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The Texas Music Office serves as the information clearinghouse and promotion office for the Texas music industry.
This site contains 15,962 business, band or event listings totaling 3,028 printed pages.
In 2006, it attracted 441,821 unique visitors resulting in 6,633,094 hits.


Texas Music Office
P.O. Box 13246 Austin, Texas 78711
512.463.6666; fax 512.463.4114

State Insurance Building, Suite 3.410
1100 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701

music@governor.state.tx.us
www.EnjoyTexasMusic.com
www.governor.state.tx.us/music

Casey J. Monahan, Director
Stephen Ray, Office Manager
Jacquelyn Sorcic, Legal Intern
Fellowship Interns: 
Christina Brehm, Chelsey Green
Harold King, Allison Ullrich

Enjoy Texas Music License Plate - Image
Buy a Texas Music License plate
This weekend in annual Texas live music events
Available Sales and Use Tax Exemptions
9 Texas artists receive a total of 14 Grammy awards
Cindi Lazzari Artist Advocacy Award

V. Texas Music History Tour (172 pages)
1. Music Pioneers (467)
2. Halls of Fame, Museums, Libraries (54
3. Venues open before 1980 (130)
4. Other music tourism sites
5. Country Hall of Fame (21)
6. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (13)
7. Blues Foundation Hall of Fame (11)
8. Grammy Hall of Fame, Legends, Achievement (41)
9. Songwriters Halls of Fame (41)
10. BMI Million-Airs (127)
11. Cowboy, Cowgirl & Swing Hall of Fame (48)
12.Texas Music Pioneer Birthdays (448)
13. Buddy Holly Walk of Fame (33)
14. Austin Chronicle Music Poll Hall of Fame (99)
15. Texas Country Music Hall of Fame (27)
16. Tejano Roots Hall of Fame (47)
17. Medal of Art Honorees & State Musicians (17) NEW
18. West Texas Music Hall of Fame NEW

VI. Musicians (263 pages)
1. Texas Talent Register A-Z
-- (6,052 Texas musical acts) 
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-- T U V W X Y Z
2. Mariachi Talent (82)
3. Classical Talent (160)
4. Grammy Winners (100 winners; 206 awards)
5. 48th Grammy Winners (6 awards)

VII. Business Guides (207 pages)
1. Getting Started in the Music Business
-- (a reference guide to basic legal and
-- business practices in TX)
2. Indie Band Packet
3. Starting a Record Label
4. Creating a Presskit
5. Booking Concerts & Tours
6. Finding Capital
7. Notes for Songwriters
8. Notes for Young Artists
9. Finding Musicians For Your Band
10. Guide to Music-related Insurance NEW
11. Getting Started in Entertainment Law NEW
12. Copyrights / Trademarks
13. Licensing How-to
14. Available Sales and Use Tax Exemptions
15. Books/Publications - Suggested Reading
16. U.S. Organizations
---- U.S. Music Trades
17. US Links
18. Foreign Links
19. Musician's and Retailer's Guide to the Internet
20. SIC to NAICS conversion

VIII. Radio / Press (248 pages)
1. Texas Radio Stations (817)
2. Texas or Local Radio Shows (91)
3. Texas Radio Stations programming Country (222)
4. Texas Radio Stations programming R&B;/Rap/Hip Hop (58)
5. Texas Radio Stations programming Rock & Roll (96)
6. Texas Radio Stations programming Tejano/Latin (160)
7. Texas Radio Stations programming Christian/Gospel (165)
8. Press (380)

IX. Governor Rick Perry

I. About the TMO (21 pages)
1. History and Purpose
2. Publications
3. La Oficina de Música de Tejas
4. TMO Internships
5. Texas Law and Music
6. State of TX Music Industry
7. What is it about Texas Music
8. Donations to the Texas Music Office THANK YOU!
9. REQUEST INFORMATION
10. Other US music offices

II. Texas Music Industry Directory (1,390 pages)
1. Businesses A-Z
-- (7,400+ Texas music businesses)
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-- I J K L Ma-Mm Mn-Mz N O P Q R Sa-Sm
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2. Record Stores (592)
3. Live Music Venues (1,154)
4. Mastering & Recording Studios (819)
5. Rehearsal Studios (37)
6. Record Labels (575)
7. Record Distributors (97)
8. CD Manufacturers & Duplication (119)
9. Music Publishers (289)
10. Musical Instrument Businesses (712)
11. Organizations
-- Texas Organizations (381)
-- U.S. Organizations (313)
12. Texas Attorneys (211)
13. How to be listed
14. TMID pdf files

III. Music Education (231 pages)
1. Colleges / Universities (135)
2. Libraries / Archives (59)
3. Handbook of Texas Music
4. Texas Music Bibliography (606)
-- (500 + books and scholarly articles)
-- Fundraising Bibliography (71)
5. Mariachi Education (84)
-- (Texas secondary school Mariachi education)
6. UIL Sponsor Excellence Award
7. TX Commission on the Arts TX Music Project Grants

IV. Events Calendar (212 pages)
January - December (776)

Numbers listed to the right in parenthesis refer to
the number of listings included in each section.

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