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I E S 1 5 - The Indie Entertainment Summit For 2015 Is All Set For August 5-8 In L.A.

IES ACCLAIMED SERIES OF CUTTING EDGE SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, KEYNOTES BY INDUSTRY LEADERS & IES HONORS EVENTS INDUCTING QUINCY JONES, SMOKEY ROBINSON, BOB MARLEY, METALLICA, ROCKERS LEMMY & MOTORHEAD, THE RAMONES, THE RUNAWAYS, & THE POLICE IN 40th Anniversaries, SLASH, N.W.A MOVIE TRIBUTE TO DR.DRE, ICE CUBE, DJ YELLA, REN, SPECIAL P-FUNK INDUCTION WITH GEORGE CLINTON, BOOTSY COLLINS & P-FUNK ALUMNI, & TRIBUTE TO UPTOWN RECORDS WITH MARY J BLIGE, FATHER MC, JODECI, ANDRE HARRELL & TRIBUTE TO HEAVY D & JACO PASTORIUS

The annual IES INDIE ENTERTAINMENT SUMMIT runs from the amazing IES INAUGURATION
Wednesday August 5 through the IES GEAR & TECH EXPO Saturday August 8 in the NoHo Arts District part of L.A.. In between in jam packed with over 60 cutting edge seminars, workshops, keynotes & events with a focus on the booming independent side of the business, run by leaders from music, film, TV, touring & technology. A ’cream of the crop’ of today’s industries with their hand firmly on the pulse of tomorrow, speaking & sharing their current success techniques, is what’s made IES to be called ’the greatest event in the world for independent entertainment’. This more entrepreneurial oriented evolution of the business, fused with new tools & technologies, is growing by the second, while the older guard is crumbling more everyday. IES brings it ALL this attitude together for a comprehensive four day conference & festival in the entertainment & technology capital of the world, California.

Leading the sessions is, as every edition has been, is a ’Who’s Who’ in leaders from all ends of the business, from Writing Hits to Superstar Production, from Cutting Edge Social Media to International Deals, from Touring to Film-TV-Mobile & beyond! IES HONORS, which every year inducts & honors ’trailblazers’ who have innovated & accomplished great things against amazing odds. This year IES will induct QUINCY JONES, METALLICA, SMOKEY ROBINSON, LEMMY & MOTORHEAD, SLASH, BOB MARLEY, THE POLICE, ICE CUBE-DJ YELLA & NWA MOVIE, THE RAMONES, JACO PASTORIUS, P-FUNK : GEORGE CLINTON-BOOTSY COLLINS, THE STRAY CATS, SAM COOKE, THE RUNAWAYS, & Special Tributes to IRS RECORDS : REM-GO-GO’s-OINGO BOINGO +more & UPTOWN RECORDS : MARY J. BLIGE-FATHER MC-JODECI-HEAVY D. IES will Premiere a Special Preview of the movie "JACO", the long awaited documentary movie on legendary musician JACO PASTORIUS, hosted by METALLICA’s ROBERT TRUJILLO in an IES Q&A session, during the IES GEAR & TECH EXPO.

Registration can be done at www.IESfest.com & by calling 818-505-9537.