For
a week in March more than 7,000 music industry
professionals and enthusiasts from around
the world converged in Miami Beach, Florida,
for the 18th Annual Winter Music
Conference at the Radisson Deauville.
The WMC is America's largest electronic
dance music festival. This year, ASCAP
sponsored the weeklong event, Funkshion,
where thr group Aerial performed. ASCAP
also co-hosted an industry party with Thump
Radio in the Red Room at the Sky Bar in
downtown Miami. In addition, ASCAP's
Mike Todd, from the Film & Television
Department, participated on a panel entitled
"Legal 101: Wheeling and Dealing
with the Media," and ASCAP
presented the Heineken Ampt/ASCAP Recognition
Award to world-renowned DJ David Morales. |
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Urb hosted an afternoon bar-b-que party
on the roof of a Miami Beach Hotel for the
WMC participants. Pictured are: Back row:
Barry Cole (Music Supervisor)
and Scott Cresto (VP, Chrysalis
Music Publishing Front row: Sanne
Hagelsten (Ultra Records), Bridget
O'Hara (Dreamworks) , Marisa
Porter (Universal Music Publishing),
PJ Bloom (Neophonic Inc.),
Joanna Puglisi (Universal
Music Publishing), Danielle Diego
(20th Century Fox Films), and ASCAP's
Mike Todd. |
ASCAP participated in a 2 hour panel titled
"Legal 201/Wheelin- &
Dealin with the Media Workshop"
for the Winter Music Conference this year
at the Radisson Deauville Resort. (Pictured
l-r): Neophonic's PJ Bloom
(music supervisor and moderator), Ultra
Records' Sanne Hagelsten,
Chrysalis Music Publishing's Scott
Cresto, ASCAP's Mike Todd,
and 20th Century Fox Films' Danielle
Diego. Other panelists not pictured
were: Mo:pho's Michael Frick, Music Supervisor
Michael Perlmutter, Sonic Fusion's Nelson
Bae and Universal Music Publishing's Marisa
Porter. |
Scott Cresto, Chrysalis
Music Publishing, and DJ/Producer Carmen
Rizzo with ASCAP's Mike
Todd. |
Nelson Bae (Sonic Fusion),
PJ Bloom (Neophonic Inc.),
Joanna Puglisi & Marisa
Porter (Universal Music Publishing)
and ASCAP's Mike Todd. |
