Music Forward’s Executive Director, Nurit Smith joined the folks at Spectrum News 1 SoCal to talk about 25 years of Music Forward and Bringing Down the House. The once in a lifetime opportunity for young emerging artists is open for applications between Jan 7th and Feb 11th. Apply here -> musicforwardfoundation.org/bdth
New Orleans is near and dear to our hearts, thanks to the year-round programming that we hold there, as well as all of the great Music Forward artists like Fantastic 8 Brass Band, Jake Exavier, [...]
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019, Music Forward hosted a panel on the topic of diversity and inclusion in the music industry at California State University, Los Angeles. University partners such as the Marketing Club and [...]
On this date, Thursday, June 4, 1992 Columbia and Ruffhouse Records were ascending towards their 8th week on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart. The song, “Jump” produced by burgeoning music visionary, and mogul, Jermaine Dupri through [...]
Recently I had the honor of speaking to a couple hundred performing arts leaders and executives at Ticketmaster’s Performing Arts Summit. During a fireside chat with Marla Ostroff, Ticketmaster’s EVP of Arts and Theater, we [...]