The Grammy Foundation launches 2005 Grammy Career Day Program

SANTA MONICA, CA. (The Recording Academy) - Top music industry professionals shed light on the realities of the music and recording industries to high school students around the country during the 2005 GRAMMY Career Day program, which kicked off on Dec. 8, 2004, in Dallas, Texas.
The 13-city presentation continues The GRAMMY Foundation's 19-year tradition of introducing high school music students to the diverse career opportunities in the music industry. This year's lineup features forums in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, New York, and Philadelphia, among other cities.

Each GRAMMY Career Day program begins with a panel comprising top recording and music industry professionals interacting with students in a dynamic talk-show format. Following the panel discussion, students attend one of many workshops on specific topics ranging from songwriting to engineering and production to instrumental technique to marketing and public relations to music video production and music-oriented Internet careers.

"GRAMMY Career Day exposes high school students to the wide spectrum of available career opportunities in the music industry and gives them a chance to interact one-on-one with those working in the business," said Recording Academy and GRAMMY Foundation President Neil Portnow. "Our program is candid and forthright and is designed to give future music industry professionals the perspective and insight needed to pursue and achieve their career and creative goals. Nothing has more impact than interfacing directly with those who have succeeded in a chosen field."

The 2005 GRAMMY Career Day program will visit the following cities:
Dec. 8, 2004 Dallas — Booker T. Washington High School
Jan. 13, 2005 Tacoma, Wash. — University of Puget Sound
Jan. 18, 2005 Atlanta — Clayton State College & State University
Jan. 18, 2005 Houston — High School of Performing and Visual Arts
Feb. 4, 2005 Memphis, Tenn. — University of Memphis
Feb. 9, 2005 Los Angeles — University of Southern California
Feb. 22, 2005 Miami — University of Miami
March 10, 2005 Philadelphia — The University of the Arts
March 15, 2005 Washington, D.C. — Pro session format on the Hill
March 22, 2005 New York — Pace University
March 24, 2005 San Francisco — San Francisco State University
March 30, 2005 Chicago — Columbia College
April 7, 2005 Nashville, Tenn. — Belmont University