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New Music Seminar 2010

NEW YORK CITY JULY 19th – JULY 21st

About The New Music Seminar

From the co-founder and director of the original legendary New Music Seminar comes a conference for the Next Music Business.  Artists have never had so much power to control their own careers and build their success. This affordable event gives artists and their representatives the knowledge, tools and connections to step into the tomorrow’s music business today. Delegates all receive the New Music Business Guidebook filled with important do’s and don’ts by the experts, tips, information, forms and essential websites and blogs.  Important exhibits by sponsoring companies will help artists with their careers and there will be amazing networking opportunities throughout the event.

The conference includes five “movements” (focused discussions) over the course of two days, 8 TED-style presentations from key industry leaders, 22 mentoring sessions, nightly musical performances and ongoing networking opportunities. Additional speakers, musical performers and keynote speaker to be announced.

The Breakout/Mentoring Sessions will allow delegates to have brief one-on-one conversations with professionals from all of the various professionals in attendance during each session and get answers to their questions as it pertains to their career.  Sign up for these sessions are on a first come, first serve basis when registration opens beginning Monday evening, July 19th at the NMS Opening Night Party and are limited to the first 180 delegates who sign up for each session.  *Limit of one Mentoring Session per paid delegate attending NMS.

*All delegates who register to attend NMS NYC 2010 by June 29th will automatically be registered in a drawing to win a Gibson SG Guitar and receive the original NMS NYC 2009 New Music Business Guidebook free of charge while supplies last.

For more info and/or to get the NMS tickets please go to www.newmusicseminar.com.

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Artists on the Verge

From the New Music Seminar and OurStage.com, comes a new, exciting contest!

Enter to win this once in a lifetime opportunity aimed to help break aspiring artists’ careers in the music industry though direct exposure and personal mentoring from some of the most influential and connected industry leaders of the new music business.  The winner will also receive a special prize musical package including free musical equipment, video promotion, publicity services, legal work, CD pressing and much more.

Entries are open to all unsigned artists in the Urban, Rock or Pop genres, and will be accepted until December 22nd, 2009 at http://bit.ly/TheVerge

Ten Finalists – A Judge Panel consisting of music industry leaders will select ten finalists from the top 20 ranked artists from each of the “Artists on the Verge” OurStage Channels.  These ten finalists will have their A&R promotional packages and EPKs delivered to 20 top record labels in North America for consideration.

Top Three Finalists – The top three finalists will be awarded travel funds and passes to Los Angeles to attend the New Music Seminar on February 2nd, 2010 following the Grammy Awards. The three finalists will each receive a live mentoring and critique session by industry experts (led by superstar artists, producers, radio programmers, and bloggers) in front of the NMS audience.

Grand Prize Winner
-The One Grand Prize Winner will be chosen at NMS to perform at the NMS After Party and will receive a comprehensive music consultation package that will include special music prizes, services and offerings from some of the smartest and most connected leaders of the new music business.

For more details on the entry rules and contest please go to: http://www.ourstage.com/go/artistsontheverge

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