THE ALASKA MUSIC SUMMIT

January 11-12, 2025 in Anchorage
February 1, 2025 in Juneau
February 8, 2025 in Fairbanks

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The Alaska Music Summit is a statewide convening of artists, teachers, techies, producers, policymakers, and community stakeholders to share ideas, experiences, and encouragement.

The 2024 Alaska Music Summit took place in Anchorage, but most content is accessible online.

Saturday Jan 13th was a community town hall event at The Nave in Spenard from 10am-4pm, accessible on Zoom from 11am-3:30pm.

Sunday, Jan 14th, AKIMI hosted in-person “Office Hours” at the Den in the Student Union at UAA from noon-3pm. Office Hours is a casual round table conversation event, designed for mentoring with visiting guests and Alaskan experts.

Learn more about past and upcoming events:

The theme of the 2025 Music Summit is “Level up together.” We’ll focus on professionalizing our music sector, music education, local festivals of all kinds, all ages opportunities, and sharing concrete skills and knowledge in breakout sessions.

For a full program and guest list see AlaskaMusicSummit.com.

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Community Support for the Summit

We always need volunteers, online and in person, to help make the Summit happen. We need help in the building, some online assistance far away, some airport rides, some food runs — we need you! Previous years’ volunteers are wholeheartedly invited back. Volunteer at AlaskaMusicSummit.com.

Can you support a remote artist, a MusicAlaska staff member, or a visiting expert who wants to get to one of our Summits — maybe with a lift, with gas money, with airline miles, or with a couch to crash? If you’re willing to support travel so Alaskan musicians can level up, reach out here.


The 2023 Summit took place on January 14th, 2023 at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center and online. You can view the event here (or on Youtube) and find all the guests and relevant links to resources by clicking below.

2023 topics included:

  • The unique Alaska music ecosystem

  • Building the scene we want to see

  • Money and Art (and applying for grants)

  • Licensing music for film and other ways to level up

  • Music in community: festivals, venues, and tourism

  • Taking inventory of our music scene (or, why we need data)

Guest speakers included:

  • Alaskan performers, organizers, and presenters, including Ed Littlefield, Kat Moore, Lisa Hawkins, Qacung, Taylor Vidic, and Derek Haukaas

  • Meara McLaughlin - MusicPortland and MusicOregon

  • Eric Gilbert - Treefort Festival, Boise, ID

  • Enzina Marrari - Rasmuson Foundation

  • Ira Perman - Atwood Foundation

  • Andrea Antoine - BBAAD Productions

  • Diane Hirshberg - Institute of Social & Economic Research (University of Alaska)

  • Liz Perry - Travel Juneau

  • Pat Race - Alaska Robotics

  • Andrea Noble - Alaska State Council on the Arts

See the full list with links and resources on the dedicated 2023 Summit page.

Our summits are presented to the public free of charge, thanks to our generous sponsors. But if you’ve found the content and resources collected here valuable, your donation is most welcome anytime (checkout via Paypal).