Get the Word Out: Independent music publicity
- Date
- Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1pm
- Featuring
- Ken Beattie, Killbeat Music (Two Hours Traffic, Corb Lund, Chad VanGaalen)
- Location
- Manitoba Music Industry Resource Centre
- Address
- 1-376 Donald Street
About
This workshop will outline what it takes to promote a new release and how to undertake a national media and publicity campaign. Ken will discuss how to be your own publicist, when you know you need to hire a publicist, and what they can do for an artist. We will focus specifically on the way that online and digital media have changed the way publicists work.
The workshop will cover in detail:
- What A Publicist Does
- How to Set up a Publicity Campaign
- Developing Media Relationships
- Accessing Digital and Online Media
- Setting up a Website to Deliver Publicity Tools
- Case Studies of Successful Campaigns
Killbeat has had over 20 albums on the roster nominated for Juno Awards along with many other award nominated and winning artists. Ken Beattie has thrice been nominated as publicist of the year at The Western Canadian Music Awards, taking home the award in 2006. Killbeat is western Canada’s most active national publicity company working with almost every Canadian label and distributor imaginable as well as US and UK labels with over 150 acts represented.
Contact: Sean
Email: sean@manitobamusic.com
Phone: 975-5191