MCKINNEY- WBAP/KLIF – The city of McKinney has won “music friendly” certification from the state of Texas, clearing the way to add the North Texas city to a formidable list of other Lone Start State cities strongly pushing the growth of local music industries. McKinney joins Austin, Fort Worth, Denton, Stephenville, Austin, San Antonio and others with the designation; Waxahachie, Dallas, and El Paso are among those other cities now seeking the same certification.
The designation allows individual cities to join a statewide marketing effort that hopes to grow the industries in many cities statewide. McKinney spokeswoman Beth Shumate says the designation sends a message to the music industry that the city of McKinney is serious about developing the music business.
Steps to Certification as a Music Friendly Texas City: Host a Texas Music Office sponsored Music Friendly Community workshop.
- Establish a Music Office/Liaison within a division of city government (city office, economic development corporation, CVB/destination tourism office) that will be responsible for monthly reports concerning the progress of local music industry development programs.
- Register with the Texas Music Office’s Texas Music Industry Directory. The liaison’s organization also signs a mutually agreed upon Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that creates a working arrangement for the sharing of Music Directory data, and establishes protocols for keeping the directory information up to date.
- Demonstration of partnerships with the community’s music-related 501c3 nonprofits in order to foster community development.
- Collaboration with music education programs, including area college or university music schools.
- Create an advisory board made up
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