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20th Annual Cutting Edge CE Conference

Announces its

2012 Music Business Sessions

Gallier Hall and Lafayette Square

New Orleans, LA

September 26 ? 30, 2012

http://www.cuttingedgenola.com

Cutting Edge CE Music Business Sessions will cover a diverse group of Topics comprising today?s music industry Hot Topics and Current Trends

2012 CUTTING EDGE CE
MUSIC BUSINESS SESSIONS

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 [Free day Open to the Public]

2:00 ? 3:30 Small Business Development Center Workshop

5:00 ? 8:00 Artists Networking Reception and Showcase

9:00 ? 1:00 Club Showcases

Thursday, September 27, 2012

9:30 ? 10:00am International Music Business Opportunities: Touring and Current Business Trends.

10:15 ? 10:35am Entertainment and Arts in New Orleans Downtown

An overview of entertainment and art options in New Orleans fastest growing neighborhood: Downtown?s Central business District. Kurt Weigle, President & CEO, New Orleans? Downtown Development District

Speakers

Kurt Weigle, President & CEO, Downtown Development District, New Orleans, LA

10:45 ? 12noon Grow Your City?s Music Brand

Cities around the country are learning the value of branding their city as a ?Music City.? Panelists from government and non-profit community from different cities discuss making their cities? music scenes more hospitable for musicians and business

12noon ? 2:30pm Daytime Artists Showcase

1:00 ? 2:00pm [Featured Presentation] Road to Success: Booking and Touring Tips

A panel of musicians, booking agents and talent buyers gather to talk touring and booking. How do you book own tour? What exactly do booking agents do and what do they look for in the bands they work with? How do festival bookers mine for talent and make programming decision?

2:15 ? 3:15 Management Panel: Helping an artist get to the next level in their career.

2:15 ? 3:00pm Songwriters Panel: Murphy?s Laws of Songwriting

Get the inside track on songwriting as a craft from award-winning songwriter

Ralph Murphy, Author ? ?Murphy?s Laws of Songwriting?

3:00 ? 3:30pm Song Critique ? Live Performance

Artist will get the opportunity to perform their song and get immediate feedback.

3:30 ? 4:45 Social Media Marketing: Let?s Get Social

This panel will discuss various social media platforms to promote music, best practices on Facebook, Twitter, growing your mailing list, different ways to help monetize social media and more

4:00 ? 5:00 Juke Box Jury ? CD Listening Session

3:30 ? 7:00pm Afternoon NewWork Showcases

6:00 ? 8:00 pm Opening Reception: Lifetime Achievement Award Honoring: Louisiana Music Factory

8:00 ? 11:00 Evening Showcase
11:00 ? until Cutting Edge Late Night

Friday, September 28, 2012

9:30 ? 10:00am [Breakfast Presentation] HOT TOPIC:

10:15 ? 11:30am In the Studio: Getting the Perfect Mix

Recorded live or in the studio your CD is not complete without mixing and mastering. Hear recommendation from veteran musicians, producers, engineers and studio owners on how to complete a great CD.

11:45 ? 1:00pm Publicity Panel: Using Social Media and Traditional Media to promote Artists and their music.

This panel will discuss using social media (facebook, Twitter, Myspace), artists? opportunities websites (Reverbnation), blogging and print media to promote

12:00 ? 2:00pm Daytime Showcase

1:00 ? 1:45 Song Critiquing Session: [Part II, continues from Thursday]

1:30 ? 2:45 Independent Record Labels discusses Distribution in today?s music Industry

2:30 ? 3:15 Branding your Image and Licensing your Music

3:30 ? 4:30 College Radio: What?s new in college radio. How to get discovered by college radio

3:30 ? 4:30 So you want to be a Promoter?

4:30 ? 5:30 Juke Box Jury: CD Listening Session

4:30 ? 10:00 nola DOWNTOWN music and arts festival ? Kick Off

11:00am ? 2:00am NOLA Downtown Festival/NewWorks Showcases

8:00 ? Mardi Gras in September Street Party

Saturday, September 29, 2012
10:00 ? 10:30am [Breakfast Presentation] Sponsor by TuneSat

Collecting Royalties ? TuneSat: What it is? How it works?

TuneSat is a revolutionary technology that offers a simple solution to the overwhelming challenges of inaccurate performance reporting, lost royalty payments and copyright infringement. TuneSat lets you know exactly when and where your audio content is being performed on hundreds of TV channels and millions of websites around the globe

Speaker

Neeta Ragoowansi, Vice President of Business Development & Legal Affairs

10:00 ? 11:00 The Merchandising Game

Trending merchandising options to co-promote your brand.

11:15 ? 12:30 Radio Trends

This panel will evaluate?radio as a vehicle for developing artists. Internet, satellite and terrestrial radio formats will be covered and the panel will address issues such as how to draw and sustain listeners, how to break artists through such diverse radio formats, how to get your record on the air and keep it in rotation, and more

Speakers

11:30 ? 12:30 The Ins and Outs of Book Publishing: A presentation by book publisher Jessica Kaye, Esq.

1:00 ? 1:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Kevin Lyman, Van Warp Tours

2:00 ? 3:30 One-On-One Consultation: Entertainment Executives and Songwriting Experts

2:00 ? 2:45 Important information you should know when signing a record deal.

2:00 ? 3:15 Website Demolition Panel

Live reviews of audience members? websites.

2:00 ? 3:15 Rap/Hip Hop/r&b ? Breaking Thru the Noise

2:00 ? 2:45 Song Critiquing Session: [Part III, continues from Thursday]

3:30 ? 4:30 Gospel Music Today

3:00 ? 4:30 Juke Box Jury ? CD Listening Sessions

3:30 ? 5:00 Website Clinic

One-on-one website review, consultation on musicians online strategy

11:00am ? 2:00am NOLA Downtown Festival/NewWorks Showcases

8:00 ? Mardi Gras in September Street Party

2012 Speakers Profiles ? New Additions to speakers

Additions to speakers list:

Mike Shepherd/ Louisiana Music Hall of Fame

Ohmare Washington/ Flycat Music Group/ NARIP

Pete Knapp/ Pete Knapp and Company/ Goose Creek Records

Sime Restovic/ Guitar Center (GC) Pro

Olga Wilhelmine/ Musician/ Board Member Blues Foundation

Alvin Jackson/ Black Men of Labor Marching Club

Dr. Bruce Raeburn/ Director of Special Collections/ Tulane University

Edward ?Kidd? Jordan/ Musician/ Head of Music/ Southern University New Orleans
Edgar ?Dooky? Chase/ Restaurateur/former Big Band Leader
Theryl DeCloudet/ Musician
Kim Che?re/ Artist/ Gospel promoter
Lyle Henderson/ Radio personality
Mark Rogers/ Rhythm of Gospel Awards

Speakers Profiles (more profiles http://www.cutttingedgenols.com/panelists )

Sabrina Ment
Sabrina negotiates and drafts various agreements relating to all areas in music, merchandising, book publishing, motion picture and television. ?She also has experience in various other corporate organizational documents such as corporate resolutions and amendments.

Charles Driebe
Charles Driebe is an entertainment attorney and manager; he is the founder and CEO of Blind Ambition Management Ltd. in Atlanta. Blind Ambition manages the Blind Boys of Alabama and Ruthie Foster

Eric Sheinkop
At age 25 after some how rapping on a McDonald?s TV commercial, Eric Sheinkop saw an opportunity to transform the way brands license music.
In 2008, he co-founded Music Dealers ? a global music licensing company aimed at bridging the gap between bands and brands. Music Dealers partnership with Coca-Cola open doors with clients McDonald?s, PMI and Kellogg?s.

David Duresne
CEO at Bandzoogle, the most powerful platform for musicians to build their website, engage their fans, and sell their music and merchandise directly. Bandzoogle works with tens of thousands of bands and musicians to help them create a strong base for their online strategy.

Mike Olsen
Mike Olsen is currently the CEO at Indieblu Music and President at Entertainment One Music Nashville. eOne Nashville?s roster includes Shooter Jennings, Bucky Covington, Jimmy Webb and Uncle Lucius.

J. Christopher Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton worked as a business affairs executive for ABC Studios. He spent almost 5 years with MTV Networks in NYC as a production/development attorney and working on live action and animated shows for Nickelodeon. After working for nearly ten years on the corporate end, Mr. Hamilton started Coup D??tat, a Management and Production Company.

Darryl Cohen
Darryl Cohen is currently provides on-air legal commentary for CNN/HNN. ?His Entertainment practice Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, LLC includes representation of on-air network talent, including anchors, actors, photographers, models, recording artists, and talent agencies.

Suzette Toledano
Suzette Toledano owns and operates Toledano Entertainment and Arts Law, a boutique arts and entertainment transactional law practice with emphasis on copyright and trademark matters, art and music licensing, recording contracts, music publishing contracts and film industry matters.

Jessica Kaye
? holds both a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Business. After several years in the private practice of law, Ms. Kaye became Vice President of Business Affairs for Dove Entertainment. There she worked on both television and feature film projects as well as publishing contracts. She later founded The Publishing Mills, an audio publishing company that published approximately 200 titles. Ms. Kaye has produced three Grammy Award nominated works, including the Grammy Award-winning Best Comedy Recording, Crank Calls by Jonathan Winters.
She has served as President of the Audio Publishers Association and as a member of the Board of Governors for the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy for Recording Arts & Sciences, West. She is the founder of Big Happy Family, LLC, a digital distribution company for audio programming. She was the creator and editor of, and a contributor to, the short story anthology Meeting Across the River (Bloomsbury, 2005).

Rico Brooks

Bad Boy South Records? Rico Brooks is responsible for the leadership, coordination and overall direction of an individual, team of individuals and/or enterprise. As President of Block Entertainment and former Manager of Superstar Rapper Yung Joc, Manager of Rapper Gorilla Zoe, and Sonny Digital Rico Brooks leads his team to their current and future success.

Ralph Murphy
Born in England and raised in Canada, His first #1 Song in Europe was ?Call My Name? by James Royal (1966). In 1969 he moved to New York to produce the band April Wine (two gold albums, one platinum). In 1971, Ralph had his first Country hit in Nashville with ?Good Enough To Be Your Wife? #2 for Jeannie C. Riley. More hits followed ?He Got You? for Ronnie Milsap; ?Half The Way? for Crystal Gayle. He served as Vice President for ASCAP Nashville. His latest book is Murphy?s Laws of Songwriting. Ralph will conduct three days of songwriting clinics at the Cutting Edge.

Source: http://cuttingedgenola.com/2012/08/29/2012-press-release/

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