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Jun 22
I found out on Friday that Popkomm, which is the second largest music tradeshow in Europe, has been canceled for 2009. 
The show was scheduled to take place in just two months from today, and though not completely unexpected, it’s still rather shocking.
It’s a major disappointment for us given that we are a close partner and Popkomm has always been one of the events that we use to reach out to our European members.
More importantly, I am not quite sure what this means about the current state of the economy and our industry at large, though any time a big show like this gets canceled, it hardly bodes well for anyone.
If you are a member that’s submitted to perform at this year’s Popkomm, we are contacting them this week to address refunds.
Panos
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