Access All Areas: Impact
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About this Event
Firstly on behalf of the USM Media Group and Access All Areas team we hope that this message finds you, your family, friends and co-workers well during these exceptional times. Please stay safe and follow the government and NHS guidelines and we will get through this together. We hope to see you all again at future events but in the meantime, we have teamed up with our partners at Tileyard Impact to launch a series of FREE monthly online webinars to help educate and navigate talent, managers and industry executives through the COVID-19 pandemic. Please find more info on our new free event series below:
ACCESS ALL AREAS: Impact is a new up close and personal music seminar, industry networking event and artist showcase that aims to be your “Triple-A Pass To The Music Industry”. This unique webinar event series will be brought to you virtually throughout the lockdown period, continues on Saturday, February 6th in conjunction with our partner, Tileyard Impact FREE of charge!
ACCESS ALL AREAS: Impact announces their "Diversity In Dance Music" panel with 6 panellists and 3 unsigned artist performances! This 3 hour special will be moderated by Producer and Radio Host, Jay McGregor from Reprezent Radio. Top executives from the Dance music industry will be taking part in a frank discussion and debate surrounding Racism and Diversity. We will hear our panel will be taking part in a frank discussion and debate surrounding the issues of race and diversity in the Dance music industry. Our panellists will share their own stories of racial discrimination and will discuss whether the Dance music industry can finally address its own history of racism and build a more equitable future for its Black and Asian artists and executives? We will also discuss the reasons why diversity is important to this genre with its own roots embedded in Black music.
Our formidable panel of industry execs we have assembled covers the full spectrum of the music education sector and includes the Hospital Records Director Josh Robinson, accomplished Singer-Songwriter Kelli-Leigh, the legendary DnB DJ, Producer and Mi-Soul Radio presenter Jumping Jack Frost, Rap/MC Tutor @ ACM and Drum n Bass artist AC MC, and DJ, Producer and new PRS Grants & Programmes Manager Funk Butcher and last but not least, Singer-Songwriter and ACM Executive Lead on Student Attainment, S.E.L.
But that’s not all, the networking sections of the event have been extended by popular demand and will be hosted by one of the UK’s hottest club DJ’s; DJ Longers with our #LockdownLive showcase with exclusive live performances from three unsigned UK artists DnB legend MC Navigator, AC MC and Sherona Knight!
So on February 6th, come and hear from some of the biggest names in the game at ACCESS ALL AREAS: Impact so whether you’re an artist, producer, DJ, manager, budding music exec or maybe you just want to connect with more of your industry peers this is a music webinar for the next generation of the music business. This event will guarantee to be a sell-out, so make sure you pick up your FREE tickets on sale now from Eventbrite UK.
• Running Order:
3-315pm: Networking Session & live DJ set hosted by DJ Longers
315-330pm: #LockdownLive performance by AC MC
330-415pm: "Diversity In Dance Music" Panel
415-430pm: Audience Questions
430-445pm: #LockdownLive performance by Sherona Knight
445-515pm: "Diversity In Dance Music" Panel
515-530pm: Audience Questions
530-545pm: #LockdownLive performance by MC Navigator
545-6pm: Networking Session & live DJ hosted by DJ Longers
• Moderators: Jay MacGregor (Reprezent Radio)
• Panellists:
AC MC: Rap/MC Tutor @ ACM and Artist
Josh Robinson: Director @ Hospital Records
Kelli-Leigh: @ Singer-Songwriter
Jumping Jack Frost: @ DJ, Producer and Mi-Soul Radio presenter
Funk Butcher: DJ, Producer and PRS Grants & Programmes Manager
S.E.L.: @ Singer-Songwriter and ACM Executive Lead on Student Attainment
• Live Performances
• Lockdown Live! Unsigned UK Artist showcase with performances from:
MC Navigator
AC MC
Sherona Knight
• Resident DJ & Host: DJ Longers
• Tickets: FREE only from Eventbrite
• Supported by: Tileyard Impact, Small Green Shoots, Arts Council and The Glass Hive