ghana music moves on
imagine a collection of artistes of all genres gathered to elect their regional executives and participate in a seminar on artiste development....the interesting thing with the whole exercise is the fact that the whole elections was devoid of pronounced bickering and animosity.
in his opening remarks, the president of musiga bice osei kuffour aka obour urged the members to vote for the sort of leadership that could help transform musiga into a vibrant organisation.
he highlighted some of the plans underway which include accessing soft loans from midlands loans and savings, training opportunities for musicians and steps to build the institutional capacity of musiga.
obour also spoke about the digital portal musiga is creating to aid musicians in the marketing of their works. this would involve the launch of musiga's website and the creation of pages for interested artistes as well as assistance in the creation of their own exclusive websites.
he also highlighted the union's activities lined up for the rest of the year. these include the ghana music week which will feature musicians from around the country as well as an exhibition of musical works.

other speakers at the forum included cynthia jumu, legal advisor to the union who stressed on the need for musicians to take the law serious and ensure that they have legal agreements covering their work. she reminded the participants of her availability to provide pro bono legal advise to musiga members.

in a brief presentation on the midlands loans and savings offer to musicians, an official of midlands loans and savings indicated that the offer is open to musiga members only.

on his part, carlos sakyi who spoke on copyright issues advised musicians to take their copyright matters assuring them that ghamro is there for their service.

rex omar, head of business and finance at musiga spoke about music union and its members and explained the role of musiga. he advised the members to support musiga unreservedly to also ensure that musiga is in a position to reciprocate when it's necessary.
in the elections that followed, hiplifer tic tac was elected chairman and mildred mac hansen was elected secretary with gospel singer grace ashy elected welfare officer.

the elections and artiste development forum is part of a nationwide tour by musiga executives and the collection of entries for the mtn hitmaker show. the winner of the show will walk away with a prize package worth c 100,000.00 with the runner up clocking half of that value

now with the excitement and fanfare over, it's time to hit the ground running and make sure musiga utilises the goodwill it is currently....in an interview after his election, tic tac spoke of generating domestic revenue and one is excited about the concept and would like to see how that would play out.....
so let's join hands in welcoming the new greater accra regional chairman and his fresh set of executives as the lead musiga in the greater accra to achieve even higher heights.
ship ahoy