The 2012 Midatlantic Music Conference and NoDa Fall Musicfest

To all the musicians, panelists, sponsors and fans who were in attendance this weekend in Charlotte for our 10th annual event.  We want to thank you for sharing your gifts and contributing to a successful weekend.  Everyone was very receptive and open to learning and also the music through the multiple stages was highly impressive.  On behalf of Wholeteam Entertainment, The Caldwell Group, and The Chop Shop we would like to thank you for sharing your time with us.

Please keep in touch we have other opportunities, and still provide excellent artist resources.  Find us at www.wholeteam.com and www.midatlanticmusic.com and on Facebook and Twitter

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Current Sponsors:

We are proud to partner up with our 2012 Sponsors who generously support us in putting on a great networking opportunity for the Midatlantic Region.

Music Connection Magazine – www.musicconnection.com

Performer Magazine – www.performermag.com

SESAC – www.sesac.com

ID VIP Team – www.idvipteam.com

Oak Realty NC – www.oakrealtync.com

Living Life On Purpose - http://www.wgivcharlotte.com/living-life-on-purpose.html

Monster Energy / Bealer Wholesale – www.monsterenergy.com

Brazen Vodka

The Carolina Promoter

Fusicology – www.fusicology.com

The Caldwell Group

The Chop Shop – Charlotte / NoDa District – www.chopshopnoda.com

M1 Productions

Wholeteam Enterprises LLC – www.wholeteam.com

The Midatlantic Music Conference – www.midatlanticmusic.com

Reverbnation – www.reverbnation.com

Rock University – www.rockucharlotte.com

Sam Ash Music – www.samashmusic.com

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PradigyGT has been selected from the “So Whatcha Playin Band Search” and will perform with Parish “PMD” Smith, one half of the duo, EPMD.  They have been playing in the local, Charlotte scene, as well as regionally and nationally.  They will perform some of their own tunes from their portfolio as well as hits from their CD, “2010 GT Oddyssey”.  Their performance is Friday, October 5, 2012 around 11:45 (Time subject to change).  View one of PradigyGT’s videos here

NoDa Fall Musicfest Schedule:

FRIDAY, Oct 5, 2012

Red Stage: (Music by STAMPER-Charlotte, NC)

7:00- Bale & Smyth Company – Charlotte, NC
TBD
Cata9tales-South Boston, VA
Dreamkiller-Greensboro, NC
Ferris Bueller, Greensboro, NC
HEADLINER - American Murder – Charlotte, NC
HEADLINER - Parish ”PMD” Smith, hiphop icon 1/2 of group EPMD w/ PradigyGT, Charlotte, NC

White Stage: 

7:25 – dsass-Rolesville, NC
Jason Hoover-Raleigh, NC
Jonathan Santos-Asheville, NC
The VIPS-Gastonia, NC
Brit Price-Charlotte, NC
The Lionz of Zion-Greenville, SC
Remy St. Claire-Charlotte, NC
The Kelly Jo Connect-Greenville, SC

Blue Stage: (featuring Will Wonder-Charlotte, NC (Producer) )

7:25 – 2p`z / GreenHouse-Charlotte, NC
DONGALA-Charlotte, NC
J11-Columbia, SC
Ashlee Altise-Kinston, NC
Originale-Washington, NC
Legrand-Fort Mill, SC
Da Rich Boyz (DRB)-Charlotte,NC
T Dubb-Charlotte NC
Yung Plus Anutha-Charlotte, NC

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Red Stage: (Music by Koi.-Virginia Beach, VA)

6:30- THE OCEAN AS MISTRESS-Fort Walton Beach, FL
Xero-Seneca, SC
The Hollywood Kills-Nashville, TN
Pan-Columbia, SC

Gurufish, Atlanta, GA
Dark Water Rising, Pembroke, NC
The New Void-Cincinnati, OH
Madrone-Roanoke, VA
Grown Up Avenger Stuff-Charlotte, NC

White Stage:

The 3 Dudes-Charleston, SC
Megan Watts-Greer, SC
Carson Hill-Wadesboro, NC
THE OCEAN AS MISTRESS-Fort Walton Beach, FL
Russell Howard-Charlotte, NC
A Course of Action – Colony Springs, NC

Blue Stage:

ELU OUTTAHERE-Atlanta, GA
L.A.H.-N&S CAROLINAS, NC
$HO Montega-Trenton, NJ
Mz. Diggy Dulche-Columbus, OH
Cordula-Charlotte, NC
NIck London-Hialeah, FL
The Fight Club, & Drenico-Memphis, TN
Young Dirt-Greensboro, NC
a.c.Stine-Charlotte, NC

Tentative Schedule Subject to Change

John “J Dogg” Shaw, Promotions, Media Relations, Urban A & R/Select-O-Hits Distribution – Select-O-Hits	John “J-DOGG” Shawgraduated from Memphis State University in 1992 with a degree in music education. He has been a clinician, promoter, hip-hop journalist, producer and jazz musician. His articles have appeared in Murder Dog, Rap Pages, Grooveline, Street Masters and Down Magazine. Since 1995, he has worked for Select-O-Hits Music Distribution in the promotions department. He has spoken at numerous conventions, including the Southern Urban Music Conference, Omni Music Conference and Mid-Atlantic Music Conference, and is working on a history of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana entitled “Action Speaks Louder Than Words: Black Music in Shreveport, LA 1948-1998.”as well as freelance writing for several publications including VIBE, The Source, and Complex.
Victoria Camera VP, Music Industry & Artist Relations - ReverbNation	Victoria Camera began her career at Atlantic Records where over the course of 9 years she has nurtured the careers of both developing and platinum selling artists in the Tour Marketing and Artist Development world. In addition to those roles, Victoria oversaw the Lifestyle and Street Marketing Department where she launched successful deals with national brand sponsorship programs with Skull Candy, YouTube, Alternative Press and more. Victoria has worked with such artists as Kid Rock, Rob Thomas, Gnarles Barkley, Staind, Shinedown and Jason Mraz.Currently, Victoria holds the role of VP of Music Industry & Artist Relations at ReverbNation where she educates the music industry on new marketing tools and initiatives that help drive artist development and expand the artist’s social graphs. Victoria also brings in valuable playing and placement opportunities to the Reverb artist community, which currently stands at over 2.46 million artists.
David Silbaugh Talent Buyer, Summer Musicfest, The World’s Largest Music Festival	David Silbaugh is best known as a talent buyer for Summerfest (“The World’s Largest Music Festival”) and also fulfills entertainment relations and production supervisor duties in addition to producing the Emerging Artists Series for the festival. He also serves as an A&R Consultant for Banshee Music, an Entertainment Relations Consultant for Gibson, and a partner in entertainment consulting firm Pursuit Live. Equally at home on the musician’s side of the tracks or the business end of the biz, the live environment or the studio, David has been a musician since early childhood, with practical experience in numerous genres as well as domestic and international touring, recording, and producing. As a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, he currently sits on the Board of Governors for the Chicago Chapter of The Recording Academy, serving the majority of the Midwestern United States.
Manuel Seal, Jr, Songwriter	Manuel Seal, Jr,is an American Hip-Hop/R&B record producer and songwriter. Formerly a contract songwriter and producer at Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings, Manuel Seal, Jr. has co-written many hit songs including Usher’s “You Make Me Wanna”, “Nice and Slow”, “My Way”, Destiny’s Child’s “With Me”, “My Boo”; and Mariah Carey’s number one singles “Always Be My Baby” and “We Belong Together.” Current winner of American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) 23rd Annual Rhythm & Soul Awards Ceremony in Beverly Hills, CA June 25, 2010 for “Song of the Decade Award” Co-writer of Mariah Carey’s, “We Belong Together”
Rob Tavaglione Owner, Catalyst Recordings, Charlotte, NC	Owner Rob Tavaglione has been in countless bands and has gigged from the Southeast USA to New York, to Los Angeles. He is a songwriter, singer, backup vocalist and multi-instrumentalist including guitar, bass, keyboards, programming and percussion.Rob got his start at Sound Source Recording Studios; where he started as staff engineer, became chief mastering engineer and eventually went on to become chief engineer.After that, Rob moved on to the prestigious Reflection Studios in Charlotte NC (as a staff engineer). There he worked on numerous projects with national artists like John P. Kee, Donald Lawrence and artist/producer Mark Sparks.After a brief stay there, Rob went “freelance” to many studios including White Room Studios, Media Comm, The Inspirational Network Studios, WTVI and many others.Having collected gear all his life, in 1994 he felt that he had enough equipment and experience to open Catalyst Recording. Fifteen years later, with over 400 projects recorded, Catalyst Recording has becoming one of the leading recording studios in the Carolinas.Today, Rob writes reviews and articles for Pro Audio Review Magazine, Pro Sound News and Audio Media Magazine (in the UK) and is recognized as an audio engineering expert, receiving accolades and letters from around the world.
Doug Daniel, President/Managing Director, East Coast Entertainment	After graduating from UNC as a proud Tar Heel in 1989, Doug Daniel thought it sounded a lot more fun to keep playing drums and guitar than to interview on campus and go get a haircut. Luckily, Doug’s parents are entrepreneurs and understood the pull to do the unconventional. Playing drums full time, getting paid in cash every week and sitting in a hot tub everyday seemed pretty fun…..until the being gone from home and living out of a suitcase for months part kicked in.After long days in the retail, teaching, music licensing (ask him about ASCAP if you have 3-4 hrs free) and eight years as an agent at EastCoast, Doug finally got the crazy idea that it’d be better to not get a paycheck for a while, and start a business. He was not disappointed…Founding Daniel Entertainment Group in 2001 meant that paychecks were a distant memory. However, 2001 taught him how to “tighten the belt” and run a company on fumes. With some luck and no vacation time, Doug can say that the whole thing turned out ok.So “ok” that in 2008, EastCoast Entertainment approached about merging with  Daniel Entertainment. After many lunches, the idea became an exciting plan. It gave Doug a chance to return home to EastCoast as a Partner.   “You never can tell how some things end up coming back around. Good thing I saved all my old business cards!”  In 2011, Doug was voted into his current role as President/Executive Managing Director and is aggressively pushing growth for all EastCoast offices.From years of traveling and playing drums, Doug picked up many bad habits….such as playing guitar and watching bad tv. It seemed to be cheaper and safer than many of the other vices around. Doug still tries to play guitar and drums whenever he can or is not chasing his son around. Unless you like losing, don’t challenge him on music or movie trivia.  These days, though, there’s nothing like a nice cold movie theater in the Summer to relax and forget who you are for a couple hours.
Parish “PMD” Smith, Hiphop Icon, 1/2 of duo, EPMD, and founder of PMD Records, and Hitsquad Records	Parish J. Smith, better known as PMD(Parish Making Dollars), is an east coast rapper from Smithtown, Long Island and one-half of EPMD.He is a member of the rap group, EPMD with Erick Sermon. He has released three solo albums, 1994′s Shade Business, 1996′s Business Is Business and 2003′s The Awakening. Also, in 2002, he released an album with Japanese hip hop luminary DJ Honda titled Underground Connections. Recently, he has been on tour throughout the US and Europe. He also recently was a panelist at the 2011 Midatlantic Music Conference in Charlotte NC where he shared his insight to aspiring artists the ins and outs of being independent and how to successfully make money while doing it.

 Full Panelist List