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The Roots Music Association is a membership organization dedicated to bringing "roots" artists, the professional entertainment community, and audiences together on a global level.
The Association achieves its goals by providing a strong vision, professional development, resource sharing, and advocacy to ensure the preservation and enactment of laws favorable to our industry, members, and all those who create, disseminate and support "roots" music.
We will actively seek out and partner with local, state and national arts organizations, government agencies, business leaders, individual philanthropists, educators, all music associations for each genre and artists to increase awareness of "Roots" music as an art form and as a viable industry with significant impact on the economy.
The RMA is dedicated to the furtherance of "roots" music in all of its varied forms to include, but not limited to: Alt. Country, Bluegrass, Roots Rock, Blues, Americana, Jazz, True Country, Zydeco, World, Tejano-Conjunto, Western, Reggae, Western Swing, World, Roots Gospel, True Country, Celtic, and Folk. The RMA was formed to promote, foster, and cultivate the preservation, enjoyment, support, and performance of "roots" music worldwide.
For far too long artists have had too little voice in the manufacturing, distribution and promotion of their music on a national and international level and too little means to extract fair support and compensation for their work. Our collective voice, power and success will be realized by honoring the standards and expectations we collectively set for ourselves in pursuit of our goals and by supporting and following the bylaws that we adopt for ourselves. We are forming strategic partnerships with allied organizations to increase our voice in support of "roots" music on both a domestic and international level.
Our goals are to increase access to needed resources for our members and to educate "independent artists" and small companies on how to turn their "art" into commerce, while expanding the breadth of the "roots" music experience and lifestyle for the general public. We do the work we do on a global level so that our members in the field can do their work in their local areas more efficiently, with wider impact, and more profitably.
We believe the performing arts inspire leadership. Each of our members can and should play an active role in the RMA, the professional arts world, and in the greater global "Roots" community. By accepting the responsibility to lead and exercising their own creativity, our members advance both themselves and their professional partners and audiences.
It is the purpose and goal of the RMA to bring people of a like mind together to join hands, hearts and resources to stimulate growth in our professional community and to preserve, celebrate and promote this unique and powerful art form for the benefit of those who will follow after; that it might not be, in future years, merely an academic curiosity, but remain a viable art form indefinitely, continuing to bring blessings and enrichment to the world.

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RMA Conference Registration Information

Registration now being accepted for the RMA's Music United '08 Conference & Music Festival  Happy New Year to everyone! Here at the RMA we are planning on making 2008 a memorable one! &nb...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:29:00 PST

RMA Fest and Convention planning in full swing

EVENT TO BE HELD IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Jun 26-29, 2008  "Help a child and support the music"  For immediate release (October 2nd, 2008  Wimberley, Texas) Planning for the Roots Music...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:39:00 PST

Corrected link in the newsletter

From the feature in Regional Roots Radio Media Guide http://www.artistdevelopmentcoop.com/index.php?option=com_fl ippingbook&Itemid=38&book_id=4...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:57:00 PST

RMA September 2007 Newsletter

RMA Newsletter - September 2007 Special note: Please be advised that all official correspondence from the RMA will be sent to you via a rootsmusicassociation.org email address. If you rece...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:43:00 PST

Breaking News

www.kurthanson.com ..>  ..> ..> BY DANIEL MCSWAINSoundExchange and a number of webcast services have reached a deal to cap the contentious $500 per-channel minimum fee for large webcasters...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:24:00 PST

IMPORTANT NOTE re: MEMBERSHIP

If you have joined the RMA via our online form in the past 5 weeks or so please send us an email to confirm your membership. Join Today! Membership is *FREE* This Form is currently Not Working !Simpl...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:21:00 PST

Rep Markey takes reins on Net radio negotiations

..>  ..> ..> From CQ.com: "Not long after a panel of copyright judges decided in March to hike music royalty fees for Internet radio stations, small webcasters began a lobbying blitz on Cap...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST

Online Radio Is Saved!

Online Radio Is Saved; SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates on Sunday By Eliot Van Buskirk ..July 12, 2007 | 7:35:30 PMCategories: Save Net Radio   At today's Congressional he...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:34:00 PST

RMA Member News: Congrats Dan Peters (West Side Winders)

The West Side Winders guitarist/vocalist and RMA member Dan Peters was the 3rd place winner in The 2007 North American Rock Guitar Competition held on June 18th in Buffalo, NY. The event was spon...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

Turning Web Radio Lemons Into Lemonade

On Thursday morning, the House Small Business Committee held a hearing on the heated debate over a forthcoming Internet radio royalty hike and -- surprise -- the most interesting exchange revolved aro...
Posted by Roots Music Association on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:34:00 PST