News and Opportunities Compiled for Musicians, Songwriters and Music Professionals by Sandy Serge

Music Morsels encourages all of you with opportunities for musicians to email your press releases to MusMorsels@aol.com for possible inclusion in this column. This column will be featured monthly. Deadline for inclusion is the 25th of the month for the upcoming issue.

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DO YOU WANNA GET ROCKED?? We need bands to perform at the Atlanta "Right To Rock" show. You must support the right to freedom and civil liberties. The Libertarian party and NORML will be a big part of this event, but you just have to support freedom in general if you want get involved. Serge Entertainment will be coordinating the Atlanta event, with the first Right To Rock event kicking off in October in Washington, DC. We are seeking a small to medium size venue for this event in the Atlanta area. We've already started scouting for venues (on or near a college campus would be great), but if you have any suggestions, please email them to Sandy Serge at SergeEnt@aol.com. If you are in a rock band (any style of rock), live in or near the Atlanta Metro Area, have a following, and would like to be considered as performer for this event, please send your presskit/CD to:
Sandy Serge/Right To Rock
Serge Entertainment Group
P.O. Box 2760
Acworth, GA 30102
Check out RightToRock.com

Bassist and Drummer needed
 Torie is in search of a bass player and drummer for her band. Torie's based-out of Los Angeles - influences: Blondie, Tina Turner, Nancy Sinatra. She's got tons of good press (thanks to all of you who've been so supportive of her) and good gigs. If you know of anyone in the L.A. area, please steer 'em Torie's way at torietyson@hotmail.com.

Music Lover Stories Wanted
The co-author of Chicken Soup for the Music Lover's Soul is seeking stories for the upcoming book. For submission info and guidelines, please visit www.musicloverssoul.com.

Radio Promoter position available
For those radio oriented friends of yours that live in the Los
Angeles area, we have a job opening that they may wish to apply
for. Feel free to tell them about this...
Because of new clients coming on board (this is a new position
which has just been created), we have a part-time opening (20
hours/wk) working from our office in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks
area, in the valley), helping to promote our client talkshows for
clearances, and helping to promote our client indie music artists
for airplay. This position offers hourly pay (not independent
contractor), with bonuses, and an option for some sales after a
few months. The work is all phone-based, with non-stop
outbound calls to stations being the norm. A laptop workstation,
headset, auto-dialer, PBX phone with voicemail, and a DSL email
account are all provided. Hours are generally early morning
(7a-11a), or midday (11a-3p) M-F, but other combinations can be
put together to suit your needs. Experience: Highest priority is
given to commercial broadcast radio sales (AE); also highly
valued is experience as commercial radio PD, commercial radio
promo at label, commercial radio promo at indie, or affiliate
relations at a syndicator.
To apply (and for more info), call 818-905-8038 x27. You can
also see our site at www.radio-media.com (but don't be disuaded
by the abundant intern information... we only have one or two).
Thanks,
Bryan

Reggae Band Raising Funds to Help Free Sudan Slaves
World-folk band Jonkanooz will host a t-shirt benefit and promotional giveaway of their music at the annual West Indian-American Day Parade to be held in Brooklyn on Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2002. The carnival attracts over two million visitors to Brooklyn each year. T-shirt sales will go to help free peasants forced into slavery by Arab factions loyal to Sudan's Muslim regime. "What's happening in the Sudan should be an outrage to all human beings," says singer-songwriter Nooz (sascamusic@aol.com). A song from the band's debut CD offers a detailed look at the horrors endured by Sudanese women and children. Many are routinely abducted, raped, beaten, forced to convert to Islam, and sold into slavery, according to human rights groups (CSI - Christian Solidarity International is a..., Sudan, Genocide and Slavery, Freedom Now World News). Nooz wrote "Set Dem Free!" two years ago after reading an article in The New Yorker. "We're committed to the cause of freedom," says the songwriter, "and this song is part of our grassroots effort to create awareness and help free these victims of state-sponsored terrorism." The band's artist page on MP3.com encourages visitors to spread the word by downloading "Set Dem Free!" and e-mailing copies to friends and family. The download is offered free of charge, along with other music samples. Sales of the band's Wake the Town CD, officially slated for release February 10, 2003, will also go to help the Sudanese via human rights groups working in the region. The CD is being released on the band's artist-owned label, SASCA Music. The t-shirt booth will be located across from 55 Eastern Parkway (corner of Underhill), where visitors can sign-up to be part of the Jonkanooz Fans For Freedom (F3) network. For more information on the band and to download "Set Dem Free!" go to MP3.com - Jonkanooz.

Female DJ's needed!
 Alfa Matrix shall release round November 2002, the second volume of the
 "VENUSA XX" double-CD compilation project - an electronica collection of
 femina vox (see detail). This new volume will feature round 30
 female-fronted bands (final track list still tbc) like Theatre Of Tragedy,
 Chandeen, Lunascape (ex-Hooverphonic), Client, Bel Canto, Male Or Female
 (Front 242 project), Astralasia, Aiboforcen, L'Ame Immortelle, Frogpad,
 Epsilon Minus, Regenerator, Magenta, System 22, Hungry Lucy, Pzycho Bitch,
 Implant, Nebula-H, Neikka Rpm, Massiv In Mensch, Plastic Noise Experience,
 Mnemonic, etc. A great majority of artists will appear with previously
 unreleased mixes/songs. Female DJ's interested in holding release parties for
 this compilation should contact venusa@alfa-matrix.com. Male DJ's are also
 welcome, but must then convince the label their party will especially be
 devoted to women...
 http://www.alfa-matrix.com

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