Creating generations of innovations- one meeting at a time- Business Policy that Rocks!
Anaheim, NAMM, Winter Trade Meeting is synonymous with huge crowds, incredible equipment, fine instruments, perpherals, picks, online and in the computer software, interactive learning apps and all around synergy between fine instrument manufacturers, new companies, and ancient technologies.
The Daily tradeshow publication describes booming technology and all around there are meetings, collaborative sponsorships, store owners learning how to be better businesses and drive music, participation, and pedagogy in the direction of creating, maintaining, and developing new artists, new classes, new audiences and new jobs.
From awards from overseas, to up coming conferences, from teens learning to job hunt, and 8th graders playing rock n' roll, from brass bands to ESEA and copyright issues, from trademarks to SCORE, Joe Lamond, the membership, the driving corporations and the associated industry affiliates, universities, colleges, business services, and recreational music makers cultivate more and more interest in music as business and the business of music of unifying disparate opinions, building long term friendships and creating new things to talk about.
NAMM continues to connect community businesses, recording artists, luthiers, nonprofits, teachers and music publishers that are the backbone of local communities. A local publisher for example comes to the show to market products nationally, regionally, and worldwide. Whether microenterprises, large multinational corporations, local factories, distributors, magazines, or subdistributors, the tradeshow continues year after year to innovate, move forward on multiple fronts, and invests through their foundation in researching what will make people happier, healthier, more expressive, (even richer) in a competitive and complex economic world. From the IDEAS booth to community drum circles, from meeting with the next generation and teaching them how to work a tradeshow, NAMM is a live demonstration of lifelong learning, craft and craftiness, and players and educators coming together for All Star Guitar Night, bowling, receptions of foreign guests, local leadership, museum curators, and archivists. From the John Lennon Bus tour to gospel choirs, from streaming media to sustainable manufacturing, the show is awash with engineers who wire the best microphones, software and hardware manufacturers, cymbals, new electronic violins to indian flutes and prairie drums.
Bravo to NAMM for inviting so much collaboration, competition, trade education, and significant social policy year, after year, after year. Yesterday president and ceo, Joe Lamond received the first Global Sonar Award from the International Society for Music Education from its president, Graham Welch. He was recognized for supporting the cause of music and music education in the U.S. and worldwide. The Namm Foundation has reinvested nearly $80M dollars to promote music making for people of all ages. By helping direct interest, research, and access through its grants, its programs, grantees, and initiatives are bringing the wider benefits of music, including its cognitive impact on children to center stage. By supporting learners of all ages, and providers with tools and best practices the award celebrates Joe, the Foundation, and NAMM for its socio-emotive, physical, and intellectual contributions that have led to the development in of programs in schools in underserved communities and across several generations. For more information about the ISME's Music Paedeia conference this July in Thessaloniki, Greece, or about the guests and issues addressed by guitarist Stanley Jordan, Dr. Barry Bittman, Mary Luerhsen, panelists, and guests talk to Sandra Jordan at
skjordanconsult@gmail.com,
healthrhythms@remo.com, or
isme@isme.org.
Events:
http://www.namm.org/nammu/presenters/joe-lamond www.nammfoundation.org/support-music
http://www.menc.org/supportmusic_cases http://allstarguitarnight.com/ http://www.remo.com/portal/pages/hr/learnmore/Recreational+Music+Making.html Advocacy:
http://www.nammfoundation.org/ http://www.nammfoundation.org/support-music/support-music-teleconference-archives http://advocacy.nafme.org/ www.createjobsforusa.org
Foreign Guests:
http://musik.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/willkommen.html http://coalitionformusiced.ca http://www.australian-music-ed.info/History/index.html http://www.mec.org.uk/ Upcoming Conventions:
www.isme.org/2012
www.thessaloniki360.com
www.musicedventures.org
www.printmusic.org
Tradeshows:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=226826 www.namm.org/summer
Taskforces and Initiatives:
RMM@namm.org http://www.namm.org/initiatives/rmm http://www.namm.org/node/9464 http://www.nammfoundation.org/support-music/executive-summary Career Clusters:
http://www.careertech.org/career-clusters/glance/clusters.html New ideas coming from visitors- support teachers, go to festivals, learn about programs:
www.ischoolmusic.org
www.festivalsofmusic.com
www.manilowmusicproject.com
www.DABECalifornia.com
www.campookoolaylay.wordpress.com (august 28-24th uke camp)
Associations, Foundations, NAMM partner nonprofits and visiting projects and cbos:
http://littlekidsrock.org/ http://www.onewaymagazine.com/feature_6-464.html www.hessaloniki360.com
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e4xxm4kr7c53253d&llr=5w7ndndab www.charismafoundation.org
www.instrumentsofchange.com
Online resources:
http://musicalresiliency.org/ http://oasishumidifiers.com http://www.kulakswoodshed.com/ International Education Goals - preschool and high school research on participatory learning and finding one's voice:
http://www.unicef.org/mdg/education.html http://www.voicesofyouth.org/posts/unicef-plans-to-expand-innovative-pre-school-programme http://www.educationandtransition.org/resources/youth-participation-success-for-research-and-for-our-future/