Millennium Music Conference

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The Millennium Music Conference (MMC) is an annual event that features 3 days of panels, clinics, workshops, mentoring, demo listening sessions, and a music business trade show, held in and around the City of Harrisburg, PA. The event celebrates new music and emerging talent with 3 nights of showcases by original acts and artists. Since its debut in 1997 as a winter event, the conference has grown into one of the premier music conferences and showcases on the East Coast. Music industry professionals attend as panelists, speakers, mentors, exhibitors and talent scouts to network, do business and share their experience with the registrants.

[edit] Event Details

The event has been held at the Harrisburg Hilton or the Crowne Plaza Hotel and over 25 venues in and around the City of Harrisburg, PA. During the afternoons on Thursday, Friday and Saturday there are business sessions with music business professionals sitting on panels and conducting clinics and workshops. There is also a special room for mentoring and demo listenning where bands and artists can sit "One-On-One" with the producers, engineers, managers, agents, label reps, marketing and promotions executives, radio reps and professionals from all aspects of the music industry.

The event is used to network, and to assist aspiring musicians to obtain the music business skills need to get to the next level. Musicians can meet other musicians and people in the music business.

There is also a trade show that features exhibitors, from recording studios to music magazines, many of them sponsors and media partners. There is also daytime stage on the trade show floor. In the evenings, the selected showcase acts and artists perform their original music sets at venues all over the Harrisburg downtown and suburban area live music venues.

[edit] Conference History

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MMC 6

February 14th-17th, 2002 - Hilton Harrisburg and Towers on Market Square in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

MMC 7

February 13th-16th, 2003 - Hilton Harrisburg and Towers on Market Square in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

MMC 8

June 24-26, 2004 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, PA

MMC 9

June 23-26, 2005 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, PA

MMC 10

June 22-24, 2006 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, PA

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