COMA General Policies

• The COMA Board of Directors prefers not to endorse any activities which require us to pick and choose among our members.
• COMA does not wish to duplicate the efforts of our members. For example: Instead of starting up our own booking agency, we connect member musicians and venues with established booking agencies who are also COMA members.
• COMA supports the rights of all musical artists to get paid for their works, in all forms, including live performances and recordings.
• Monthly meetings of the Colorado Music Association and their content are copyrighted by the Colorado Music Association for the private use of its members and its audience. Private and non-commercial use of photographs, videos and sound recordings of the meetings are granted without required authorization. Any other uses of any other visual and/or sound medium are prohibited without the express written consent of the Colorado Music Association.

COMA General Procedures

Announcements from COMA:

Because we only have so much room in our email announcements we cannot possibly announce every upcoming gig or every music related event.  To that end we have created the following guidelines to help us determine what goes into our Announcements from COMA.

1. The Announcement should be of general interest to our members
2. The Announcement should involve at least one COMA member.
3. We will announce our various Committee Meetings, Updates and Events.
4. We will announce events where card carrying COMA members get a discount or other exclusive bonus not available to the general public (such as, COMA members get in free or at reduced cost). (This applies to business announcements too)
5. We will announce Member accomplishments.
6. We will not announce anything that we don't know about.  That means you have to tell us what's going on, our Volunteers don't have the time to hunt this stuff down.  If you have something you would like to have included in the COMA announcements, please Click Here
7. If you wish to receive the email announcements from COMA, please Click Here and use the words "Put Me On Your Elist" in the subject line.

Announcements at COMA Meetings:

In an effort to keep meeting times on schedule (so the bands can play on time) and to keep them interesting to the widest variety of participants, We limit the number of general announcements made at our meetings, whenever possible, to those from COMA committees.  We ask those of you wishing to make announcements to submit them by email to Announcements@ColoradoMusic.org for inclusion in the email announcements (see above).  Our emails go out to over 2,000 people while most meetings have 250 or fewer participants.  Commonly, you can reach more people via COMA email announcements than you can at a meeting.

If you would like to make an announcement at our next meeting, please  use the same email address and indicate if you are a member of a COMA committee so we can consider placing you on the agenda.  If we do not have your request well in advance of the next meeting we cannot guarantee you a spot on the agenda. 

Barcodes

To get your COMA barcode, please follow this simple procedure:
Note: You must already be a COMA member to get a barcode.
Barcodes will NOT be issued until you follow the procedure below.
It may take 2 -3 weeks from the time a member joins to the issuance of a barcode via email because COMA is a volunteer organization with no paid staff members.

1. Follow this link: Click Here
2. Fill out the form.  You will need your COMA Member #, Artist Name, Album Title, Estimated release date, Format (CD, vinyl, tape, etc...), Record Label (If you have one), email Address, and the name of the graphics software program your artwork is being generated on.
3. Please note that each COMA member is entitled to only 1 (one) free barcode per year. (That's one per band, not one per band member) Additional barcodes are available at $50/each. 
4. You will receive your barcode via email within a few days from our Volunteer Barcode Administrator.
5. After you get your barcode you must place it on the packaging of your CD with the COMA logo nearby.  It should look like this:
   
   Click here for a suitable COMA logo you can download and use on your packaging.
6. Download this Soundscan form, fill it out, and fax it in, so they know that a barcode is assigned to your CD.
7. Click this link for more info about barcodes:

Memberships

1. To become a new COMA member (or renew an expiring membership) Please visit this page: www.coloradomusic.org/join.html and print out one of the forms for Individual Membership, Band Membership, or Company Membership, Mail that form along with your check, made out to "Colorado Music Association," to 1490 Lafayette St. Suite 104B, Denver, CO 80218
2. Our Volunteer(s) will process your membership as quickly as possible and mail you your membership card(s) and other info.

Volunteering

To volunteer to help out with any COMA project, now or in the future, please click on the "Volunteer" button in the dark blue section at left and fill out the handy email form. We'll contact you whenever we need you.

Directory

We are compiling a comprehensive directory of everything music related in the State of Colorado.  If you want to be included (for free!) just click on the "Music Directory" button in the dark blue section at left and fill out the handy email form.  This will also get you onto our website.

Website

Our goal is to list each and every music related act, business, and venture.  If you would like your Colorado music related act, occupation or business to appear on this website, or know of one that isn't listed anywhere, please just Click Here and our Volunteer Webmaster will get it posted as soon as he can.