Lock in Your Song Details and Own Your Music – Prove It Forever || COMBO Board Member Larry Thompson sent this information. Going into the future, this may be a good way to “copyright” your song without having to go through the forever-terminable process with the Library of Congress. And the way that is going may be “old news.” We have not had a chance to really check it out so have no idea of the cost. But if one of you songwriters wants to try it, please let us know what you find out. These would be time and date stamped and you would be provided with a receipt immediately! No waiting months for the LoC to get it done!
Proper Trail provides you three powerful capabilities:
PT Snapshot: Create professional ProperTrail snapshots with timestamps of your original work
Blockchain Digital Record (this would be MY choice): Permanently record your work on the Solana blockchain – Forever
Forever Storage: Permanently store your song details and it’s origins on Arweave – Forever .. ever … ever
Your Song – Your Details – Locked Forever
Create your account – submit your song details – Lock it in on the blockchain – and store it forever.
Watch the video here: https://propertrail.com/
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The 2024 Road Ready Talent Contest Grand Finale Live Event in Nashville was one for the books: Enter the 2025 Contest Now!
Congratulations to the 2024 Grand Prize winners, Beachmont! All of the finalists gave electrifying performances as they battled for the title and prizes, which included $20,000 in cash, a performance for a VIP audience, a feature in American Songwriter, a publishing deal opportunity, studio recording time, gear, and more.
Are You Next?
The 2025 American Songwriter Road Ready Talent Contest is Open Now – Deadline is August 25, 2025 | https://bit.ly/41f1JHv
Get a full recap of the event at the link!
https://americansongwriter.com/road-ready-talent-contest/
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Live Nation opening 18 new US venues – here’s where
By Erin Keller, The Independent
Live Nation Entertainment will open or break ground on 18 new music venues in the United States over the next 18 months.
The expansion, announced Tuesday, aims to bring music to smaller markets that may not have a venue nearby. This includes a mix of intimate clubs, theaters, and large-scale outdoor amphitheaters in cities around the nation.
In a news release, the entertainment giant revealed that this investment will total $1 billion.
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Go here to read more. New venue to be built in Denver:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/live-nation-opening-18-new-us-venues-here-s-where/
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Denver Creates: City Announces New Cultural Plan
By Patricia Calhoun, Westword
More than forty years ago, 36-year-old dark-horse candidate Federico Peña rode to victory as Denver’s mayor under the banner “Imagine a Great City.” Under Peña, the city released its very first arts plan in 1989. Twenty-five years later, after the merger of the Theatres & Arenas Division and the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs into Denver Arts & Venues, the city revealed a new plan in 2014, Imagine 2020.
And now, five years and a pandemic after that plan expired, the city just announced Denver Creates, a roadmap for the next decade.
Mayor Mike Johnston, himself somewhat of a dark horse elected mayor of Denver in 2023, announced the plan to a large gathering at the McNichols Building in the heart of an “arts city” that already has a world-famous venue in Red Rocks, as well as the largest performing arts complex in the country. Now it’s also going to celebrate the “rich and diverse community of artists,” he said, outlining the four parts of this “incredibly exciting” plan.
The first is that “Denver should be in the business of opening the canvas of this city for more and more artists,” he said, which means opening up the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “Even the biggest stages in the city are open to all artists,” Johnston added.
Read the full article here with lots more details:
https://www.westword.com/arts/denver-creates-new-ten-year-cultural-plan-for-city-24534977
[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! http://www.femmusic.com]