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The
12th R&R Triple A
Summit, held Aug. 4-7 at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder,
CO, proved to be the place to be. The Triple A community
had the opportunity to attend four focused business sessions
-- including the radio panel called "Are We Playing
it Too Safe?" and the "State of the Industry" label
panel -- a special screening of the film Festival Express
and a special taping of Sounds Eclectic, as well as to participate
in the annual Rate-A-Record session. In addition, 36 acts
performed at the hotel, the Players Club or the anchor venue
the Fox Theatre.
Thanks to everyone who attended this year. Thanks to all
the labels and sponsors for their support, to the all the
great bands who played for us; to all the moderators,
presenters and panelists who made the sessions informative and entertaining;
and certainly to all of my R&R brothers and sisters who helped to make The
Summit such a success. Hey, let's do it again next year! What do ya say?
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Moderator Dennis Constantine of
KINK/Portland, OR led an all-star radio session to kick off
the business side
of the Triple A Summit on Thursday morning. Pictured here are
(l-r) KBCO/Denver’s Scott Arbough, WBOS/Boston’s
Michele Williams, WXPN/Philadelphia’s Bruce Warren, WXRV/Boston’s
Dana Marshall, Constantine, WXRT/Chicago’s Norm Winer,
KPIG/Monterey’s Laura Hopper, KWMT/Tucson’s Tim
Richards and KMTT/Seattle’s Chris Mays.
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SBR Creative’s
John Bradley makes a point during the revealing Triple A
Listener Survey presentation on Thursday afternoon. Pictured
here are (l-r) Bradley and his business partner Dave Rahn,
along with panelists Warner Bros.’ Julie Muncy, Mercury
Research’s Mark Ramsey and KFOG/San Francisco’s
Haley Jones.
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Presslaff Interactive’s
Ruth Presslaff gave an interesting presentation on Friday
morning about the next generation of database marketing.
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R&R’s
Erica Farber ran a frank and informative session on Friday
afternoon with some of Triple A’s record label executives.
Pictured here are (l-r) Columbia’s Trina Tombrink,
Interscope/Geffen/A&M’s James Evans, Lost Highway/Island’s
Ray Di Pietro, RCA Victor’s Dave Einstein, Farber,
Reprise’s Alex Coronfly, Vanguard’s Art Phillips,
Verve’s Jill Weindorf and Virgin’s Ray Gmeiner.
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KCRW/Los Angeles host
Nic Harcourt (right) did a taping with Maverick/Reprise recording
artist Keaton Simons on Saturday morning.
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KMTT/Seattle’s Shawn Stewart moderated
the annual Rate-A-Record session (along with Broadcast
Architecture’s Jason Muth), which included a voting
block of KBCO/Denver listeners.
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Glen Phillips played a solid closing
set Friday night at
the Fox Theater.
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That’s the only word that fits
for Bruce Hornsby’s luncheon performance.
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Aware/Columbia recording artist
John Mayer gave the audience at the Fox an intimate one-man
show on Thursday night.
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Atlantic recording artist Jason Mraz played
for more than an hour at the Friday night Club R&R
in thanks for all the support Triple A radio gave his
debut album.
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