Having attended 5 music conferences in the last 18 months I
might have sufficient authority to make a couple of broad statements about The
New Music Seminar 2014. Due, I expect,
to its location in midtown Manhattan, the seminar was able to attract the upper
echelon of the music industry better than any other conference I have attended
recently. I spoke, shook hands and handed my music to
Jason Flom (CEO of Lava and ex-CEO of Atlantic and Capitol Records,) Avery Lipman (co-founder of Republic
Records,) Craig Kallman (CEO of Atlantic
Records,) and the list goes on and on and on.
It could well have been the best 2 days I have spent at any such
function. With a ticket price of $400 any
of the 100 or so artists that were present must have found it was money well spent
particularly if you were willing to do the reach-out ahead of time and the
subsequent follow-up. I could literally
fill this page up dropping the names of the people I met but suffice to say if you
are if you are an artist that has music more or less finished and geared
towards the US pop or pop-ish market, make sure you get tickets when next year’s
seminar rolls around :)
thanks
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