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ProMusicU Career Seminar coming to the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis
Memphis, TN. The Center for Southern Folklore will host ProMusicU, a weekend-long intensive music career seminar, on March 21-22, 2009. The ProMusicU program offers a comprehensive introduction to the nuts-and-bolts realities of a career in the music industry, providing instruction, inspiration and guidance to aspiring artists, songwriters, and music business professionals in all genres.
Based out of Nashville, ProMusicU travels to locations across the country to offer full-day and multi-day seminars, consisting of a variety of courses offered concurrently over the course of the event. Courses are divided by topic into three tracks: music business, songwriting, and musical/performance skills, and taught by committed professionals with years of collective experience in their field.
The program is overseen by an Advisory Board that includes hit songwriters, music business professors, music publishers, representatives of performing rights organizations and record labels, and successful independent artists. Many of the course offerings, particularly in the business track, have been designed by members of the Advisory Board in their respective areas of expertise as well as by the instructors themselves. The ProMusicU website, www.promusicu.com, lists the potential course offerings as well as bios and backgrounds of the instructors and Advisory Board members.
Registration for the March 21-22 event in Memphis is $199, with a discounted rate of $159 available to members of the Memphis Songwriters Association or the Nashville Songwriters Association International. To register, visit the official ProMusicU website at www.promusicu.com.
The Center for Southern Folklore is a non-profit organization that showcases and celebrates the culture - the foods, the music, the arts, the traditions, the stories - of the South. Located at 119 S. Main Street at the Peabody Place Trolley Stop in the heart of Memphis, the Center is a short walk from Beale Street , the South Main Historic District, and the Mississippi River. The Center is renowned for presenting top Memphis musical attractions, and will present a concert on Saturday, March 21st featuring a prominent Memphis artist as well as performances by members of the ProMusicU faculty. ProMusicU attendees will be admitted free but the concert is also open to the public; tickets are available through the Center’s website at www.southernfolklore.org.
