Creedence Clearwater Revisited Headlines ‘Concert for a Cause’ to Benefit the Museum of Making Music and Friends of San Pasqual Academy
NAMM’s Museum of Making Music (MoMM) and Friends of San Pasqual Academy have joined forces to present a show from Creedence Clearwater Revisited on Wednesday, September 25, at the Belly Up Tavern, in…
Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound 2019: A Changing Show Grapples with its Identity
That the Musikmesse gathering has been going through a challenging “transitional period” for the past few years is no secret. Anyone who visited the show 10 or 15 years ago…
Sounds Flat? Try Tuning up Your Brain
Listening is the musician’s currency. When something interferes with listening, it can be torture, especially for the performing artist. 50 million people in America today have reported ringing in the…
The Magic Moment
Let’s be honest: the music business is one made up of conversationalists and sales people. It is a marketplace of unusual buyers and sellers. As owners and managers, we must…
Home Studios Are Becoming Hubs for the Next Generation of Media
Professional audio is one of the more difficult markets to measure. Drummers buy sticks and guitarists buy strings, but at a time when every guitarist, keyboardist, drummer, and vocalist is…
Submissions Open for the 2019 She Rocks Showcase Nashville
The Women’s International Music Network (the WiMN) has announced open submissions for their 2019 She Rocks Showcase, scheduled during the Summer NAMM conference in Nashville. Now in its sixth year, the She Rocks Showcase…
The Retail Training Summit Returns to Summer NAMM
The Retail Training Summit returns to Summer NAMM (July 18-20) in Nashville as the premier one-day training opportunity for music retail businesses. Designed for all levels of retail expertise, the…
Trade Regrets: Gary DeShazo
On April 15, we received the following news from NAMM‘s Dan Del Fiorentino: Rosi Johnson sent us the sad news that Gary DeShazo passed away yesterday. Gary began his musical…
All the World’s a Stage: The Digital Stage Piano Market
Stage digital pianos differ from home digital consoles or portable digital keyboards – as you’d likely expect. Aside from differences in construction and appearance, these instruments need to provide the…
Key Leaves Wins Award for ‘Best Instrument Care Tool’
Photo by Zorn B. Taylor Rulon Brown, a saxophonist and music teacher, launched Key Leaves from his Issaquah garage in January 2018. Only 13 months after launching, Key Leaves won…
Gibson’s Cesar Gueikian Sheds Light on Changes Afoot at the Iconic Company
In late October of last year, after a long period of what appeared to be dark days for Gibson Brands (culminating with the company filing for bankruptcy in the Spring…
DANSR’s Michael Skinner Celebrates 15 Years
You could call DANSR the gateway to good wind instrument playing. Between the four business partners, the Illinois-based company has ties to Jones Double Reeds, Denis Wick, and Vandoren, working…