Interested in working in the music industry? Need more information about how to land internships and jobs? Come to WIUX's music industry forum night in Woodburn Hall Room 120 on Thursday December 2 at 8pm. Experts from all facets of the music industry will be there to lend you advice on how to get into the business and to tell personal stories on how they made it. A representative from Secretly Canadian Records, The Buskirk Chumley, Rock Paper Scissors PR, and WFIU will lead the panel discussion and then the floor will be open for questions. Please contact me at kmckenna@wiux.org for more information.
Abe Morris
is the national publicist for Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, and Dead Oceans Records. As a publicist he oversees and executes the press campaigns for new releases, tours, and everything in between, working with all media sources including radio stations, television, magazines, national and regional newspapers, weeklies, websites, and blogs. Abe has been in his current position for over four years. He is also a long standing volunteer at WFHB community radio in Bloomington where he currently is the coordinating producer and host of the weekly program "Local Live". He has also written about music for a number of publications in the Bloomington area. Abe Morris is a graduate of Indiana University and received his B.A. in Political Science in 2002.
Danielle McClelland
With supporting side careers as a professional cook, journalist, field hand, and union organizer, Danielle has worked consistently in the arts for the last 20 years. Originally a theatrical director and playwright, she founded the Hundredth Monkey Theater Collective in Portland, OR, which specialized in site-specific theater and social change activism. As co-owner of the Howling Frog, she operated a for-profit performance space, art gallery and cafe. She helped lead FronteraFEST, an international performance art festival in Austin, TX as the Festival Coordinator. Her journalistic writing has been published in the Austin Chronicle, NUVO Newsweekly, Arts Indiana, and the Bloomington Voice. Her original plays have been produced in Portland, Austin, New York, and Bloomington. Prior to serving as Director of the BCT, she held the position of Program Director at the Columbus Area Arts Council.
Annie Corrigan
joined WFIU Public Radio as an announcer/producer in 2004. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University and her Masters at Indiana University, where she is also currently working on her Doctorate in Oboe Performance. Her work at WFIU includes interviewing local and visiting musicians, artists, and performers, and producing a podcast and website for the local food program Earth Eats.
Dmitri Vietze
runs rock paper scissors, inc., a music publicity firm based here in little old Bloomington. Vietze went to NYC's high school for music and the arts and cut his teeth in the music business playing live on subway platforms for cash money. He was sick of school but he got a scholarship to attend Antioch College, a school where you only went to classes half the time. After a couple of jobs here and there, he realized he could combine his disparate interests of music, entrepreneurship, and global culture. And that's when he started RPS. A decade later he did a panel for WIUX. Now he's famous.
