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Artists Helping Artitsts
Artists Helping Artists (AHA) is a California registered nonprofit arts education and community service reaching many thousands of artists internationally. AHA's membership is open to creative individuals, artists, leaders and visionaries from all races, faiths and artistic disciplines. AHA's purpose is to connect, energize and promote artists and to help ignite an artistic revolution.
Arts Northwest
We provide services to Northwest presenters which enhance their professional and booking capabilities to present performances. We also promote booking opportunities for artists that reside in the Northwest to tour within and without the Northwest region.
ArtsPages
Artspages is a global partnership of rights owners and technology providers – a nexus between the arts, media and R&D community facilitating sustainable eCommerce in the culture and content industries. Artspages aggregates music and associated copyrights from throughout the world, digitises that content and supplies it to B2B customers globally. Artspages has significant experience and contacts among the music industry and rightsholders worldwide - specifically composers, performers and record producers - and has built up an impressive portfolio of digitised, rights-cleared music.
ASCAP
ASCAP is a membership association of over 200,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership.
Belgian Centre for Music Documentation
The Belgian Centre for Music Documentation is a non-profit association, founded in 1951. It is placed under the auspices of the Federal Government and sponsored by the National Lottery in order to stimulate the promotion and performance of the works of Belgian contemporary composers of serious music.
Canadian Music Centre
The Canadian Music Centre holds Canada's largest collection of Canadian concert music. The CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. The Centre makes available on loan over 15,000 scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary music composers through its lending library.
Electronic Music Foundation
Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) is a not-for-profit organization with its principal office space in New York State. EMF's startup mission was the dissemination of information and materials on the history and current practice of electronic music.
Ethos Inc.
Ethos Inc., Nonprofit Multicultural Music Center, is dedicated to the promotion of music and music-based education for Oregon youth.
Finnish Music Information Centre
This ten-person team is dedicated to get Finnish music heard.
Friends of Music
Friends of Music provides acoustic live music concerts for Middletown, New York, NY (Orange County) folk music, blues music, and bluegrass music enthusiasts. Live acoustic music concerts are provided by our non-profit folk music organization. Each live blues music concert is in Morrison Mansion on the campus of Orange County Community College of Middletown, NY.
Future of Music Coalition
The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public about music / technology issues, while also bringing together diverse voices in an effort to come up with creative solutions to some of the challenges in this space.
Future of Music Coalition
The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public about music / technology issues, while also bringing together diverse voices in an effort to come up with creative solutions to some of the challenges in this space.
Guitar Foundation of America
The Guitar Foundation of America is America's leading guitar organization. It provides its members the combined advantages of a guitar society, a library, a publisher, a continuing educational resource, and an arts council. Today GFA is the largest multinational guitar organization; providing serious guitarists worldwide a full range of educational, literary and performance resources and opportunities.
Heart and Soul
Heart and Soul brings free live entertainment to people in institutions.
Ladyslipper Music
Ladyslipper is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to heighten public awareness of the achievements of women artists and musicians, and to expand the scope and availability of recordings by women.
Making Music
We represent and support over 2,000 amateur music groups throughout the UK, including choirs, orchestras, and music promoters.
MBIRA
MBIRA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to educate the public regarding traditional Shona music of Zimbabwe, including mbira music, and to develop a library of recordings to preserve that music.
Move The Music
Move The Music is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to supporting artists by providing financial assistance to allow forward thinking musicians the opportunity to take their music on the road.
Musicians Workshop
A Non Profit Music Education Center
Nashville Songwriters Association International
Nashville Songwriters Association International is the world’s largest not-for-profit songwriter’s trade organization dedicated to serving songwriters of all genres of music. We are your advocate and we help you meet your dreams.
National Association of Record Industry Professionals
The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes education, career advancement and good will among record executives. With an emphasis on becoming better informed and more effective executives, NARIP offers professional development opportunities, educational programs and seminars, the opportunity to meet and interact with peers, a job bank, a member resume database for employers, a mentor network, a newsletter and other services.
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts--both new and established--bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.
New York Blues & Jazz Society
The New York Blues & Jazz Society is a not-for-profit, all-volunteer organization that exists through membership and donations. We are dedicated to educating the public about blues and jazz music, and supporting area musicians who perform these important cultural genres.
North American Folk Music Alliance
Folk Alliance is the service association for the field, and works on behalf of the folk music and dance industry year round. Our advocacy efforts tackle issues important to the folk arts community. We offer a business directory of contacts for members, and a non-profit group exemption program for US-based organizations.
Petals
Petals is a non-profit association dedicated to the realisation and diffusion of musical projects through the Internet. On the Petals web-site you can view multimedia files online, read about Petals CD's, artists and events and order your CD's or CD-rom.
Positive Music Association
The Positive Music Association (PMA) exists to promote and advance positive music. It provides resources and tools for members to grow and market their music, while providing one place on the Internet for people to find the best in positive music. A primary goal of the PMA is to establish “positive music” as a new category of music.
Professional Audio-Video Retailers Association
PARA is an international organization of independent specialty audio/video, custom installation, and home theater companies dedicated to providing customers with expert advice, quality products, leading edge technology and world-class customer service.
Radio-Television News Directors Association
We are the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTNDA represents local and network news executives in broadcasting, cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.
Recording Artists' Coalition
RAC is a nonprofit coalition formed to represent the interests of recording artists with regard to legislative issues in which coporate and artists' interest conflict. We are a voice for artists' rights.
Society of European Stage Authors & Composers
SESAC is a performing rights organization with headquarters in Nashville and offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Performing rights organizations, such as SESAC, are businesses designed to represent songwriters and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public.
Texas Early Music Project
Texas Early Music Project is dedicated to preserving and advancing the art of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical music through performance, recordings, and educational outreach.
The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers
We are an Internet-based service organization for composers, dedicated to providing a single, comprehensive resource containing opportunities (competitions, faculty openings, grants, etc.), as well as a platform from which members can disseminate information about their own works and activities.
The Jazz Composers Collective
The Jazz Composers Collective is a musician-run, non-profit organization dedicated to presenting the works of composers who are pushing the boundaries of their self-expression. The Collective presents a concert series, publishes a newsletter, and organizes educational activities.
The Mr.Holland's Opus Foundation
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation supports music education and its many benefits through the donation of new and refurbished musical instruments to underserved school and community music programs and individual students nationwide.
The Utica Music Alliance & Resource Center, Inc.
The Utica Music Alliance & Resource Center will begin as a grassroots effort to encourage & promote the creation of original music locally, as well as supply the resources of/for information on the business of music, production, and promotional aspects of popular music.
ust Intonation Network
The Just Intonation Network is a non-profit group fostering communication among composers, musicians, instrument designers, and theorists working with Just Intonation.
Western Arts Alliance
Western Arts Alliance (WAA) is a membership association of touring and performing arts professionals engaged in promoting and presenting performing arts throughout the western states and provinces.
Wisconsin Alliance for Composers
WAC is a non-profit, tax-exempt Wisconsin corporation founded in 1984 to encourage and support the composition and performance of new music by Wisconsin composers.

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