New York-based singer/songwriter Mariana Bell recently signed up for a six month artist development program with MusicDish Network. Music Magazine publisher and artist manager Eric de Fontenay will supervise Mariana's career development, developing and overseeing her business/marketing plan, leveraging the company's marketing services and extensive database as well as representing her at major conferences such as MIDEM.
http://www.myspace.com/marianabell

Eric de Fontenay first noticed the folk pop singer at this year's Dewey Beach Music Conference where she hosted the GoGirlsMusic showcase. "Mariana's music is like her personality: engaging, dynamic and delightful. I knew this was one musician I would want to keep an eye on."

After catching a show three week's later at Brooklyn's Laila Lounge, and later at the Swedish Music Seminar, the two began to seriously discuss her career's potential and how to reach it. "Mariana has all the ingredients to bring her musical career so much farther. It's just a point of knowing how to use those ingredients in order to create opportunities that will help her advance up the ladder."

Online marketing and fan building will be an important component of the program. Utilizing the MusicDish Network's various campaigns, including syndicated marketing, online street teaming and community portals, webradio promotion and p2p distribution. The program though will also focus on developing opportunities in Mariana's regional market, particularly in securing performances, networking with industry professionals and connecting with her fans.

The Australian-born, Charlottesville-raised Mariana Bell has been a fixture at such popular New York venues as Caffe Vivaldi, Laila Lounge, The Bitter End, CBGB's and The Living Room. While her debut record, Dream of Italy, has been a consistently strong online seller through CD Baby, her more recent work branches out from her folksier roots, weaving elements of rock, jazz and country together with her trademark hook-filled melodies and evocative, passionate vocals. While critics have likened her music to that of a young Joni Mitchell, Mariana counts among her own influences Shawn Colvin, Bruce Cockburn, Dave Matthews, and Ani DiFranco.

About MusicDish Network
The MusicDish Network is a unique web music platform gathering hundreds of music-relates websites and webradio programmers. Through its artist marketing and development services, it reaches millions of music fans and professionals around the world, expanding an artists' exposure, sales and fanbase.
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