Millennium Music Conference
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| Millennium Music Conference | |
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| Location(s) |  Cities around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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| Years active | 1997 - Present |
| Date(s) | Varies |
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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 winter debut in 1997, the conference has grown into one of the premier music conferences and showcases on the East Coast. To participate in the event, artists and vendors are asked to submit or commit to the event months in advance. In addition, Music industry professionals are invited to 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. Typically, 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 listening 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
MMC 1
1997
MMC 2
1998
MMC 3
The third annual MMC was held on February 11th-14th, 1999 - Ramada on Market Square in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MMC 4
The fourth annual MMC was held on February 10th-13th, 2000 at the Hilton Harrisburg and Towers on Market Square in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MMC 5
2001
MMC 6
The sixth annual MMC was held on February 14th-17th, 2002 - Hilton Harrisburg and Towers on Market Square in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MMC 7
The seventh annual MMC was held on February 13th-16th, 2003 - Hilton Harrisburg and Towers on Market Square in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MMC 8
The eighth annual MMC was held on June 24-26, 2004 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MMC 9
The ninth annual MMC was held on June 23-26, 2005 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MMC 10
The tenth annual MMC was held on June 22-24, 2006 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
- Keynote Speakers 2006:
- Brett Scallions - Formerly of Fuel
- Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root
MMC 11 The eleventh annual MMC will be held February 15-18, 2007 at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
- Keynote Speaker 2007:
- Fri. Feb. 16 @ 5:15pm
- Bruce Warren, WXPN-FM Philadelphia
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- Sat. Feb. 17 @ 5:15pm
- Walter F. McDonough, Esq., General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition
