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Hello! My name is Alison. I’ve been passionate about country music since I was very young. I got to know music by following styles – rock, southern rock and the country music styles of today – and by cruising through the USA. I’ve also bought a lot of CDs! In recent years, I started broadcasting the “Les News de Nashville” on the Big Cactus Country presented by my friend Johnny Da Piedade. You can read my blog post on the Big Cactus Country site as well as here on the HorizonVU Music Blog and SHOP!

Big Cactus Country Radio Show!!! The best of American Country presented by Johnny Da Piedade and Alison Hebert! The BCC is a syndicated radio Show presented by Johnny Da Piedade and Alison Hebert broadcast weekly more than 250 times. The BCC networtk is 120 affiliated radio stations in France, Reunion Island, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and more.

Actress Georgia Holt whose real name is Jannie Jean Crouch is known to be the mother of the queen of pop music Cher, and she has decided to sing about it in the country style. At the age of 86 years, there is no right age, you say?

Her first country album, entitled “Honky Tonk Woman”, finds her daughter Cher on a track called “I’m Just Your Yesterday”. For the record, this album was not recorded recently. According to the press in Nashville, the disc was recorded in Los Angeles studios in 1980 and was recorded with the oustanding musicians who worked with the “King of Rock’n'Roll”, Elivis Presley, but never released. The decision to release the album has taken 30 years. It will definitely arouse your curiosity. Remember her name, Georgia Holt, and the album is called “Honky Tonk Woman.”


Dr. Nicole Pfeffermann, Founder and Owner, ISEIC and Phil Cartwright, CEO, Horizonvu Group LLC (HorizonVU Music) have launched a joint collaborative project, Global E-Music Zone.

GLOBAL E-MUSICZONE is multi-dimensional and focuses on music performance, creativity, innovation communication and other new management-marketing capabilities including e-Learning and webinars. With this approach, our solution offers musicians, business managers, and market players a “one stop shop”, a multiart platform for creative professionals and an e-Learning space reaching across conventional boundaries and disciplines. As a basis, the platform isl providing end-users the methods and e-Tools needed to connect, innovate and learn for achieving market success and for future business opportunities and growth in the 21century. This platform is also dedicated to relevant research and provide new research results and best practices. A demonstration version is now available online and the prototype includes a visitor survey.

Together ISEIC and HorizonVU Music recognize that doing business in the entertainment industry is more challenging than ever, and the music business is no exception. Today all the players need skill sets that cut across multiple dimensions including knowledge of the music itself, familiarity with management and marketing methods and processes, and of course, an understanding of how to effectively engage networks in production, distribution, end-user recognition and enjoyment of the work.

Based on their experience, Pfeffermann and Cartwright believe that industry expertise is often fragmented, or disconnected, with individuals having high levels of expertise in one, or perhaps two-dimensions. Musicians are typically strongest with respect to creative and artistic efforts, while managers and market specialists excel at understanding strategy and tactical marketing. Often, specialists are sought to maximize effectiveness of on and offline networking. This is understandable owing to conventional educational training and interests of the participants, yet given the current market environment and new technologies in the digital age a wider breadth of knowledge encompassing creativity and innovation, management and marketing, and application of networking engagement skills and tools can only be an advantage for the savvy and successful players.

Visit GLOBAL E-MUSICZONE and participate in the online survey at http://www.global-e-musiczone.com

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ISEIC at http://www.iseic-consulting.com

ISEIC_logoIESIC supports clients in research and management with fresh thinking, smart solutions, and skill development to tackle critical challenges and seize new business opportunities in the 21st century. The company is focused on driving breakthrough innovations and strategic system change within a global collaborative network by linking strategy, innovation and communication.

HorizonVU Music at http://www.horizonvumusic.com/

HorizonVU Group LLC (HorizonVU Music) is focused on working with the independent music community and independent musicians in marketing and promotion, publishing, production and and management. The company’s key objective is to support emerging musicians in achieving one of their key objectves recognition.


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Corner of Via Biagio Assereto and Via Roma, Recco, Italy, May 15, 2013

Posted on May 15, 2013

Aziz_16052013Here we are after an overnight stay in a carriage house by the sea before driving through Camogli towards San Rocco to stand by the church overlooking a cliff through skyscraper trees as a coastline where we stood years earlier, James and I. If you turn left as you face the church there is a path that leads to Portofino as you have your back to the bakery where we had cakes for breakfast. As I stand there, looking at a fisherman’s boat circled by seagulls, I hear myself say, “We need to get going.” He is reading the guide book and saying there are also walks that he wants to explore in the Apuane mountains with Andrea and I start to say, “Yes, but another time. We need to get going, I want to get there before it gets dark.” It is years later as I sit at a table of a restaurant built into the cliff that is not yet open as a barman sweeps under the tables and I know that this is the place where we stood as we were here and it was now. And it is the song in Lost for Words, “Were you with Me?” which is what my memory of James sound like that reminds me of the question I ask:”We are here and this is now, why can’t I have that feeling back?” I realise that I need no longer be haunted that I might never find that feeling again. It is always there. We need only look and never cease to search for that instant that makes up the times of our lives which we whisper in morse code to those who care to decipher whilst following in footsteps that are entirely their own.

Read more from Miriam Aziz – The Artist is at Large http://miriamaziz.wordpress.com/


Women of Substance Radio has been on the air for 4 years. We broadcast 24/7 on the Live365 Network and iTunes Radio garnering fans from all over the world. WOSRadio plays the BEST female artists, both label and Indie, in all genres. We hand-pick all of our music starting with icons of the past like Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Tracy Chapman, Mariah Carey, No Doubt, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Michelle Branch, Kelly Clarkson, Sara Bareilles, Colbie Caillat, Adele, Carrie Underwood, Amy Winehouse, Feist, Christina Perri and so many more. Women of Substance take submissions from Indies and our review board selects only the best quality artists and songs that can stand up next to the forementioned superstars. Indie artists we have chosen early in their career have gone on to be Top 24 on American Idol, win second place on the Bravo show Platinum Hit, and one artist is currently a chosen contestant on NBC’s The Voice.

1. Katie Cole – I Can’t Wait

2. Katie Garibaldi – Say The Word

3. Voodoo Highway – Bad Girl

4. Raina Krangle – Needle In The Hay

5. Sasha Aaron – If I Could Make It Rain

6. Nitanee Paris & Dale Effren – You Gave Me Love

7. Darlene Bailey – Wrenches And Rags

8. Social Potion – Drive Myself Home

9. The Traveling Mabels – Cousin Mary

10. Susan Walton – Lover’s Cliche


Visit Women of Substance Radio at www.wosradio.com and listen in live on the HorizonVU Music Blog!


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Rachel Browne and Andrew Futral (Field Mouse) Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

Rachel Browne and Andrew Futral (Field Mouse) Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

Field Mouse is a four-piece dream pop band from Brooklyn, NY. Seamlessly interweaving influences from shoegaze, indie, and power pop, Field Mouse offers lush sonic textures and expansive soundscapes to complement the airy, wistful vocals of singer/guitarist Rachel Browne. Through complex and delicate harmonies, the songwriting of Browne and guitarist Andrew Futral breathes new life into common themes of lost love and renewal.

The band has been honing its sound since its formation in 2010, and has solidified its lineup with the recent addition of bassist Danielle DePalma and drummer Geoff Lewit. Their first release on Small Plates Records (http://smallplatesrecs.com/) finds the group realizing its musical vision, incorporating rich synthesizers and feedback to give an edge to its soaring arrangements and pop sensibilities.

Brooklyn’s Field Mouse are recording their first full length album this winter. During the process, they will be self-releasing a few songs. The first, Tomorrow is Yesterday, is an energetic take on melodic early-90s indie rock, with singer-guitarist Rachel Browne’s sweet, wistful vocals over a surge of feedback mixed with dreamy pop.

Field Mouse Plays Brooklyn Vegan Studio Session

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/05/watch_field_mou.html

Visit Fieldmouse at

Official Website http://fieldmousemusic.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fieldmousemusic
Twitter https://twitter.com/fieldmousemusic
Bandcamp http://fieldmouse.bandcamp.com


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Welcome Spring…it’s a beautiful day here in Nashville and I’m about to head out to a baseball game so I want to keep this brief, because there’s nothing like a minor league baseball game in the cool sunshine with a hotdog and some friends..

What an amazing Spring this has been so far. I’ve got a NEW RECORD, a NEW WEBSITE, and so much news since the last tour. Just in the past few weeks, the record was launched, we’ve been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”, The New York Times and The Tennessean and great reviews have been pouring in from American Songwriter to The Nashville Scene. The day after the NPR piece aired, “Stormy Boat” shot up to #1 on Amazon’s “Movers & Shakers” charts and to #24 overall. ITunes featured the record in it’s “New & Noteworthy” section. And it’s just been extraordinary. We played to wonderful audiences from New York to Boston in the midst of chaos to a beautiful taping of “Mountain Stage” (I’ll let you know the air date) to a sold out show at The Bluebird Cafe this past week. I am beyond grateful for all the good wishes and support of YOU. If you have not yet picked up your copy of the new record, now is the time, as Amazon is running a May Special and you can get it for under $10!!!

So, onto May, which brings me to Knoxville then Texas then back home again. The summer is still working itself out, but I have great news that “Stormy Boat” will officially release overseas (UK/Europe) in September and I’ll be joining John Fullbright on his tour there in September and October. Keep posted here for dates.

In the meantime, check out the website store where you can buy the new record and soon there will be T Shirts as well (for now you can get the new t shirts at shows).

Lastly, it is with a heavy heart that I let you know that my dear friend and touring partner from 2010, Sid Selvidge, passed away a few days ago. I was lucky enough to have shared the experience of making his last record, “I Should Be Blue” (Ardent Records). We sang a few duets. He covered my song “Two”. And we spent the summer of 2010 touring around the country playing shows together. I loved Sid very much. He was a friend and a mentor. I will miss him. If you don’t know about Sid, please check out his music. He was one of the greats. A Memphis-based folk/blues master.

Tourdates to the left…jokers to the right…here I am

xoxo
Amy


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Corner of Exmouth Market and Rosoman Street, London, May 2, 2013

Posted on May 2, 2013

On May 2, Toby Miller, Professor of Cultural Industries in the Center for Cultural Policy and Management at the City University, London interviewed me at a cafe in Islington before I made a presentation at the Law School of City University entitled, “Lost for Words: Embodying Law through Tanztheater“. Our conversation ranged from law, art, ways of seeing, the diversity of perception, democratic approaches to the creative process, Artist (s) at Large and Lost for Words. Here is the unabridged version of the podcast: http://culturalstudies.podbean.com/2013/05/02/miriam-aziz-on-the-law-music-dance-choreography-and-collaboration/. It is also available on iTunes, Android, or iPhone through free subscription, under ‘culturalstudies’.

Our conversation and my presentation at the Law School was the first opportunity I have had to order my thoughts about my work with Artist (s) at Large both within and beyond the context of exploring ideas about law and social justice. Afterwards, I was assailed by the desire to invite everyone back to a studio and run a workshop with the aim of creating a piece. Earlier on, Toby kindly took a detour as we walked to the cafe so that I might see Sadler’s Wells. I slowed my pace yet looked straight ahead as I resisted the siren calls, muttering “Not now, not yet.” Eventually, however, why not?

Read more from Miriam Aziz – The Artist is at Large http://miriamaziz.wordpress.com/


Hello! My name is Alison. I’ve been passionate about country music since I was very young. I got to know music by following styles – rock, southern rock and the country music styles of today – and by cruising through the USA. I’ve also bought a lot of CDs! In recent years, I started broadcasting the “Les News de Nashville” on the Big Cactus Country presented by my friend Johnny Da Piedade. You can read my blog post on the Big Cactus Country site as well as here on the HorizonVU Music Blog and SHOP!

Big Cactus Country Radio Show!!! The best of American Country presented by Johnny Da Piedade and Alison Hebert! The BCC is a syndicated radio Show presented by Johnny Da Piedade and Alison Hebert broadcast weekly more than 250 times. The BCC networtk is 120 affiliated radio stations in France, Reunion Island, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and more.

Cindy Cash

Cindy Cash

On Saturday, June 15, a great event organized by Ross Emery Entertainment and Johnny Cash’s daughter Cindy Cash, will be held in the city of Ventura, California – the “Roadshow Revival”! Team “News from Nashville” will be on hand!

15 groups are expected including country artists! The program:

Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants
Junior Brown
Robert Gordon
The Blaster
Cash’d Out
The Walking Phoenixes
Dave Gleason
The Americans
The Cash Fix in hommage to the Man In Black Johnny Cash.
Zippy Josh And The Rag Tag Band
The Vonettes
Alexandra Starlight and not forgetting the Sideshow Preachers

Of course, there’s the Pin-Up Carshow featuring thousands of cars and motorcycles of the 50’s era, will be waiting for you along with shops of the times if you want to redo your wardrobe 50’s style!


Amia Franz

Amia Franz

Amia Franz, a singer who writes and produces her original material in the Alternative-Pop Rock-Soul genres was notified at the end of December 2012 that she was the winning nominee for the annual Starliners Indie Music Awards. Her song, “Wait Mariah”, won the nomination and also plays on the Starliners Radio Network http://www.starliners.tk/. In May 2013, Starliners based in the Netherlands will host the Awards event, and although she does not have to be there to win the award, Amia is planning to be there and perform. She has a growing fan club and you can signup and see the live video stream of this event and other live performances!

Over the past year Amia and her husband, James Franz, have worked hard to get Amia online exposure with lots of radio, more interviews including a radio interview with Deron Pitts aka Da Educated Poet of WDEP Radio www.wdepradio.com, she is making plans with an organization out of Chicago to help them using her performances and a lot more! Over the 2012 holiday season, she was approached by the international publicity firm DCE International interested in working with Amia. Now, for the first time, she will graduate from working independently to getting the exposure and opportunities she feels she can really benefit from towards her goal to commercialize her singing songwriting career!

The Starliners Indie Music Awards contest started April 13th with 7 Nominees and now after the eliminations they are down to the finals week that started May 10th week and voting continues until midnight May 18th. You can vote for Amia by going to http://www.starliners.nl/

In the meantime all of her 21 new song music bed tracks are done and she’s putting vocals on over the next month with the help of her vocal coach Jeannie Deva (Jeannie Deva known world wide for her Deva Vocal Method) who reviewed Amia’s last music project and says says- “I am listening now to your fabulous album! Congratulations.” Your songs, vocal styling and music production is slick and sexy, passionate and penetrating. A work of love manifest – congratulations!”

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Hello! My name is Alison. I’ve been passionate about country music since I was very young. I got to know music by following styles – rock, southern rock and the country music styles of today – and by cruising through the USA. I’ve also bought a lot of CDs! In recent years, I started broadcasting the “Les News de Nashville” on the Big Cactus Country presented by my friend Johnny Da Piedade. You can read my blog post on the Big Cactus Country site as well as here on the HorizonVU Music Blog and SHOP!

Big Cactus Country Radio Show!!! The best of American Country presented by Johnny Da Piedade and Alison Hebert! The BCC is a syndicated radio Show presented by Johnny Da Piedade and Alison Hebert broadcast weekly more than 250 times. The BCC networtk is 120 affiliated radio stations in France, Reunion Island, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and more.

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May 28 is the date your record store bins will introduce the first album by a trio of Country Music stars; all famous artists in the 90s!

Roots & Boots

It’s all about Joe Diffie, Aaron Tippin and the Cajun Sammy Kershaw. The album, “All In The Same Boat” comes as a supplement to the big tour «Roots and Boots» which will roll out across the United States. Individually, these artists have already recorded many albums, with often big tracks which have been broadcast for a long time on Country radio in the U.S. These hits include: “Honky Tonk Attitude” by Joe Diffie in 1993, “There Ain’ t Nothin’ Wrong with the Radio” which was the first certified N°1 for Aaron Tippin in 1992, and “Cadillac Style”, the mega hit of Sammy Kershaw in 1991.

Aaron Tippin

Aaron Tippin

 
Joe Diffie

Joe Diffie

Sammy Kershaw

Sammy Kershaw

The three together on stage…this is a show that promises! This new album includes 12 and we’ll take them in now – “All In The Same Boat” Joe Diffie, Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw in the “News from Nashville”.

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