RANCHO BERNARDO INN
Rancho Bernardo, CA 
February 16, 17 and 18, 2012


Thursday, Feb 16th


THE PASSION PANEL
Radio Programmer /Music Supervisor/ Label/ Manager/ Artist Mixer & Roundtable


MODERATORS

MARIANNE GOODE – Founder/ All Music Group
CHRIS MAYS – KINK/ Portland, Or

Marianne Goode / All Media Music Group: Marianne launched ALL MEDIA MUSIC GROUP in 2010 to leverage her expertise and relationships in creating and maximizing opportunities between artists, songwriters and media content providers. Her clients include broadcast and cable networks, independent brand content producers, record and artist management companies. Prior to founding All Media Music Group, she was Senior Vice President, Music at Lifetime Networks. Marianne began her career in music publishing at Rondor Music International, the esteemed music publishing company started by A&M Records founders, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.


Chris Mays / KINK: Chris Mays has been a leading AAA Program Director for over 20 years. She started 103.7 The Mountain in 1991 and programmed it for 15 years. She worked in progressive rock prior to that at KZEL, Eugene and KZAM, Seattle. She has also worked in other music formats, including AC and Hot AC. She currently programs KINK, in Portland, where she has had significant success in repositioning KINK over the past year and a half with substantial ratings increases.


PANELISTS

Radio:
Charese Fruge / KSCF
Zeb Norris / WNCS
Sky Daniels / KCSN
Michelle Wolfe / KMMS
Mike Allen / WCOO
Thorn / KTCZ
Paddy Mac / KTAO
Fish / KMTN
Diane Michaels / KPND
Fred Buc / WRLT


Music Supervisors:
John Bissell / Mothlight Music
Madonna Wade Reed / Whoopsy Daisy Music Supervision
Chris Jackson / Comcast Entertainment Group/NBCU
Tony von Pervieux / ABC Studios/Network
Steve Curran / Harvest Creative Services
Janine Scalise / Starz!
Trygge Toven / Lussier
Tricia Holloway / Path Music!
Chuck Bein / See Music!
Jenee DeAngelis / Swill Merchant Music



THE 7 THINGS RADIO MUST DO
to remain the most relevant provider of new music


MODERATOR

TOM DAVIS / President Davis Media LLC

Tom Davis is the President of Davis Media, LLC, with current radio station holdings in Williamsburg, Virginia and Wilmington, NC. Mr. Davis has owned and managed radio stations in various markets since 1990, and has a long record of profitable radio properties relying exclusively on local and hyper local content and revenue. Davis’ proprietary radio/digital and sales models include Listen and Click, Inner Circle Sales and the Save 30 Store.


PANELISTS
Beau Gunn / WUIN
Gary Chetkof /Owner of WDST



FRIDAY, Feb 17


KEYNOTE
Keynote conversation: Artist + label = modern day partnership. Explore the relationship between multi-media, visionary artist and music company partnership. How do innovation, creativity and partnership co-exist?


SPEAKERS

Livia Tortella / Co-President and COO of Warner Bros. Records:

Livia Tortella is Co-President and Chief OperatingOfficer of Warner Bros. Records, which has been one of the top three labels in the U.S. every year since 2003. Tortella is further developing the careers of internationally-known artists including Michael Buble, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, My Chemical Romance, Josh Groban, Linkin Park and Jason Derulo. Recently, Tortella has led Warner Bros.’ initiative to launch developing artists signed to 360 deals, including Theophilus London, Neon Hitch and Gary Clark, Jr. Over the years, Tortella has been integral in the success of established artists like Paramore, The Zac Brown Band, Death Cab For Cutie, Rob Thomas, and Kid Rock, as well as the best-selling Twilight soundtrack franchise for which Tortella served as executive producer.


Wayne Coyne / The Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne is the founding member and lead vocalist for the experimental psychedelic rock band, The Flaming Lips. Since the formation of the band in 1983 Coyne has been focused on creating music with lush, multi-layered melodies and mind-expanding space rock lyrics. The band is highly acclaimed for their elaborate live shows that feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and front man Coyne’s signature man-sized plastic bubble (in which he traverses the audience). Q magazine has named The Flaming Lips one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die”. Today, Coyne remains dedicated to his musical roots while simultaneously exploring various avenues of creation such as film direction and experimental art.



MOGULS OF THE NEW WORLD
discussions of the changing recording business - The dramatic changes in the record business in the last decade have given rise to a new group of influential leaders from the independent world whose approach the development of musical artists from a very different perspective and group of strategies than those of the “major” labels.


MODERATOR

Danny Goldberg / President, GoldVe Entertainment: Danny Goldberg is President of GoldVe Entertainment which manages, world-wide, the careers of The Cranberries, Steve Earle, The Hives, Peaches, Blitzen Trapper, Ben Lee, The Old 97s, School Of Seven Bells and Tom Morello among others. In the 1990’s, Goldberg was President of Atlantic Records, Chairman of Warner Bros Records and President of Mercury Records when each led the United States in market share according to soundscan. Prior to that he ran Gold Mountain Entertainment who managed Nirvana and Bonnie Raitt among others. In the 1970’s he was Vice-President of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records ran. Goldberg is author of the book Bumping Into Geniuses which was published in 2008 and started as a journalist writing for Billboard and Rolling Stone.


PANELISTS

Gregg Latterman / Aware
Bill Armstrong / SideOneDummy
Kevin Lyman / Warped Tour
Alex Patsavas / Chop Shop
Grover / Collective Sounds
Gene Rumsey / Concord Music Group
Greg Hammer / Red Bull Records
Kevin Zinger / Suburban Noize Records



THE TRANSFORMATIONAL OF THE POWER OF MUSIC
with Agape International’s Michael Beckwith


Michael Beckwith / Agape International: With the release of his genre-bending, ecstatic dance CD, TranscenDance, on Agape Media International (AMI), Michael Bernard Beckwith, sets the standard as a transformational music artist.
Already a world-renowned spiritual leader and best-selling author featured in the mega-hit film and book, The Secret, with his own, acclaimed PBS Special: The Answer Is You, Beckwith is Founder & Spiritual Director of the Agape nternational
Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, a trans-denominational, multi-cultural community, where music has a significant place in the weekly celebrations, classes, and conferences. He and his wife, Rickie Byars Beckwith, have written over 200 songs that are performed by artists worldwide at spiritual centers and conscious-living festivals such as Harmony Festival, Earthdance, Burning Man, Bhakti Fest and Lightning-In-A-Bottle. Beckwith shares, “There is no point in time when the mysticism of music has not been a vital component in all of my creative expressions. The inspiration and healing elements of music are integral to the unfoldment of the soul, and it has played a major role in my own transformational practices.” Beckwith encourages listeners to be aware of the soundtrack within their own lives. Are they moving to a rhythm of victim songs or to anesthetize themselves? Or are they living in cadence with the musical notes of inspiration, upliftment, triumph, and joy? Sunset Sessions is proud to present Michael Beckwith inspiring you to listen and dance to the beauty of your own true nature.



SATURDAY, FEB 18


PANEL – Mixer & Roundtable


MODERATORS:

Rita Houston: WFUV
Allen Kelper: Broadcast Archtecture


PANELISTS

Radio
Kristen Kurtis / KGSR
Reverend Keith Coes / WRLT
Brad Dolbeer / KINK
Carmel Holt / WDST
Brandon Bell / KMXB


Music Supervisors

Marisa Wasser
Janine Kerr / NBC
Bonnie Greenberg
Kasey Truman / Chop Shop



KEYNOTE

Ben Fong-Torres / Journalist: Former senior editor and writer at Rolling Stone, also is a veteran broadcaster, a three-time Emmy winner for his work on television. But his passion is radio. He was a DJ on free-form pioneer KSAN from 1970-1981 while at the magazine, wrote and narrated a Billboard award-winning syndicated special, hosted “Fog City Radio” on KQED-FM, hosted “Backstage” on KFRC-FM, and writes the “Radio Waves” column in the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of eight books, subjects ranging from Gram Parsons and the Grateful Dead to Top 40 radio and his own memoirs. He is a member of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.


Dennis Constantine / KFOG: Dennis started in radio when he was five years old; he was the class announcer for his kindergarten class. By the time he was 16, he had a job at the local top 40 radio station in Baltimore helping the deejays at the station and at their record hops. By the time he was 21, he was program director at WYRE in Annapolis, MD. After stints in Miami at legendary stations WMYQ and Y100, he moved to Colorado where he was music director and night deejay at KTLK, and then the morning guy and production director at AOR station KBPI. In 1977, he started KBCO in Boulder and programmed the station for sixteen years. After consulting two dozen Triple A and Alternative stations, he moved to Portland to program KINK. After thirteen years there, he moved to the Bay Area where he is now Director of FM Programming for Cumulus San Francisco. He can be heard on the air at the legendary KFOG every afternoon.



CREATING CHANGE
Socially, Spiritually & Environmentally


MODERATOR

CHRIS WRIGHTSMAN

Chris Wrightsman / Production Manager: Chris is the production
manager for Sunset Sessions for 14 of our 15 years and tours extensively in
between all year long with many great artists!


PANELISTS

Kevin Lyman / Warped Tour
Doug Gibeaut / UPS
Bob Stein / Organically Grown
Conor Gaffney / Café Gratitude
Stephen Powers / Agape International
Bushwalla / Artist
Erica Krusen / Music Cares
Jim Lindberg / Havoc TV