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Fishman’s Coffee
House Tour Contest
Fishman and American Songwriter magazine
are teaming up to offer a lucky singer-songwriter
the chance to win a 10-to-12-show Coffee
House Tour of the Northeast United States. The
Grand Prize also includes the cost of a Nashville
booking agent to handle tour scheduling, a
$1,500 travel budget and a free Fishman SA220
Solo Performance System. Fishman will also
feature the winner in a special SA220 print and
online advertisement scheduled to run later in
the year. American Songwriter magazine will
also run a Q&A feature story on the winner and
provide daily blog coverage of the tour from
www.americansongwriter.com. Fishman and
American Songwriter will promote the contest
via print, their Web sites and social-networking
platforms, e-mail lists and the network of singersongwriters
at www.americansongspace.com.
The contest launched July 2 before Summer
NAMM in Nashville and will run until the
middle of this month, with the winner chosen
by August 17. The tour will launch in october in
a northeast location to be determined based on
the winner’s location.
Proposed tour stops include the Time Warp Tea
Room in Knoxville TN; Duke Coffeehouse in Durham
NC; 49 West Coffee House in Annapolis MD;
living Room in NYC; The Red Room @ Café 939
in Boston MA; Kerouac Café in Columbus oH;
Common Grounds in lexington KY; and several
other well-known venues in the northeastern U.S.
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KMCMusicorp Marks 25 th Charity golf Tourney
KMCMusicorp recently hosted its 25 th annual “Everett Porter Unintentional” Charity Golf
Tournament, with money raised going to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children and the
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. More than 100 golfers from the music products industry,
as well as local area businesses, participated in this year’s tournament, held at Country Club
of Avon. The event included an 18-hole, four-person scramble competition and dinner featuring
a raffle and auction. “Throughout the years, the tournament has been successful because of the
generosity of our sponsors and the camaraderie of all the participants,” said Ed Miller, President
of KMCMusicorp. “Not only is it a fun day of golf with friends and colleagues, but it also gives us
an opportunity to provide support for local charities, such as The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
and the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.”
For the past 25 years, KMCMusicorp (a division of Fender Musical Instruments Corp.) has
raised more than $200,000 for charitable causes in New England, including more than $100,000 for
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. The charity was founded in 1988 by Paul Newman and serves
children and their families coping with cancer, sickle cell anemia and other serious illnesses.
AKg Acoustics Celebrates 65 Years
Harman’s AKG celebrated its 65 th company anniversary in June. Founded in 1947 by two
Viennese, physicist Dr. Rudolf Görike and engineer Ernst Pless, Akustische und Kino-Geräte
Gesellschaft mbH, shortened to AKG in 1965, is a leading manufacturer of high-quality headphones,
microphones and wireless systems for professional users. In 1993, Harman International
Inc. acquired AKG and 76 percent of its shares. The following year, Görike died and
Harman acquired the remaining 24 percent. Alongside AKG, brands such as Becker, BSS,
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Crown, dbx, DigiTech, Harman
Kardon, Infinity, JBl, lexicon,
Mark levinson, Revel and Soundcraft
are owned by Harman. That
same year, AKG moved to its
current headquarters in Vienna’s
23 rd district. For the first time
in the company’s history, all of
its departments were accommodated
under one roof.
Along with the systematic expansion
of sales and distribution
channels and the optimization of
production, the immense spirit of
innovation of AKG’s employees
remains a key factor. In 2008,
AKG was awarded the Austrian
export prize for foreign trade.
In 2010, AKG received the
most important award in the
firm’s history: the Technical
Grammy Award.
In the last financial year, AKG
Acoustics GmbH managed to increase
its revenues by 30 percent
and its profits by 300 percent, its
best year-end result in 20 years.
10 AUGUST 2012