COMBO MUSIC EXPO - SUNDAY, APRIL 18th, 2010!

Put this date on your calendar NOW: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. We’re going to be holding an exposition at Red & Jerry’s, Oxford and Santa Fe, in their events center. All kinds of musician's services – from recording studios to CD duplicators to clothiers to music instrument supply stores – will be there to connect with musicians from all over the Front Range area.

On the agenda as well will be short seminars presented by professionals on topics such as “Be the Media - Podcasting and Broadcasting Your Music”, “Publishing: What Is It and Why Do You Need It”, “Basics of Gigging”, “DIY Band Management”, “What is Mastering?”, and more. And COMBO member bands will be playing on the CarToys/AfterShock stage!

We have started sending out the invitations with very positive results. Current sponsors include CODA, Inc., CarToys, Cherry Sound Studios, The Colorado Wave, Marquee Magazine, and Red & Jerry’s. Look for more info coming soon. We have room for more “vendors” – if you or someone you know might be interested, send us a message to info@coloradomusic.org. We have a limited number of spaces available so first come, first served!

www.coda-inc.com
www.cartoys.com
www.redandjerrys.com
www.cherrysoundstudios.com
www.thecoloradowave.com

Participants as of this writing (more on the way):
ASCAP (musicians' royalties, etc.)
Asilomar Records (record label)
BMI (musicians' royalties, etc.)
CarToys
Cherry Sound Studios (recording company)
CODA, Inc. (CD duplicating/replicating)
Colorado Contemporary Music College
Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA)
Evolution Marketing Group
GigStar Talent Agency
Marquee Magazine
Mars Amp Repair
Rock Star Marketing
Shadow Sportswear
Stan Soocher - Author of "They Fought the Law..."

Don’t get left out! Sign your business up NOW... If you are interested in participating in the Expo, send us a note to: info@coloradomusic.org

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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!

We want to welcome COMBO's new members The Stellar Atlas (Rudy Weimer, Joey Briggs, Alex Roger and Taylor Tuke); Mike Pert; Carol Wedgwood; Jack Gaffney (12 year old pianist); Thomas Hine; Richard Schwering; and Nines a Pair. We are proud to have you in our organization!

www.myspace.com/stellaratlas
www.stpatricksdistributing.com
www.myspace.com/thomashinelink
www.jackgaffneymusic.com

If you haven't yet, please consider joining COMBO or renew your past COMA membership into a COMBO membership. We have newly designed membership cards that will help you to get discounts on many services and products if presented at a participating business. And some businesses will even give you a discount just 'cause you tell them you came into THEIR store 'cause you figured they were a business member of COMBO! And don't forget -- one of the best perks of membership is a free bar code for your CD or DVD!



COMBO’S BAND SHOWCASE AT THE D-NOTE IN ARVADA...

The D-Note in Arvada is hosting COMBO’s Band Showcase. The next one will be held Tuesday, February 16th starting at 7:00 p.m. Featured artists will be Ron Sanchez, The Mangy Old Dirt Dogs, and Wil Key. Show ends at 10:30 so you’ll be home early enough to go to work on Wednesday!

Contact Steve Werges at SteveWerg@aol.com if you are interested in performing.

Go to www.ascap.com for more information.



COLORADO COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME FESTIVAL

Where: Gala Gardens, 8383 Rosemary Street, Commerce City, Colorado
When: Thursday thru Sunday, August 19th - 22nd
Time: Th-Sa shows start at 7:00 p.m.; Sunday show is at 2:00 p.m.
Cost: Cover to be determined (more info later)

The 2010 CCMHOF Festival will feature a pro talent only contest to select male & female vocalist and an instrumentalist for 2010. The Entertainer of the Year and Band of the Year will be judged on 2010 Activities.

Schedule as follows:

Th, Aug. 19th - 7:00 p.m. - Bert Sims Band / Pro Talent Contest
Fr, Aug. 20th - 7:00 p.m. - Colorado Storm Band / Grand CCMHOF Showcase Night
Sa, Aug. 21st - 7:00 p.m. - Jim Hyatt Band / Special Showcase
Su, Aug.22nd - 2:00 p.m. - Sarah Chlarson Show / Awards & Winners’ Showcase

Anyone can attend the Colorado Country Music Hall Of Fame Festival but you must be a CCMHOF member to perform on stage and/or compete in the Pro Talent Contest.

For entry or more information call Sheila Gaccetta - 720-859-8988; www.ccmhof.com

There is also a songwriting competition for Country and Gospel CCMHOF member songwriters. Contact Fred Martin (720-266-0674) for more information and an application.



ST. JUDE’S SONGWRITERS’ SUPPER: UNDER THE AUGUST MOON

Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Polson Farm 5201 Manhart Street (CO Hwy 67), Sedalia, Colorado 80135
Cost: $125 per person

An annual Colorado Event featuring four songwriters from Nashville in-the-round. Each songwriter takes a turn presenting songs they wrote for famous recording artists. They explain why they wrote each song and the details surrounding each song, then they play them the way they originally wrote them. All done while you eat a wonderful dinner and enjoy the sounds; all to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

For more information, contact: 303-377-9987 or stacey.jones@stjude.org

Thank you!

Roni Lambrecht
Ph: 303-716-0521
Fx: 303-987-0681
Email: cci@comcast.net
Event Website: www.StJude.org/SongwritersSupper

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is ever denied treatment because of the family's inability to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization.



FARMERS’ MARKETS LOOKING FOR ENTERTAINERS

My name is Dan Borgmann and owner of Vendor Hippo here in Colorado. Vendor Hippo is a farmers market and agriculture support company.

Per the request of our farmers market owners across Colorado, we have created a musicians contact area on our website www.vendorhippo.com. Basically, we are allowing local artists to post their profiles on our site where market owners can browse and connect with those they would like to have perform at their events. We do not charge anyone for this service. We simply want to connect artists with possible employment and provide our owners with a nice service.

You can see the setup on the site in the "entertainment" portion of our services. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at the eddress listed below.

Thank you,

Daniel Borgmann
Vendor Hippo, LLC
www.vendorhippo.com
dan@vendorhippo.com

Editor’s note: Please make sure you/your band provide “family-friendly” entertainment as there are children at these markets. Also, if you book with someone, be sure and check to make sure what kind of a sound system is provided, if any. Some of these events may not be able to present a full band.



KUDOS TO WES & VICTORIA HAMILL!

A record label out of Hamburg Germany doing a special Vietnam theme’d project called Next Stop Vietnam has asked for permission to include Wes & Victoria Hamill’s tune “The Ballad of Billy Saigon” on the project which will be a "coffee table book" and multi CD compilation package and will hit the street this coming June.

Check out some of the other artists they have on this project (this is from their info release):
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Tim Hardin, Donovan, Bruce Springsteen, The Doors, Ernest Tubbs, Glen Campbell, Country Joe & The Fish, The Fugs, Plastic Ono Band, Bob Dylan, Bellamy Brothers, Jim Reeves, Donovan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, J.B. Lenoir, Pete Seeger, Country Joe McDonald, a.m.o.

That's right...The Ballad of Billy Saigon from Wes & Victoria has been licensed to them for inclusion in this project with all these other great artists... Wes & Victoria are excited and grateful that the record label loved the tune and that the song will be included....

Also, Wes & Victoria are finally getting the Native Americana CD “White Man Red Road” out into the world....its on iTunes worldwide along with the remastered (and much warmer sounding) Ballad of Billy Saigon. Links:

www.wesandvictoria.com
www.babamuse.com

iTunes - Remastered Billy Saigon
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-ballad-billy-saigon-remastered/id338362327

White Man Red Road
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/white-man-red-road/id338332726



CONGRATULATIONS TO “THE INFORMANTS”!

The Informants just won the International Blues Competition for the best self-produced CD!! Way to go!!



WAY TO GO, MATT MORRIS!

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_14282071?source=rss

Matt Morris is undeniably hot right now, and the timing couldn't be better for the Denver songwriter. He recently appeared with friend (and fellow ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake on the "Hope for Haiti Now" benefit, and just released his debut, "When Everything Breaks Open." In fact, at one point, three of the top five most popular entries on our denver post.com/reverb blog last week were Morris-related. He plays the Bluebird Theater on Feb. 25 — his biggest Denver date so far. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($10-$12, Ticketmaster) 



CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY WINNERS!

From AirShow Mastering:
We're proud to celebrate this week as two Airshow clients walked off the stage this past weekend holding Grammy statues! Charlie Pilzer, in his last year on the NARAS DC Chapter Board of Governors, was on the scene in Los Angeles to join the festivities and report back the details of the ceremony. Congratulations to Los Texmaniacs, taking home Best Tejano Album for their release Borders Y Bailes on Smithsonian Folkways and to David Darling, taking home Best New Age Album for his release Prayer For Compassion on Wind Over the Earth. Thanks for making Airshow a part of the production. Be sure to watch the Airshow Blog this week for Charlie's Grammy tales.

www.airshowmastering.com



MORE CONGRATULATIONS TO TERRI FISHER - 5 STAR TALENT!

Terri Fisher, President and Owner of 5 Star Talent & Entertainment, Inc., was honored at the Metro North Chamber's Annual Gala event with "Small Business Person of the Year." This unique, prestigious award recognizes an individual who best represents the entrepreneurial spirit and has shown outstanding support to the Chamber an the Metro North Chamber membership.

5 Star Talent and Entertainment was voted Number 1 Best Entertainment on Channel 7’s A-List team in 2008 and Third place in 2009. As President of 5 Star, wife, mom and grandma to eleven grandchildren, her days are filled with creating excitement, non-stop events and activities. Terri has exciting plans to take her entertainment company to “the next level” in 2010.



FROM HAYLAR GARCIA...

Hey everyone, please shoot this link to EVERYONE you can think of and ask them to please FORWARD IT LIKE WILDFIRE.

We have knocked out about 1,300 hits in under three days. But we need this thing to go global to prove to Hollywood that people want to see an animated film like this.

So we are staging a huge push for this all this week, so forward, forward, forward!!

THANKS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_MG8R7pjiw&feature=related



ARTICLE ON THE HALF-TIME SHOWS AT THE SUPER BOWL

By Ken Belson Published: February 2, 2010

Once upon a time, a Super Bowl halftime show meant Carol Channing, college marching bands, Up With People and salutes to Louis Armstrong. These days, headliners like the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney happily line up to play a 12-minute set.

This year, the Who is headlining the show, a curious choice because the band has not released an album of new songs in four years and its first farewell tour was in 1982, before many people who will be watching the game were born.

Bill Curbishley, the Who’s manager for 39 years, jumped at the chance to play. Performing at the Super Bowl, he knows, means reaching about 100 million television viewers, a great way to promote the band’s new greatest hits album, publicize a coming tour and reach fans who might know the Who only because its songs are heard on the “CSI” television shows.

“I don’t think it will sell millions and millions of albums, but it will definitely have an impact,” Curbishley said. “If you get into people’s consciousness, it helps.”

The results are often immediate. In the week after Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the Super Bowl two years ago, sales of the band’s greatest hits album tripled, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Their songs also climbed the charts before the Super Bowl because of commercials publicizing the halftime show during playoff games.

The N.F.L. does not pay an appearance fee, though it does cover all of the expenses for the band and its often ample entourage of several dozen stagehands, family and friends.

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/sports/football/03halftime.html



MOVIE FOR FEBRUARY: CADILLAC RANCH

Our suggested movies will be ones that involve the business of making music – not the “song & dance” movies. All movies will teach you something about the music business.

Cadillac Ranch, starring Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, and Beyonce Knowles (as Etta James), features the music of the great artists of the 1950's and is the story of the beginnings of rock & roll. It is a Sony Music Film with Paramount Pictures released in 2008. It is “R” rated so put the kids to bed before watching. But it’s really good and is an eye-opener.

Read more at: http://movies.tvguide.com/cadillac-records/review/296049

“Any one of the seven main characters featured in writer/director Darnell Martin's 2008 blues-biopic Cadillac Records could have garnered their own film. The life of rock & roll icon Chuck Berry alone, played here by the charmingly sly and underutilized Mos Def, includes enough musical innovation and run-ins with the law to fill several cinematic installments. Instead, Martin chooses to detail the rise to prominence of the legendary Chicago-based Chess Records label founded in 1950 by producer Leonard Chess (Adrian Brody) and featuring his roster of influential blues artists, including guitarist/vocalist Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), harmonica player Little Walter (Columbus Short), guitarist/vocalist Howlin' Wolf (Eamonn Walker), and singer Etta James (Beyonce Knowles).

The story, told through voice-over narration from Cedric the Entertainer in an understated and folksy performance as Chess bassist and musical mastermind Willie Dixon, begins in the '40s and is a basic American dream fable in which Chess, a Polish immigrant, goes from being a bar owner and record label huckster to one of the first rock & roll impresarios. At the same time, Dixon tells us how Waters, discovered by musicologist Alan Lomax on a plantation in Mississippi, goes from being an acoustic country bumpkin to an urban guitar-slinger. Eventually, Chess and Waters cross paths, pay off several disc jockeys to get the records they record played on the radio, and use their earnings to open the Chess Records studio. The rest is musical history as we see how the success of other Chess artists like Chuck Berry helped integrate the segregated music audiences of the '50s, kick starting the rock & roll era.”

www.cadillacrecordsmovie.net
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/cadillacrecords



BOOK FOR FEBRUARY:

Making a Living in Your Local Music Market by former Colorado resident, professor, and music writer Dick Weissman, © 1990, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 7777 West Bluemound Road, P.O. Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213. While this book is 20 years old, it still contains very valuable information on how you really can get paid for the work you do in the business of music.

Don’t forget: Even if you don’t have the money to buy or rent a DVD or a book, there are libraries. Yes, they still exist... and they not only loan you books, but many of them also have DVDs to loan out as well.

You also might be interested in reading a new book out: I am Ozzie.

http://www.spinner.com/2010/01/27/ozzy-osbourne-memoir/?icid=main|main|dl2|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spinner.com%2F2010%2F01%2F27%2Fozzy-osbourne-memoir%2F

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Musical term: “Claque” = Hired groups of people paid to applaud an opera singer or some other performer (could this be where “clique” comes from – as in “You’re not a member of the claque/clique???)

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COMBO General Policies

The COMBO Board of Directors prefers not to endorse any activities which require us to pick and choose among our members.

COMBO does not wish to duplicate the efforts of our members. For example: Instead of starting up our own booking agency, we connect member musicians and venues with established booking agencies who are also COMBO members.

COMBO supports the rights of all musical artists to get paid for their works, in all forms, including live performances and recordings.

Monthly meetings of the Colorado Music Association, d/b/a Colorado Music Business Organization (“COMBO”), and their content are copyrighted by the Colorado Music Association for the private use of its members and its audience. Private and non-commercial use of photographs, videos and sound recordings of the meetings are granted without required authorization. Any other uses of any other visual and/or sound medium are prohibited without the express written consent of the Colorado Music Association.

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Check out Colorado Free University at www.freeu.com. The university is offering classes in Basic Audio Production, beginning classes in voice, piano, songwriting, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, blues harmonica -- even workshops on how to get into the voice-over business!


The Swallow Hill Music Organization always has lots going on. Check out their website at www.swallowhillmusic.org for concerts, festivals, band camps, and more!

  
- Rocky Mountain Recorders