jason’s passion in life: music. In 2005, Jason launched Red Note, Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona, and now works full-time planning and managing intimate to large-scale event productions and promotions including festivals and headlining music concerts. Jason has been involved with over 100 shows, working with legendary to “fresh on the scene” musicians and bands. In 2008, Red Note, Inc. produced two major events during Super Bowl XLII; the Arizona Indian Festival with estimated audience of 20,000 and the Native American component of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLII VIP Tailgate Party for 10,000 individuals. Jason serves as a juror on the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and is an advisory board member for the launch of the World Indigenous Music Awards set to take place in 2010 in Canada. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, and is an alumnus of Valley Leadership – Class 26. He currently serves as the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) Phoenix Chapter Director, is a Board of Trustee with the Arizona Science Center and a board member with both the Girl Scouts of America Arizona Pine Council and the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Arizona. Jason once again serves as co-chair of the Arizona Diamondbacks Native American Day on July 12, 2009 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.

CINDY GOLDNEY

Profile posted shortly.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.rednoteinc.com
www.thearnstein.org

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement,
education and good will among record executives.

2009-10-18

FREE NARIP Brunch in Philly

× NARIP Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Sunday, October 18
in Philadelphia

at Range Recording Studios

FREE Admission

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s FIRST brunch in Philadelphia on Sunday, October 18 at Range Record Studios. To introduce Philly-area professionals to the greatness that is NARIP brunches, we are delighted to made admission free for those who RSVP in advance below (RSVP required).

Join us, come meet and greet Philadelphia-area record and music industry professionals. Your special and very excellent hosts will be Capps Enterprise’s Barbara Capps and Bravermania’s Roy Braverman.

All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be
a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, October 15 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits (please note that walk-ups pay $20 each, advance RSVP guests attend for free)!

So come along to meet friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you
if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:

Sunday, October 18, 2009
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE:

Range Records/Range Recording Studios
2730 E. County Line Rd.
Ardmore, PA 19003

COST:

FREE, RSVP required.
$20 for walk-ups (no RSVP)

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Free street parking and at school across the street.
Click here for map.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.Bravermania.com
www.RangeRecordsUSA.com
www.RangeRecordingStudios.com

NARIP. Career acceleration.
Get connected. Stay connected.
____________________________________________________

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes career advancement, education and good will among record executives.

2009-10-15

In TX: Touring For A Living: How To Make The Mo$t From The Road

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

Touring For A Living:

How To Make The Mo$t From The Road

on Thursday, October 15, 2009

in Houston

Success for acts in all career phases and stages

When and why to go on the road

Identifying target demographics

Reaching your acts’ ideal audiences

Who handles what on a tour

Different career options for different types of artists

Touring with or without a record deal

Leverage with venues and buyers: how to make the best deal

Planning and budgeting tours

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for profiles):

Barry Coffing, Founder & CEO, MusicSupervisor.com
Patrick Whalen, Founder, Fast Paced Management, LLC

WHEN

Thursday, October 15, 2009
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Concert Promoters, Agents, Tour Managers
Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs

WHERE

Houston Community College
Spring Branch Campus
1060 West Sam Houston Parkway
The Screening Theater
Houston, TX 77043
(near the I-10 and Beltway 8)

Click here for map.

COST

$10 for NARIP Members
$25 for Non-Members

You need NOT be a NARIP member to attend.
All are welcome.

Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75 more. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.
We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down).

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

BARRY COFFING

Mr. Coffing is CEO and Founder of MusicSupervisor.com and Uprising Entertainment. A 20-year industry veteran who has toured the world and has major credits to his name, Barry is an Emmy-nominated composer and was signed to Warner Bros. Records in the 1990s. He has toured extensively to support his hit songs that have charted around the world, including the #1 “I’ll Come Back To You.” He won Best Producer of the year at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2003, and has written and produced over 200 songs in film and TV including #1 hits and gold-selling soundtracks. He has worked with almost every major film company and television network. His knowledge of both sides of the licensing equation led him to create MusicSupervisor.com which has been used to find music for projects including Dexter, Ugly Betty, Burn Notice, Blonde Ambition, Lost, Love Kill, License to Wed, Swing Vote, Real Girl, Assassination of a High School President, Sexual Healing, Invincible, The Unit, Direct Contact and others. Barry has lectured on the music business at USC, Vanderbilt and The University of Houston. With his professional relationships, especially at major film companies and TV networks on both coasts, and a strong background in the business as an executive and successful composer / artist, Mr. Coffing is uniquely positioned to help NARIP members identify opportunities in film and television, and to create and sustain long-term careers in the music business today.

PATRICK WHALEN

Los Angeles-based Patrick Whalen is founder of Fast Paced Management and Artists Music Label, performing personal, tour and production management, international marketing and talent development for his clients. Clients include the Olympics, MTV (Asia, S. America & N. America), the BBC, VH1 and he has developed, toured and worked with stadium and arena-level acts such as Incubus, Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Stone Temple Pilots, Match Box 20, REM, Cheap Trick, Quiet Riot, Ted Nugent and others. He got his start in the music business in 1986. His first show was the Black Music Awards featuring Prince. His first major tour was in 1988 (Scorpions, Trixter and Great White). In 1991 while on tour, Whalen wrote the business plan for what would become Backstage Productions which provided sound and lighting for 100s of events each year. In 1999 Backstage opened another office in Las Vegas, increasing production to more than 500 shows annually. In his 20+ year career, Patrick has been on over 100 tours, from Motley Crue to Prince. In 2003 he sold Backstage Productions to focus his efforts on Fast Paced Management. Fast Paced Management’s first client was the International Olympic Committee. FPM provides production management for all live concerts surrounding the main Olympic events. Fast Paced Management eventually moved into band management, producing events, and of course production management. In 2006 Patrick founded Artists Music Label, LLC. Currently AML has over 100 bands signed and released 56 Artists in 2009. Fast Paced Management manages several bands and is building and branding tours for Artists Music Label.

2009-10-10

FREE NARIP Brunch in Houston

× NARIP Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, October 10
in Houston

at the home of
Charles Davis and Reba Kochersperger
AKA Blues House Productions

FREE Admission

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s FIRST brunch in Houston on Saturday, October 10 at the home of Charles Davis and Reba Kochersperger. To introduce Houston-area professionals to the greatness that is NARIP brunches, we are delighted to made admission free for those who RSVP in advance below (RSVP required).

Join us, come meet and greet Houston-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, October 8 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits (please note that walk-ups pay $20 each, advance RSVP guests attend for free)!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you
if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:

Saturday, October 10, 2009
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE:

Reba Kochersperger
2307 La Monte Lane
Houston, TX 77018
(off Loop 610 North and West TC Jester)
Tel: 713-680-0233

COST:

FREE, RSVP required.
$20 for walk-ups (no RSVP)

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Click here for map.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

ABOUT CHARLES DAVIS

Composer and blues/jazz guitarist Charles Davis is owner of Blues House Productions and this fall will release the first of two albums featuring his music. Guitarist for Calvin Owens’ Blues Orchestra for the past ten years, Charles performed on recordings with musicians such as B. B. King, Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush, Ray Price, Guitar Shorty, and Trudy Lynn.

2009-09-30

In LA – Art of the Music Deal: Mock Negotiation of Producer Deal

2009-09-26

NARIP Brunch in LA

2009-09-22

In NY – Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Film & TV

This event is SOLD OUT!
Audio will be available soon.

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:

What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

How To Market & License Music For Film & TV

on Tuesday, September 22, 2009

in New York

With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, four experts face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music license agreement.

We will also discuss marketing music for film and TV to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal.

These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal-making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

The right time to make a deal.

Major areas of negotiation, including:

Terms
Options
Fee ranges
Deliverables
Clearances
Things to avoid
Closing the deal

Sample license agreement will be distributed at event.

Also:

Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why
Making the pitch: necessary elements
Timing
What music buyers such as music supervisors, ad agencies and gaming companies really look for
How to increase the impact and marketability of music

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles):

Steve Gordon, Esq., Entertainment Attorney
Sara Matarazzo, Executive Producer & Music Supervisor, Search Party Music
Leah Streetman, Sr. Director, Strategic Alliances / Film & TV, Universal Motown Republic Group
Kevin M. Wilson, Director of Music, ESPN

WHEN

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Brand Marketing & Creative Executives
Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs
Those seeking music placement opportunities

WHERE

Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 W. 60th Street – MacMahon Hall Lounge, Room 109
(between Columbus & Amsterdam)
New York, NY 10023-7472

NOTE: Upon entering the building, announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to MacMahon Hall Lounge. Click here for map.

COST

$25 for NARIP Members
$40 for Non-Members
$75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit

Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Steve Gordon, Esq.

Steve Gordon is an entertainment attorney and consultant based in New York City specializing in the production, distribution and financing of music, television, documentaries, feature films, and digital entertainment projects. He also operates a music clearance service for producers, filmmakers, and labels for use of music in feature films, documentaries, concert programs, DVDs, audio compilations and ringtones. He is author of the book titled “The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Technologies, A Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” (Hal Leonard 2008.) Steve’s clients include artists, independent music and TV producers, digital entertainment entrepreneurs as well as major labels and multinational entertainment corporations. Steve won a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture on entertainment and copyright law and was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy in fall 2007. You can tune into MyRealBroadcast.com to listen to his Internet radio show on the music business. Steve has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the New School, an Instructor at CUNY Graduate Center and recently moderated seminars at Columbia Law School, the Wharton Business School, and was a speaker at entertainment conferences in Denmark, Belgium, Bahamas and South Korea. From 1991 to 2001 Steve served as an attorney and Director of Business Affairs at Sony Music (TV/Video). Prior to Sony, Steve worked at Dino Di Laurentiis, a movie studio in Hollywood, and a music publishing company, SESAC, in New York. Steve is a graduate of New York University School of Law and a member of the NYC Bar Association.

Sara Matarazzo

A passion for film, a proven track records in the world of advertising, a curiosity to explore new forms of media, and over a decade spent as a prominent DJ on the international dance music scene make Matarazzo a standout member of Search Party Music. She most recently music supervised Thomas Campbell’s anticipated new film, The Present and worked with renowned artists Steven Merritt and Britta Philips to re-record a Magnetic Fields track, giving life to the widely acclaimed Puma Spot, LIFT. Matarazzo has been praised for her deep musical knowledge and background in the indie and major label music scene, having spent her DJ years working with such influential labels as Celluloid Records / Subharmonic Records, Liquid Sky Music and Satamilie Records. For fashion designer Issey Miyake, Matarazzo created a musical brand through custom-made compilations to be played in retail stores. She also created a music retail component for the Final Home division of the brand. Prior to joining Search Party, Sara was a music producer at Ogilvy & Mather, New York where she actively worked on a long line of A-level brands including American Express, Motorola, DHL, Unilever and Fanta. While at Ogilvy, one of Sara’s notable American Express spots, a joint effort with Search Party and director Wes Anderson, took home numerous awards, including a Gold Effie, a Silver Andy, and two AICP Awards for Visual Style and Advertising Excellent, In addition to working on commercial projects, Sara served as music supervisor on films such as The Doorman, Murder Party (2007 Slam Dance feature film winner) and Superheroes, a film by director Alan Brown.

Leah Streetman

As Senior Director of Strategic Alliances/Film & TV, Leah Streetman is responsible for music placement in film and television of Universal Motown Republic Group’s current releases. Working with artists like Amy Winehouse, Mika, Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Colbie Caillat, Tori Amos, Florence & The Machine, Kaiser Chiefs, India.Arie, and Akon, Ms. Streetman helps gain exposure for them by securing placements in films, trailers, network promos, and shows such as 90210, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, CSI, One Tree Hill, Dancing With The Stars, The Hills, and Entourage. With over 17 years experience in the music and entertainment industry, Ms. Streetman’s background is diverse. Prior to joining UMRG, she was the Director of Licensing at BZ Rights, where she consulted on all types of advertising/film/tv/broadway projects using properties ranging from Beatles, Bon Jovi, and Squeeze to Frank Sinatra, Gene Simmons, Miles Davis, and Bob Dylan. She has been an artist manager and founded an independent music publishing company. Starting her career as a performer led her to become a director and producer of live events. As Producer of Music Programs at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side, she served as dept head and produced blues festivals, rock/jazz/orchestral concerts, as well as an annual 12-hr music marathon that featured over 300 artists and was broadcast live on the radio. Universal Motown Republic Group is a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Music Group, Deutsche Grammophon, DreamWorks Nashville Records, Interscope Geffen A&M, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the US) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the US). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, a new media and technologies division. Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company.

Steve Lurie

Steve Lurie is Executive Director of NARIP’s New York chapter. He is also founder and president of Music Without Borders, LLC, and draws on more than 20 years of experience in the music industry as a concert producer, professor, performer, lecturer, retailer and columnist. Since 2003 he has produced more than 3500 concerts by artists from around the world for venues throughout the United States. As an educator, Mr. Lurie developed the Music Business Certificate for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and taught “Developing Your Own Record Label” from 2000-2005. He was a faculty member at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music from 1999-2004 where he taught courses in music business and music management. He was also hired to develop a music business program at The New School in New York. Mr. Lurie has lectured on music industry issues throughout the US, Canada and Europe. In 1998, Lurie was invited to keynote at WOMEX (Worldwide Music Expo) in Stockholm, Sweden on the topic of record retail in the United States. In February of 2005 he presented several lectures on music publishing and copyright at the Folk Alliance/Strictly Mundial Convention in Montreal. In January of 2006 he presented a lecture on independent record retail and distribution at MIDEM in Cannes, France. Recently, Lurie was asked to be a Grant Reviewer for the Connecticut Department of Culture and Tourism, an honor that is only bestowed upon the most distinguished members of the arts community. As a percussionist, Mr. Lurie has performed with pop, jazz, world music and classical ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As VP and Co-Owner of Al Franklin’s Musical World in Greenwich, CT, Mr. Lurie helped build one of the finest and most highly regarded music and electronics retailers in the U.S.

Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson is ESPN Music Director, promoted over the years from his position as temp hired to type cue sheets. His responsibilities include overseeing Sound Design for many of ESPN’s shows including Sportscenter, ESPNews and Monday Night NFL, record company relations, commissioning original music cues for a wide variety of uses on the ESPN network, securing pre-recorded music, negotiating licenses, overseeing all clearances, etc. He holds a BS in Sound Recording from the University of New Haven and a Masters in Music Business from University of Miami. A native of Bristol, Connecticut he married a Bristol Girl Terry and has two great rocker sons Donovan (10) and Dylan (6). Kevin runs Metal Health, a benefit organization that raises money for the Connecticut Children’s Hospital through Hard Rock Concerts. He values friendship, relationships, and family. Favorite quotation: “Shuffling old music does not make it new.”

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO
www.espn.com
www.searchparty-music.com
www.stevegordonlaw.com
www.umusic.com

2009-09-16

In LA – Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Film & TV

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:

What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

How To Market & License Music For Film & TV

on Wednesday, September 16, 2009

in Los Angeles

Terms
Options
Fee ranges
Deliverables
Clearances
Things to avoid
Closing the deal

Sample license agreement will be distributed at event.

Also:

Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why
Making the pitch: necessary elements
Timing
What music buyers such as music supervisors, ad agencies and gaming companies really look for
How to increase the impact and marketability of music

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles):

John Houlihan, Music Supervisor, Houlihan Film Music
Anita Rivas, Esq., Walner & Rivas
Tom Rowland, Senior VP Film & TV Music, Universal Music Enterprises

WHEN

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
7:30 p.m. – Registration opens
8:00 p.m. – Program begins
10:15 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Those seeking music placement opportunities

WHERE

Los Angeles Film School
6363 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Major cross streets: Sunset & Cahuenga

Parking

Free street parking available after 6pm (read signs!) and paid parking available in the LA Film School parking lot (first lot on Ivar south of Sunset).

COST

$20 for NARIP Members
$40 for Non-Members
$75 for lawyers who wish to receive MCLE credit

Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

JOHN HOULIHAN
Music Supervisor
Houlihan Film Music

John Houlihan’s select music supervisor credits in film include Fame, The Love Guru, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, Charlotte’s Web, Nacho Libre, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Training Day, Charlie’s Angels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Mr. Holland’s Opus

ANITA RIVAS, ESQ.
Walner & Rivas

Anita Rivas is a partner in the entertainment law firm Walner & Rivas. She has represented a variety of clients including independent labels such as Kung Fu Records (Blink 182), Hopeless Records (Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice), Fearless Records (Plain White Ts), Smartpunk and recording artists such as The Vandals, Anti Flag, Pennywise, The Aggrolites and Finch, and individuals such as Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Kim Deal (The Pixies, The Breeders), Josh Freese (Sting, Nine Inch Nails), Dustin Hawthorne (Hot Hot Heat), Warren Fitzgerald (Gwen Stefani), Taku Hiranu (Bette Midler, Fleetwood Mac), Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion, Tenacious D.), Joe Escalante (Indie 103 radio personality), Moss Jacobs (Bob Marley Days, Santa Barbara Bowl), Kevin Lyman (Van’s Warped Tour & Taste of Chaos owner/concert promoter), Elijah Wood and Chad Gilbert (Newfound Glory). Ms. Rivas has consulted major corporations including Sears, Levis, NBC Universal and Sole Technology on digital rights, asset management and music licensing.

Ms. Rivas is currently involved in negotiating and securing various cutting-edge deals including major label multiple income stream (“360”), singles, Myspace marketing and corporate-sponsored record deals, along with licensing on all sides for films, video games, home video and television. She is production counsel (including all music clearance) and associate producer of the Van’s Warped Tour 2007 LIVE! DVD, and music supervisor and music legal counsel for “Endless Bummer,” a Kevin Lyman production, just released through National Lampoon. The soundtrack features Katy Perry, Blink 182 and Joan Jett. Other clients include the sold-out J Rock Festival produced by Yoshiki (9 bands from Japan), the US Taste of Chaos Tour (3 bands from Japan) and M.I.A. (UK), and various entertainment executives.

Ms. Rivas has been featured expert and quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on label bidding wars, in USA Today, the Bay Guardian, The SF Weekly and in other news media. Recently she was quoted in the LA Times on her involvement with developing artists in the Los Angeles independent music scene. Ms. Rivas has produced artist showcases for NARAS, ASCAP and BMI. A frequent guest at music conferences nationwide, she has appeared as moderator or guest speaker at SXSW, CMJ, NXNW, NARIP, EAT’M, IPELS (LACBA), ASCAP, NARAS and the DIY Convention which she co-founded in 2000 with USA Today journalist and author Bruce Haring.

Ms. Rivas has written numerous articles about performance rights in sound recordings, the Audio Home Recording Act and US copyright law, and testified on behalf of rights holders during the NII hearings held by the Clinton Administration in the early ‘90s. She is a UCLA Law School graduate and clerked at the US Copyright Office, Rhino Records, Capitol Records and The City Attorney’s Office of San Francisco. A former concert promoter (Bill Graham Presents, The I Beam, The Edge and The Kennel Club), Ms. Rivas has produced many special events for political and charitable causes.

TOM ROWLAND
Senior VP Film & Television Music
Universal Music Enterprises

Tom began his music career as a recording artist and songwriter before starting an indie label in his hometown of Washington, D.C., where he also wrote a music column for the Washington City Paper. His day job was in political public relations and among his clients were Senator Bob Dole, Vice President George Bush, Philip Morris USA and the Distilled Spirits Council.

After relocating to Los Angles, he was hired by the Warner Music Group as a Film & TV Music executive. Tom was then recruited to join MCA Records after its acquisition of Geffen Records and managed to survive the four or five mergers that ultimately led to the formation of the Universal Music Group. He has served as head of the Film & TV division of UMG since 1991.

Tom serves as Rob Zombie’s music supervisor (Halloween, Halloween II, The Devil’s Rejects) and has produced many soundtrack albums. He recently produced, mixed and engineered the first posthumous Michal Jackson release, The Stripped Mixes, which charted in the top ten digitally, and has been in Billboard’s top 100 for several weeks.

Tom is a graduate of William & Mary, where he studied philosophy and shared a bathroom with John Stewart.

2009-08-22

NARIP Brunch in Phoenix

× NARIP Brunch
Eat, Meet & Greet!

Saturday, August 22
in Phoenix

at Premiere Entertainment

You are cordially invited to attend NARIP’s next brunch in Phoenix on Saturday, August 22 at World Headquarters of Premiere Entertainment (private residence), hosted by Cindy Goldney and Terri Sussman.

We’re doing it again! Join us, come meet and greet Phoenix-area record and music industry professionals.

All are welcome at our brunch, you need not be a NARIP member to attend.

Please RSVP and register online by Thursday, August 20 at 5:00 p.m. so we can prepare enough refreshments for everyone. NARIP encourages pre-payment. You are welcome to attend at the last minute as a walk-up if space permits!

So come along to meet existing friends and contacts, and make new ones. NARIP brunches feature 30-second introductions by all present to help you identify and get in front of the people who can make a difference to your business. Professional speed-dating!

Among other things, NARIP sponsors events like these to encourage networking and the fostering of business relationships in the record industry. Over 75% of all great opportunities, deals and job offers come about as a direct result of second and third party referrals – who you know matters. So get to know more people in the record biz, and let them get to know you! Please join us and bring plenty of business cards. All are welcome, details below.

Is your network not working? Ours is.

They can’t promote (or hire) you
if they don’t know who you are!

WHEN:

Saturday, August 22, 2009
11:00 a.m. – Arrive and eat!
11:30 a.m. – Introductions
1:00 p.m. – Brunch ends, networking continues

WHERE:

Premiere Entertainment World Headquarters (private residence)
Hosted by Cindy Goldney & Terri Sussman
2638 E. Emile Zola Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85032-5919
Tel: 602-505-1392

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:

Click here for map.

COST:

$10 for NARIP members
$20 for Non-members

Please note: late-comers will be charged the full rate.
We appreciate your cooperation.

We encourage you to register in advance online now (just scroll down). Otherwise, cash only at the door on Event Day please. Price includes food, beverage and event admission.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or email info AT narip DOT com

ABOUT OUR EXCELLENT BRUNCH HOSTS, PREMIERE ENTERTAINMENT:

Details posted shortly.

2009-08-18

Art of the Music Deal: How To Market & License Music For Film & TV in PHX

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:

What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

How To Market & License Music For Film & TV

on Tuesday, August 18, 2009

in Phoenix

With declining record sales, the focus on placing music in film, TV and other media has skyrocketed. Placements are the new coin of the realm, and in this latest of NARIP’s “Art of the Music Deal” series, music attorney James Marovich and music publisher / placement expert Les Scott face off in a live negotiation of key deal points and contractual issues in a music license agreement.

As a special bonus, Les Scott will also discuss marketing music for film and TV to make it more attractive to buyers, where to find them and how to put yourself in line for the most favorable possible deal.

These experts come together to give you the inside track on major deal points, what they mean and what leverage you have to negotiate the best possible deal.

Most people think they can just hand a negotiation to a lawyer, and leave it at that. But as a professional, you need to be aware of the process and deal points, too, and what the implications to your artists’ careers may be.

Most importantly, you will see HOW a license deal is negotiated and be involved in the process.

Get educated about the art of deal-making!

YOU WILL LEARN:

The right time to make a deal.

Major areas of negotiation, including:

Terms
Options
Fee ranges
Deliverables
Clearances
Things to avoid
Closing the deal

Also:

Case studies: what works, what doesn’t and why
Making the pitch: necessary elements
Timing
What music buyers such as music supervisors, ad agencies and gaming companies really look for
How to increase the impact and marketability of music

ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING FORM AGREEMENTS:

Collaboration agreement
Masters administrative agreement
Performance release

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS (scroll down for speaker profiles):

James Marovich, Esq.
Les Scott, Source Q Boutique

WHEN

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:30 p.m. – Program ends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Producers, Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys
Brand Marketing & Creative Executives
Accountants, Business Managers & CPAs

WHERE

Pyramix Studios
5751 W. Poinsettia
Glendale, AZ 85304

Major cross streets: 59th Avenue & Cactus

COST

$10 for NARIP Members
$30 for Non-Members

Attention attorneys: receive MCLE credit for attending this program for only $75 more. Request for MCLE Credit approval is pending. Select Premium Ticket option below.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Walk-up if space permits. NARIP events sell out, advance registration is recommended.

No refunds, all ticket sales final. We appreciate your cooperation.

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

JAMES M. MAROVICH

James M. Marovich is a litigation and transactional attorney who, before solo practice and forming his own firm, worked for two multi-state law firms in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

Mr. Marovich’s entertainment law practice consists of copyright, trademarks and trade names, and rights to privacy. He provides business, intellectual property, and contract law services for singers, songwriters, musicians, bands, independent film companies, publicists, actors, talent and modeling agencies, authors, artists, photographers, physicians, medical spas, theatre companies, talent management, and record sales and distribution services companies.

Prior to legal practice, Mr. Marovich had over twenty years of senior hospital administrative experience. He has served on numerous not-for-profit boards, is a frequent speaker for the Arizona Songwriters Association and community college performing arts classes, and is currently serving as general counsel for the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Arizona.

Coming from a family of entertainers (he too has acted on stage and camera), it’s not a stretch to say that the entertainment business is “in his blood,” which gives him familiarity with the unique needs and desires of people involved in the entertainment business.

Among his clients are the actor whose short film was selected by the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the photographer whose work was featured at the Phoenix Herberger Theatre, the band who sold music to MTV’s programming division, the songwriter whose songs were used in several feature films and television, and the wordsmith whose feature article graces the cover of the 2007 collector’s issue of Desert Living Magazine.

LES SCOTT

As a publisher, Les’ company, Source Q Boutique represents over 400 quality songs / masters and over 250 writers. SQB songs have appeared in TV shows, films & other industry uses with over 250 placements. Most recently: Ugly Betty, Californication, Saving Grace, Prison Break, Friday Night Lights, House, Mr. Woodcock. As a producer, Les is commissioned to write / produce projects for companies such as Universal Music Group, BMG, Network Music & One Music. He has produced over 125 bands and artists in all genres of music. As a songwriter, Les’ writings appear on various artists albums (Grammy-winning group “B2K”). His writings appear almost daily throughout the film/TV industry. SQB is directly marketed through its alliances Crucial Music Group, Gimbel Music Group, Fuzeartz and Expressive Artists. Les is available for private consultation. Contact: 480-585-2554 office, 602-705-3554 cel or lesscott AT fastq DOT com.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFO

www.marovichlaw.com
www.fastq.com

2009-07-25

The Art of Artist Management in NY

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

The Art of Artist Management:

Steering Careers To Success

on Thursday, July 25, 2009

in New York

################### NARIP has assembled three seasoned personal artist managers to discuss proven strategies to advance artist careers and what the future holds in one of the fastest-paced and most exciting industries in the world. Topics discussed at this roundtable include the artist manager’s relationship with record companies including A&R, branch distribution and field support, radio and retail, and building from developing stages into a recognized national and international trademark / brand. Register now for this special session with top artist managers who will share their tips and strategies to manage artists to long-term success.

You will learn:

Proven strategies to advance artist careers
The plateau strategy for success (and other strategies)
Domestic and international marketing
Finance and deal-making
Touring and personal appearances
Merchandising and ancillary markets
Image cultivation and positioning
How to build a brand and get endorsements
A manager’s complete toolbox: what you need… and what you don’t
And more…

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Artist Managers and Artist Reps
Record & Music Publishing Executives
Music Attorneys, Concert Industry Professionals
Producers and Artists

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

Bruce Garfield, Monster Music Management (clients: …)
Lou Plaia, Co-Founder/VP Music Industry Relations, ReverbNation
More speakers TBA.

WHEN

Thursday, July 25, 2009
6:30 p.m. – Registration opens
7:00 p.m. – Program begins
9:15 p.m. – Program ends

WHERE

Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 W. 60th Street – South Lounge
(between Columbus & Amsterdam)
New York, NY 10023-7472

NOTE: Upon entering the building, announce yourself at the security desk, and you will be directed to the South Lounge. Click here for map.

Click here for map.

COST

$25 for NARIP Members ($35 AFTER Monday, May 11 at 5:00 p.m.)
$40 for Non-Members ($50 AFTER Monday, May 11 at 5:00 p.m.)

SPECIAL BONUS

Congratulations! You made a wise choice, and you’ll enjoy the program “Secrets of Online Music Marketing.” Because you are purchasing the program, we offer you the MP3 recording for only $20 more (regularly $39.95), a savings of $19.95. Please select the “Premium Ticket” option below if you’d like to add the MP3 to your order.

PAYMENT METHODS

1. Online (just scroll down) using PayPal or any major credit card (you need not be a PayPal member)
2. Call 818-769-7007 with credit card
3. Mail payment to NARIP to P.O. Box 2446, Toluca Lake, CA 91610-2446. Be sure to indicate which program you are paying for, and please include contact details. Mailed payment must be received no later than Friday, June 26.
4. Walk-up

QUESTIONS?

Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP

SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION

Music Dish
Reverb Nation

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

ERIC de FONTENAY

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LOU PLAIA

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ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:

What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:

What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

ART OF THE MUSIC DEAL:

What Happens Before You $ign on the Dotted Line?

You are cordially invited to NARIP’s

The Art of Artist Management:

Steering Careers To Success

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