Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of members of AIRCO will be held on the 7th October 2009 at 10h00 at the Bassline, Newton Precinct, Johannesburg. The purpose of the meeting is to present member's benefits and the projects which AIRCO will be rolling out in the year ahead.

Following recent elections amongst its membership, Merlin – the global licensing agency representing the world's most commercially important basket of independent music rights unveiled its new board on September 4th, 2009.

The 2010 World Music Days will be held in Sydney, Australia. Scores by South African composers can be submitted through ISCM's South African branch, NewMusicSA, which will select three scores for submission to the ISCM jury.

JOHANNESBURG 1st AND 2nd OF MAY 2009
The idea for the Indian Ocean Festivals Association (IOFA) came up when Dan Chiorboli (of Awesome Africa Music Festival in Durban), Yusuf Mahmoud (of Sauti Za Busara in Zanzibar) and Alain Courbis (of the Pôle Régional des Musiques Actuelles (PRMA) of Reunion Island) met up in Reunion Island in 2004. The idea was to create a support and information exchange network that could help the circulation of artists or other cultural inputs (exhibitions, conferences etc.) as well as promote training and musical heritage conservation.

ALSTOM is a company that is currently contracted to build a power station in Limpopo. The company is looking for a Group of about 6 (preferably University students) to perform in Europe at the International Festival of Academic Music (FIMU) in Belfort, France.