Australian Songwriters Conference postponed till 2018

PRESS RELEASE:

At the Australian Songwriters Conference (ASC), we strive to offer music creators the most professional, valuable and exceptional career development experience ever. In order to provide this, the event requires an enormous amount of time, effort and ’planets aligning’ for the right faculty to be available and to be able to coordinate such a cost-effective, high quality event for Australian songwriters.

Of all the challenges faced in running the ASC, the biggest is undoubtedly related to finances. Reaching budgetary milestones throughout the twelve-month organising period is essential to holding the event. Unfortunately, we have not been able to meet the budget requirements needed at this stage of the organising process to successfully run the event in 2017.

Therefore, after much consideration, and in the best interest of Australian songwriters as well as the event itself, we have decided to defer ASC2017 and hold the next ASC in 2018 – with the view to holding the event every two years after that, should this change prove to be a successful one.

The new dates for ASC are Thursday 7th to Monday 11th June 2018. Still to be held over five days, ASC2018 will be bigger and better than ever before. By running the event biennially, there will be more time to apply for funding and to encourage registrations through promotion and marketing to songwriters and the music industry. There will be more time to organise the conference and procure the very best hit songwriters and industry professionals for our Faculty. All this equates to an even higher quality career development event for our talented and deserving songwriters.

We have already reconfirmed a number of the 2017 speakers and mentors for our 2018 Faculty, including Grammy award winning Los Angeles songwriter, Alan Roy Scott, Hit Australian Writer/Producer team, Barbara & Adrian Hannan, Hit Pop/Urban/Christian artist and writer, Gary Pinto, Australia’s top Songwriter Manager and A&R expert, Diana Torossian, Well known Australian Publisher and music industry professional, Matthew Donlevy, plus many more. Jack Nigro and The Grove Studios will also be returning in 2018 to provide our fabulous on-site recording studio! The fact that these incredibly busy, ‘in-demand’ industry professionals all instantly agreed to return in 2018 is testament to the quality of this event and we are extremely grateful for their ongoing support. Our full faculty will be revealed in the coming months and in true ASC fashion, it will be of the same high calibre and include some very exciting surprise Faculty additions.

For details visit the website at www.australiansongwritersconference.com. All questions and enquiries should be directed to ASC organiser, Lisa Butler, at lisa@australiansongwritersconference.com. Please note that the ASC office will be unattended from 24th to 29th January. Incoming emails and messages during this time will be attended to from 30 January.