{"id":2139625,"date":"2025-11-06T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2139625"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:11:21","slug":"huntsville-music-office-to-host-quarterly-meetup-recap-record-breaking-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/huntsville-music-office-to-host-quarterly-meetup-recap-record-breaking-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville Music Office to host quarterly meetup, recap record-breaking year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Published on <strong>November 6, 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-toggle=\"modal\" class=\"single-post-modal-wrap\" data-target=\"#thumbModal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-117368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-300x169.png\" alt=\"Photo of Vesper Sky Lounge rooftop bar at the Trilogy Hotel overlaid with a black to purple gradient\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-1700x956.png 1700w, https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HSVQuarterlyMusicMeetUp_Nov20fbevent.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/a>Huntsville\u2019s music ecosystem continues to command national attention, and the community that helped make it possible is invited to celebrate another milestone year at its final <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1116009520743699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quarterly Music Meetup<\/a><\/strong> of 2025 on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 6-8 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The free meetup will be held at the newly opened Vesper Sky Lounge at the Trilogy Hotel, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/rhWsRaggfibtMwvu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>707 Monroe St. SW<\/strong><\/a>, and will bring together artists, venue owners, creative professionals, industry supporters and music fans for networking, updates and a special preview of the <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/huntsvillemusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Office\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> 2025 Year-In-Review.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsville\u2019s music momentum reached new heights in 2025, marked by significant industry recognition, expanded national partnerships and continued growth in performance and career-development opportunities across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsville earned the No. 1 ranking in <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/huntsville-named-to-fast-companys-annual-list-of-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies-of-2025\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huntsvilleal.gov\/huntsville-named-to-fast-companys-annual-list-of-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies-of-2025\/\">Fast Company\u2019s World\u2019s Most Innovative Companies<\/a><\/b>\u00a0list in the Economic Development category, a win driven in large part by the city\u2019s music-driven placemaking strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year made one thing clear: the nation is paying attention to Huntsville\u2019s music movement,\u201d Huntsville Music Officer Matt Mandrella said. \u201cOur Fast Company recognition validated that this city\u2019s artists, venues, educators and creative leaders are building something truly special, and the world is noticing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2025 highlights include:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few years ago, we were telling the country Huntsville\u2019s music scene was on the rise,\u201d Mandrella added. \u201cIn 2025, the country told us. From Nashville to London to New York, Huntsville\u2019s sound and its story are resonating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '299885137127062'); \n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\t<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";\n\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.huntsvilleal.gov \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on November 6, 2025 Huntsville\u2019s music ecosystem continues to command national attention, and the community that helped make it possible is invited to celebrate another milestone year at its final Quarterly Music Meetup of 2025 on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 6-8 p.m. The free meetup will be held at the newly opened Vesper Sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2139626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Huntsville-Music-Office-to-host-quarterly-meetup-recap-record-breaking-year.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139627,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139625\/revisions\/2139627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}