Welcome to Mahoning Valley Live Music - MVLiveMusic.com
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About Mahoning Valley Live Music
In January of 2007, after a futile web search for similar sites, I created an internet site I named Mahoning Valley Live Music and posted the pages to my personal Road Runner internet space. Mahoning Valley Live Music was transferred to its current domain, http://mvlivemusic.com (and the web URL http://www.mvlivemusic.com) in early February 2007. My original intent was to create a site consolidating information on all musicians/bands in the Mahoning Valley, and all their scheduled performances. This primary purpose has not changed. Mahoning Valley Live Music supports local musicians performing live music. MVLiveMusic is the oldest existing site of its kind in the Valley, with the most complete and accurate listing of local nightclub musicians and their shows.
"Musicians" - The intent of this site is to support musicians who commonly perform in bars / nightclubs, though not exclusively in those venues, and I list those musicians' gigs wherever they might be - restaurants, schools, churches, parks, and so on. The styles of music supported by this site are typically rock and roll, blues, country, jazz, and derivatives. Normally I do not include musicians who exclusively perform orchestral music, gospel, marching band, or any other style that is not commonly heard in a nightclub.
"Local" - This site was created in support of musicians who live in the Warren / Youngstown, Ohio area, including all of Trumbull and Mahoning counties and extending into Salem, Ohio and Sharon / Hermitage, Pennsylvania. I have included musicians from outside of the area if I receive a specific request and they have a reasonable association with the area. Normally this site will promote distant performances by the listed local musicians, for instance, if it is within 50 miles or at a renowned location. Local performances by visiting or touring musicians are also listed. Paid promotion of out-of-area bands and concerts will be accepted.
"Live music" - This site supports musicians' live performances, including those using prerecorded background instrument or MIDI tracks as long as at least one instrument is played live. Paid promotion of recorded music (DJs, Karaoke) will be accepted.
Mahoning Valley Live Music will never charge local musicians a fee for its support, including listing information, photos, links, etc. in the Musicians page, promotion of performances in the Shows page schedule, videos, and specific mention on the home page. Venues that hire listed musicians will also receive free promotion in the Venues page and within the Shows page schedule as the locations where the musicians are playing. Additional paid promotion (advertising) of venues will be accepted.
Mahoning Valley Live Music is not responsible for omissions of either local musicians or performances, or listing errors. I attempt to visit every musician link in my database at the beginning of every month and enter their schedules into the Shows page database, and check the local newspaper entertainment sections every Thursday for corrections and additions. Many musicians send me email and MySpace and FaceBook message updates which I promptly enter into the database. While checking the newspapers, I also investigate any musicians with whom I am not familiar. I perform an internet search for more information, and add them to the Musicians and Shows databases if they prove to fit the criteria of this site. I then attempt to attend one of their performances as soon as possible to introduce myself and my site. I am doing everything I can, within reason, to cover the local music scene in a comprehensive and fair manner. In the end, it is the musicians' own responsibility, and in their own interest, to keep me informed and updated.
The MVLiveMusic.com MUSIC PLAYER features original music by local musicians. Songs are featured in random play when a visitor opens the home page, and individual songs from the whole collection can be selected from the scroll list. MUSICIANS: Please contact Mahoning Valley Live Music to have your songs included in the player. The player is a song sampler, intended to motivate site visitors to discover more about your music. For this reason, I reduce the songs to approximately 1/2 playing time and add a fade-out.
PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: My policy is to publish only my own photos and videos on MVLiveMusic.com with some exceptions for bands' own promo graphics in their Musicians page listing. Most new photos are displayed in the home page slideshow for a few months. I also display photos in many individual performers' Musicians page listing. Full-size photo files can be viewed by clicking on the slideshow and Musicians page photos, and, along with additional photos, from the Photos page available from links on the home page. MUSICIANS: You can download your pictures from this site and use them any way you like, and embed videos from this site in your web pages - credit to MVLiveMusic.com is appreciated. If I haven't taken your picture and posted it on this site, please be patient. I will get to you as soon as possible.
Mahoning Valley Live Music previously offered web space for musicians' personal pages. Because of the complexity of allowing access for editing, that offer is no longer available. I will, however, help any musician/band create a site within their personal domain, or help establish and populate a page under the musician's own MySpace identity, when time and circumstances allow.
Thank you for visiting Mahoning Valley Live Music.
Steve (the "Professor") Putt
Mahoning Valley Live Music
1345 SR 534 SW
Newton Falls, OH 44444
