For Immediate Release
October 5, 2010                                                                                                                
Contact: Leah Johnson
Phone: 970-221-2636

FoCoMA: ProDev Series to Launch

Nationally Renowned Entertainment Attorney to Lead Workshop in Fort Collins

 

Fort Collins, Co—Today the Fort Collins Musicians Association announced the beginning of FoCoMA: ProDev, a professional development series for musicians in Northern Colorado sponsored by the Bohemian Foundation.  In continual efforts to encourage community collaboration FoCoMA, Beet Street, SpokesBuzz Fort Collins and the Bohemian Foundation have partnered to provide this resource to the music community.  The goal of the series is to find ways to help the music community of Fort Collins to become one of the best places in the country, in reputation and in fact, for the creation of music. The series will strengthen the skills local musicians need to master the tricks and traps of an increasingly digital and complicated creative market.

 

The first FoCoMA: ProDev workshop will take place Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm in the Mantz Ballroom at the Armstrong Hotel in Downtown Fort Collins, CO. This first FoCoMA: ProDev event will feature the expertise of nationally renowned entertainment lawyer Kenneth Abdo (See bio below).

Ken will bring his expertise to local musicians for advice in all manners of topics including:

• Band legal and business structures – are LLC’s the way to go;
• Understanding the tricks and traps of management / public relations agreements;
• Protecting intellectual property rights, for signed and unsigned artists;
• Negotiating venue contracts;
• National legal and legislative issues of importance.

 

WHO:          FoCoMA

WHAT:        FoCoMA: ProDev Series featuring Entertainment Attorney Ken Abdo

WHEN:        Tuesday, November 2, 2010

                      6-8 PM Mr. Ken Abdo’s Formal Presentation

                      8-10 PM guests can schedule 10 minutes to personally speak with Mr. Abdo

WHERE:       Mantz Ballroom, Armstrong Hotel

                      259 S. College Ave.
                      Fort Collins, CO 80524

 

The workshop is free and open to the public and musicians of all calibers are invited to attend.  It is expected that space will be limited, so to reserve a seat, please RSVP at http://www.bohemianfoundation.org/ProDev-RSVP.

 

Speaker:

Ken Abdo is a Vice President of the Lommen Abdo Law Firm and Chair of the Entertainment Law Department. In over more than 20 years of practice, he has helped build the largest, most visible and successful entertainment law practice in the Midwest. Ken’s practice is limited to entertainment law, and his primary focus is on all music law transactions. He is a known artist advocate and leader within the national entertainment law community. He is a popular author and lecturer. A life-long multi-instrumentalist/ songwriter and former disc jockey, Ken has a love and deep knowledge of music, music business and music law.  He has served as legal counsel to artists which most recently include, among others, Jonny Lang, The Replacements, Garrison Keillor, Anna Nalick, Johnny Rivers, Sugarland, writer/performer, Kristen Hall, Austin City Limits, Owl City, Three Dog Night and Hall & Oates.