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How to Launch a Podcast for Your Music Business
- NAMM U Post
In the United States alone, an estimated 48 million people listen to podcasts every week. This presents new opportunities for music businesses to connect and...
Effective Video Strategies for YouTube, Instagram and Facebook
- NAMM U Post
Video is critical to marketing your business, but every social media platform calls for a different strategy. You’ll want to know about the ins and outs, do’s...
Music Lessons: Essential Strategies for Growth and Retention
- NAMM U Post
In the last decade, Melissa Loggins of Music Authority has seen retention rates surge in her lesson program. In this session, she’ll share her proven...
Breakfast of Champions
- NAMM U Post
How do the most original thinkers, visionaries and non-conformists approach the business of musical products? How have their unconventional mindsets driven...
Trade Card Collection
- Blog Post
The practice of producing and distributing trade cards to inform and generate new customers gained popularity at the end of the 17th century in Paris and...
Sonny Wittkopp
- Oral History
Sonny Wittkopp studied business in college and landed a job as a bookkeeper for a local music store in Washington state.
Philately Foreign Stamps
- Blog Post
Another cool item from the collection is an entire subset of material from the Henry Z. Steinway Philately Special Collection. In an earlier blog, we featured...
Don Wilson
- Oral History
Don Wilson was a founding member of the instrumental rock band, The Ventures! He formed the band with his friend Bob Bogle.
Edna Mae Burnam Special Collection
- Blog Post
Contained within the NAMM Resource Center Archives is a collection that holds a special place in our hearts. The aptly named Edna Mae Burnam Special Collection...
The NAMM Foundation Day of Service
- NAMM Event
The 2019 NAMM Show kicks off on Tuesday, Jan. 22 with the annual NAMM Foundation Day of Service at an Anaheim elementary school.
Nonprofit Networking/Top 100 Reception
- NAMM Event
Nonprofit Networking Reception
The NAMM Foundation Celebration for Music Education Featuring Black Violin
- NAMM Event
Black Violin is composed of classically trained violist and violinist Wil B.
NAMM Music Education Advocacy D.C. Fly-In Reception
- NAMM Event
NAMM members are invited to a reception offering information about The 2019 NAMM Advocacy D.C.
All-industry Drum Circle
- NAMM Event
Drum up enthusiasm for music making at NAMM’s annual All-industry Drum Circle, a can’t-miss NAMM Show rhythm celebration!
Roomful of Pianos: “The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
- NAMM Event
Roomful of Pianos features piano compositions and arrangements for 15 piano players.
She Rocks Awards
- NAMM Event
The 2019 She Rocks Awards will take place on Friday, January 25, 2019 at the House of Blues Anaheim at 7:30 p.m.
18th Annual Parnelli Awards
- NAMM Event
A night of magic where the industry’s greatest stars gather for good drink, good food and the privilege of honoring our very best in event technology.
The Grand Rally for Music Education Featuring Conductor/Composer Eric Whitacre
- NAMM Event
Grammy-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre headlines The Grand Rally for Music Education, featuri
Roomful of Pianos: "Nocturnes: Nuages and Fêtes"
- NAMM Event
Roomful of Pianos features piano compositions and arrangements for 30 piano players.
GenNext Faculty Mixer
- NAMM Event
College music faculty are invited by The NAMM Foundation to a special reception to show our appreciation for all that you do to cultivate the next generation...
34th Annual NAMM TEC Awards
- NAMM Event
The “Oscars” of the pro audio and sound recording industry honoring products and innovations in the worlds of music making, live performances, video games,...
Community Music Making Forum
- NAMM Event
Connect with your community as a music-making destination! The Community Music Making Forum is the place to discover tips for hosting in-store music-making...
Ukulele Circle
- NAMM Event
Add the uke to your musical repertoire!
Guitar Circle
- NAMM Event
Strum along in a group guitar lesson taught by the legendary Glen McCarthy, who will have you playing songs before you can say ‘EADGBE.’ Instruments supplied;...
Make Music Winter to Expand Nationwide this December 21
- Press Release
Make Music Winter, a free, outdoor music-making celebration on the winter solstice, expands nationwide this year on Friday, Dec.
Ken Hyams
- Oral History
Ken Hyams was a key franchise owner of Altec Lansing in the early days of consumer electronics.
Normalu Cooper
- Oral History
Normalu Cooper was inspired by her piano teachers as a young girl so she eventually began providing lessons in her father’s piano store when she
Tristann Rieck
- Board Member/NAMM Director
Tristann Rieck is the owner of Brass Bell Music in Glendale, Wisconsin.
Brian Douglas
- Board Member/NAMM Director
Brian Douglas is the co-owner of Cream City Music in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Brian Ball
- Board Member/NAMM Director
Brian Ball is the president of Ernie Ball, Inc. in San Luis Obispo, California.