MONTEREY PENINSULA AND LITTLE BIG MAN JOIN IMPRESSIVE ROSTERS TO BECOME, PERHAPS, THE PREMIER MUSIC AGENCY; OFF-SHOOT HIGH ROAD TOURING ON PACE

In recent years, New York based Paradigm Artists has made major moves to become, perhaps, the premier artist agency in the music industry.

In 2004, Paradigm purchased Monterey Peninsula Artists, the wildly-successful agency based in Monterey, California. In 2006, Paradigm purchased the New York based Little Big Man Booking, which was considered by many to be the top boutique music agency. This joins two impressive rosters that compliment each other perfectly. The combination also brings together many of the top talent agents in music touring.

At the time of the 2006 purchase, Marty Diamond and Larry Webman's Little Big Man Booking had been named the boutique agency of the year for nine out of ten consecutive years. Over the years, Monterey Peninsula Artists has consistently been named a top major agency by Pollstar, out of only a handful of major agencies.

Both companies, have numerous agents that have won the coveted Pollstar agent of the year award, and the combination of agents and expertise is impressive. The combined roster now includes the biggest of the biggest names in almost all genres of music.

Similar success has been found by Frank Riley and his High Road Touring agency. Frank Riley was one of Monterey Peninsula's top agents when he left the company in 2001 to create the Sausalito, California, based High Road Touring.

Since its 2001 inception, HRT has repeatedly been nominated as the premier boutique agency of the year at the Pollstar Awards, and it won the award in 2008 at the 19th Annual Pollstar industry awards.

HRT's impressive roster includes over 100 well-known acts, the likes of which include Wilco, Feist, Lucinda Williams, Son Volt, and Ween, to name a few. Riley's HRT includes agents who developed their expertise in San Francisco. HRT agent Lisa O'Hara was the talent buyer for the world-famous Great American Music Hall before joining HRT, and Matt Hickey came over from the successful San Francisco based agency Rosebud.

High Road Touring's roster is as eclectic as it is impressive. It is also a roster that is very tour-oriented, which, of course, is good for the bottom line of a talent agency. HRT is on the high road. [More Soon]