The 2023 Alaska Music Summit
Hosted in Juneau and online on Saturday, January 14th
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The Alaska Music Summit is a statewide convening of music makers and community stakeholders, organized by AKIMI, the Alaska Independent Musicians Initiative. In 2023, the Summit took place in Juneau, AK on Jan. 14th, 2023, but presenters and participants joined us from around the state and around the world. Gunalchéesh to all involved!
Key segments and presenter links:
0:00:00 INTRO
- Marian Call, AKIMI (host) - Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
- Lyle, Kolene, and Corrine James (Woosh.ji.een Dance Group) - Opening song
- Yngvil Vatn Guttu, AKIMI/Northern Culture Exchange (host) - Welcome
- Andrea Noble (Alaska State Council for the Arts) - Welcome from ASCA
- Reggie Schapp (Juneau Arts & Humanities Council) - The JAHC welcomes you to the JACC
0:20:42 AKIMI and NCE
- Yngvil Vatn Guttu and Marian Call
0:32:47 ARTIST HOUR: presentations by and for music makers
- Artist check-ins: Ed Littlefield Shaakindustóow // Justin Smith (Rusty Recordings) // Ashley Young
- Kat Moore (The Forest that Never Sleeps), performer, composer, educator -
- Codie Costello & Dan Anteau (University of Alaska Anchorage Dept of Theatre and Dance / Alaska Center for the Performing Arts) - New collaborative program for technical stagecraft training
- Derek Haukaas (Frostline Studios), producer - Producing Indigenous artists
- Ed Littlefield Shaakindustóow, composer, performer, and educator - Bringing a Tlingit perspective to composing and teaching
- Pat Race (Alaska Robotics/Lucid Reverie Creative Design), filmmaker - Licensing music for film
- Lisa Hawkins (Pipeline Vocal Project), performer, arranger - Global Touring from Alaska
1:43:44 DATA HOUR: studying our own music scene
- Kat Moore (The Forest that Never Sleeps), performer - presenting the new song "Fill the Room"
- Meara McLaughlin (MusicPortland, MusicOregon), music community organizer and researcher - Why data matters to an independent music scene
- Diane Hirshberg (ISER (Institute of Social & Economic Research) - University of Alaska), Alaska researcher - How to get good arts data in Alaska
- Marian Call (AKIMI) - about the upcoming Music Census, Musician Directory and Music Business Directory
2:18:30 MUSIC IN COMMUNITY: festivals, venues, and tourism
- Artist check-ins: Lance Mitchell // Annie Bartholomew // Cody Herron-Webb (AKConcerts.com)
- Eric Gilbert (Treefort Music Fest, Boise, ID), festival organizer - Why we made Treefort the way we did
- Qacung and Taylor Vidic (Áak'w Rock), festival organizers - Creating a world class Indigenous music festival in Juneau
- Taylor Vidic (Áak'w Rock, Crystal Saloon, Nude & Rude Revue Burlesque), festival organizer and event producer
- Liz Perry (Travel Juneau) - Tourism, music, and a healthy local ecosystem
- Andrea Antoine (BBAAD Productions), concert presenter - We need to present all genres in Alaska
3:09:17 MUSIC AND MONEY: grant opportunities and funding
- Artist check-ins: Air Jazz (Arias Hoyle) // Chazz Gist // Emily Anderson
- Enzina Marrari and Keren Lowell (Rasmuson Foundation), Individual Artist Awards liaisons
- Ira Perman (Atwood Foundation), executive director
3:48:54 CLOSING CONVERSATION
- Marian Call (AKIMI), closing remarks and sponsor thanks
- Emily Anderson, closing remarks on behalf of Zoom moderation team
- Conversation and farewells by Zoom participants
- (not on film) Closing conversation in Juneau, all participants invited to speak
Thanks to our sponsors:
The Atwood Foundation
Alaska State Council on the Arts
Frostline Productions
Studio A
City and Borough of Juneau
Juneau Arts & Humanities Council
The Rookery Cafe
The 2023 AK Music Summit crew:
Frostline Studios - Hannah Pratt, Derek Haukaas, Richard Cooper (film and livestream)
Studio A - Betsy Sims and Axel Gillam (sound gear and live audio)
Juneau Arts & Humanities Council - Reggie Schapp and Kathleen Harper (facility production coordinators)
Marian Call (event producer & production coordinator)
Yngvil Vatn Guttu (event co-producer)
Cameron Brockett (virtual stage manager)
Zac Pease (Juneau house manager)
Pat Race (video presentations, slides, and livestream support)
Emily Anderson, Lauren Peterson, Lisa Hawkins, and Dave Emmert (Zoom moderators)
Poetica - Emily Tallman (Poster and logo design)
Resources from the 2023 Summit
Searching for something you heard talked about, and can’t quite find it in the presenter links above? We may have it here. Links from the Zoom chat and from presenters:
All-around useful info:
A completed study of the Juneau music ecosystem compared to Nuuk (Greenland) and Tórshavn (Faroe Islands)
Playlists of Alaskan artists on Spotify (always growing! follow the MusicAlaska profile)
A quick guide on music rights and getting clearances for different uses: https://www.clearance.com/get_clearance.htm
Licensing rules for playing music in a place of business (no, you can’t just play Spotify)
Programs and grants to apply to:
Alaska Playlist Project, creating playlists of Alaskan artists (we need volunteers, too!)
Rasmuson Foundations Individual Artist Awards ($10,000-$25,000 for individuals and small ensembles, application deadline March 1)
Rasmuson Toolkit for artists applying and upcoming workshop (Feb 11th, 2023 on Zoom)
ASCA individual grants, career opportunities, adaptation & innovation, and arts education
ASCA grants to organizations, especially the Harper Arts Touring Fund
The Artists in the Schools program - apply and get trained to be on the Alaska teaching artist roster, then get paired up with schools locally or across the state for paid teaching opportunities
American Voices Arts Envoy Program - global arts ambassadorships
Alaska music and arts institutions, mainly those mentioned at the event:
List of some local arts councils (incomplete)
List of some Alaska music festivals (incomplete)
All Ages Music Co-Op - formerly Under 21 Open Mic, Anchorage-based all ages open mic & concert series
Alaska Hip Hop & R&B Music Awards - including mixtapes of previous years’ winners
Alaska Folk Festival - held in Juneau, early April
The Alaska Music Archives - contributions of all Alaska-made music, old and new, sought by Kurt Riemann of Surreal Studios
The Alaska Music Podcast - playing fully licensed songs from the Alaska Music Archive
Parlor in the Round - a unique improv-centric concert series based in Anchorage
Alaska Rooted Indie Artists (A.R.I.A.) - playlists, compilations, and indie concerts
Amplify Alaska, a series of fundraiser concerts and long-form artist interviews
Fairbanks Folk Festival - held in June
Some specific businesses, artists, and bonuses from the chat:
Wava Wamp - Skagway-based lathe-cut vinyl records in short runs
John Christensen / Candlewick Studios - artist management and web services
Singer-songwriter Aspenyarrow (Kayti Heller)
Rusty Recordings studio production in Gustavus, AK
Singer-songwriter Ashley Young
Hip hop artist Air Jazz
Yup’ik funk band Pamyua
Casey Smith Project from Fairbanks
