Speak To A Pro... Friday - Sunday Noon

Speak To A Pro... Friday - Sunday Noon - 6 pm

All festival badge holders are automatically registered to perform if desired, participate in the various music specialty needs areas, attend all parties and all other fest functions. Do one or all at your own pace!

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Noon-6pm Friday, Saturday & Sunday

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Career Critique

A Career Critique is based upon your personal responses and input. What are your aspirations, product, resources and needs? An honest critique must start at the grass roots level. Those being critiqued must start fresh, seriously evaluate themselves, their products and their approach. The responsibility of the Career Critique is to evaluate your concepts and make them explainable for commercial analysis to the marketplace.

gear4 Products Critique

Products Critique digs deep into your physical products. With your overall mental concepts flushed out at the Career Critique, you are ready to begin analyzing your physical project/product in every detail. Questions to ask are, "What industry level am I currently at?" or "Where does my product need to be?" Critical investigation brings together many elements to stimulate thinking. Critique interprets, describes, evaluates, ask & answers questions while dissecting every element of your product/project.

Recording, Sound & Video

Recording helps guide thru the maze of turning intangible ideas into physical products that can be uniformly mass produced heard and seen. From beginning to end, the result needs confident in presenting to the public and industry for review. Be it a single song, complete album collection, music video, spoken word or a business message, it is crucial to have a representation acting on your behalf, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the marketplace. These products speak for you at a time and place that is convenient for others. Recordings help you distill your communications into a form that is as as efficient as possible.

flower Publishing

Once a physical product is created from your concept and ownership rights are established on an industry wide recognized level you may begin to publish. Publishers concern themselves with developing, protecting and valuing your music. The publishing business is diverse and demands a variety of skills. Music publishers play a vital role in the development of new music and in taking care of the business side, allowing composers and songwriters to concentrate on their creative work. Fest Songs (ASCAP), SongWriters Fest Music (BMI) & Song Fest Music (SESAC) among other publishers will be on hand at the event to accept unsolicited material.

Plugging

Plugging is about how to develop and deploy a diverse network of relationships to get projects/products accepted and distributed in their marketplace. Plugging approaches can vary. We can show you how to develop pitch packets, find prospective opportunities and how to present your product/project for consideration. Knowing who and when others that may be needing the appropriate types of material a producer is looking for are crucial keys to gaining acceptance.

Legal

Music is a business, as well as a creative process. The business aspects must be understood and managed to achieve success. The deeper you get into the music industry, the more intricate the business becomes and the more you need to know and comprehend. Legal helps walk you gain understanding and appreciation of what to do and how to do it. Legal offers insights and education in the many areas you might encounter while pursuing your career. Legal provides resources to develop knowledge and understanding of segments of the music business.

Packaging & Duplication

Once a product/project is finalized in a recorded form, it must achieve a shelf ready design that can be mass produced efficiently and uniformly for presentation to the marketplace. At Music Duplication we provide advice, consultations, resource information, How To's, referrals and guidance to help create an industry standard product ready for the marketplace.

Records, Shop & Distribution

Records helps you understand the structure, responsibilities and inner workings of Record Labels. By grasping the concepts of how they run, one can begin to utilize that organization to their own benefit. Knowing what goes on inside and outside a Record Label gives you the information needed to decide whether to start your own or join in or how to be attracted to and existing label. Shop is a place where projects/products are displayed to promote member sales for online digital distribution, physical single sales & bulk warehousing distribution. Distribution demonstrates ways on presenting and moving final shelf ready products into the public for display and sales by all means available. Learn how to develop networks for product dissemination, sales techniques & methods for distribution and dissemination.

Radio, Video & Broadcasting

A format where projects/products are presented to the general public and industry for listening or viewing pleasure. Here "On the Air", we show you how and where you can solicit for peer and fan review. Create areas where others are encouraged and promoted to visit, listen and/or view. At Music Radio we advise, consult and provide resource info to help get member projects/products out there and establish a place for listeners and viewers to express their satisfaction with your presentations.

Management & Promotions

Management is a team that works together to enhance image, appearances, behaviors, marketability and stability in the public arena. Management encompasses long term development aspects for business continuation and accountability. Promotions demonstrates ways to get your message out in front of the public eye using designed, planned methods to raise visibility and create growth opportunities with awareness. From how to write a press release, poster designs and other basic out reach methods to the more not so basic approaches. We help generate new thinking which is a promoter "must have" to create new exposure opportunities.

Productions

Music Productions is about planning the execution of your events from beginning to end. From setting realistic goals, event naming, time, place, equipment, man power, security, insurance, liabilities, permitting, clean up and much more. Having a successful event involves many moving parts that must be assimilated and coordinated to go off all at one time, function and end in an approiate manner.

All festival badge holders are automatically registered to perform if desired, participate in Speak TO A Pro, attend all parties, Open Mics and all other fest functions. Do one or all at your own pace!

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