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KELLY SHUTTLEWORTH JOINS THE SKYLINE MUSIC PERFORMING ARTS BOOKING TEAM

Kelly Shuttleworth has joined the Skyline Music booking agency team to handle Performing Arts accounts West of the Mississippi. She will work alongside Skyline's Eastern US arts agent Andrea Sabata on the agency's extensive arts roster including George Winston, The von Trapp Children, Gaelic Storm, Sam Bush, Solas and more than 30 others.

From 2001-2003 Kelly served as the booking coordinator for Dallas Brass and more recently was the coordinator of arts booking in her community near Nashville. Previous to Dallas Brass she worked in public relations and marketing after graduation with a degree in Journalism and PR from the University of Memphis.

"We're very proud to have Kelly join the Skyline team. Not only is she well known and liked in the Performing Arts Center community," says Skyline Music president Bruce Houghton, "but she brings a unique perspective to the company as she has experienced both sides of the booking industry."

Kelly Shuttleworth can be reached at kelly@skylineonline.com

or call 931.455.1858.

Skyline Music Artists And The Music Industry Move To Help The Victims Of Katrina

UPDATE: As the incredible tragedy in New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast comes into focus many in the music industry are using joining forces to raise funds.  In the coming days and weeks we will showcase some of them. We encourage all in the music industry to use your talents as marketers, artists, and business people to help those effected by this incredible tragedy.

One New Orleans band the subdudes got out safely, but several band members have lost everything. Their selfless open letter to the music industry to help out is quite moving.  Read it here.

One subdudes gig at The Rancho Nacasio in Marin, CA that was to be canceled as the band members  relocate their families has been turned into a benefit for the band and the New Orleans relief efforts.  Read more on the venues web site here.

UPDATE: (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) -- Bumbershoot, the Seattle Arts Festival, has a long history of bringing New Orleans-based musicians to perform at the yearly festival, and 2005 is no different. All Bumbershoot scheduled artists are safe and accounted for, but Hurricane Katrina has impacted some of our guests from Louisiana and their ability to travel and perform at this year’s festival. Jon Cleary will be performing a solo set, as his band cannot reach Seattle in time to join him for the festival, and Kermit Ruffins has had to cancel. Though Mr. Ruffins will not be joining us, our thoughts are with him throughout this difficult time.

Bumbershoot is reaching out to Louisiana and Mississippi, a part of the country that we all feel a special kinship for because of their incredible musical heritage and great celebrations such as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival...Donation boxes for the Hurricane Katrina Victim Relief Fund will be located on Bumbershoot grounds inside Ticket Gates, at Information Booths, and inside the Mainstage on festival grounds..

We're hearing that Celtic rockers Solas putting together a benefit in Philadelphia on September 14th.  If you can donate a performance or your services please email us and we'll pass it along.

We've also heard from Cynthia Simien, a NARAS regional board member and the wife  and manager of our favorite Zydeco artist Terrance Simien, who tells us that the Grammy foundation MusicCares is working to provide assistance and housing for effect members of the music community.  The foundation has promised a minimum of $1 million and is solicating contributions and offering aid at http://www.grammy.com/musicares.

One of the most aggressive and creative efforts from the music industry that we've heard about is from music management/agency/label/promotion mini-conglomerate Madison House who wrote the following :

Greetings Friends,

Here is current plan from Concious Alliance, Madison House, and the String Cheese Incident, for creating assistance to refugees of the hurricane...

The Federal Government is failing terribly in their efforts, and we believe that it is important to take some action into our own hands. People need help, and The People need to help to provide it. Don Strasburg and Justin Baker have flown down to Dallas... I am searching for 2 semi trucks to be sent down to them asap... We will probably need a truck from outside of the region, as there do not seem to be many trucks left for hire in the south. We are therefore looking to rock n roll trucking companies for help. If you have ideas, then please pass them along.

We are putting the conscious alliance note, about donations, up on the SCI and MH websites looking for donations... Over 10k has been raised since last night. Matt Hogan is putting the word out to SCI pirates in Texas that we need help creating a crew. Don and Justin will go to a Walmart or wherever to fill up the trucks until they run out of money. We may try to have them do this in Dallas, because there is a feeling that Houston supplies are being tapped. We are going to mobilize the Madison House office to stop working on music today, and start working on helping this situation. Our efforts may be a drop in the bucket compared to the greater efforts taking place, but that bucket needs every drop it can handle right now.

Here is the website for donations. Donation tax receipts will be provided. Given the urgency of the matter, it is best to donate online through our secure, easy-to-use, PayPal account at www.consciousalliance.org Please contact me if you have ideas on how to help this crew get out there to help people.

Thanks, Jeremy Stein stein@madison-house.com

UPDATE:  (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) -- Conscious Alliance team members are traveling to Houston on September 2 to assist the Houston Food Bank with their hurricane relief efforts. Over the course of the last 48 hours, Executive Director Justin Baker secured initial donations of $10,000, made arrangements with the national office of America's Second Harvest Food Bank, the Houston Food Bank, and Costco managers in Houston and secured a Penske truck with which they will purchase and deliver pallets of food to support the refugees arriving from the Superdome and Convention Center.

The String Cheese Incident and their management/booking company Madison House are arranging for three-to-four additional semi trucks to meet Conscious Alliance in Texas and are helping to mobilize the music community around the cause. Baker and Conscious Alliance board member, Don Strasburg, plan to stay in Houston until their relief funds run dry. --Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen

HELP THE RED CROSS HELP VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA

http://www.redcross.org/

A CALL FOR MUSICANS TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF KATRINA FROM THE SUBDUDES

I'm sure everybody knows about the incredible disaster in New Orleans by now.

The effects of this hurricane could not have been any worse. There are many many thousands of people, our poor unfortunate brothers and sisters, who are in dire need of help. They are having to endure extreme heat without any hope of air conditioning, extreme thirst with no hope of clean drinking water, they're hungry and getting hungrier every minute...

What can we do about it?? Obviously we need to send these poor victims some real aid RIGHT AWAY.

I am not a politician, not affiliated with any government or private agency, I'm just (and have always been) a musician. My name is Jimmy Messa, I play bass and guitar with a band called the subdudes and I live (or I used to live) in Slidell Louisiana. One other guy in the band, our lead guitarist and lead singer Tommy Malone has (or had) a house in Mid City New Orleans. Although Tommy & I have not had any concrete information yet, it's very probable that both of our houses are destroyed. He and I are pretty lucky though. We both managed to evacuate the city before Katrina hit and we and our families are safe (although, unfortunately, we're refugees for who knows how long).

Anyway, here's my point:

The only thing I can think of to do to help in this horrible situation is to do what I've always done, play some music. I'm writing to ask you (and some other people) to please try to organize a benefit concert whose proceeds can be sent to help the devasted people in New Orleans. I'm 100% sure I can guarantee the subdudes will be willing to appear (for expenses only) on the bill and since I've been a musician from that beautiful city for all of my adult life, I can ask many of my musician friends to help and I'm sure they'd be willing to. I'll speak to (as soon as I possibly can) The Radiators, Anders Osbourne, Theresa Andersson, Papa Grows Funk, Rockin' Jake, Doug Duffey, Liz Barnez, Brint Anderson, George Porter, etc., etc., etc...I'm sure they and others would gladly help for only the price of transportation and lodging.

Also, what about those bigger name acts who always cite New Orleans as their 'favorite city' and who (rightly) acknowledge it as the spiritual mother of most modern music? Artists such as Little Feat, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joe Cocker, Keb Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, etc., etc., etc....maybe we could possibly get them on board too if we only ask. I'd like to think these guys would also help if just their expenses were covered.

So, there's my proposal. Please think about this and get back to me ASAP. We might be able to make the difference between life and death for many many people if we can organize this and if we act quickly and unselfishly, And, we can put on a great concert.

Thanking you in advance,

Jimmy Messa

P.S. PLEASE forward this letter to anybody you think might be able to help.

Jontomas7@aol.com <mailto:Jontomas7@aol.com>

www.subdudes.com <http://www.subdudes.com/>