Go Global International Showcase - GMA Week
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Go Global International Showcase - April 21, 2007 Saturday, April 21 3:30 - 6pm at The Global Cafe! The talented lineup to perform includes: Tammy Trent In the five years since Trent 's death on Sept. 11, 2001, Tammy has-step by step-gathered up the courage to walk through the doors God has opened. Through tears, she's shared her and Trent's story of love and loss, as well as her music, before thousands at Women of Faith and REVOLVE conferences. Hear her inspiring testimony and new music from the album I See Beautiful. Electric Church Get ready for an explosion of funk, R&B & soul sprinkled with a little rock flavor and some lyrical rhymes to top it off! If u don't already know - front man "toddiefunk" is the bass man for Grammy Award winning artist, "tobyMac." Don't miss Electric Church jammin' tunes from Ready or Not straight outta the funk lab! Travis Taylor In a never-ending search to bring honest ideas and fresh sounds to the worship music forum, Travis Taylor writes music that is heartfelt, and continually s tretching the boundaries and limitations of worship music. Taking the lead from the British worship movement of years gone by and running with it, his music is melodic and reverent without losing the ability to grip your heart and force it to pay attention to the beauty and mystery of our Heavenly Father. Annie Moses Band Extraordinary musicianship, strings and vocal performance – see this 12 piece band live...again! New album with producer Michael Omartian coming Fall 2007! Krissy Nordhoff Lifting a pure voice of praise to God. New songs. New album - Downpour. Special International Guest: Debbie. For the first time in the US, hear Thailand's most well known Christian artist. Thailand's 700 Club Host. Coffee & tea, drinks and desserts will be served. Plus door prizes, free giveaways and other surprise guests to appear... Join us at the Global Cafe in downtown Nashville for this exciting event. Please RSVP to ericnordhoff@comcast.net The Global Cafe 322 Broadway – Downtown Nashville, TN Within walking di stance from the Renaissance Hotel and Hilton Hotel.

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KRISSY NORDHOFF AND TRAVIS TAYLOR SET TO PERFORM AT GMA'S INDIE EXTREME SHOWCASE
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INDIE EXTREME TO MAKE NASHVILLE INTRODUCTION WITH INDEPENDENT ARTIST SHOWCASE DURING GMA MUSIC WEEK 2007

Hit CCM Singer-Songwriter Matt Brouwer to Headline April 23 Event

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 2007) – The independent label management firm Indie Extreme will introduce itself to Music City by staging the first Independent Artist Showcase at the Rutledge in downtown Nashville from 6-9 p.m. on April 23 (Monday).

The event, which is an official part of GMA Music Week 2007, will end with an 8:30 p.m. performance by hit contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Matt Brouwer. Other acts taking the stage for 20-minute sets will be Evangeline (6 p.m.), Krissy Nordhoff (6:30 p.m.), Travis Taylor (7 p.m.), Traci Root (7:30 p.m.), and Tifah (8 p.m.). Admission is free with seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

"The Independent Artist Showcase will be our first Nashville event," said company CEO Kathy Douglas, who founded the Houston-based company in 2006. "Matt Brouwer is a tremendous talent with national recognition. He will be joined by five other highly acclaimed Christian acts that perform in a variety of musical styles. There's no doubt it will be a highlight of GMA Music Week."

Indie Extreme recently added representatives in Nashville and Los Angeles. The fast-growing international firm supports independent artists and record labels by providing administrative and managerial services such as correspondence, bookkeeping, CD/merchandise fulfillment, marketing, database development, web site development, management/maintenance, e-commerce management, and the coordination of vendor services.

Douglas added that Indie Extreme is staging the Independent Artist Showcase with the Gospel Music Association to help build exposure for professional and emerging contemporary Christian acts. Performing at the April 23 event will be:

* Former Reunion Records recording artist and hit CCM singer-songwriter Matt Brouwer. The Canadian singer-songwriter has landed hits on the Billboard CCM records chart (I Shall Believe); CCM CHR chart (Water); and the New Music Weekly Hot 100, AC, Indie AC, and Top 40 charts (Surrender). His latest CDs, Unlearning and B-sides Recording Vol. 1, follow his award-winning and critically acclaimed debut CD, Imagerical.

* Evangeline, a four-member band from Houston led by songwriters-storytellers Jeffery Armstreet and Jonathan Barrick. The group, which is managed by Extreme Dreams Artist Management, is named after the tunesmiths' first collaboration. The act uses its soulful pop, rock and folk-accented music to communicate the depths of life's struggles and challenges in relationships, choices, death, life and faith. Acclaimed producer and EMI recording artist Robbie Seay is producing the act's first album.

* Krissy Nordhoff, a Nashville singer-songwriter and part-time worship leader for The People's Church in Franklin, Tenn. The artist's debut album, Downpour, will be released in North America in September 2007. Nordhoff touches audiences with her heartfelt Christian worship, pop and rock songs.

* Travis Taylor, a Houston native who recently released the acclaimed 13-song CD, You Have Loved. The singer-songwriter fuses the pop stylings of classic artists such as Tom Petty with the modern edge of popular acts such as Snow Patrol.

* Traci Root, an Indiana native whose performances in Southeast Asia have drawn up to 40,000 people. The artist has received critical acclaim for a style that combines classic R&B with modern soul, jazz and hip-hop. Her song, I Will Carry You, which is dedicated to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been used by the social welfare organization Foundation Life. She is sponsored by Christian Healthcare Ministries.

* Tifah, a five-member band from Colorado lead by singer-keyboardist Latifah Al-Attas. A writer for The Onion publication described the group as "a post-collegiate Fiona Apple jamming with Snow Patrol (that) serve up a violin-rich, piano-drenched sincerity topped off with a voice that's wise and heartbroken beyond its years." Founded in 2006, the band's debut CD, Safe & Sound, is an emotive and mature work that explores the challenges, heartaches and successes of life.

"Today, it's harder than ever for artists to land major record deals or for smaller labels to receive substantial radio airplay and record sales," Douglas noted. "Indie Extreme levels the playing field by providing all of the administrative and managerial resources they need. We are working to build a 3,000-member network around the globe."

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Joanne Cash and Johnny Cash Are Together Again On The Newest CD Released Globally

(NASHVILLE, Tennessee) -- With twenty-six historic recordings under her belt, the acclaimed autobiography My Fears Are Gone, continuous concert appearances and lineage to one of music's most famous families, Joanne Cash has countless tales to tell. And those stories are told on her upcoming CD Gospel (her first nationally distributed release), which includes three previously unreleased songs to retail where she shares the microphone with her brother Johnny.

Joanne grew up in Dyess, Arkansas, where some of her earliest Cash family memories include singing spiritual standards in the cotton fields and laying on the living room floor listening to gospel and country music - scenes that would eventually be played out in the box office smash I Walk the Line.

Joanne found a musical calling in the 1970s while working at House of Cash, Johnny's famed recording studio, office space and musical museum. She sang at the Grand Ole Opry from 1972-1976 with Jimmy Rodgers Snow's Grand Ole Gospel Time. During that era, Joanne met her husband Dr. Harry Yates, and the couple soon dedicated themselves to full time music ministry, traveling the country for fifteen years of full time preaching and singing the gospel. When they came off the road in 1990, the couple founded Nashville Cowboy Church, where Joanne continues to sing every Sunday. Aside from area services, Joanne hosts frequent concert engagements, such as a Tuesday night residency at the Wyndham Vacation Resort in Nashville, where she shares a variety of original and gospel/country covers, plus tidbits of the Cash family testimony.

That testimony can also be found on the upcoming CD Gospel, which includes 15 hymns and original songs, such as "Cotton, Popcorn, Peanuts and Jesus" (the basic fabric of what Joanne was raised on), and "Glory Glory," a bold expression of faith relating to her brother Jack's death and the fact that all the siblings will again be united in heaven. Johnny penned "Meet Me in Heaven," which was one of the last songs he and Joanne sang together before his wife June Carter Cash made her heavenly passage. Johnny's 1979 standard "Welcome Back Jesus" is also included, as is the vintage church hymn "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning."

"Johnny always told the story about when our daddy was dying in a coma that the family was all holding hands and praying and singing that song," says Joanne about that latter track. "But he opened his eyes from that coma and started singing praises, ready to go on and be with the Lord."

Additional cuts include "When He Comes", which features Johnny's spoken word introduction about writing the song in Jerusalem when standing in the Biblically outlined spot where Christ could quite possibly return. The last two tracks Joanne and Johnny ever recorded together are also included - "Lower Lights" and "Softly and Tenderly," which is highlighted by Johnny's weakening but inspiring voice.

An aggressive promotional campaign will include national television appearances throughout the spring, and select print media. In addition to regular performance engagements, Joanne will be making public appearances at this year's Gospel Music Week in Nashville from April 21-25, 2007, including a live performance at BB King's Blues Club.

"I'm amazed that at my age I still want to sing, but it's like therapy for me," she summarizes. "Johnny always helped me remember that and he was constantly encouraging. But there was one short phrase from Johnny that's always stuck with me and it's one I'll continue for as long as I'm here: 'Baby, just keep on singing!'"

Gospel was released February 20, 2007 by ACME Music Group, Go Global Entertainment, LLC and Infinity Music Distribution (a division of Central South Distribution, Inc.).

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MyQuietime.com
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We're quietly making waves across the globe with the new series...

Quietime.  Check out myquietime.com to learn more...

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Mini CDs
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There is a great article about Mini-CDs on Billboard.biz.  I'm posting the link here, but you'll have to subscribe to Billboard.biz to read the full article...

http://www.billboard.biz/bb/biz/magazine/upfront/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003155404

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Online Marketing
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Category: Music

Some great online strategies for reaching your audience:

Check out Google Alerts at: www.google.com/alerts.  It will alert you as often as you like when an article about you or your interests is posted online.

Also, did you know there is a national council for faith-based youth?  Check it out at:  http://www.youthcourt.net/Announcements/FBY_Launch2005.htm

Think of the marketing and promotion possibilities!

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ASSISTNews
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Category: Religion and Philosophy

Today, I came upon a wonderful resource.  It's called ASSISTNews.  You can visit the site at www.assistnews.net.  ASSIST is an acronym for Aid to Special Saints In Strategic Times.  This site is a helpful resource for anyone interested in news from a Christian Worldview. 

In the past, I've seen many cheesy sites, but this is not one of them.  The site is rich with information for anyone interested in hearing what's going on in the news that interests Christians, particularly Christian missionaries with a global mindset.  So, you, as a Christian musician, writer or artist, with a heart for reaching the world for Christ, would find this website very useful - as I did!

The site also contains useful links to mainstream news organizations (CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, CBC) and other highly viewed sites including United Press International (www.upi.com), ChristianMonitor (www.christianmonitor.org) and Voice Of America (www.voanews.com) among others!

You'll find links to some of the best Christian News sites including Mission Network News (www.mnnonline.com) and UCBOnline (www.ucb.co.uk).

AND - that's not all!  I clicked on the link to "Links To Our Favorite Sites" and it brought me to an even deeper list of sites that I have yet to check out!  I can't wait to explore sites such as:  Canadian Bible Society News, Christian World News, SAT-7 and Wycliffe Associates among others. 

I'm eager to connect with the creators of this site: Dan and Peter Wooding. 

All the best for now!

Eric

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Unite Productions in Canada
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I have worked with the leadership of Unite Productions.  I know them well.  They are phenomenal people and I'd highly recommend attending one of their events or getting involved if you are an artist with a message for the Church.  Check out this website.  They are based in Canada and feature lots of international news as well.  This would be a good site to add to your favorites on your browser.

http://www.uniteproductions.com/

Eric

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YC Conference in Canada
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YC is a multi-denominational Youth Conference that is committed to reaching students for Christ here in Canada and around the world. The vision of YC is simple: to hear what God is saying to this generation and to see this generation mobilized for His purposes. In other words, we want to "Know God and Make Him Known!" YC is a weekend where students from junior high to university age come together to be spiritually challenged and changed.

This year, artists and speakers will include Audio Adrenaline, BarlowGirl, Michael Larson, David Nasser, Mike Love, Panic Squad and Bob Stromberg.

For more information, visit www.YCManitoba.com for more details.

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ORTV

Check out this ministry in Taiwan.  I've personally been to their offices.  They are the real deal.  If you ever travel to South East Asia, you must stop here.  ORTV profoundly impacts the entire region with it's broadcasting TV ministry.  Check it out...

http://www.ortv.com.tw/

Eric

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