Leadership Music Now Accepting Applications for Class of 2018

Nashville, TN (2-1-17) – Leadership Music^™ has announced changes to the application process for the Class of 2018. The period for applying has moved up by one month. Applications will now be accepted in the month of February rather than in March. Therefore, Leadership Music begins accepting applications from established music industry leaders for the Class of 2018 today, February 1st, and will accept them on-line throughout the month of February.

The eight-month, Nashville-based program begins in October and is designed to expose participants to every phase of the music industry and build channels of communication between established leaders, while exploring the challenges facing the music industry. Participants first attend an orientation and alumni welcome reception in September, then Opening Retreat in October, followed by six all-day sessions once a month, ending in May with graduation at Closing Retreat. One-time tuition for the program is $1,000.

For the second year, three program days will be held on Tuesday and three on Friday. According to Debbie Schwartz Linn, Executive Director of the 28-year-old organization numbering more than 1,100 alumni, “There have been proven benefits to moving three program days to Tuesday, but the board decided we needed at least two years to determine if this move would be long-term. We will have program days on Tuesday in December, January and March and on Friday in November, February and April. The board will re-evaluate at the end of the 2018 program year.”

Application forms, program dates, policies and FAQ’s are available at www. leadershipmusic.org/apply/ According to Linn, “We continue to experience an increase in applications to the Leadership Music program in record numbers, and we are gratified at the level of interest. So many factors enter selecting the next, as we say in Leadership Music, ‘best class ever.’ Ideally, that means a class comprised of passionate, balanced and diversified professionals, who are, individually and collectively, the best and brightest leaders in their field and represent all segments of the music industry across the country. We are fond of saying at Leadership Music, the class you are in is the class you were meant to be in”

One industry veteran who recently participated in the Program summed up their experience: “It was beyond my expectations and was/is a peak experience in my career. Your formula works.” And another class member said, “What I found myself saying a few times to non-alums in the days since, it was everything I believed, hoped and wanted it to be…and more.”

Applications must be submitted via the on-line process no later than midnight, February 28, 2017.

The annual program for the Class of 2017 is underwritten by the generous support of annual corporate donors Academy of Country Music, Ajax-Turner, Al McCree Entertainment, ASCAP, Big Machine Label Group, Billy Bob’s Texas, BMG, BMI, Bridgestone Arena, CAA, City National Bank, Chris Lisle Lighting Design, CMT, Combustion, Country Music Association, Curb Records, Daniel Miller – Fusion Music/Red Light Management, Farris, Self & Moore, LLC, Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy, Frost Specialty, Inc, Galante Entertainment Organization, Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, LLP, Hackney Financial, Huskins-Harris Business Management, M Street Entertainment, MAC Presents, Morris Higham Management, NS2, O’Neil Hagaman, Outback Concerts, Paradigm Talent Agency, Pinnacle Bank, Provident Label Group, Radio Disney Country, Radio Music License Committee, REACH, Reba’s Business, Inc., The Recording Academy, Red Light Management, Regions Bank, RIAA, Riley, Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, Ritholz Levy, Ryman Auditorium, Grand Ole Opry & 650 AM WSM, SeaGayle Music, SESAC, Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP, Shopkeeper Management, Smith, Wiles & Co., Sony / ATV, Sony Nashville, SoundExchange, Strategy & Leadership, LLC, SunTrust, Taillight, Thirty Tigers, THiS Music, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, UMG Nashville, The Vaden Group, Van Mol Restoration, War Memorial Auditorium, Warner/Chappell Music, Warner/Chappell Production Music, Warner Music Group, Waterford Law Group, WME, Wrensong and Leadership Music’s dues-paying alumni.