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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