Melissa Ferrick

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Ms. Ferrick is currently a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University. She has released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and won numerous awards for songwriting, production, and performance. From 2013 to 2019, she was an associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, as well as the artistic director of their five-week summer performing songwriter program. Her publishing catalog is administered worldwide by Raleigh Music Group. She is a member of the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) which has been designated by the US Copyright Office to handle licensing and administering rights under the Music Modernization Act (MMA). Ms Ferrick holds an Ed.M from Harvard University. — Signed to Atlantic Records in 1992 at the age of 21, after opening up for Morrissey in the US and UK, she released her debut and sophomore albums on Atlantic before moving on to Independent label W.A.R. Records between 1996-1999. In 2000, Ms. Ferrick launched her nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records. Regarded in the industry and by her peers as one of the most prolific and hardworking artists in the business, Ferrick has toured with Morrissey, Joan Armatrading, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, Mark Cohen, Paul Westerberg, John Hiatt, Ani DiFranco, k.d.Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and many others.