Music Allies

Last updated April 26, 2019

Music Allies is a marketing company that promotes 20+ independent record labels and major music festivals. It was started in January 2003 by Sean O'Connell. Successful artists include Ani DiFranco, Aimee Mann, G. Love, ALO, Joan Osborne, Sia, the Bacon Brothers, Sonya Kitchell, Zee Avi, Joshua James, Martin Sexton and the Blind Boys of Alabama.^[1]

Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco is an American singer, musician, poet, songwriter, and activist. She has released more than 20 albums. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career.

Aimee Mann is an American singer-songwriter. Mann began her career in the 1980s as the bassist and a vocalist for 'Til Tuesday. She released her debut solo album, Whatever, in 1993, and has released several albums since. In 1999, Mann recorded songs for the soundtrack to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia, which earned Academy Award and Grammy Award nominations for the song "Save Me". She has won two Grammy Awards and was named one of the world's ten greatest living songwriters by NPR in 2006.

Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, is the frontman for the band G. Love & Special Sauce.

Labels that utilize Music Allies include Righteous Babe Records, Tennman Records, Brushfire Records and Time Life.

Righteous Babe Records is an American independent record label that was created by folk singer Ani DiFranco in 1990 to release her own songs in lieu of being beholden to a mainstream record company.

Tennman Records is an American record label created as a joint venture between Justin Timberlake and Interscope Records.

Brushfire Records is a record label owned by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. Formerly known as The Moonshine Conspiracy Records, the label was founded to release soundtracks for Woodshed Films, a company owned by Johnson, Emmett Malloy, and Chris Malloy to produce the surfing documentary Thicker than Water.

Major festivals represented by Music Allies include Bonnaroo Music Festival,^[2]^[3] the Outside Lands Festival, Camp Bisco, the 10k Lakes Festival and the now defunct Vegoose, Echo Project and Langerado Music Festivals.

Bonnaroo Music Festival Annual music festival

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an American annual four-day music festival developed and produced by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment. Since its first year in 2002, it has been held at what is now Great Stage Park on a 650-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. The festival typically starts on the second Thursday in June and lasts four days. Main attractions of this festival are the multiple stages featuring live music with a diverse array of musical styles including indie rock, classic rock, world music, hip hop, jazz, americana, bluegrass, country music, folk, gospel, reggae, pop, electronic, and other alternative music. Musical acts play from around noon until 3:00am or later.

Vegoose was an annual Halloween music and arts festival that took place in 2005, 2006, and 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Unlike the Bonnaroo Music Festival — put on by the same organizers, Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment — Vegoose does not offer on-site camping. In addition to music, the festival features a score of activities, including celebrity impersonators, a wedding chapel, costume contests, a massive pumpkin display, and more.

Langerado Music Festival was an annual music festival, taking place in early spring in South Florida, first organized in 2003 by Ethan Schwartz In 2008 the festival was held at the Seminole Big Cypress Indian Reservation in the Everglades. The festival featured primarily music of the jamband genre, but also offered a wide selection of other musical styles and traditionally offered a stage for local bands, as well.

Music Allies produces and syndicates the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam radio special.

Warren Haynes is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Haynes is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band. Haynes also is known for his associations with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, including touring with Phil Lesh and Friends and the Dead. In addition, Haynes founded and manages Evil Teen Records.

The company is located in Asheville, North Carolina.

Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 12th-most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 89,121 according to 2016 estimates. It is the principal city in the five-county Asheville metropolitan area, with a population of 424,858 in 2010.

According to their Linked In company profile, Music Allies is a privately held company with 12 employees based in Asheville, NC, Virginia, and Atlanta, GA.^[4]

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References

↑ Radio and Records Nov 25 2005
↑ Nashville Scene June 14, 2007
↑ Mix Magazine September 2009
↑ Linked In Sep 2009

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[1] Radio and Records Nov 25 2005

[2] Nashville Scene June 14, 2007

[3] Mix Magazine September 2009

[4] Linked In Sep 2009