SESAC is a performing rights organization with headquarters in Nashville and offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London. What is a “performing rights organization”? 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. By securing a license from SESAC, for example, music users can legally play any song in the SESAC repertory.

SESAC, Inc. is a performing rights organization with headquarters in Nashville and offices in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami and London. SESAC Icons and LegendsPerforming rights organizations are businesses designed to represent songwriters and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public.

For more information, please visit http://www.sesac.com

The Orchard is the leading distributor and marketer of independent music in the world, representing thousands of labels spanning 73 countries and every music genre. The Orchard supplies its catalogue of more than 800,000 tracks to all of the leading legal digital music retailers and mobile operators throughout the world. The company is headquartered in New York and London, with operations in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Kolkata, Johannesburg, Moscow and Melbourne, and local representatives in Paris, Milan, Berlin, Barcelona, Lausanne, Istanbul, Ramallah, Nairobi, and So Paulo.

The Orchards team of experienced professionals has a track record of success in digital distribution. Since the first days of digital music, before iTunes and Rhapsody, they have worked side by side with artists and labels to position catalogues and new releases as effectively as possible to maximize sales for their clients. V.E.C.T.O.R., one of several leading technologies available only at The Orchard, is a proprietary, in-house system built to store, encode and digitally deliver music & video assets to any and all media types, specifications and outlets – directly integrated with over 600 retail and mobile storefronts in 35 countries.

For more information, please visit http://www.theorchard.com

TouchTunes Music Corporation is a Nevada corporation formed in 1990. The Company is involved in the digital distribution of music content to music-on-demand applications. The first such music-on-demand application developed by the Company was its floor model digital jukebox, the Genesis.

TouchTunes Interactive Networks is the pre-eminent interactive entertainment, advertising and commerce network, reaching
and engaging consumers online and in-venue where they socialize, dine and shop, in new, measurable and effective ways.
They introduced the first digital jukebox 12 years ago, re-inventing how music is presented, paid for and played in bars
and restaurants across the US and Canada.

That spirit of innovation is alive and thriving within the company. Digital jukeboxes, TV screens, wireless devices, websites and smart phones: theyre driving momentum that holds even greater potential for music, games, video, and social networking plus whole new business opportunities.

For more information, please visit http://www.touchtunes.com

Cdigix is the leading provider of secure, legal digital entertainment and educational media to directly serve the college market. The company offers four distinct services to college students: Ctrax for legal music, Cflix for video on demand programming, Clabs for educational media and Cvillage for community interaction. The high-quality content offered by Cdigix is available through partnerships with premier entertainment and media companies, and is distributed via the universities’ internal IP infrastructures. Cdigix currently has relationships with dozens of college campuses, reaching half a million students.

For more information, please visit http://www.educastmedia.com

SoundExchange is the first performing rights organization in the United States to collect and distribute royalties to sound recording copyright owners, featured artists and to AFTRA and AFM on behalf of background musicians and vocalists from digital audio transmissions.

SoundExchange represents over 400 different record companies and their 3,000 record labels and thousands of recording artists. SoundExchange’s members inclu the five major label groups, BMG, EMI, SONY, UMG and WMG, Rounder Records, Alligator Records, Mountain Apple, Naxos, Koch and many of the World’s leading independent labels of every size and in every genre. SoundExchange is a not-for-profit organization governed by a board of artist representations and label.

For more information, please visit http://soundexchange.com

FreeHand Systems, Inc. is an elite digital music company with revolutionary technology that is shaping the future of
the distribution and performance of sheet music. FreeHand Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of FreeHand Systems International, Inc. is the global leader in digital sheet music publishing and is the manufacturer of the first digital music tablet, the MusicPad Pro Plus, which has an MSRP of $1199.

The pad provides innovative technology to the music industry for displaying and publishing digitally delivered sheet music.
The company’s digital sheet music website offers over 85,000 titles for digital download to print or transfer to the MusicPad Pro, which can range from $1.95 for a simple one-page lead sheet to over $50 for a full performing score and parts.
Its eMusicExpress service allows retailers to access the 85,000 titles for immediate download for their customers.

For more information, please visit http://www.freehandsystems.com

Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music enjoys a reputation as one of the world’s leading conservatoires, providing specialised musical education and professional training at the highest international level for performers, conductors and composers. Enabling students to develop musical skills, knowledge, understanding and resourcefulness which will enable them to contribute significantly to musical life in this country and internationally.

The Royal College of Music’s influence on the development of music in the last 100 years is incalculable. Through its doors have passed some of the most distinguished and influential figures in British music history. The College’s influence is not merely historical, however: it continues to grow, year by year attracting some of the finest talent of each generation.

For more information, please visit http://www.rcm.ac.uk

The Bagaduce Music Lending Library is celebrating its 25th birthday in 2008, It was established in 1983 with its first home in the garage of its founders on the coast of Maine, where the Bagaduce River meets Penobscot Bay. Soon outgrowing their original space, the library was moved to its present home in Blue Hill, Maine. Bagaduce Music Lending Library’s mission is
to collect, preserve and lend printed sheet music and scores, and to provide music education programs.

Bagaduce Music Lending Library has grown to become an international resource center for printed sheet music and scores, housing numerous collections of music representing all genres of written music except marching band music. Bagaduce Music Lending Library remains a non-profit organization funded through memberships, small lending fees, and private fundraising. The heart of the their existence is their intrepid crew of volunteers.

For more information, please visit http://www.bagaducemusic.org

Clara Tarpley was a piano teacher in Wellington, Texas in the early 1900s, and began selling pianos in 1917. Since 1946, World Famous maker of guitars and amplifiers. Instruments for which the Fender name is famous include the Telecaster, the Stratocaster, the Precision Bass, and the Jazz Bass, not to mention the Twin Reverb. Come by any of their locations and see the entire line-up of Fender Products.

For more information, please visit http://www.tarpleymusic.com

The Wedding Music Company was formed by David Guest in 1990. At the time, David was a professional singer on the choral and operatic circuit in London. The Wedding Music Company is the UK’s leading provider of wedding music. Run by a combination of experienced event organisers and former professional musicians, They combine the largest, most comprehensive network of professional performers in the country with an attention to detail second to none.

Wedding Music Company offers expert advice on all aspects of wedding music. Their DJs bear no resemblance to the traditional English wedding disco. They know all the very best bands for your wedding, so whether you want jump-jive or hip-hop, They’ll probably have just the right band for you. They have a huge variety of jazz bands, playing tunes from the Roaring Twenties to Sinatra-style sophistication, and their pop bands cover every decade from the fifties to the “noughties”.

For more information, please visit http://www.weddingmusic.co.uk