About

Craft Brewed Music (formerly Sound Artist Support) offers custom management and services for independent artists across all genres. This includes custom marketing, project management, publicity, administrative support, booking and management direction. These artists, operating outside of the context of a major record label and/or management firm, benefit from owner Brian Horner’s extensive and varied experience, his creative and non-traditional marketing concepts and his unique perspective as a businessman who is also a renowned recording and performing artist. In its 15+ years of operation, the company has been involved in more than 75 album projects, more than 20 orchestra commissions, and a number of books, publishing deals, and podcasts.

The wide range of services offered by CBM is the result of Horner’s 20+ years of music industry experience – non-profit management, marketing, promotion and operations for the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and major label publicity, sales, marketing and creative services for artists such as Blake Shelton, Big & Rich, Faith Hill, Larry The Cable Guy and Blue Collar Comedy Tour. This variety of experience allows him to provide the services of several different “departments” within a flexible and economical pricing structure.

Horner co-hosts The Craft Brewed Music Podcast with his longtime musical collaborator Aaron Stayman, and has authored a series of books for Kendall Hunt Publishing, Living The Dream…The Morning After Music School, Living The Dream…The Morning After Drama School (with David Alford), and Living The Dream…The Morning After Art School (with John Watson).  He is co-author with Dr. Allison Adams of Playing & Teaching The Saxophone – A Modern Approach (Oxford University Press). He presents music business and entrepreneurship lectures and saxophone clinics at colleges and conservatories around the country.