Tonight, Monday, October 28th at 7:00 p.m., our newest board member, Larry Thompson, will speak on Publishing and why it is important to anyone who writes songs. In addition, he has agreed to take over COMBO’s 2025 Songwriting Contest which will start February 1, 2025 and will end May 31st, 2025. Larry has been a songwriter for over 45 years and owns Brotherhood of the Hook Publishing Company. His career [Day Job!] has been in information services building databases and in software development. He is familiar with the DropBox program.
Larry has come up with a way to set up a DropBox so that COMBO will be able to electronically make the top 20 commercially viable songs available to major record companies, publishing companies, music supervisors, producers, A&R personnel, film and tv sync licensing companies, and to be available to streaming services (which will provide a revenue source from the COMBO publishing company to the writer(s)) under music company standards. Instrumental will be accepted with writer(s) information.
Songs entered into the contest will also be considered by Brotherhood of the Hook Publishing Company per agreement of the songwriter(s) and BHPC.
Board member Jamie Kruiz, a long-time musician and video producer, will moderate the meeting, and Todd Caron will organize the Q&A session!
We’re borrowing a term from today’s “rhetoric” since a “Town Hall” is basically a meeting where attendees get to know more about the issues! || From the internet: A town hall meeting is a public event where an official answers questions from the audience. Town hall meetings can also be used by companies to share information with [employees] (or, in COMBO’s case, members), or for community members to meet with the principals of the group. | Community town halls: A way for community members to meet with knowledgeable VIPs to discuss issues. A common format for community town halls is a panel discussion with a moderator and a panel of experts, followed by a Q&A.
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