British bands featuring at the CMJ festival (October 20, 2009)
This year's CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival features musicians from all corners of the UK. They will be performing at various locations throughout New York through October 25.
Artists include:
Black Cherry
Broadcast
Fanfarlo
Franko
Laura Marling
Little Fish
The Shoestrung
Michael Olatuja
Batrider
The Beautiful Taste
The DeBretts
Findlay Brown
Golden Silvers
Let's Wrestle
Mumford & Sons
Pete & The Pirates
Speech Debelle
Twin Atlantic
The Very Best
Will Kevans
The xx
The Answering Machine
Andy J Gallagher
Angry Vs. The Bear
FOUND
Goldhawks
Jessie Rose Trip
The Sea
Dan Black
Filthy Dukes
Male Bonding
Peggy Sue
Spaceships are Cool
Spring Tigers
Stricken City
Vices
We Have Band
As part of the week's events, UK Trade and Investment and the Recording Academy (the Grammys) held a "Doing Business in the UK" session at the New York Consulate-General. Music business experts discussed touring a US band in the UK, tax and entertainment law, and how to market and promote an artist successfully.
Full details about all performances can be found on the CMJ site
UK foreign policy news
- Be on the Ball for World Cup 2010 (November 23, 2009)
- Queen's Speech debate 2009 (November 23, 2009)
- 'A golden opportunity for Cyprus' (November 23, 2009)
- Climate change high on Commonwealth agenda (November 22, 2009)
- Human Rights resolution on Iran (November 20, 2009)
- Change of Ambassador to Mozambique (November 20, 2009)
- Cluster munitions ban will make world a safer place (November 20, 2009)
- Resolutions on Burma and DPRK (November 19, 2009)
- Inauguration 'offers hope for the Afghan people' (November 19, 2009)
- Bloggers verdict in Azerbaijan (November 19, 2009)