Songsalive! Speakers

Read about our Guest Speakers who have given their time to attend and speak at our Songsalive! Workshops, below.

ABOUT CONTACTING OUR GUEST SPEAKERS IN ADVANCE OR AFTER THE WORKSHOP
Our guest speakers give their time for free to come speak to you. They all lead busy lives and are not all available to receive unsolicited correspondence or communication. It is recommended to NOT contact the speaker in advance, nor after the workshop, unless they personally want you to. That is, come to our workshop, and if during the workshop they take an interest in creating a relationship with you, then, and only then, should you further communicate. It is bad practice to assume that since a speaker has been our guest, and that you met them through Songsalive!, that they are an open door for you to contact. Please use your best and courteous judgement in making contact. Thank so much for your understanding.

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Las Vegas Workshop - Monday August 16th, 2010

PAMELA PHILLIPS OLAND  Topic: "Are you writing for you or the listener?"



Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Selena, Frank Sinatra, the Jacksons, Gladys Knight, Nikka Costa, and Reba McIntyre, are among artists who’ve recorded over 450 Pamela Phillips Oland songs. Her recent #1 duet with Philippine Idol winner Sarah Geronimo and Back Street Boys’ Howie Dorough, “I’ll Be There” is her second #1 in a year. Her current charting single is "I Wanna Be Your Baby" by disco artist Henri. Grammy-nominated Oland is author of “The Art of Writing Great Lyrics,” and “The Art of Writing Love Songs” from Allworth Press. Says Pamela: " We songwriters can be, by nature of our task, very narcissistic. We write about ourselves incessantly. We see the world through our own perspective. And as a result, we become repetitive in our ideas. Sometimes that's the only block getting in the way of getting our songs recorded: learning how to speak for the listener.

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Los Angeles Workshop - Sunday, August 15, 2010

MATTHEW MORAN  Topic: "Tools, Technologies, & Strategies for Running  Your Music Like a Business"
Matt provides critical strategies, websites, and technologies to help you run your music business like a business. Beyond the standard social media marketing tools like Twitter, Facebook, and others. The workshop will start with an overview of tools and methods to help you better organize and track your business, collaborate with others, and make sense of the social media/social networking landscape – helping you demystify not only the what but the why of social media. From building and running your own website to tracking finances to organizing and sharing information and files, the workshop will help you better understand which technologies and ideas to adopt, and which ones you can do without.  Find out more about Matt by reading his bio on the Team page.

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Chicago Workshop - Saturday, September 11, 2010

MARCI A. ROLNIK  Topic: "Navigating Copyright Law and Contracts to Protect Song Compositions and Recordings"
Marci A. Rolnik is the Legal Director of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, where she has advised clients in all areas of art and entertainment since 2004. Marci specializes in drafting production agreements for film and music clients and has experience advising musicians on copyright protection, licensing and music publishing, recording agreements, and band management.  From 2007-2010, Marci served as a chairman of the Chicago Bar Association's Media and Entertainment Committee, and she currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Division of the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.  Marci also serves on the Board of Directors of Independent Features Project (IFP/ Chicago) and is an adjunct professor in the Film & Video Department at Columbia College where she teaches Legal and Business Affairs and at Harper College where she teaches Intellectual Property.  She is an associate member of the Chicago chapter of the Recording Academy and is a voting member of the Illinois Production Alliance.  Marci is a frequent speaker in the areas of copyright, rights acquisition and transfer, and contract negotiation for the literary, visual, and performing arts.  She graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois and in the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois.

For more information on legal issues for musicians, please see:  www.law-arts.org and choose Legal Information under the Resource tab.

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