October 2011
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It's Almost Time!
Only 17 days until Autumn aLive 2011!  Taking Back Sunday wsg The Maine will be on the campus of Ferris State University on Nov 3 at 7:00 p.m. in Wink Arena! BE THERE. The tickets are going FAST. 
Oct 18th
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Committee Heads Galore!
So up until now, I’ve been doing most of the planning on my own (and Haley Sparks, my Savior).  I have been looking forward to the day where I will have committee heads to delegate work to. Well this day finally came a few weeks ago! My MIMA E-Board and I selected our nine committee heads at one of our E-Board meetings. We had all interested MIMA members apply online by filling out an...
Oct 6th
How I Managed to Book...Taking Back Sunday.
So when I say we got extremely lucky that we booked Taking Back Sunday for Autumn aLive 2011…I’m saying we were in the right spot at exactly the right time.  Alex and I had a band picked out and an offer ready to send to a band who wasn’t TBS. We had Cold War Kids all in line to book. We had the offer ready and we sent it out…or so we thought. Long story short, we had a...
Oct 5th
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Internships....Here we go again!
Well the time has come again to start searching for internships. I would love to get a job for January, but my realistic side is telling me to apply for as many internships as I can.  I’ve applied for six internships so far (CMT (again), Country Music Association, Country Music Hall of Fame, The Recording Academy, Red Light Management) and I just applied for the one I REALLY want today. I...
Oct 4th
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Welcome our new middle-man...ALEX JOHNSON!
So for our past thirteen Autumn Alive shows we have used a middle-man agent that is located on the East coast. He has always worked fine with our University, however, we felt we could use an agent who is closer and who knows more about our University. Now all of you know that change is a scary thing for most people. Changing our booking agent at Ferris State was not really an option because...
Oct 3rd
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