John Haring
John Haring has worn many hats in the music business.
After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University’s prestigious Recording Industry Management Program, John spent time at RCA Records/Nashville in the publicity and artist development departments where he worked on tour press and promotional events with such artists as Alabama, Dolly Parton, Eddy Arnold, Charley Pride, Sylvia, Razzy Bailey and others. Moving back home to the New York area, John spent time in RCA Records’ New Jersey offices where he managed IT operations for the RCA Records financial division.
Upon leaving RCA, John spent a number of years managing and producing some high-profile, regional, independent artists in the northeast. During that time, in addition to producing recordings for the northeastern artists, he also was commuting to Nashville to produce demo recordings for a number of independent artists there.
At the same time, in addition to his work in the music industry, John was also involved in the IT world and is considered an educational software pioneer who designed and wrote some of the first software to be included with textbooks by the major schoolbook publishers including the popular KeyStrokes, the first computer-based typing tutorial to replace typewriters in high schools throughout the country. From that success, he founded Random Micro, Inc. (later changed to American Softech, Inc.), a New Jersey-based IT consulting firm, and guided the company to locations in three cities and clients from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and in all sectors from private to government to education to non-profit. He later returned to the academic world where he taught at the college level and was CIO of a northeastern college where he won national awards for his infrastructure design and execution and lectured nationally on campus-based IT issues.
However, his fingers were always in the music business in some way. Since returning to Nashville in 2004, John has produced an independent CD of his own and headed the design and opening of Nashville Independent Music, a website devoted to helping independent, unsigned artists and songwriters promote their careers through online exposure, live events and radio. He also lectures occasionally on Internet Music Marketing at Middle Tennessee State University and has presented seminars at various music conferences such as the Americana Music Association Conference, the South East Regional Folk Alliance Conference, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Frank Brown International Songwriter Festival and others.
On the literary front, John is Technical Editor and quoted authority for a new textbook by MTSU professor, Dr. Tom Hutchison, entitled Web Marketing for the Music Business and has, in the past, written a monthly music column for local Nashville publication, City at Night Magazine.
In radio, John hosts and produces two shows devoted to independent music, The Nashville Songwriter Show (formerly The Nashville Independent Music Hour), a live acoustic music show featuring hit songwriters, co-hosted with CJ Watson, and The Nashville Independent Music Top 10, a studio-based show with an Internet-based, audience voting component. The Top 10 show is currently on hiatus. John is also Executive Producer of The Guitar Show with Andy Ellis, a guitar-centered show hosted by former Guitar Player magazine and current Premier Guitar magazine Senior Editor, Andy Ellis. The Guitar Show with Andy Ellis is currently being prepared for syndication throughout the United States and English-speaking Europe and its companion website is regularly visited by fans in all 50 states and close to 100 countries.
In addition to all of that, John does career consulting and mentoring for a number of artists throughout the country through his Random Music Group, Inc. venture.
John Haring sees his involvement in ProMusicU as Executive Director and Instructor to be a natural evolution of and conduit for his experiences and insights in the music business and the business world in general.
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615-530-5785
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Random Music Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 128201
Nashville, TN 37212
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