SongBIZ
MAR 26: SongBIZ
How Songwriters Can Get Paid
Who pays for a song? How can I get paid to be a songwriter?
With Special Guests Mike Lembo, Natasha Duprey and Andrea England.
We get it – we’ve been helping songwriters write songs since 2005.
With each passing day, the task of collecting your earnings as a songwriter gets more complicated. Where does a songwriter earn money? How does that songwriter collect the money? What opportunities are out there for making more money?
Join us for a day ONLINE dedicated to conquering the confusion, moderating the myths, and pinpointing the profits for today’s songwriters.
This is NOT a webinar, nor is it a livestream with a chat window. This is a live interactive online meeting with a panel of music business guests who can help you figure out the figures. We want to give you access to guests who can talk about all aspects of the music business.
Our panel of guests will include:
Like his builder father, Long Island native Mike Lembo is a self-made man who helped develop — not landmark structures — but careers that have stood the test of time in the notoriously fickle music business, where he has plied his trade for more than 45 years. Lembo’s own resume includes credits as an artist and producer manager (Mike’s Artist Management), record label owner (his indie Deli Platters, the BMG-distributed First Warning, Funzalo Records), music publisher, film/TV synch licenser and talent executive. The proof of his success? More than the gold and platinum records which line his office walls, Lembo is proud to note that he has continued to achieve his initial goal to “make artists’ dreams come true.”
Since 2003 Vancouver-based Natasha Duprey has supervised thousands of hours of episodic television including the series The L Word (Showtime), The Terror (AMC), Continuum (SyFy), The Order (Netflix) and Tiny Pretty Things (Netflix). She has worked on a host of MOWs, national ad campaigns, feature films such as Frankie & Alice (which garnered Halle Berry a Golden Globe nomination) and documentaries including the 4-part EPIX series PUNK! and 2020 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Boys State.
Natasha has recently completed the series Kids In the Hall (Amazon), Fakes (CBC Gem/Netflix), The Imperfects (Netflix), Let The Right One In (Showtime), Family Law (The CW/Global), the kids movie trilogy Ivy & Bean (Netflix) and the Bobby Farrelly directed feature film Champions starring Woody Harrelson. She is currently working on the 4th and final season of Snowpiercer (TNT), My Life With The Walter Boys (Netflix), Animal Control (Fox) and the Nicholas Cage horror film Longlegs.
Natasha is also VP of the Guild of Music Supervisors Canada.
Andrea England is fully immersed in both the creative and business sides of the music industry. She is an award-winning singer-songwriter; the founder, curator, and host of Toronto’s hottest songwriter series, Four Chords & the Truth; has released two critically-acclaimed albums – Lemonade and Hope & Other Sins, the latter of which was produced by Grammy-winning producer, Colin Linden – and has landed cuts and cowrites with a wide variety of artists, from Canadian Country Music Award winners Meghan Patrick and Don Amero, to international Popstar/Pussycat Doll, Nicole Scherzinger (for which Andrea received a UK Gold Record).
A member of the Board of Directors of the Songwriters Association of Canada, Andrea is also the Associate Director of Publisher Engagement and Strategy at the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency, a SoundExchange company, where she brings a unique and holistic perspective – as a creator, educator, and music business analyst – to support CMRRA’s publisher and self-published songwriter clients.
Andrea’s new EP, Evidence of Love, is currently in pre-production with producer Hill Kourkoutis and slated for release in Fall 2023.
Andrea earnestly describes her life as “all music – all the time.”
…and of course, the “usual suspects” here at SongStudio:
- Blair Packham, who has earned monies as a songwriter, a performing artist, a composer, a live sound engineer and as a music educator.
- Allister Bradley, who helps singer/songwriters get their music out to an audience and collect their money from several sources.
What We’ll Be Doing
Sunday March 26, 2022, 11:00am-6:00pm (Eastern Time)
- 11:00am – 11:15am: Welcome
- 11:15am – 12:30pm: Interview with Andrea England, songwriter and CMRRA director
- 12:30pm – 1:00pm: LUNCH BREAK
- 1:00pm – 2:15pm: Interview with Natasha Duprey, music supervisor
- 2:15pm – 2:30pm: BREAK
- 2:30pm – 3:45pm: Interview with Mike Lembo, music manager
- 3:45pm – 4:00pm: BREAK
- 4:00pm – 6:00pm: Listening Session with our panel: Natasha Duprey, Mike Lembo and Andrea England
Price for the day (including private access to a video replay): C$149 (plus tax)
SongStudio alumni receive a 10% discount.
This event is included in the following bundles:
SongBIZ 2023 SEASON PASS (all three events) for $529 (+ tax).
SONGSTUDIO 2023 VIP PASS (all SongStudio 2023 events) for $2299 (+ tax).
