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The Texas Music Office serves as the information clearinghouse and promotion office for the Texas music industry.
This site contains 15,962 business, band or event listings totaling 3,028 printed pages.
In 2007, it attracted 383,118 unique visitors resulting in 1,039,135 page views.

Texas Music Office
P.O. Box 13246 Austin, Texas 78711
512.463.6666; fax 512.463.4114

State Insurance Building, Suite 3.418
1100 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701

music@governor.state.tx.us
www.EnjoyTexasMusic.com
www.governor.state.tx.us/music

Casey J. Monahan, Director
Marc Fort, Publications Coordinator
Stephen Ray, Office Manager
Fellowship Interns: 
Alina Feodorova, James Fraser,
Natalia Urbanowicz, Derrick Ward, Laura Wilson

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This weekend in live Texas music
Sales Tax Exemptions Available to Texas Record Producers
TMO Website of the Week: Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians

V. Texas Music History Tour (175 pages)
1. Music Pioneers (565)
2. Halls of Fame, Museums, Libraries (67)
3. Venues open before 1980 (130)
4. Other music tourism sites
5. Country Hall of Fame (21)
6. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (13)
7. Blues Foundation Hall of Fame (11)
8. Grammy Hall of Fame, Legends, Achievement (41)
9. Songwriters Halls of Fame (41)
10. BMI Million-Airs (127)
11. Cowboy, Cowgirl & Swing Hall of Fame (48)
12. Texas Music Pioneer Birthdays (448)
13. Buddy Holly Walk of Fame (33)
14. Austin Chronicle Music Poll Hall of Fame (99)
15. Texas Country Music Hall of Fame (35)
16. Tejano Roots Hall of Fame (47)
17. Medal of Art Honorees & State Musicians (17)
18. West Texas Music Hall of Fame
19. Tejano Walk of Fame
20. Austin Music Memorial
21.-Texas Heritage Songwriters' Collection
22.-National Recording Registry
23.-South Texas Music Walk of Fame
24.-Kennedy Center Honors NEW

VI. Musicians (263 pages)
1. Texas Talent Register A-Z
-- (6,052 Texas musical acts) 
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2. Mariachi Talent (82)
3. Classical Talent (160)
4. Grammy Winners (135 winners; 278 awards)
5. 49th Grammy Winners (6 awards)
6. 50th Grammy Nominees

VII. Business Guides (207 pages)
1. Getting Started in the Music Business
-- (a reference guide to basic legal and
-- business practices in TX)
2. Indie Band Packet
3. Starting a Record Label
4. Creating a Presskit
5. Booking Concerts & Tours
6. Finding Capital
7. Notes for Songwriters / Songwriters' Groups
8. Notes for Young Artists
9. Finding Musicians For Your Band
10. Guide to Music-related Insurance
11. Getting Started in Entertainment Law
12. Copyrights / Trademarks
13. Licensing How-to
14. Available Sales and Use Tax Exemptions
15. Books/Publications - Suggested Reading
16. U.S. Organizations
17.-U.S. Music Trades
18. US Links
19. Foreign Links
20. Musician's and Retailer's Guide to the Internet
21. SIC to NAICS conversion

VIII. Radio / Press (248 pages)
1. Stations (817)
2. Texas or Local Radio Shows (91)
3. Radio Stations programming Country (222)
4. Radio Stations programming R&B/Rap/Hip Hop (58)
5. Radio Stations programming Rock & Roll (96)
6. Radio Stations programming Tejano/Latin (160)
7. Radio Stations programming Christian/Gospel (165)
8. Press (380)

IX. Governor Rick Perry

I. About the TMO (21 pages)
1. History and Purpose
2. Publications
3. La Oficina de Música de Tejas
4. TMO Internships
5. Texas Law and Music
6. State of TX Music Industry
7. What is it about Texas Music
8. Donations to the Texas Music Office THANK YOU!
9. REQUEST INFORMATION
10. Other US music offices
11. Staff

II. Music Business Referral Network (1,390 pages)
1. A to Z Texas Music Businesses
-- (7,356)
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2. Attorneys (219)
3. Booking Agents (365)
4. CD Duplication (128)
5. Live Music Venues (1,154)
6. Music Publishers (293)
7. Musical Instrument Businesses (712)
8. Organizations (381)
9. Publicists (200)
10. Record Distributors (83)
11. Record Labels (579)
12. Record Stores (374)
13. Recording Studios and Mastering (819)
14. Rehearsal Studios (47)
15. Sound Reinforcement (260)

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16. How to list your business here
17. PDFs of previous TX Music Industry Directories

III. Music Education (231 pages)
1. Colleges / Universities (143)
2. Libraries / Archives (67)
3. Handbook of Texas Music
4. Texas Music Bibliography (606)
-- (500 + books and scholarly articles)
-- Fundraising Bibliography (71)
5. Mariachi Education (100)
-- (Texas secondary school Mariachi education)
6. UIL Sponsor Excellence Award
7. TX Commission on the Arts TX Music Project Grants
8. Foundation Libraries

IV. Events Calendar (212 pages)
January - December (776)

Numbers listed in parenthesis refer to the number of listings in each section.

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