Event Planning & Marketing Communications built its public identity around EarleFest, an Americana fundraiser. The interesting work happened where the music, the message and the folding chairs met.

For 25 years, the Dualtone co-founder has practiced a stubborn kind of patience: sign fewer artists, share the economics clearly, and give good records enough time to find their people.
The Nashville label survived the CD collapse, a tornado and streaming's brutal arithmetic by making a peculiar promise: fewer artists, clearer deals and careers measured in albums, not weekends.