2.45PM - 3.45PM PANELS

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Seámas O'Reilly Author, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

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Séamas is a writer from Derry. He has weekly columns in the Observer and Irish Examiner and is also features editor of London satirical magazine The Fence. His first book ‘Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?’ was named Biography of The Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. He has written for the New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, and BBC Radio 4, and has been conducting talks for AVA Festival for five years.

HOW DID YOU MANAGE THAT? PITCHING YOURSELF TO ESTABLISHED ARTIST MANAGERS
Behind every great artist is a great manager, and many artists attribute their success and longevity to the role their manager plays in guiding them through the unique challenges of the music industry. So how can an artist get the attention of an established manager? This panel will offer advice on just that - from finding a manager who shares your vision to taking steps towards approaching them; as well as how to build up a rapport and what to expect from an artist-manager relationship.

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Bekah Molony, Artist Manager: Celaviedmai, Negro Impacto
Phil Jones, VP Artist Management, MNRK: Anand Wilder, Ailbhe Reddy
Conor Cusack, Artist Manager: Saint Sister, THALA, Jed Holland
Maria Torres, Artist Manager, MOTHER ARTISTS: IDLES, Heavy Lungs, 86TVs

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Bekah Molony

Bekah Molony is an artist manager, music booker and creator, who is motivated to see positive changes within the spaces that she occupies. Currently she manages rapper Celaviedmai and Neo-Soul duo Negro Impacto, while working with multiple artists from a mentor / booking capacity. Bekah also books contemporary urban / electronic lineups…

Phil Jones

Phil Jones is Vice President of Artist Management at MNRK Music Group who manage the careers of Ailbhe Reddy, Pitbull, Powfu, Yumi Zouma, waterbaby and more.

Conor Cusack

Conor Cusack is an artist manager from Dublin. Beginning his music career at the ripe age of 15, he cut his teeth working behind the counter in some of the city’s finest record shops. A founding member of five-piece indie band, SPIES, the group’s output spanned a ten-year period and culminated with the release of 2018’s critically acclaimed debut LP, Constancy…

Maria Torres

The bilingual BIMM graduate Maria Torres started managing artists whilst studying in 2016 and has worked across various sectors of the industry. During the pandemic, she founded her independent management business, Sakura Artists with a roster that included Sinead O’Brien and Grandmas House, she is also an artist management consultant alongside esteemed manager Stephen Budd. She is passionate about supporting female and non-binary industry professionals, as shown by her work with the Saffron Springboard Project in 2021. She has recently started working with Mother Artists as an Artist Manager and Assistant to Director, Mark Bent – working across a roster consisting of IDLES, Heavy Lungs, 86TVs and Blair Davie.

WOMEN’S WORK PRESENTS: ARTIST DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN 2023
Hear from industry experts about current and upcoming opportunities available for artists in 2023 to help them develop their craft, learn new skills and carve out their space in the global music ecosystem. This session will be a practical deep dive into the steps you can take to make sure you are covering all the bases and making sounds in all the right places.

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Charlene Hegarty, Talent Development Manager, Oh Yeah Music Centre
Gill Dooley, CEO, AIM Ireland
Lea Heart, Artist
Priscilla Kotey, SVP, Warner Ireland
Angela Dorgan, CEO, First Music Contact

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Priscilla Kotey

Priscilla Kotey, SVP of Warner Music Ireland has over 15 years experience in the Music Industry. Having joined the Warner Music Ireland team in 2008 from MCD Promotions, Priscilla starting working in the press and promotions dept before moving to Marketing and Promotions Director and more recently Senior Vice President of the company…

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Charlene Hegarty

Charlene’s music industry career began in gusto at the age of 17; she performed roles in publicity and tour management, working campaigns for Tom Waits (Anti), Presidents of the United States of America (Columbia), Frank Turner (Interscope), Fighting With Wire (Atlantic) and Devotchka (Anti). In 2011, Charlene set up Smalltown America Music (STAM)…

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Angela Dorgan

Angela Dorgan is the CEO of First Music Contact (FMC), the Arts Council funded national resource organization for musicians which run the Irish Music Export Office, the online music portal www.breakingtunes.com and the annual music industry showcase, Ireland Music Week. FMC have recently established an association of Independent music, AIM Ireland. Angela is Vice President of EMEE…

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Lea Heart

Lea who started out in her bedroom two years ago, dreaming of performing on big stages and people hearing her music, now has amassed over 11 million global streams and has had an amazing run in the last year, gracing some of the country’s biggest stages, from a packed out tent at Electric Picnic 2022, opening for both Sigrid and Lewis Capaldi at their headline 3Arena Shows, and her own sold out headline show at 3Olympia in April 2023…

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Gill Dooley

A proven senior leader in music, Gill Dooley is an independent artist manager, music consultant, mentor and the CEO of AIM Ireland, Ireland's national association for independent music. Bringing more than 20 years experience with her, Gill's solution driven approach has seen AIM Ireland grow into a leading advocacy organisation since she took the helm in 2021. Gill began her career with EMI…

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RESIDENT ADVISOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM WORKSHOP (2.45 - 4.45PM)
Are you interested in podcasting and multimedia journalism? Sign up for a hands on two-hour workshop with Resident Advisor's Senior Producer, Chloe Lula, to learn the basics of audio production and editing for broadcast. Participants will also come away with tools to adapt stories for the air, create compelling scripts and work with music and recorded audio. Participants will come equipped with a topic they would like to explore in an audio format; by the end of the workshop, they should have an understanding of how to put this idea together and out into the world as a podcast or radio show. Please note, this is a limited capacity session.

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Host: Chloe Lula, Senior Producer, Resident Advisor

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Chloe Lula

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STOP, COLLABORATE AND LISTEN - DEVELOPING A CAREER AS A PRODUCER/CO-WRITER
This panel will delve into collaborations between co-writers and producers during the songwriting process. In a landscape where collaborations are increasingly popular across all genres, the panellists will touch on everything you need to know, from where to start when developing producer and co-writer relationships, to how to prepare for - and bring your A-game to - songwriting sessions, as well as the existing and upcoming opportunities for budding co-writer and producers hoping to developing their careers.

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Rocky O’Reilly, Founder // Engineer, Start Together Studios
Stuart Fleming, Head of Membership Development Scotland & Northern Ireland, PRS
Hannah Peel, Composer // Producer

PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED.

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Iain Archer

Iain is a Grammy Nominated songwriter (Hold Back The River - James Bay), with two Ivor Novello Awards to his name (Hold Back The River; Final Straw album - Snow Patrol), and a third Ivor Nomination (Two Fingers – Jake Bugg) and has co-written a UK No.1 single (Run - Leona Lewis). With No.1 albums on both sides of the Atlantic , Liam Gallagher on his #1 solo album ‘As You Were’. Niall Horan’s debut album ‘Flicker’ hitting No.1 in the US, with Iain & Niall co-writing ‘Paper Houses’…

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Aaron Casey

Involved in the business of music since 2006, Aaron has both a practical and academic interest in the global music industry. He holds an MA in Music Business Management from the University of Westminster in London as well as years of experience working with songwriters, music publishers and collection societies in a variety of roles during his time at the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO). More recently, as Head of Music Business at BIMM Institute Dublin, he supported other staff in achieving academic excellence and industry alignment across all music business modules…

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Stuart Fleming

Stuart Fleming is the Senior Manager of Writer Relations in Scotland & Northern Ireland for PRS for Music. With a background as a songwriter & producer, Stuart has worked for both major and independent record labels, an independent publisher and in artist management. Stuart’s role as Senior Relationship Manager at PRS oversees the relationship and royalty distribution assurance for many of the most successful Scottish and Irish songwriters and composers of the modern era…

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Hannah Peel

Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Her solo record career includes the shortlisted 2021 Mercury Music Prize electronic album, Fir Wave; 2016's Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; and the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band. Peel navigates synthesisers, electronics, classical orchestral work, hand punched music boxes and unique sound world compositions for TV and film as well as her own solo albums. Following her Emmy-nominated score for Game Of Thrones...

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Rocky O’Reilly

Rocky is a producer, mixer and songwriter from Belfast. He is an enthusiastic supporter of new music. This sees him collaborating in a wide range of genres, from doom metal all the way through to opera. Recent projects include Nathan Connolly, The Wood Burning Savages and The Florentinas. He owns Start Together Studio, a multi-studio facility that's provided thousands of sessions for local & international artists, labels and broadcasters…

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FROM BEDROOM BEATS TO TIMBALAND TUNES - MAKING CUTS FOR GLOBAL HIP-HOP TUNES
An in-depth discussion into the extraordinary journey of WhipitConall - a young producer from Belfast whose recent accolades include a co-sign with GRAMMY-winning producer, Ronny J, and a personal invitation to Timbaland’s Beatclub, to name a few. The panel will offer a refreshing insight to the realities and growing pains involved with going from bedroom producer to pursuing a serious career in music, as well as the power storytelling can have in propelling your career.

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Pamela McCormick, Director, UD Music
WhipitConall, Artist
Dylan Murphy, Head of Content, District Magazine // Manager: WhipItConall

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Pamela McCormick

Pamela McCormick co-founded UD* (United Development) in 2000, with the vision to create the premier agency for spotting and supporting Black music talent in the UK. Twenty years on, UD has expanded to encompass both a charitable arm, UD Music Foundation, and a commercial arm, UD Music. The former operates in the country’s poorest and most diverse boroughs delivering education and early talent programmes. The latter operates as a record label, facilitating the recording, production, release and promotion of music from exciting new Black music talent…

Dylan Murphy

Dylan Murphy is a journalist, broadcaster, podcast host, manager and taste maker from Belfast. Operating as Head of Content at District Magazine in Dublin, he oversees live events across the country, documents alternative culture in Ireland and has interviewed acts like slowthai, JPEGMAFIA, Annie Mac, Arlo Parks, Mike Skinner and more. He also manages fellow Belfast native and rising teenage producer WhipItConall…

WhipitConall

At just 18, Belfast's Conall Shaw has become one of hip hop’s most exciting prospects. In 2021 alone, the producer was personally invited to Timbaland’s Beat Club and co-signed by GRAMMY-winning producer Ronny J who teased a collaboration with Conall on Instagram. Elsewhere, he had production work featured on ‘Appraise’ with Hit Boy on the inspired soundtrack for the EMMY-winning Judas and the Black Messiah. The fact the album peaked at number one in the US Soundtrack Billboard Chart and his name sits alongside hip hop and RnB royalty in Jay-Z and Beyoncé in the credits is impressive, but it becomes even more astounding given all this was completed whilst he finished his A-Levels.

At a young age, Conall made the decision to make music his sole focus when he started making genuine noise in the industry. Starting a routine of sending hundreds of beats a week to artists, he quickly got the attention of former G.O.O.D Music signee Desiigner, who previewed a collaboration with Conall on Instagram. Following the success of the online collaborations, he quickly graduated to working in the studio, heading to Canada to work with Joey Bada$$ Collaborator Devontée. Conall also co-produced Big Sean’s ‘What a life’ which id currently sitting at 17 million streams.

In April of 2021 DJ Target interviewed Conall Shaw live on air on Radio 1xtra describing his work rate as “crazy” and touted him as a one to watch before praising his accolades and impact at such a young age.

He topped off 2022 with a co-sign from basketball icon Steph Curry, who played ‘Keep Your Head Up’, produced by Conall Shaw and linked to the song on Spotify. All this points towards a huge year for the most exciting young producer in the game right now.

CMU PRESENTS: PATHWAYS INTO MUSIC
CMU's Pathways Into Music Foundation has been mapping music careers and music education, seeking to build bridges between everyone involved in educating and supporting new music talent, while also identifying the skills, knowledge and tools early-career music-makers need to succeed. The Foundation's directors Phil Nelson and Chris Cooke will update you on all that work and the very latest developments, as well as presenting five key findings and five key priorities for how the music industry and music education can better support anyone pursuing their own pathway into music, whether as frontline artist, portfolio musician, industry executive or music entrepreneur.

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Chris Cooke, Founder & Managing Director, CMU
Phil Nelson, Music Lecturer, BIMM Institute

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Chris Cooke

Chris Cooke is co-Founder and MD of CMU, a company that helps people navigate and understand the music business. It does this through media like the CMU Daily bulletin, Setlist podcast and CMU Library; consultancy unit CMU Insights; and future talent programme CMU:DIY. Via CMU, Chris writes, talks, teaches and consults about the music industry. He also programmes the core conference strands at The Great Escape showcase festival and wrote the ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’ book and ‘Music Copyright Explained’ guide…

Phil Nelson

Phil has been an Artist Manager since 1988 managing first The Levellers who achieved 1 Platinum, 5 Gold records with Phil. During Phil’s tenure the band headlined the Glastonbury Festival before starting their own 15,000 capacity Festival Beautiful Days Festival. He went on to manage The Longpigs (1 Gold record and Brit Award Nomination), and current clients include 2019 Grammy-nominated Matt Hales / Aqualung / Soren Lorensen (1 Gold record) and Duke Special (1 Platinum record), Sweet Billy Pilgrim (1 Mercury music prize Nomination…

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