{"id":1544,"date":"2009-10-15T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/10\/15\/delta-music-institute-music-industry-workshops-to-be-offered-at-the-mary-c-okeefe-cultural-center\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:54:32","slug":"delta-music-institute-music-industry-workshops-to-be-offered-at-the-mary-c-okeefe-cultural-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/10\/delta-music-institute-music-industry-workshops-to-be-offered-at-the-mary-c-okeefe-cultural-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Music Institute music industry workshops to be offered at the Mary C. OKeefe Cultural Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Music Industry instructors from the Delta Music Institute (DMI) at Delta State University will be offering free workshops on several industry topics on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 2 -5 p.m. at the Mary C. O&rsquo;Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs. <\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The workshops will be held in conjunction with the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Ocean Springs Music Festival, taking place that same weekend. There is no charge for the workshops and pre-registration is not necessary. Interested students need only go to the Mary C. O&rsquo;Keefe Cultural Center&rsquo;s Scharr-Ello Music Recording Studio, on the second floor.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Instructors for the workshops include DMI Director Tricia Walker and DMI Instructors Mike<span style=\"color: black\"> Iacopelli and Barry Bays.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">Walker is a 30-year veteran of the music industry, having spent the majority of her career based in Nashville as a singer\/songwriter, producer, and music publisher. She has written award-winning songs, evidenced by Alison Krauss receiving a Grammy&trade; for her recording of Walker&rsquo;s song, <i>Looking In The Eyes Of Love.<\/i> She returned to Delta State to lead the Delta Music Institute in 2006. Walker will be leading a workshop entitled, &ldquo;Songwriting 101: <i>It All Begins With A Song.&rdquo;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">Iacopelli is the chief audio engineer at the DMI and serves as the coordinator of sound recording technology for the institute. He has worked as a recording and mastering engineer in studios in Detroit, Nashville, and Memphis, and has worked with a range of artists, including Aretha Franklin, Parliament Funkadelic, and Bishop G. E. Patterson. He will be presenting a workshop entitled, &ldquo;Basics of Studio Recording: <i>The Good Rule.&rdquo;<\/i> <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">Bays has performed with nationally and internationally known artists, including Shawn Lane, Kenny Brown, &ldquo;Big&rdquo; George Brock, and more. Bays directs DMI&rsquo;s two performing bands, Ol&rsquo; Skool Revue (R&amp;B\/Soul\/Blues\/Funk) and DeltaRoX (Classic Rock). He will be leading the workshop, &ldquo;The Working Musician: <i>How To Survive.&rdquo;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">The DMI Workshops are scheduled at the following times:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">2-2:45 p.m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;The Working Musician: <i>How To Survive&rdquo;<\/i> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Barry Bays&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">3-3:45 p.m. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Basics of Studio Recording: <i>The Good Rule&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/i>Mike Iacopelli<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">4-4:45 p.m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Songwriting 101: <i>It All Begins With A Song&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/i>Tricia Walker<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">For more information, contact the DMI at (662) 846- 4579 or the Mary C. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">O&rsquo;Keefe Cultural Center <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">at (228) 818-2878.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Industry instructors from the Delta Music Institute (DMI) at Delta State University will be offering free workshops on several industry topics on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 2 -5 p.m&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39055,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/39055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}