Great caribbean music and more - www.caribbeat.com.jm CARIBBEAT IS not an event, it's one long show online that is. Afterwards, switch gear to view artiste profiles and get free MP3 downloads of records produced by Caribbeat. For young artistes 'looking a bus' Caribbeat will promote your stuff by uniquely designing and hosting a web page just for you including photos,tour information, music samples and biographies. Take advantage of the millions of visitors to the Caribbeat Internet portal, increase your international business contacts and generate more income for a monthly fee. Caribbeat's events calendar is another hot item on the site. Contact them to list your event, or plan your trip to the Caribbean to experience exciting festivals and concerts. It also gives details on major music events with links to the websites of the organizers. THE LAUNCH In recent years the Internet and other information and communications technologies have had a significant impact on the music business. As a consequence, music production, promotion and distribution will never be the same. In an effort to facilitate Jamaican and other Caribbean music producers and performers in their attempts to take advantage of opportunities offered by the Internet, Caribbeat Entertainment Limited has spent the past three years developing a multifunctional Internet music portal. The Caribbeat music portal located at www.caribbeat.com.jm provides a number of facilities for music producers, performers, the music buying public, international record labels, distributors and concert promoters. The Caribbeat Internet portal was officially launched last Tuesday, June 26 at the Le Meridien Jamaica Pegasus. According to Caribbeat's Managing Director, Lloyd Stanbury, the project will focus on the music of the English, French and Spanish speaking countries of the Caribbean, and will be projected to the world as "The Online Source for Caribbean Music". The portal services include 24/7 online radio, featuring genres such as Reggae, Dancehall, Salsa, Merengue, Soca and Zouk. Included in the portal is an online music store where CDs can be purchased. The web site will also offer services to artistes for the design and hosting of Artiste Profile pages at a very reasonable monthly fee. These pages will enable artistes to secure a presence on the Internet, and will include, biographical material, music samples for listening only, publicity photos, tour information and management contact details. Mr. Stanbury explained that the 24/7 online radio facility hosted at www.caribbeatradio.com will be the main promotional tool for the portal. Caribbeatradio.com is hosted from a server provided by California based Internet broadcast company Live365.com. Promotional activities for the portal will start immediately after the launch with appropriately placed advertising in travel trade magazines, with Caribbeat's continued participation in major music industry trade fairs in Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and with links and strategic alliances with major entertainment and travel web site worldwide. The Caribbeat project has received development support from the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) from the Netherlands, the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) and is administered by Trade Development Project. Caribbeat Entertainment Limited is one of the eight ICT projects identified for support at the Government sponsored Roundtable on Information and Communication Technologies which was hosted by the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) at the Jamaica Conference Centre in 1998. CONTRIBUTED
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