Office Hours - production touring crew
Tour Managers Lisa Brownlee & David '5-1' Norman join Jen to dole out advice to the young guns getting started in the production field.
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Special Guests:
David ‘5-1’ Norman - Tour Director / Manager / Accountant
With over 35 years of international tour experience and a keen eye for details, David has been tour director, tour manager, production manager and tour accountant for many of the world’s top artists covering all genres of music (Prince, John Legend, Green Day, John Fogerty, Earth, Wind & Fire, Avicci, Alicia Keys, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and Dream Theater to name a few). He specializes in tour accounting, budgets, show settlements, staffing, vendor allocation, travel coordination, charter jet bookings and work visas.
David has been a featured speaker on a variety of panels at the Tour Link Conference, the IMFCON Conference, The Hubb at CAA in Nashville, The Leadership Music Panel (Nashville), the University of Georgia Music Business Program, and the William Paterson University Music Business Program. He has spoken on podcasts, participated in webinars, and written numerous professional articles about his time in the touring industry. Born in the UK, Norman has lived in the United States for most of his life. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA.
Lisa B - Tour Manager
Lisa B is a freelance Tour Manager (including stuff like Warped Tour, Falling in Reverse, PVRIS, Sleeping with Sirens). She has been in the music business for about 30 years and spent 24 of those years on the Vans Warped Tour where she tour managed for 10 years. In addition to tour managing, she has also worked as a production coordinator, staffing and payroll manager, security supervisor (Justin Bieber's Believe Tour) and decorator on many other internationally known events like Coachella and Stagecoach. Lisa knows a little bit about a lot of things that pertain to the live music industry and is fully committed to this line of work and happy to act as a mentor as many people have done for her.
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