JUST ANNOUNCED: WNYC is turning 100, and the whole city is invited to the party! The months-long Centennial festivities kick off on our anniversary, July 8, with an on-air birthday celebration hosted by Brian Lehrer at 7pm, followed by a live re-imagining of our first broadcast beginning at 8:54pm, the exact time we first went on air in 1924. Tony Award-winning actress Sarah Jones, "On the Media" host Brooke Gladstone, "New Sounds" host John Schaefer, and President and CEO LaFontaine E. Oliver will perform the roles of Mayor John Hyland, City Commissioner Grover Whalen, a variety of city officials, and well wishers. Musical accompaniment by Arturo O’Farrill, @J’Nai Bridges, and Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso. The Empire State Building will light up in WNYC’s signature red at approximately 8:30, providing a festive skyline across the city. Other highlights throughout the summer and fall include: **A public radio variety show at Central Park’s SummerStage broadcast with Brian Lehrer, Ira Glass, Brooke Gladstone, Micah Loewinger, Alison Stewart, and storytelling from The Moth, with music from Freestyle Love Supreme and mxmtoon. **A Centennial digital music collection from All of It’s “Public Song Project” featuring renditions of 1920s songs by Rhiannon Giddens, The Lemon Twigs, Rosanne Cash, They Might Be Giants, Nellie McKay, and many others. **Audio gems from the WNYC archives including the voices of Amelia Earhart, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Scorses, Gloria Steinem, Marian Anderson, and a future President Barack Obama. **A public art piece by acclaimed artist Katie Merz on the windows of The Greene Space, , inspired by a century of stories that define our city and listeners’ contributions of what is iconically New York. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e_EVZdpy
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I’m speaking at Music Business Association's conference #MusicBiz24 happening May 13-16 in Nashville. Join Jenn D'Eugenio, Reid Cifrino and I as we represent @WomenInVinyl and discuss The Next Vinyl Generation … Who Will Lead? How many times have you heard a young person say, 'when I grow up, I want to cut lacquers, or be a press operator'? We are willing to bet, less than 1%. With Gen Z coming up as the next generation of industry leaders, how do we create educational pathways which better lead this generation out of just marketing roles and into careers in physical media that have previously been passed down as trade. What needs to happen to lessen the learning curve, and how do we make these careers just as enticing as marketing? Women in Vinyl will share some statistics and goals with which we need your help to keep vinyl the number one selling medium for years to come. This panel is part of Let's Talk Physical, presented by the Music Business Association’s Physical Business Action Committee (PBAC) and sponsored by Memphis Record Pressing. See the full agenda & register at: https://lnkd.in/e5A_UFmM
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Director of Strategic Communications, National Endowment for the Arts Biden-Harris Administration Appointee
Today the National Endowment for the Arts released two new research reports examining the state of arts participation in the United States. This links to the article from today's Washington Post, but for anyone who wants to share, the press release is available on arts.gov. NEA Chair, Maria Rosario Jackson stated: “The National Endowment for the Arts has a long-standing commitment to providing the arts and culture field and the general public with accurate and relevant research. Taken together, these reports help to reveal the state of arts participation in our country.” The first report, titled: "Arts Participation Patterns in 2022: Highlights from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts" examines U.S. adults’ arts participation between July 2021 and July 2022, looking at activities such as attending arts events, personally creating and/or performing art, reading books and/or literature, watching or listening to arts content via media, or learning an art form. The second report, "Online Audiences for Arts Programming: A Survey of Virtual Participation Amid COVID-19" explores findings from the 2022 General Social Survey and focuses on how virtual arts participation fared in the pandemic.
Fewer people are going to movies, theater and museums, NEA study shows
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Unusual (and unusually long) post for me here! But something I feel strongly about. Last night, Ezra Collective won the Mercury Music Prize. I got a little choked up hearing them dedicate their win to the youth club where they met, and all the other organisations doing that work. In the early years of my career, when I was running a lot of music and filmmaking workshops, I saw youth centres decimated. One by one, the doors closed on places that had their funding pulled, removing cultural (and sometimes very literal) lifelines from young people who had nowhere else to access that kind of provision. Aside from the many, many wider social benefits that come from youth centres, they are also an essential ingredient for a diverse arts, culture and entertainment scene. They’re often the *only* place young people get a chance to develop their creative talent. Talent which can go on to do incredible things, as we saw last night. Talent which can give those young people (as they become not-so-young people) a place in an industry and an art form they might otherwise never access. And we all benefit from this: audiences, businesses, fellow artists. Without fail. The youth centres which hang on do so in large part because of the incredible generosity, conviction and self-sacrifice of the people (sometimes employees, but - in my experience - more often than not volunteers) who keep the lights on and the schedule full even when the system is working against them. These people are heroes. They shouldn’t have to be, but they are. If we want a healthier and more meaningfully diverse cultural environment, we should celebrate them every chance we get - as Ezra Collective did last night. Whether we’re working in avant-garde fringe art or big entertainment business, an ever-richer cultural ecology is absolutely essential to making the best work possible, in every sense. We should do everything we can to enable their work and the support of youth provision. Thanks for sticking with me on this. Now back to talking about rollercoasters 😎
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Venues can become more accessible to all kinds of audiences. This article gives good reasons why. The preconceived idea is to think that accessibility is always expensive. This is not true. Let’s first discuss what the situation of the venue is, and let’s figure out the potential solutions. We can help. Contact us to start the conversation.
How music venues can make concerts accessible to more people
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Our Bruce Wawrzyniak was in Nashville last week. That followed his having been in Alabama a few weeks earlier. And that was right after he'd just spent time in New York City. Today we posted our blog for this week, encouraging you to go find opportunities that might be out there for you, which you likely won't get if you shut it down and just stay home. Use the link below to read the full post and get actual examples of where maybe you should get yourself to -- even if locally. #musicbiz #connections #opportunities
Go! There ARE Opportunities Out There
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This morning on ausbiz with Nadine Blayney I highlighted the step-change Vinyl Group (ASX:VNL) has been making in the local music industry. Backed by Wisetech founder Richard White, VNL has recently purchased Brag Media, publisher of titles such as Rolling Stone and Billboard. Combined with its existing music data business (Jaxsta), social networking company (Vampr) and retail site (vinyl.com) the company expects to generate almost $10m in revenues in CY24. I also touched on the deluge of financial data coming out in the next 6 weeks with 4C cash flow reports due out by 31 January and 1H24 financial results lodged by the end of February. Investors are looking for results and not promises with companies like EML Group (ASX:EML) and Raiz Invest (ASX: RZI) making the tough, but necessary, decisions to close unprofitable or troublesome international operations. Link to ausbiz video here: https://lnkd.in/gdkgA8hG
Buy Vinyl Records Online | Vinyl
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"But the money goes far deeper than just net profits. The Eras Tour is projected to generate close to $5 billion in consumer spending in the United States alone. “If Taylor Swift were an economy, she’d be bigger than 50 countries,” said Dan Fleetwood, President of QuestionPro Research and Insights, in a story for GlobalNewsWire. On the opening night in Glendale, Ariz., the concert brought in more revenue for local businesses than Super Bowl LVII, which was held back in February in the same stadium. To use that event as a comparison, Swift has been performing the equivalent of two to three Super Bowls every weekend for the past five months (and six of seven nights at her last round of shows in Los Angeles). Typically, every $100 spent on live performances generates an estimated $300 in ancillary local spending on things like hotels, food and transportation. But for the Eras Tour, Swifties are taking this to the next level, dropping an estimated $1,300-$1,500 on things like outfits and costumes, merchandise, dining, and travel—boosting local economies by hundreds of millions of dollars in one weekend." These kind of impact reports have been in feasibility studies for new performing arts centers and venues. It is absolutely essential for civic planning, and absolutely, more producing companies need to be transparent to the communities they serve. However, the double edged sword says “so the programming is the problem if we don’t bring in these kinds of audiences” https://lnkd.in/gAUH6u9V
The Biggest Tour in the History of the World (Taylor’s Version)
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Already thinking about your next concert season? From themes to vocal ranges, here are ten things to consider before programming your next concert. https://hubs.li/Q02btJ_90
10 Considerations for Programming Your Next Concerts
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New Post: Executive Turntable: PierFerd Partners Up; Vegas Stadium Gets New GM; Warner Chappell UK Promotes VP of Sync - https://lnkd.in/gGDdDdZg - It’s time to drop the needle on another Executive Turntable, Billboard’s comprehensive(ish) compendium of promotions, hirings, exits and firings — and all things in between — across music. We also have an interview series spotlighting a single executive each week and a regularly updated gallery honoring many of the industry figures we’ve lost throughout the year. Denise Stevens joined Pierson Ferdinand (aka PierFerd) as partner and co-chair of the firm’s global media, entertainment and sports practice. Based in Nashville and Los Angeles, Stevens’ expertise is in talent, creative and tech across music, publishing, touring and other fields. She was previously a partner at Loeb & Loeb and this year made Billboard‘s list of top music lawyers. Earlier this century, she authored the bill that ultimately became the Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act, which was signed into law in 2006, and she regularly offers counsel and assistance to songwriters and their heirs on copyright recapture issues. “I have known Denise essentially my entire career, having been on the opposite side of deals from her from time-to-time for more than two decades,” said Steven S. Sidman, co-chair of PierFerd’s Global Media, Entertainment & Sports practice. “I much prefer being on the same team as her, and I am delighted to finally work alongside Denise as one of the co-leaders of our group.” Related Music Industry 40 Under 40: Execs & Power Players 2024 05/30/2024 Alex Machurov joined the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) as head of business development, effectively immediately. At his new job, Machurov oversees the indie label trade body’s strategic partnerships and develops sponsorship opportunities for the org’s tentpole events such as the Indie Week Conference and the Libera Awards. The live events veteran arrives from Tandem, a digital charity fundraising platform he co-founded in 2020. He was previously chief revenue officer at Revolution Marketing and a vp of national event partnerships at iHeartMedia, but he spent the bulk of the last couple decades at Superfly, where he clocked 10 years overseeing brand partnerships and activations at Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and other festivals. “Alex’s expertise and his passion for the independent music community will enrich our current activities and steer A2IM to more expansive opportunities,” said Richard James Burgess, CEO of A2IM. “We welcome his vast network of connections and the knowledge he bring
Executive Turntable: PierFerd Partners Up; Vegas Stadium Gets New GM; Warner Chappell UK Promotes VP of Sync
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Midwest House is going back to SXSW and we’re again looking to bring some of the region’s best musicians with us! We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Opnr for a special quest to discover exceptional Midwestern artists to perform at Midwest House during SXSW. But why are we posting this on LinkedIn? Midwest House exists to foster community amongst the region’s innovators and creatives while defying rustbelt expectations on a global stage, and we believe collaboration, access, diversity, and creativity are the kinds of pillars you can build a dynamic Midwest around. This initiative matters because we’re showing - not telling - SXSW’s global audience that we have thriving cultural communities all over the region. This initiative matters because relationships are build on shared experience. Music and culture bring us together and create an atmosphere where connection thrives. This initiative matters because it’s more than just a performance opportunity; it’s a chance to elevate artists to stages beyond SXSW, opening doors for exposure and future opportunities. This initiative matters because we get to work with our startup partner Opnr to amplify their mission to provide emerging musical artists with opportunities to shine. This initiative matters because the days of flying over the Midwest without a second thought are over. Help us spread the word, won't you? Share Opnr and share the opportunity far and wide. Good things ahead, y’all.
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