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Roots Music Association's Shane Cody Bartosh wins Western Stars Cowboy Dutch Oven Cookoff

RMR, Roots Music Report
2010-02-15

Inaugural Festival/NRMAL Takes Over Monterrey, Mexico March 13th

The first-ever Festival NRMAL (F/N), organized by NRMAL and Alianza Francesa de Monterrey, is introduced to the world March 13, 2010 in Monterrey, Mexico, on the grounds of the Alianza Francesa de Monterrey during the weekend prior to SXSW. F/N brings a collection of emerging artists and musicians together to showcase their work in a small, intimate setting framed by a Mexican cultural landscape. Four stages with a capacity of 700 people each showcase independent bands on the rise to a young Mexican audience who would otherwise not have the opportunity to see them.

More than 40 international acts are performing, including: Yacht, Daedelus, Banda de Turistas, The Death Set, Nite Jewel, Yellow Fever, Julianna Barwick, Awesome Color, Tyvek, Golden Triangle, White Rainbow, Juiceboxxx, The Keyishe, Poirier, and Toy Selectah. A visual arts portion also characterizes the festival, featuring installations created specifically for the event. In the visual realm, Equipo Plastico from Spain and others take the lead.

The festival is an opportunity for artists and audiences of all nationalities to visit Monterrey, get exposure to Mexican culture, and potentially establish artistic collaborations with the international community. The bands slated for F/N come from countries such as Argentina, Spain and Mexico, just to name a few. F/N also helps position Monterrey as a stopping point within the touring circuits of American and international bands.

USA to Monterrey and Back Again
The close proximity between Monterrey and Austin, roughly 6 hours by bus, presents bands slated for peformances at South by Southwest with the opportunity to appear in the Mexican public's radar.

On March 12th at 12:00a.m. the festival organizers will be busing down bands from Austin. There will be seats available for media on the bus ride down, for further info contact raul@nrmal.net.

Fans interested in making the trip down from Austin have a few cheap bus options: Autobuses Americanos has daily buses from Austin to Monterrey, and Greyhound has a $99 roundtrip ticket available as well.

Monterrey is the third largest city in Mexico - industrial by profession and artistic by nature. Set in the middle of the desert and surrounded by mountains, it is a hot spot for students and young professionals who enjoy the cultural scene and vibrant nightlife that the city has to offer.

Multimedia Links and Ticket Info
Complete line up and additional information. Festival NRMAL

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Early Bird (200 tickets) $15 USD
Pre - Sale (500 tickets) $20 USD
Rest of the tickets and door $23 USD



Full Line Up
YACHT
Daedelus
Banda de Turistas
Death Set
Nite Jewel
Yellow Fever
Julianna Barwick
Juiceboxxx
White Rainbow
The Keyishe
Los Amparito
Chico Sonido
Yppah
Awesome Color
Capsula
Tyvek
Golden Triangle
Poirier
Toy Selectah
Rebolledo
Cousin Cole
Electric Electric
Sebastien Schuller
Robot Koch
Ghost Beard
PDP
The Volture
She�s a Tease
60 Tigres
Quid Comba
Los Erres
Yo! Linares
El Cuarto
White Ninja
Black Fo
Uvi Love
Lady Hustle
Sonido San Francisco
La Musique Pop
Milkman

Art Lineup
Equipo Plástico (Espa�a/Francia)
Nuria Mora
Nano4814
Sixe
Eltono
Los Contratistas (Maf, Skrew, Huizar)
Colectivo Zenzontle (Blast, Sanez, Dose)
PROJECT PROJECTIONS (Virtual Exhibition of 30 Artists)
Carlos Olvera
Pablo Moreno, PM!

Written By: Ian Orth, www.learningsecretsmusic.com

Roots Music Association is a proud sponsor of The 2010 Johnny Cash Bash

KOOP DJ: Rowdy Tijmes Presents The 4th Annual Johnny Cash Bash

(Austin, Tex.) – Feb. 8, 2010 - Grab your favorite black outfit and join us at The 4th Annual Johnny Cash Bash celebrating Johnny’s 78th birthday! It’s February 26 at Emo's, 603 Red River. Half of Johnny's band with W. S. "Fluke" Holland Band from Jackson, Tenn. (Johnny Cash's only drummer), Earl Poole Ball (Johnny Cash's pianist since 1980). In addition The Band in Black, The Derailers, Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadours, The Skeletons, Brigitte London and Roger Wallace will perform at Emos on the actual day, 78 years ago, Johnny Cash was born. For more information visit www.johnnycashbash.com. Showtime is: 8 p.m.

Tickets are available now at Waterloo Records or online at www.ticketweb.com. They are $17 in advance and $20 at door. All profits go to SOS-USA, Johnny’s favorite charity (www.sos-usa.org). “From its onset on a dreary Monday night The Bash was an instant hit and immediately sold out,” says founder Rowdy Tijmes.

The Texas-based Johnny Cash Birthday Bash, one of Austin's fastest-growing and popular musical events, is becoming a tradition. The last place Johnny played in Austin was at Emo's back in 1994 and the bar stool he sat on proudly hangs over the inside bar." So, bring out your best black outfit and celebrate with Austin Cash lovers the life of Johnny Cash.

This year The Bash has expanded to Dallas (Lakewood Bar & Grill, 2/25) and Houston (Continential Club, 2/27).

This years event is sponsored by The Austin Chronicle, The Roots Music Association, Outlaw Magazine and Martin Guitars.

Satellite Radio Shows More Than 35 Million 'Premium' Listeners

NEW YORK, Jan. 14

SIRIUS XM Radio today announced the results of an Arbitron study of satellite radio subscribers conducted in October and November 2009 that found listenership is larger than previously estimated and scores much higher on key demographic criteria compared to the general population and AM/FM radio listeners.

Arbitron's study showed that more than 35 million total adult listeners tune in to SIRIUS XM, 32 million of which are weekly listeners.

The study found SIRIUS XM listeners prefer satellite radio over other audio options available to them. Respondents indicated that the percent of total time spent listening to audio in general is 62% to SIRIUS XM, 16% to AM/FM, 4% to streaming internet, and 10% of the time using mobile devices.

Arbitron found that in a typical day, SIRIUS XM listeners spend 2 hours and 45 minutes in their vehicle, which is significant, given that while they are in their cars, they spend 71% of their time listening to SIRIUS XM compared with 17% of their time listening to AM/FM radio, and 5% of the time using mobile devices.

Significantly, the Arbitron study revealed that past week SIRIUS XM listeners indexed higher on key audience attributes – education, income, and receptiveness:

* Highly-educated audience. 56% of SIRIUS XM listeners graduated from college or have advanced degrees compared with 24% of AM/FM radio listeners and 25% of the general population(1).
* Affluent listener base. 24% of SIRIUS XM listeners have household incomes of $150,000 or more compared with 9% of AM/FM radio listeners and 9% of the general population(2).
* Highly receptive to commercials. Of those who indicated they were more likely to change the channel when a commercial came on, in comparing SIRIUS XM and AM/FM radio, SIRIUS XM listeners are 61% more likely to stay with a commercial on satellite radio than with those that air on AM/FM radio stations.

"This study proves what we at SIRIUS XM have known for years – not only do we have the best programming in radio, but we have some of the most valuable listeners in all of media," said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SIRIUS XM. "Our combination of unparalleled audio content and unrivaled in-car delivery continues to attract a discerning cross-section of Americans."

"In a time of divergent media and ever greater competition for consumers' attention, this Arbitron study leads national advertisers to a highly-prized premium consumer audience." said Kathleen Mahoney, Vice President, Market Research, SIRIUS XM. "We are proud to have this engaged and influential audience of more than 35 million people who passionately listen to SIRIUS XM more than four times longer than they do to AM/FM radio."

The Arbitron study excluded SIRIUS XM's music channels since they are commercial free. The study focused solely on SIRIUS XM's news, talk, entertainment, sports, and other commercial programming channels. Arbitron found that listeners spent more than seven hours a week listening to these commercial channels on SIRIUS XM.

(1) Scarborough USA Plus, Release 1, 2009.

(2) Scarborough USA Plus, Release 1, 2009.

About SIRIUS XM Radio

SIRIUS XM Radio is America's satellite radio company delivering to subscribers commercial-free music channels, premier sports, news, talk, entertainment, and traffic and weather.

SIRIUS XM Radio has content relationships with an array of personalities and artists, including Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell, Jamie Foxx, Barbara Walters, Opie & Anthony, Bubba the Love Sponge�, Bob Edwards, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, Jimmy Buffett, The Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. SIRIUS XM Radio is the leader in sports programming as the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, Major League Baseball�, NASCAR�, NBA, NHL�, and PGA TOUR� and major college sports.

SIRIUS XM Radio has arrangements with every major automaker. SIRIUS XM Radio products are available at shop.sirius.com and shop.xmradio.com, and at retail locations nationwide, including Best Buy, RadioShack, Wal-Mart and independent retailers.

SIRIUS XM Radio also offers SIRIUS Backseat TV, the first ever live in-vehicle rear seat entertainment featuring Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network; XM NavTraffic� service for GPS navigation systems delivers real-time traffic information, including accidents and road construction, for more than 80 North American markets.

This communication contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the benefits of the business combination transaction involving SIRIUS and XM, including potential synergies and cost savings and the timing thereof, future financial and operating results, the combined company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions with respect to future operations, products and services; and other statements identified by words such as "will likely result," " are expected to," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "intend," "will," "should," "may," or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of SIRIUS' and XM's management and are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of SIRIUS and XM. Actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statement: our substantial indebtedness; the businesses of SIRIUS and XM may not be combined successfully, or such combination may take longer, be more difficult, time-consuming or costly to accomplish than expected; the useful life of our satellites; our dependence upon automakers and other third parties; our competitive position versus other forms of audio and video entertainment; and general economic conditions. Additional factors that could cause SIRIUS' and XM's results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in SIRIUS' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and XM's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, which are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and available at the SEC's Internet site (http://www.sec.gov). The information set forth herein speaks only as of the date hereof, and SIRIUS and XM disclaim any intention or obligation to update any forward looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this communication.

Written By: XM Radio, XM-Sirius

Berklee's new American Roots Music Program
Nick Balkin, Berklee College of Music
2009-12-02

When Mark O'Connor performs at Berklee on Dec. 10 with a group of faculty and students, he'll be celebrating more than the end of his week-long residency.

He'll introduce Berklee's new American Roots Music Program, directed by Matt Glaser. The program will explore America's musical and cultural heritage, focusing on blues, gospel, folk, country, bluegrass, Cajun, Western swing, polka, Tex-Mex, and other sounds. Glaser will design the curriculum. The program's board of advisors includes: Ricky Skaggs, Bela Fleck, Leo Kottke, Charlie Haden, Edgar Meyer, Lloyd Maines, Darol Anger, and many others.

By Joyce Linehan http://www.berklee.edu/news/list/author/30

The 2009/2010 Music Series at Berklee continues with master fiddler and American roots music icon Mark O'Connor, along with Berklee faculty members Matt Glaser and John McGann, student bluegrass groups, the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, and the Berklee Jazz/World String Orchestra. Americana and Roots: Mark O'Connor at Berklee takes place on Thursday, Dec. 10, at 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston. General admission tickets are $20–$25, and available at the Berklee Performance Center box office, at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 617 931-2000. For concert information, call 617 747-2261 or visit berkleebpc.com.

Like other Music Series artists, O'Connor will spend a week as an artist-in-residence at Berklee. He'll teach master classes during the day. In the evening, he and Glaser will rehearse top student musicians who will perform in the concert.

O'Connor's concert introduces Berklee's new American Roots Music Program, directed by Glaser. Reflecting violinist Glaser's own eclectic tastes and journeys, the American Roots Music Program explores America's musical and cultural heritage, and creates a focus on the styles from which contemporary sounds originate. Students will delve into blues, gospel, folk, country, bluegrass, Cajun, Western swing, polka, Tex-Mex, and other sounds. Glaser will design the curriculum, promote nontraditional improvisation, develop faculty programs, and host visiting artists, concerts, and symposiums. Top contemporary performers, writers, and producers who are carrying on the American roots traditions constitute the board of advisors to the Roots Music Program: Ricky Skaggs, Bela Fleck, Leo Kottke, Charlie Haden, Edgar Meyer, David Grisman, Andy Statman,Don Rigsby, Lloyd Maines, Liz Carroll, John Blake, Geoff Muldaur, Bruce Molsky, Ted Gioia, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Darol Anger, Ray Benson, Doug Wamble, John Lawless, Fletcher Bright, Sara and Sean Watkins, and Micheal Doucet.

Called by the Los Angeles Times "one of the most talented and imaginative artists working in music-any music-today," O'Connor is a product of America's rich aural folk tradition as well as classical and flamenco music. Between these musical extremes, O'Connor has shaped these and other influences into a new American classical music, and an entirely American school of string playing. A recording for Sony Classical, Appalachia Waltz, was a collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer. The follow-up, Appalachian Journey, won a Grammy in 2001. His orchestral score, Fiddle Concerto, has become the most-performed modern violin concerto. O'Connor also has a piano trio to perform his Johnny Cash-inspired "Poets and Prophets" composition, often including Cash's daughter, Rosanne. Another ensemble is a string quartet with chamber music legends Ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, and Matt Haimovitz. He recently revived his one-man violin concert with six caprices and three improvisations as the centerpieces of the tour de force
performance.

Glaser is a nationally recognized educator and musician. He founded Berklee's String Department more than two decades ago. He performs with his group the Wayfaring Strangers and has appeared as a guest with a range of musicians from Yo-Yo Ma and Stephane Grappelli to Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley, among many others. Filmmaker Ken Burns has had Glaser on many of his soundtracks from his Brooklyn Bridge debut in 1981, to the recent National Parks.

Ruf Records Makes Entire Blues Catalog Available for Radio Through Radio Submit

Ruf Records, one of the worlds leading and most celebrated blues labels, is digitally distributing its entire catalog free to radio stations globally through Radio Submit.

This will allow Ruf to service radio stations worldwide instantly upon release of a new album. Radio programmers can download these broadcast quality songs 24 hours a day, seven days a week at their convenience and play them for their listeners immediately.

With new Ruf artists constantly being released and with a large amount of older hits in their extensive catalog, Radio Submit will now make all of Ruf’s past and present releases ready for radio stations without the wait and expense of using services such as FedEx,UPS or the Postal Service.

Written By: Weston Jerret