Posts Tagged ‘Ken Hatfield’
MFM Presents: “Make Music Your Business” #9 Workshop with Ken Hatfield
Ken Hatfield Speaking About Copyright – legally protecting your creations. Understanding, securing and defending the most fundamental of all artists’ rights.
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Ken Hatfield Speaking About Copyright – legally protecting your creations. Understanding, securing and defending the most fundamental of all artists’ rights. Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2019 Time: 7pm to 8:30pm Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036) Ticket: $15 (free for MFM members).…
Read MoreMFM Public Musicians Forum #13 Report
Date: April 23, 2019 Venue: WingSpan Arts (NY) By Dawoud Kringle On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019, Musicians For Musicians (MFM) held its thirteenth Public Musician’s Forum. It was actually the 47th public event MFM presented! Time flies when you’re having fun! MFM President Sohrab Saadat Ladjavardi opened the meeting by introducing the keynote speaker; composer, producer,…
Read MoreMFM Public Musicians Forum #11 Report w. Important Announcement
2019: MFM Hits the Ground Running by Dawoud Kringle Date: February 13, 2019 Venue: WingSpan Arts (NY) The 11th MFM Public Musicians Forum (and first public forum of 2019 – the January meeting having been cancelled due to inclement weather) began with discussion of the membership drive. President Sohrab Saadat Ladjavardi talked a moment about…
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Run by Sohrab Saadat ladjevardi (Presidenet) and Billy Harper (BoD). MFM Public Musicians Forum #10 will feature topics on a variety of subjects of interest to our members and non members (detailed agenda in the next newsletter).
Read MoreMFM Annual Membership Meeting 2018 Report P.2 – Membership and Finances
Report and photos by Dawoud Kringle For the last year and a half, MFM has offered free membership. This was an attempt to promote MFM to musicians in a risk-free manner. The idea served its purpose: it presented MFM and its new approach to securing musician’s rights to an understandably skeptical public. According to MFM…
Read MoreMFM Annual Membership Meeting 2018 Report P.1
Report and photos by Dawoud Kringle Date: 12/5/2018Venue: WigSpan Arts (NY) MFM brought 2018 to a close with its annual board member vote, a recap of MFMs achievements during the past year, and a look ahead to 2019. The meeting began with MFM President Sohrab Saadat Ladjavardi giving an overview of MFM’s achievements in 2018: 1. Creating #UnityIntheMusicCommunity:…
Read MoreMFM Public Musicians Forum #4 Focuses Upon Women's Issues in the Music Business
Ladies Night! Review by Dawoud Kringle On Tuesday, March 27th, MFM held its fourth Public Musicians Forum at Yeoryia Studios in New York run by Billy Harper and MFM’s President Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi. Saadat opened the meeting by bringing up the recent gun control protests. Here are a group of mostly teens who, overnight, organized a nationwide protest.…
Read MoreKen Hatfield Joins the MFM Advisory Committee
Let’s welcome Ken Hatfield to the MFM Advisory Committee who brings a wealth of knowledge of “the business.” He’s been attending several MFM meetings and did a presentation on the Music Modernization Act issues last month. He shares with us the belief in a fair and sustainable musical eco-system in which all the participants share equally in the revenues generated…
Read MoreReview: The MFM Jazz Musicians Meeting #3: Laying the Groundwork for Action
By Dawoud Kringle (with Ken Hatfield and Sohrab Saadat Ladjavardi) On Tuesday, February 27th, the MFM Jazz Musicians Meeting #3 was held at Yeoria Studio. Organized by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi and Billy Harper, the agenda of the meeting was threefold. 1. Ken Hatfield and Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi were to discuss the Music Modernization Act (MMA).…
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