If you’re in the Nashville area July 11-13, 2013, then check out Summer NAMM at the brand spanking new Nashville convention center. Saturday, July 13, NAMM will be opening the doors to the public for its “Music Industry Day.”

Taking part in the selection of workshops, panels and events that day is Mad Sun’s own Laura B. Whitmore, author of the Guitar World Guitar Girl’d blog. She’ll be participating in a series of workshops presented by NewBay Media, publisher of Guitar World, Guitar Player, Bass Player and more. First up she’ll be presenting a workshop on marketing and PR for musicians at 11am. And at 1pm she’ll moderate a roundtable discussion with some of Nashville’s top songwriters. Both sessions will take place in Convention Center room 205B

The panel, titled, “Top Nashville Songwriters Share Tips for Success,” includes John Ozier, general manager of creative in Nashville for ole Music Publishing; songwriter and guitarist Dean Berner of the band Edens Edge; and hit songwriters Liz Hengber and Marty Dodson.

Here’s more info on the panelists, and find out more about what’s going on during “Music Industry Day” at NAMM at http://www.namm.org/summer/2013/musicindustryday

John Ozier, General Manager, Creative, Nashville
Ole’ Music Publishing
John Ozier is General Manager, Creative in Nashville for ole’ Music Publishing. Prior to this role he was at Curb Records, where his track record includes placing songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Rodney Atkins, Clay Walker, Lee Brice, Ronnie Dunn, Jo Dee Messina, LeAnn Rimes and many more. In 2010, Ozier was responsible for four songs in the Top 15 on the Billboard country charts, including the longest-ever running single, Brice’s “Love Like Crazy,” at 56 weeks. More recently, he was responsible for No. 1s by Rodney Atkins (“Take A Back Road”) and Brice (“A […]