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2009 to See Debut of Provincetown New Music Festival

In July 2009 Underground Control will be presenting the First Annual Provincetown New Music Festival. Having spent his summers in Provincetown for the past six years Martin Doyle looks forward to sharing his extensive and unique experience in the music industry with the community.

Doyle has been involved with cutting edge independent music since 1991, when he began booking and managing The Middle East in Cambridge, MA.

The Festival’s Managing Director Jill Vaughan and Technical Director Eric Doberman will capably support Martin and Underground Control in this ambitious project.

Jill, a Provincetown resident and owner of Essentials for 11 years, brings considerable experience to the table from her work with the Provincetown Film Festival.

Eric has twenty years of experience in staging, production, information technology, and project management. His clients have included Marriott, Key3Media, Harvard Medical School and, for most of those twenty years, Martin Doyle himself..

The Provincetown New Music Festival is a five-day celebration of music and art in New England’s most unique and diverse oceanside community.

Its purpose is twofold: To provide an opportunity for emerging musical talent to find a wider audience and to stimulate tourism in Provincetown between July 20^th and July 24^th, a historically slow period that falls between Bear Week and Family Week.

The Festival will be marketed as a destination event in coastal cities from Montreal, Quebec to Raleigh, NC. The target demographics, college students and “creative class” professionals, can be reached handily via existing arts/nightlife weekly newspapers in each of these markets and their associated electronic media.

Selling points, beyond the music and Provincetown’s party culture, will include the Cape Cod National Seashore and the many outdoor and sporting attractions of the area.