MusicPortland has partnered with Rational Unicorn Legal Services (RULS) to offer you our newest membership benefit: Legal Office Hours - A monthly forum for your music industry legal questions.

APRIL 22 TOPIC: Types of Music Industry Contracts

If you have any questions regarding music contracts, RULS is here to help!

Calling all studio production wizards! Join us at the Monthly Studio Production Meetup. Share your wins and woes with fellow studio producers, engineers, mixers and mastering maestros right here in Portland.

What do we do about Live Nation?

How do we stop cops from shutting down legally operating concerts?

Why are there no all-ages venues in Portland?

What other community problems deserve attention?

In This Must Be the Place, Shain Shapiro examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed.

Calling all studio production wizards! Join us at the Monthly Studio Production Meetup. Share your wins and woes with fellow studio producers, engineers, mixers and mastering maestros right here in Portland.

A members-only virtual meetup for your music industry accounting questions.

Hosted with Alison Griggs of Note 4 Note Accounting.

What are the challenges faced by festivals?

How can festival programming support local venues?

The do’s and don’ts of applying for a festival

MusicPortland has partnered with Rational Unicorn Legal Services (RULS) to offer you our newest membership benefit: Legal Office Hours - A monthly forum for your music industry legal questions.

If you have any questions regarding your music career or business that you’d like to ask a lawyer, RULS is here to help!

Calling all studio production wizards! Join us at the Monthly Studio Production Meetup. Share your wins and woes with fellow studio producers, engineers, mixers and mastering maestros right here in Portland.

• How your story, look/vibe and merch can inform the narrative of your music or business

• Choose merch that stands out and works for you

• Market your business from a place of authenticity

MusicPortland has partnered with Rational Unicorn Legal Services (RULS) to offer you our newest membership benefit: Legal Office Hours - A monthly forum for your music industry legal questions.

If you have any questions regarding your music career or business that you’d like to ask a lawyer, RULS is here to help!

- Booking and planning strategies

- How to maintain your health while on tour

- Stories of misadventure on the road

- Find your next creative collaborator
- Submit a single to our party playlist
- Enjoy pizza and beverages for purchase

Join us!

• Tips and tricks for making great videos

• Meet up with artists and production crew

• How to save BIG $$$ on production

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED _ NEW DATE: TBD

The current music industry landscape can be both exciting and overwhelming for independent artists striving to find a foothold. It’s easy for artists and their teams to feel overwhelmed as the music industry seems to transform and reinvent itself daily around new technologies. If this sounds like you, fear not because MusicPortland and our partners at Water & Music are here to help you learn and navigate this constantly evolving ecosystem with support from CD Baby, our hometown technology champion!

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Join us for our monthly huddle for working producers, engineers, mixers, and mastering maestros! Connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion and dedication to crafting the music we all adore.

Hosted by MusicPortland Board Member and bon vivant, Adam Gonsalves.

The music world is changing, and it is key to stay connected, creative, and informed. Find out more about Huey and his amazing life in music and the lessons to learn (click the image to find out more).

Prosper Portland is negotiating a deal with Live Nation for a 3,000 seat venue on Portland's Waterfront. What will Live Nation plan next? How will this affect our local music scene?

Join us for our first monthly Studio Production Sector Meetup this Wednesday, 8/23. If you’re looking to connect or network with other engineers and production folks on a regular basis, here’s your opportunity! Hosted by founder of Telegraph Mastering and MusicPortland board member Adam Gonsalves.

The creators of Sound Credit are launching a unique-in-the-world relationship with MusicPortland to make sure that our music ecology, every musician, label, producer, publisher, etc. is creating a definitive map of credits and information exchange.

Join us for an hour to get help with drafting your Echo Fund application.

Our marketing experts will share necessary tips for how to reach folks who will listen to and promote your music.

Let’s discuss the impacts of PDX crime on PDX music and identify ways to protect ourselves, our city and our scene.

Want to be better at the business side of music? Ya gotta know the essentials to protect yourself as a working professional, and keep more of the money you earn.

This virtual webinar will offer an update on the planning process and provide opportunities for participants to respond to key questions.

What does it mean to sync your music? We’ll figure it out with Brian Hall of Marmoset Music and Mallory Zumbach of Maximal Music Sync!

This virtual session will gather working artists and those working in creative industries for a discussion on our collective vision and the different ways we can advance the creative sector.

This virtual discussion will gather insights and perspectives from representatives of the broad spectrum of large and small groups working to advance creativity and culture throughout the area.

Join us this First Monday in March to talk about change! For the first time EVER, our music community is invited to participate in developing Portland's official cultural plan. We have an opportunity to reimagine how the arts can represent our changing, growing communities. This is our chance to speak and be heard!

Our community has a historic opportunity to directly influence Portland’s cultural plan! The Our Creative Future project wants to hear from working independent musicians, as well as venues and promoters. This is our chance to be heard and your voice is vital. Please join us!