Trade Root Music Group, LLC is a full-service recording label based in Takoma Park, MD, inside the Washington DC beltway. In addition, TRMG is a distribution and consulting company that specializes in helping roots-based musicians and non-profit arts organizations to promote and distribute their music products and content. We have over 25 combined years of experience in music sales & marketing, radio & music publicity, non-profit music & arts organization management, performance, and ethnomusicology.
TRMG includes two of our own imprints, Trade Root Music (roots music from around the world) and Free Dirt Records (roots music from the USA). In addition to TRMG's two label imprints, the group includes recordings and labels from like-minded, socially/politically progressive, and non-profit organizations. Through partnerships with us such organizations help to make their own recordings and archives available to a larger audience, while generating much needed reveune to keep their mission moving forward.
Trade Root Music Group's mission is to expand the visibility of traditional and roots-based music whether collected, curated, created or performed, and always put the integrity of the art form ahead of profit.
