Fuzion Entertainment Artist Vision Quest Slated To Perform at North By Northwest Music Festival in Portland, Oregon
Fuzion Entertainment is proud to announce that Hip-Hop group VISION QUEST has been invited to perform at the North By Northwest Music Festival in Portland, Oregon. The conference will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Downtown Portland, 329 SW Pine Street from September 19-24. Vision Quest will be performing at SEGES on Friday, September 22 at 9:00 PM. More than 300 bands and solo acts from the Pacific Northwest, across the nation and around the world will participate in this year’s festivities. Showcases are scheduled at 20 of Portland’s best live music venues. The NXNW band page for Vision Quest can be viewed at: http://bands.nxnw.com/visionquest

North By Northwest is a music festival where artists and industry professionals come together, utilizing network opportunities to enhance their position in the business. Panel discussions are held throughout the day about various subjects ranging from digital music downloads to promoting your music through film. Producer and member of the Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison, will give this year’s opening comments.

Diriki Mack and BMD, the two artists who make up Vision Quest, have received rave reviews in such magazines as Billboard, Gavin, Black Beat and Right On. In January 2000, Fuzion Entertainment, under a deal with Ninety-Nine Distribution GmbH in Germany, released “Verbal Sights,� VQ’s first full-length record, to major chain stores in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The release sparked considerable sales and excellent feedback among fans, press and radio stations such as JAM FM in Berlin and Radio Mafia in Finland.