How To Build A Music City

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CSA presents How To Build A Music City, Round 2.
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When: June 25, 530-8pm. (We’re working on an After Party, too.)
Where: Garden Theatre in the Short North.

What: Simply put, we’ve worked really hard to put this on. How To Build A Music City features 4 music industry experts from cities like Nashville and New York and 10 local leaders in music, arts, and commerce.

Why: Something special is happening. Songwriters, musicians, bands, and city champions are starting to work together to make music more valuable in Columbus. In the next year, we believe the City of Columbus will begin supporting local music unlike ever before. How To Build A Music City, Round 2 will showcase the heart of this movement.

This is the perfect event to get to know music industry experts who deal in artist management, publishing, and production for bands like Walk The Moon, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton, Justin Timberlake, and hundreds more like them. Bring your albums and demos. They’ll be much easier to talk to at How To Build A Music City than at a Billboard Conference, CMJ, or South by Southwest. Save yourself a plane ticket and claim your seat in Columbus!

How: We couldn’t put on How To Build A Music City without support from our Partners: Experience Columbus and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Thanks to our Promotional Supporters: WCBE and CD1025. Also, thanks to our Sponsor: Bell Tree Productions. Our Supporters: Dickson Creative, Frettie, Groove U, Small Business Beanstalk, Local Music Shelf, Yelp Columbus.

Members Only: Launch Party

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Launch Party

For the first time in our history, CSA is canceling our June Showcase and inviting members to a private Launch Party on May 31st!

There’s a lot happening in the Columbus music community. We want to devote an evening to sharing our vision. We’ll show you where we’re at, and where we’re headed.

To reserve seating, we’re sending this private invite to CSA Members, before we invite anyone else. If you’re a member, fill out the form below and we’ll send you more details.

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Ticket Hook Up

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CSA Founder, Joey Hendrickson, has been diving into Columbus’ jazz community, filling in as interim marketing director of Jazz Arts Group, and witnessing performances by the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and the many world class jazz musicians living in Columbus.

If you haven’t explored jazz music, there’s no better time. CSA members get a special deal on tickets to Jazz Arts Group’s finale concert, featuring multi grammy award winning composer, Maria Schneider. Showtimes are May 1-2 at 8PM, at the Southern Theatre.

To get the hook up, email us at ColumbusSongwritersAssociation@gmail.com with the subject “Ticket Hook Up” and we’ll send the code your way.

CSA at Startup Storytellers

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On Friday night, music and business came together in Columbus, unlike ever before.

Entrepreneurs shared the stage with songwriters. Both told their story, of how passion leads us to create something new and valuable for ourselves and others. Songwriters aren’t so different from entrepreneurs. Our songs are our way of impacting audiences. It’s just like an entrepreneur who creates a product to impact customers. We’re both creating, sometimes for different purposes, but sometimes for the same end goals. Either way, that creation process is strikingly similar.

On Friday night, people in the business and trep’ community learned what we know: Songwriters can live our passion like we mean business. We can use music to add value to our community. We can use music to impact lives, audiences, events, and commerce. We’re valuable to our city.

Relive it through the Instagram feed.
Highlights and video of the full event coming soon.

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Music Is Ketchup

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If you let it be.

As founder of Columbus Songwriters Association, I come from a zealous camp of thinking. I’m from a tribe of independent songwriters that want to make a living on our music, without performing 50 states and 5 continents to do it. When you think about streaming, and the 10,000% less royalties that are paid through it than other forms of royalties, the future doesn’t look very green for the copyright holder. Artists may justify this due to the promotion it brings to their live shows. But if you take performance out of the formula, the “to stream, or not to stream” debacle is simple: Control the access to your music.

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Synchronization: Tonight!

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Members: Kyler Merkley (left), music supervisor from Arpix Media is speaking tonight at Garden Theatre, at 7PM. If you’re interested in how music gets placed into television and film, please join us! Your ticket to the CSA Finale Showcase tomorrow night gets you in for free!

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