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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Listen to our new Unsigned Talents Radio live on the site; the play list has been updated. This commercial free radio station is also located at amfmstation.com. Also, we are now offering banner advertising at a very affordable cost. Your banner will appear everywhere by rotation throughout the site including the home page. We also started a rating system so you can rate artists or be rated from HOT to NOT.Our positioning is really getting stronger on the net everyday, giving you the best exposure. We also have our members on the play list at StreamingMusicstation.com (it's mixed with signed known artists and unsigned artists). We will keep you updated on all the new things happening, so sign up now for FREE at Unsigned Talents and get yourself heard!
Thanks from all of us at unsignedtalents.com

CMJ MUSIC MARATHON 2004 features over 50 panels covering topics from the evolution of record contracts and the future of festival tours, to dance music, download sites, music journalism, radio promotion, and international issues. CMJ's Music Marathon's annual College Day presents panels exploring college radio and the careers that it can launch. As previously announced, famed writer, comedian and radio personality Al Franken delivers the Keynote Address. October 13-16 New York City. http://www.cmj.com/marathon

If you are a blues artist, be sure to check out the "Sounds of Blue" every Wednesday from 9am-1pm on WFDU 89.1-FM, and streams on the internet at: www.wfdu.fm. For Bob Putignano's play list, upcoming interviews, free stuff, and interesting info go: to: www.BluesandJazzSounds.com

The NYBJS is looking for an experienced Grant Writer, please direct your email to: info@NYBluesandJazz.org with a subject line of "Grant Writer".
****A sponsorship person is also needed to help bring in new advertisers to our society so that we can continue to expand our scope of operations. Interested parties should send their info to: info@NYBluesandJazz.org, with a subject line of: "Sponsorship".
Also looking for a web assistant to help Roger Z with our expanding NYBJS site!
Interested parties should send their info to: info@NYBluesandJazz.org, with a subject line of: "Web Assistant".

2004 International Songwriting Competition Deadline Approaching In Two
Weeks

The October 15 deadline for the third annual International Songwriting
Competition (ISC) is only two weeks away. If you are an artist, songwriter
or band member looking to gain exposure in the music industry, ISC is the
perfect opportunity for you. "In addition to great prizes, ISC offers the
unique opportunity to have your music heard by the most impressive group of
judges from a variety of industry backgrounds in any songwriting
competition. This makes ISC the songwriting competition to take note of."
- Robbie Woliver, New York Times
Visit http://www.songwritingcompetition.com for more information.

The Call to Arts Contests and Awards recognize and award artists who create aesthetic and compelling works to communicate visionary messages.Categories for all visual artists (including digital artists, sculptors and photographers), poets / spoken word artists, film makers, singer / songwriters and CD Cover artists.
Through these competitions several hundred artists have already won great prizes and been published in The Creative Line Magazine as well as the Call to Arts! Summit Program -- AND many artists have displayed, showcased or performed their winning works at the large Call to Arts! Summits next occurring on Sunday, November 7th atBeverly Garland's Holiday Inn at 4222 Vineland Avenue, No Hollywood, CA 91602. Deadline for entries to be recognized at the next Call to Arts! Summit is August 31st - for participation guidelines go to http://wwww.calltoartscontests.org and click on the button for your art form.