Strategic, community-driven
solutions for measuring and
growing your music ecosystem.
Strategic, community-driven
solutions for measuring and
growing your music ecosystem.
“ Don Pitts brings unique insights on how to meld these resources in harmony and assist your city to realize its full potential as a music city. ”
“ Don Pitts is, without a doubt, one of the global leaders in music city strategy development and implementation, with hands-on experience leading Austin, one of the busiest music cities in the world. ”
“ When it comes to sound ordinance issues, Don Pitts is the best thing since sliced bread. ”
“ During his seven years inside Austin’s city government, Pitts was something of a trailblazer, tasked with diagnosing and treating the many problems facing the music economy, large and small. ”
“ A leader of music strategy, and an ace at balancing the needs of the music and nightlife industry with the needs of community. ”
“ Don thinks outside the box when obstacles present themselves, and is always looking for the right combination of dots to connect so that parties who may have been historically adversarial, actually find common ground. ”
“ Sound Music Cities brought the depth of knowledge and expertise along with the collaborative spirit and intuitive approach to team building that the project needed to maintain credibility. ”
“You can’t improve what you
don’t measure.”
Measure, know, and grow
your music ecosystem.
“You can’t improve what you
don’t measure.”
Measure, know, and grow
your music ecosystem.
The Latest from Sound Music Cities
The Latest from Sound Music Cities
Sound Music Cities was excited to release The Pittsburgh Music Ecosystem Study in July of 2018. This body of work explores themes and recommendations around Leadership Development, Career Development, Regulatory Reform, Industry Development and Audience Development. It provides a comprehensive current state audit, but better yet – a clear path forward to ensure the local music industry’s future success. At the heart of this report is a theme of community and collaboration – parts to the whole – a theme Pittsburgh is well-positioned to deliver on with this new roadmap.
Music policy leaders from San Antonio, Seattle, Alberta, Milwaukee, New Orleans, San Francisco, Austin, Fort Collins, London Ontario, Victoria BC, Memphis, Washington DC, Toronto, Portland and even from Sweden, connected for two days of intensive discussions and presentations this month in Austin.
Today, let’s talk about venues. Just as musicians contribute to our music ecosystems, live music venues are an equally important part of the equation. This type of thinking needs to be incorporated into governmental operations. Cities of all sizes should be implementing strategies that incorporate best practice policies with venue success in mind.
In our last entry about Music Development Strategies, we discussed the key ingredients needed as a city embarks on creating a successful music development strategy. And the way to get this development underway includes building a vision, researching the potential solutions, and the discipline to create and execute the plan while getting all of your resources to contribute. Having a sound music strategy provides the beneficial economic impact across many sectors including tourism, city brand building, cultural development, and more.