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Austin Music Foundation Newsletter
August 12, 2009
Follow the Money: Music Industry Boot Camp on Monday
In This Issue:
Music Industry Boot Camp
Austin Music Mixer
Whole Foods Music at the Market
In Brief
Upcoming CD Releases
Gina Chavez Helps Kids in El Salvador
An Easy Way to Support Austin Musicians
Share Your News with AMF
AMF is very happy to welcome Todd & Jeff Brabec back to Austin. You won't want to miss these music & money maestros at Music Industry Boot Camp on Monday!
Musically yours,
Austin Music Foundation
Music Industry Boot Camp
AMF Welcomes Back the Brabecs
AMF is thrilled to welcome back national speakers, authors, and music industry experts, Jeff & Todd Brabec. They're returning to Austin to share their expertise on how you can make money with your music.
Music and Money: The Deal and Everything Else You Want To Know About Making Money In Music
Monday, August 17
6:30 pm
Antone's
213 West Fifth Street
(Boot Camp attendees pay NO COVER to stay and see The Sideshow Tragedy)
Todd and Jeff Brabec, authors of Music Money and Success: The Insiders Guide to Making Money in The Music Business, discuss the many licensing and revenue opportunities available to songwriters in the digital and traditional worlds of music.
They'll cover the structure of deals, the main points of negotiation and the actual dollars paid for music used in videogames, motion pictures and television episodes, downloads and streaming, ringtones and ringbacks, advertising commercials and more. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and foreign-country uses will also be discussed.
Jeff and Todd will answer audience questions and will have signed copies of their book available for $15.
Music Industry Boot Camp is open to the public and FREE to attend. There's NO COVER for Boot Camp attendees to stay and see The Sideshow Tragedy at 9:30.
Boot Camp FAQs
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Austin Music Mixer
Join AMF for the next Austin Music Mixer:
Tuesday, August 18
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Threadgill's (in the bar)
South 1st & Red River
It's not what you know, it's who you know! Add some girth to your address book at AMF's Austin Music Mixer. Join the AMF staff to rub elbows with musicians and industry pros alike. You never know who you might meet or who you might miss . . . so don't miss it!
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Whole Foods Music at the Market
Have dinner at Whole Foods and enjoy FREE live music every Thursday evening.
Thursdays 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Whole Foods at 6th & Lamar
August 13 - Dustin Welch
Dustin Welch is a refreshingly old soul with youthful vibrancy. When you hear him perform original songs like “Whiskey Priest” or “Poor House,” it is impossible to ignore his thick roots in rock and folk meshed with clear lyrical innovation. While his contemporaries claim influences such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dave Matthews, Dustin gives inspirational credit to geniuses like Faulkner and Steinbeck – an approach unparalleled by any songwriter his age.
August 20 - India Taylor
India performs original songs that celebrate well-being, practice thankfulness, and cultivate happiness. As she shares the most poignant thoughts, humorous ideas, and uplifting realizations from her life, you'll feel your own soul sing.
August 27 - Ray Bonneville
Bonneville is a distinctive artist, a man who cooks up a deep groove, blending a unique percussive electric guitar style, a weathered voice, and soulful rack harmonica into image-provoking songs that can be believed.
September 3 - WinoVino
 Over the past couple years, there has emerged here a community of Pre-Folk players that have been upending the city’s sound with wild Appalachian stomps and Old World odes. Among the forefront of this crop is WinoVino, an octet that unleashes ribald gypsy anthems that melds Balken flair with fervent energy and attitude as their stellar musicianship brings the Old World anachronistically to bear on the modern.
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In Brief
Momo's 9th Anniversary
Happy Birthday Dear Momo's . . . Happy Birthday to you! Momo's is celebrating its 9th anniversary the last weekend in August, so be sure to drop by and pay your respects. There's great music all weekend long.
All the best to Paul & Kate!
Band Loses It All in Fire
Sallie Crewe and her band's house burned down recently, and they lost everything. Most pressing, they are going on tour next week and lost all their instruments.
If you would like to help replace/loan needed items, please contact the Nomad Bar Facebook page or nomadbar@gmail.com or call 512 628-4288.
El Sol y La Luna Adds Live Music
El Sol y La Luna, which recently moved to Red River & 6th from their South Congress location, is excited to offer live music to its patrons. Tish Hinojosa will be joining them on Saturday, August 22 from 8:00 - 11:00 pm. Call the restaurant for tix or for more info, 444-7770.
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Gina Chavez Helps Kids in El Salvador
One of Austin's favorite songbirds is taking leave of our fair city to spend some time south of the border - way south. Gina Chavez will be spending about 10 months in El Salvador where she'll be teaching kids.
Please join Gina at a benefit concert to raise funds for kids in her temporary new home.
Sunday, September 6
8:00 pm
El Sol y La Luna
6th & Riverside
There will be performances by John Pointer, Cerronato, Dave Thies, Vanessa Lively, Billy Wilson, Paul Finley, and special guests Haydn Vitera &Michael Ramos. $10 at the door, free giveaways.
More info
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Upcoming CD Releases
Bruce James Soultet
Saturday, August 15
9:00 pm
The Continental Club
Aly T adros
Saturday, August 22
9:00 pm
The Hideout Theatre
$12 presale, $15 at door
(presale tickets available at www.alytadros.com & include a free album)
Douglas Jay Boyd & Alyse Back to open
Spacious and melodic, salty and moving, Aly Tadros alternative folk stylings tempts each listener out of the vacuum-sealed sterility of every day life. Her classical guitar writhes on the floor of the mind, haunted by the honesty of her lyrics. Influences range from the off-kilter Tom Waits, to the commanding Ani DiFranco, and the captivating Fiona Apple. That gutsy attitude is sewn throughout Aly's debut album, Things Worth Keeping. Recorded and produced by Duane Lundy (Ben Sollee, These United States, Vandaveer), Things Worth Keeping is will be surrounded by a developing four month US tour that Aly, at the ripe old age of 22, is booking independently.
 Darling New Neighbors
Saturday, August 22
8:00 pm
Carousel Lounge
The show's line-up reflects the high-low, east-west nature of Darling New Neighbors’ musical relations. Other featured performers include the powerful drum corps Austin Samba School, San Antonio punkrockers Piñata Protest, scintillating rapper MC Sweet Tea, and the Slavic/ gypsy outfit Kolorash. Darling New Neighbors are debuting their hotshot drummer Karl Lundin (Mandible) and a newborn (also hot) brass section, enlisted from 100 Flowers, Karaoke Underground, and Olivier Giraud.
Unfettered by indie-rock orbits, new release Rocket explores a range from wry folk (“Gasoline”) to dominatrix hard-rock (“Take It”), from angelic pop (“Sydney”) to distinctive Latin (“Tango”).
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Thursday, September 3
The Elephant Room
9:30 pm - 1:30 am
As soon as you start the first track on "Rise," their first official studio release, you are hit square on the down beat with about:blank’s unique and fun mix of funk, jazz, ska and rock.
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An Easy Way to Support Austin Musicians
Become a member of AMF!
Austin Music Foundation is one of only a handful of nonprofits in the country that provides music-business education opportunities to local musicians for FREE.
Our local music scene is a primary source of Austin's cultural vibrancy and something we all love. For our music scene to thrive, our musicians must thrive as well. Especially in times of a faltering economy, it's important that musicians have the business skills to make a living from their art.
That's what we do at Austin Music Foundation--provide classes and seminars that help demystify the business side of the music industry. So that musicians can make a better living doing what they love.
Please consider becoming a member of Austin Music Foundation. Your membership contribution directly supports our educational programs for musicians and provides nifty membership perks too.
Austin Music Foundation--giving musicians the tools to improve their careers since 2002.
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