Having run a Maryland Music Co for two years I have to say it was like running in the sand.

So one of the main goals of a new company is to engage potential investors into the role your company will play in a given industry.   When that industry is over 10 billion dollars in single handled raised the over US GDP over 2 percent.  However!  I'm sorry to say that every single elected leader and all of the economic develop officers it seems are tone deaf to the role of Music in our overall economy let alone the role of it in the Maryland Economy.

"The effect of the revision will be immediate. Measured GDP will get a one-time boost of about 2.7 percent when the government starts counting R&D and artistic creation as investments. (New Mexico and Maryland will get the biggest lifts.) The future growth rate will probably be fractionally higher, too. With R&D treated as an investment, measured economic growth from 1959 to 2007 would have been 3.39 percent annually instead of 3.32 percent, the BEA estimates."  Peter Coy 

So I guess we'll wait for the next crop of leader because this one ain't doin a thing for the Maryland Music  Makers. We'd love to know about any efforts in Maryland to do more with Music. And who know's maybe it won't be us alone realizing that promoting  Maryland Made Music helps US MADE MUSIC and thats as Win Win for everyone.