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Urge Congress to Protect Music Makers in Coronavirus Relief Funding. During these unprecedented times, Congress is actively working on relief packages to support Americans, our health, and our economic well-being. It is critical that self-employed, freelance and independent music makers have access to relief funding to help alleviate any of the financial burdens inflicted by…

Today is “crossover day” – the last day of this session for a bill to crossover from one chamber of the house to the other in Georgia. The velocity in which things change at the Capital is intense. Unfortunately, the bill(s) that would make the needed changes to allow the music incentive to be utilized…

Thursday, March 12th is crossover day and the need to get legislation from one chamber to the other is critical for a bill to survive. We are tracking and supporting several bills as well as keeping an eye on some troublesome trends we are seeing nationally to keep them from arising here.   SB 441: …

Aneesah Bray holds multiple executive roles: She is the CEO of Creative Collective Capital (C3), the Principle at Aneesah Bray Consulting, and the President of GPP (GMP’s equivalent organization on the film side). She made Georgia home back in 1994. We sat down for a quick interview about her roots and her career in music:…

Last week on January 8th GMP hosted a special reception to celebrate Georgia’s Music Industry. The event took place at Pandora’s ATL offices and attended by a diverse representation of our music community including artists, managers, promoters, educators, various service providers, and more. We knew the evening was a success when folks kept saying they ran…

On Monday January 13th, the 155th Georgia General Assembly will convene for the the second session. GMP will continue to monitor and track any and all legislation that will affect our diverse industry. We anticipate several new bills to be introduced as well as some changes to existing music incentives.     Currently, HB 347…

Dear Friends of Georgia’s Music Industry, GMP has been quite busy this past year on multiple fronts, and we are finishing the year strong:  We’re continuing our partnership with Sound Diplomacy mapping the studios and venues in Fulton County. We have conducted scores of interviews and collected hundreds of data points, which will be assembled…