Storm Gloor, CAM Music & Entertainment Industry Studies faculty, City Councilman, and creative community activist, is co-leading the Amplify Music 2021 Conference. The free conference brings together diverse music leaders and creators online to learn and share from local community response, emergent solutions, and heroic efforts to support local artists, venues, creative communities, and support networks in the surge/challenges of the COVID-19.

Gloor, who joins Gigi Johnson of the Herb Albert School of Music at UCLA in co-leading the conference, is also bringing along a team of CAM students and alumni as panel guests and guests. Senior Edwina Maben, alum Michelle Rocquet, and CAM faculty Chris Zacher will serve on panels as industry experts. Emma Nuttall and Jake Jedamus-Denu from Gloors ground-braking  Music Cities class, are a part of the virtual conference production team.

The Amplify Music Conference runs virtually Wednesday, April 21– Friday, April 23, 2021.

Visit https://amplifymusic.org to join the conference.

About Amplify Music 2020

These events spring from our virtual gathering in early 2020, at the early stages of the pandemic around the world.  In April 2020, we put together a virtual conference with more than 90 speakers from more than 30 organizations from more than 20 countries to explore the early stages of resilience happening in local music around the world.  39 sessions of speakers explored 11 themes -- videos and information on these sessions can be explored at AmplifyMusic.org.  Intriguing ideas and new organizations were shared and building blocks and collaborations for 2021 - gathering current information and planning for what we need to share and collaborate around for 2021.

Topics for 2021 Include

2021: Continuing what worked -- virtual co-creation; music streaming; music instrument and DAW sales; new organizing

The Where and Who of live music in 2021

The Virtual Where: Livestreaming, Gaming, and New Experiences in 2021

Community and Creative Identity in a post-WFH era -- radio as connective tissue in a hybrid world

Government Action/Inaction across the globe

Cities and Regions Working Together for 2021

The explosion of Streaming TV and Rethinking Film Releases - Impact on Music in 2021 and beyond

Rebuilding Arts Organizations in 2021 - Organizations at Crossroads

Music Education -- The Intertwining of Educational Disruption and Music Disruption

Relocation: Transformations of City Centers and Suburbs

Diverse Communities and Visions -- Whose Music Industries in 2021?

Streaming -- Composing and Creating Into the Social Vacuum

Financial Bets 2021: Closing, Buying Up, Investing in Music

Negotiating 2021: Contracts, Insurance, Instability

Youth/Fans -- Where They See 2021 Ahead

Mental Health of Music Industry

Music in Civic and Emotional Recovery

Broken Puzzle Pieces -- Ways to Rebuild Community

Be Present Everywhere 2021 -- global organizations and leaders are taking the year ahead

Futurecasting Sessions

FuturesCasting -- 2023-25 -- where do we want to GO

Rethinking Space: Futures of Live Events

Rethinking Space: Changing Roles of Real Estate and Single Purpose Spaces

Rethinking Social Safety Nets and Shared Support

Rethinking Music Jobs

Rethinking Music Tourism

Rethinking Nightlife

Rethinking Organizing - new ways of organizing between and within music industries

Rethinking Changing Roles of Music in Media and Civil Society

Imagining Together 2025 -- World Cafe Roundtables

City/Region/Country Panels to include:

EU

UK

Latin America

Canada

Philippines

Japan

Malaysia

Australia

New Zealand

Northern Cal / SF and Sacramento

Seattle and Washington State and Portland / Pacific NW

Los Angeles

Nashville

New Orleans

New York

Austin

Charlotte

Chicagoland

NW Arkansas

Colorado