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If you are a country music singer, a band member or an independent artist, you don’t need to be told that marketing as well as promoting of your project that too with little funds is almost next to impossible. Financial-friendly techniques of promotion can help you but only to some extent, which makes it very clear that you need to know about the right techniques of music marketing for bands and independent artists. Online music marketing can be very beneficial for your independent band and if you are an independent singer.

The sole reason you use music marketing is for creating awareness about your project and also to create an effective fan following. Have you ever thought that online music marketing can automatically generate offline publicity as well? How? Using the correct techniques and tools of Internet can be extremely in favor of your promotion. Let us find out about these tips for better country music marketing for bands as well as independent artists.

Using social networking sites

You won’t deny the fact that one thing that travels even faster than light is news on social networking sites! Millions and millions of people login their Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, MySpace and LikedIn accounts everyday which means that if you start using these sites for promotion, you are already attracting atleast some part of this social networking population. Social networking sites offer you ready audience and you just need to advertise the product or your band or yourself as an independent artist to this set of population. With the audience already present, and with maximum crowd being youngsters, you will definitely find the best online music marketing here.  Read more...

You will discover multitudes of music genres in today’s musical world. Country music is just one of my favorites and so I thought I would provide a little bit of country history to the forefront. If you don’t know a great deal about country music suffice it to say that every country songs tell a story. It has been said most of these songs are about our lives, who we are and where we began. Country music made a couple of the most notable selling solo musical artists ever in the USA. Elvis Presley’s early career was certainly country hillbilly music and then he went on to become one of the defining figures in the birth of Rock n Roll. Garth Brooks is the second bestselling solo artist in United States history and has a popular show in Las Vegas. That’s quite a remarkable start. Going back in history, however, we find that Country music extends back to the early 1920′s in America and has its roots in classic folk music, Celtic music, Blues, Bluegrass and Gospel music. Early country music was termed “Hillbilly” music but the verbiage changed to Country Music in the early 1940′s. In its beginnings, Country music was pure American; the country music crowd was American, its artists were American and its tone was American.  Read more...

The LAVA Music is going to present the hottest Music on the Mountain concert Sunday, featuring Strait Country, a tribute to the music of George Strait, from 1 to 5 p.m. The outdoor concert takes place in Summer haven on Mount Lemmon. Kevin Sterner pays tribute to the music of Strait, performing hits such as “Amarillo by Morning,” “All My Ex’s Live in Texas,” “Ocean Front Property,” “The Chair” and more. Joe Nichols can surely hold his own as a classic country singer, but he credits two renowned performers on influencing his singing style Merle Haggard and George Strait. King George is also a role model for the ‘Gimmie That Girl’ singer in terms of a career, as well. The ratings and investigation company keeps track of the number of times. Each song is played on radio stations across the United States also has just released their report on the leading artists and songs of the last decade based on radio airplay.

Of the top ten artists, eight are from the country format including the man with the most number one records in history, the legendary artist George Strait, who comes in third behind Tim McGraw and Toby Keith. The well known Country music legend George Strait has scheduled an in-the-round concert for Rupp Arena in Lexington for September 10. Strait will be joined by other country music stars Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack. The concert is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The award-winning country singer, who spent earlier months canvassing the western half of the nation, begins the 11-city run with a Sept. 9 show in Columbus, OH, and is now slated to conclude with Oct. 22 stop in Fargo, ND. The full schedule is outlined at right. Strait continues to support his chart-topping 26th studio effort, “Twang,” which hit retailers last summer. Previously this month, the performer released “The Breath You Take,” the latest single from the album, which marks the 91st single of his career.  Read more...

The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress, the first Congress of its kind since the 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, will assemble film, video, new media artists, theorists, archivists, and curators from around the world, who will be in Toronto through April 11 for panels and discussions related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception. The International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) is an annual conference and trade show for professionals from the film festival industry who will be in Amsterdam through April 9 to participate in presentations, interactive panel discussions and networking events, and to look forward to the Dinner With Strangers event that allows attendees a unique and fun opportunity to meet and dine with festival colleagues from all over the world. The 2010 French Quarter Festival, opening April 9-11, highlights New Orleans’ signature music, food, and culture in the historic neighborhood, mostly by a musical smorgasbord of jazz, r&b, funk, folk, opera, gospel, blues, and brass bands, but also with over 105 food and beverage booths located in Jackson Square, Woldenberg Riverfront Park, and the Louisiana State Museum’s Old U.S. Mint, forming the “World’s Largest Jazz Brunch” with local cuisines from the area’s finest restaurants including such festival favorites as Jambalaya, Crawfish Bread, Gumbo, Red Beans and Rice, Muffaletta, Crawfish, and more.  Read more...

If you like country music and you consider you would like to receive some country guitar lessons, you might want to think about taking them online. As strange as it may seem, interactive guitar lessons are becoming more and more appealing, mainly because they are much more cost effective than spending time in a music studio, and people find them more convenient.

There is no simple way to be taught how to play the guitar. It calls for time and application on your part to get genuinely good at it. You simply have to work at it. But just like everything else in life, the more you get pleasure from what you are doing, the better you will be at it, and the simpler it will be as time goes on. There are various programs that have been prepared to educate people how to play country music that are enjoyable, reasonably priced, and you can start anytime you want.

Most of the legendary country songs tell a story, and they are all about emotion. Learning to play country music is not just about learning what chords to play, it is about making them sound good and communicating with your listeners. It is such a liberating feeling to realize that you are able to sit down with an instrument, and ultimately you won’t have to play someone else’s songs anymore. You will be able to make your own music.  It is feasible to take country guitar lessons from the comfort of your own home.  Read more...