McGinn Announces Seattle Music Commission to "Guide the City of Music's Future"

Mayor McGinn just announced that, as part of the City of Music Initiative, he's put together a 21-member Music Commission that with a goal of "advancing the City of Music vision throughout the larger community and providing guidance and direction regarding the city's support of music." More specifically, the Commission will:

provide support, direction and advice to the city about the use of existing resources and priorities to ensure smart and meaningful investments to advance Seattle's music culture and business are made. The Music Commission will also be charged with engaging the private sector to recognize its role in making Seattle a great musical city and developing annual City of Music programs that support the goal of propelling Seattle's leadership role in music throughout the nation and the world.

Wait, so what are they doing? Curious to see how all this will play out/what kind of impact they'll make.

Appointees are listed below:

Mayoral Appointments:
- Jason Finn - Musician, Presidents of The United States of America
- K. Wyking Garrett - Director, Seattle Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council/UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center
- Kyle Hopkins - Head of Music Acquisitions, Microsoft X-Box/ On-Air DJ, KEXP.org
- Megan Jasper - Executive Vice President, Sub Pop Records
- Alex Kochan - Vice President, AEG Live (Showbox Venues)
- Marcus Lalario - Entrepreneur / Nightclub Owner
- Tom Mara - Executive Director, KEXP 90.3 FM/KEXP.org
- David Meinert - Owner, Fuzed Inc./National Trustee: The Recording Academy (Grammys)
- Larry Mizell, Jr. - Writer, Musician, On-Air DJ at KEXP.org
- Griff Morris - Principal, Content Licensing and Vendor Management, Amazon MP3
- Marcus Womack - Product Management, iLike Inc./iLike.com

Council Appointments:
- Kate Becker - Co-Founder, Vera Project/Director of Development, Seattle Theatre Group
- Elena Dubinets - Vice President of Artistic Planning, Seattle Symphony
- Holly Hinton - Content & Online Product Manager, Starbucks Entertainment
- Jason Hughes - Co-owner, Sonic Boom Records/Owner, Sonic Boom Recordings
- Ben London - Executive Director, The Recording Academy Pacific Northwest Chapter
- DeVon Manier - CEO, Sportn' Life Records
- Mike Meckling - President, SNMA/Co-Owner, Neumo's and Moe Bar
- Jon Stone - Executive Director of Festivals, One Reel
- Annette Taborn - Executive Director, Pacific NW Blues in Schools