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noted that in addition to coming
on board as an artist manager, Emporium Presents
Jensen has been hired as a brand- Adds Talent Buyers
ing specialist and will spearhead aura Vilches and Danny Cohen
the company’s marketing division. Ljoined Emporium Presents as
Her resume includes an extensive new talent buyers and will support Theo Wargo / Getty Images / Zac Brown Band
history in marketing director roles, current projects and expand the
content development and entity company’s show productions.
branding. Vilches, who will be based in
“As a Boulder native, I could Seattle, comes to Emporium from
not be more excited to be joining Paramount & State Theatres in
this powerhouse company and Austin, where she was a booking
team,” Jensen said in a statement. manager responsible for presented
“I have always admired Madison shows and establishing co-pro-
House’s position in the industry moter releationships.
and commitment to being an After moving to Seattle, she’s
adaptive entity throughout the managed artist relations for
years. I look forward to everything festivals such as BottleRock, ZAC BROWN BELTS OUT another one at Fenway Park in Boston June 15. Brown is now
we are building in the artist man- Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, ACL represented by WME and managed by Scooter Braun’s SB Projects.
agement and marketing divisions Festival and touring with artists
here.” such as Death Cab for Cutie, LCD annually, with a growing presence a “world of workshops, festivals,
Hettel will also be based in Soundsystem, and Rachel Bloom’s in Canada. studio sessions and events in more
the Boulder office. He formerly Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Live. Emporium Presents finished out than 60 countries.”
worked at Rogue Agency and his 2018 at No. 88 on Pollstar’s Top RBMA, which began in Berlin
clients include Eazybaked, Toad- 100 Worldwide Promoters chart, 1998, has since traveled the world
face, Ultrasloth, Sayer, Gladkill, with 152,554 tickets sold. over from New York to Cape town
Abelation and Sfam. – Deborah Speer to Sao Paulo to Tokyo bringing in
“I’m very excited to be joining aspiring producers, DJs and mu-
the Madison House family here at Red Bull sicians to attend music lectures,
Laura Vilches and Danny Cohen
the Boulder office. I look forward Music Academy workshops and performances
to further developing my skills and Cohen was most recently To Shutter led by a diverse slate of music
my career as an agent under the programming manager at Nassau ed Bull has announced the veterans.
direction of Nadia Prescher and Coliseum, where he was part Rend of The Red Bull Mu- Past students included Fly- PRO
Jesse Aratow, both of whom I’ve of the re-opening team before sic Academy, a critically lauded ing Lotus (Melbourne, 2006),
looked up to ever since I began my joining Emporium in its Denver international music program that Blackcoffee (South Africa, 2003),
career in the industry. My clients office. He got his start as a college began 21 years ago, and its Red Tokimonsta (London, 2010) and
and I are thrilled to be a part of buyer before heading to WME in Bull Radio offshoot. Both platforms Hudson Mohawke (Toronto, 2007).
such an accomplished team and Beverly Hills, Calif., as a booking will cease operations this coming In May 2014 Red Bull Music
we can’t wait for what’s in store and representative assistant. October. Academy had a street party at the
for the future!” He has since worked as a talent In a statement, Red Bull said former site of the Paradise Garage
Jensen’s email is Angela@mad- buyer for United Concerts, in artist it would end RBMA’s “centralized and led an initiative to rename the
ison-house.com and Hettel can be relations and site operations at approach” and move to a model street Larry Levan Way in honor
reached at Tyler@madison-house. several festivals, and in venue that “empowers” Red Bull teams of the club’s highly influential
com. management at Forest Hills Stadi- and local experts in different terri- resident DJ.
In February Madison House um in New York. tories (full statement below). Most impressive was the
announced it was opening a new “Vilches and Cohen each bring Yadastar, an outside consulting RBMA’s stellar line up of music
Nashville location and hiring Jon years of industry experience firm based in Austria running cre- luminaries brought in to lecture
Bell, Sahil Mehta and Allen Roper with them, and we are thrilled to ative on RBMA since 1998, posted and often perform.
as its newest agents. Bell works in add them both to the Emporium on Twitter that “Yadastar and Red This included: Terry Riley,
Nashville, Roper is in the Boulder Family,” Emporium partner Dan Bull have mutually agreed to part Bjork, Iggy Pop, Can’s Damo
location and Mehta is based in Steinberg said in a statement. ways at the end of October 2019.” Suzuki, Giorgio Moroder, Janelle
Oakland, Calif., giving Madison Steinberg and partner Jason Zink Co-founded by Torsten Schmidt Monae, Robyn, Harry Belafonte,
House a presence on the West joined Live Nation last year and and Many Ameri, the Yadstar Brian Eno, Sheila E., Q-Tip, Erykah
Coast. – Sarah Pittman produce more than 400 shows post also noted it had produced Badu, Tony Visconti, Jimmy Jam

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