August/September 1995 - Pg2

Workshops, Seminars, Competitions & Publications

Workshops for Emerging Jazz Artists

The second Sunday of each month at Tacoma Station in Washington, DC., Ronnie Wells and the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Foundation begins its workshop with a jam session. Ten people from the jam session are selected by judges to participate in the workshop. Participants are evaluated, with a $100 award going to the highest rated performer. This series is for emerging, non-professional artists. If you have recorded commercially released recordings, signed with a booking agent or manager, or performed for pay on an average of one day per month for a 12-month consecutive period, you are not eligible to participate. For information, contact the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Fund at 301-933-1822

Guide to Touring and Promotion

Get the Musician's Guide to Touring and Promotion published by Musician Magazine ($8.95; call 1-800-745-8922 to order) or Book Your Own Tour by Liz Garo ($19.95; call 1-800 233-9604). They list clubs, newspapers and radio stations in cities nationwide.

Music Business Directory

Now available: Livingston's Complete Music Business Directory Vol. I & 2 ($39.95 each), Livingston's Complete Music Business Reference ($49.95), and other music business resource and reference books. Contact La Costa Music, P.O. Box 147 Cardiff CA 92007 (619) 436- 7219.

College Campus Gigs

To increase their number of college campus gigs, touring bands can join the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) to connect with more than 1,200 colleges across the country. NACA regional memberships are $210/year, and national memberships are $420/year. Call 1-800-845-2338.

Disc Makers Wholesale Catalog

The 1995 Disc Makers Wholesale Catalog is now available free of charge. Call 1-800-468-9353 for your copy.

Getting Radio Airplay

Getting Radio Airplay includes a directory of over 900 stations nationwide call 1-800-233-9604 for information.

101 Ways to Make Money in the Music Business

101 Ways to Make Money in the Music Business plus A & R 411 which is updated every eight weeks, can be purchased either by single issue or an annual subscription call 314-773-5454.

Free Catalogs

All of the following are free catalogs containing music resources: Basements to Backstage, 800-448-3621;Mix Bookshelf, 800-2339604; Musical Success Resource Guide, 800-527-ROCK; Musician's Business Building Bookshop, 708-971-1641.

Sing Out! Celebrating 45th Anniversary

Folk music publication Sing Out! is celebrating its 45th anniversary by reprinting its charter issue; which originally came out in 1950. It features songs of the times including "The Hammer Song" penned by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, a Weaver's song "Banks of Marble" by Les Rice, "No More Reds in the Union" by Bob Clairborne, "Miner's Doom" and "La Borinquena". The original thought-provoking sociopolitical commentary of the period is included. The reprint also contains a new 12-page "thumbnail History of Sing Out! written by Sing Out! columnist Roger Deitz. Sing Out! is a nonprofit organization whose current mission is to support and preserve traditional and contemporary folk music from all cultures worldwide while encouraging participation. Copies of the special commemorative reprint Volume 1, Number 1 are available by sending check or money order for $2.00 to Sing Out! Reprint, P.O. Box 5253, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Memberships are $18.00 per year and include the reprint and four (4) issues of Sing Out! magazine. For more information contact Lynnl Koehler or Mark Moss at 610-865-5366.

Kennedy Center Open House

Every year the Kennedy Center provides the wonderful service of showcasing dozens of artists, both regional and national, during its annual Open House. This year each of the seven stages will feature Wammie Award winners and nominees along with national recording artists.

Sunday, September 10, Washington artists will share the stage with: the Subdudes, Luther "Guitar Jr" Johnson, Robert Cray Band, The Last Poets, Fontella Bass, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Luis from Sesame Street, The New York Voices, and Leroy Jones. Featured area artists include: Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, The Legendary Orioles; Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun; Two Unique; Chuck Brown, who will do an electric and an acoustic set; Prophecy; Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer; Ron Holloway; a rare performance by Derryberry & Alagia; Tom Prasada-Rao; Marge Calhoun; Eric Brace & Last Train Home; Debi Smith & Al Petteway; and Ruthie & the Wranglers, Rhumba Club.

Songwriters' Association

The Songwriters' Association of Washington holds an open mic on Friday, September 8, at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Costs are $2/$3 sign up is at 7 pm.