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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USA Today (Monday edition/10/15/) is reporting
that Eliot Spitzer, New York's Attorney General, has
subpoenaed the Big Five Labels and
Publishers(SONY<BMG;EMI, etc., to determine their
relationship with "logged" air play.Radio, Tv and the
Performing Societies will play a role here and we've
brought this to the attention of the Attorney General.
We expect this drive to spread to other states'
Attorney Generals.
It now appears that our campaign is bearing
fruit and that the day is not far off when
songwriters, artists, musicians, independent
publishers and labels will get the recognition and
justice they need when they get a check for logged air
play, no matter how small the check!!
We have asked our friends in the media to follow
and publish this unique undertaking; as importantly as
a class action law suit would be in compensation for
songs aired for decades is our goal to change the way
aired songs are logged and credited so that, in the
future, all songs are properly credited no matter how
few are aired. Don't forget, this is the twenty first
Century; I think the technology is there to pay people
for the use of their intellectual properties.
Thanking you for your support,
I am,
Sincerely,
Jack Kavanagh, Publisher,
the Song Domain Newsletter Magazine

IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards) promotes excellence in Acoustic Music Performance and Artistry. Acoustic artists in various genres can gain exciting radio and web exposure through this competition.IAMA is open to all independent artists and labels. This is different from other music industry competitions, as IAMA focuses on developing new markets for Acoustic artists, labels and CD releases. Visit http://www.inacoustic.com for more info. Deadline November 9th.

Submit your music to the New Music Showcase. Visit http://www.new-music-showcase.com.

My name is Erika Moore and I'm in charge of the booking for the Emergenza Festival
in 52 venues across U.S. such as the Avalon in Boston, Metro and Double Door in Chicago,
TLA in Philadelphia and many others. I was wondering if you would be interested in having your band perform. You will find all of the information and the necessary form at
http://www.emergenza.net/document/iscri/eng.asp
You can reach me by mail at erika@emergenza.net or contact me personally or any member of my staff at the toll free number:
1-888-923-2263
This is the largest contest ever for up & coming bands in North America.
17 US cities, 4 Canadian ones and 65 in Europe will be involved in the project.
2500 american bands will be booked to play live in these cities.
More than 1200 nights between January and June 2005 have been booked to showcase the bands.
The entire festival is produced in cooperation with the top radio stations across the country.
All shows are co-produced with Ernie Ball, Crate, Ampeg, Sabian, Mapex,
Remo, D'andrea, Sennheiser and Regal Tip.
These companies will award the best musicians with 600,000 US$ in prizes.
The best bands will tour (fully paid) in Europe and will also be booked to play in
the Vans Warped tour.
Thanks for your time! I apologize if this e-mail is not of
interest to you and I wish all the best for your future musical aspiration.
Best regards
Erika Moore
mail to: erika@emergenza.net
Emergenza US Entertainment
US Booking and Scouting Department
666 Fifth Avenue, Suite 341
New York NY 10103 - USA
1-888-923-BAND
www.923BAND.com

I'm on the Executive Board for the Press Club of
Long Island. This is one of SPJ's largest chapters. The annual Holiday
Show is December 2nd and we're accepting items for the auction to beneift
journalism in Long Island. Now, I can only accept items up until Nov. 26th as every year is a mad rush
to do this.
If you've not donated and are wondering why everybody is doing it, it's two
reason.Reason 1) It's a non-profit charity and therefore is tax-deductible
Reason 2) Your donation is not only listed in the letters before and after,
but the letters go to every journalist in the region and around. Some
publicists/marketing people found the idea of getting their story in front
of nearly all 1,000 journalists in the area a good thing to do. Sometimes I think Reason 2 weighs heavier in people's minds than Reason 1!
Thanks,
Dominick A. Miserandino
PH: 917-554-7444
AIM: dmiserandino
dominick@thecelebritycafe.com
http://www.thecelebritycafe.com