Inside Hustle Expanding With Monthly Themed Events
Philadelphia Music Alliance has joined up with WXPN and Philly Music Fest to expand the bi-annual Inside Hustle events to monthly programming that will touch on booking, recording, management, streaming, and more aspects of local music.
Philadelphia’s premier music industry networking events are getting bigger this year, as organizers are planning to host not just two Inside Hustle networking events, but a series of monthly sessions that will touch on various aspects of the local music scene.
Inside Hustle’s expansion comes as WXPN and Philly Music Fest join forces with the Philadelphia Music Alliance for the series of sessions, the topics of which will include recording, management, booking, streaming and distribution.
On May 20 at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, Inside Hustle will host Helen Smith and Graham Noel of Rising Sun Presents, WXPN’s Mike Vasilikos and WMMR’s Sara Parker, Another Management Company’s Rennie Jaffe, and Women in Music’s Wendi Jensen of 100x, and Maggie Poulos of Mixtape Media as tableists. WXPN Assistant General Manager of Programming Bruce Warren will also moderate a panel of local musicians about the lessons learned as they’ve navigated their careers forward.
“Inside Hustle has been an important part of XPN’s long standing support of our local music community and our artist development efforts,” Warren said.
The full lineup and curriculum of Inside Hustle’s new monthly sessions, all of which will take place at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, will also be revealed at the May event.
The Oct. 10 Inside Hustle will be held at Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
“As we are gearing up to celebrate the 10th annual Philly Music Fest this fall, it feels only natural to expand Inside Hustle to provide year-round events for the music community,” Philly Music Fest Founder and Producer Greg Seltzer said. “We are looking forward to monthly gatherings that will not only provide insight from so many members of the music industry, but will undoubtedly provide the opportunity for friendship and collaboration amongst everyone in the room.”
All Inside Hustle events are free, and RSVP is encouraged.
“The expansion of Philly Music Fest’s Inside Hustle into a yearlong monthly series is a powerful step forward for our city’s music ecosystem,” Kerri Park Lennon, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Music Alliance, said. “By deepening this partnership with WXPN and PMF, we’re creating consistent, accessible touch points where artists, industry professionals, and students can connect, share knowledge, and grow together. Strengthening these connections is essential, because when our music community is aligned and informed, Philadelphia is better positioned to thrive as a leading music city.”
The Philadelphia Ethical Society is located at 1906 Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia.