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Recent Children's Music News

BMI Offering New Songwriting Workshop

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BMI is offering an eight-week songwriting workshop at its New York offices, taught by songwriter Billy Seidman and designed to help hone songwriting skills by focusing on lyric writing, music theory and arranging/productions techniques in contemporary songwriting. The class will feature constructive feedback, stimulating assignments, and literature created especially for the BMI Songwriting Workshop. Classes will meet on Thursdays for eight consecutive weeks starting September 29 —…


From News, posted 8.22.11

New ‘BMI Live’ Program Allows Performing Songwriters To Register Live Concerts for Royalty Payments

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BMI has launched BMI Live, a program enabling performing songwriters to register their concerts and set lists online to be considered for payment in live music venues, regardless of size. To qualify, songwriters need to enter their live musical performances on BMI’s website (a BMI Live video demo is available) . BMI will pay royalties to both writers and publishers via direct deposit in its June…


From News, posted 1.11.11

BMI Congratulates Inaugural Musicians Hall of Fame Inductees

BMI proudly sponsored the after party for the inaugural Musicians Hall of Fame induction ceremony held Monday, November 26 in Nashville. After honoring the members of the A Team, the Blue Moon Boys, The Tennessee Two, the Funk Brothers, The Memphis Boys and the Wrecking Crew at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the revelers moved to the Musicians Hall of Fame to continue the celebration.


From News, posted 11.30.07

For Donald Lawrence, ‘Finale’ Is Just the Beginning

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As a songwriter, producer, artist and record executive, Donald Lawrence is one of the gospel music community’s most accomplished talents. Thus far in 2006, he was the most awarded artist at the Stellar Awards, claiming six trophies, and he set chart records with the release of Donald Lawrence Presents Tri-City Singers Finale. Though the release of Finale closes a successful chapter in Lawrence’s career, he’s not content to rest…


From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06

Young Songwriters Taught Through Distance Learning Program

What if a group of talented students were to get together with award-winning songwriters and collaborate on a project that would allow the veterans to teach the novices something about the craft of songwriting? The students would develop a set of songs that the veterans critiqued and then refine their material over the course of a semester. At the end of the process, the students would perform the best of…


From News, posted 8.07.03

BMI Icon Recipients

The honor of BMI Icon is awarded to songwriters to honor their “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.” Pop David Foster John Fogerty Gamble and Huff Hall & Oates The Bee Gees Crosby, Stills & Nash Paul Simon


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