BU to LA for red-carpet service
ISSUE: 02/28/07 > A&E > BU TO LA FOR RED-CARPET SERVICE
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Photo courtesy of Belmont Service Corps Members of Belmont’s Service Corps stand on the red carpet in LA, where they traveled to provide services to music industry particpipants before the Grammy ceremony. |
For those who got stuck watching the 49th Annual Grammy Awards from their television sets, a few Belmont students were up close for early Grammy action. Eleven Belmont students stepped along the Grammy red carpet in Los Angeles Feb. 11. Belmont Service Corps members escorted big-name celebrities such as Tony Bennett, Michael Bublé, Carrie Underwood and many more.
Although the students were not admitted into the show itself, they toured Hollywood, Beverly Hills and shopped on Rodeo Drive.
Service Corps members who were not on the red carpet worked the radio remotes escorting artists to radio stations from across the country gathered in large rooms. These are tasks assigned to only the most professional students.
Service Corps press and publicity chair Nick Novak said, “To work the radio remotes, they had to have worked one before, and applications were taken for the red carpet.” Since unexpected happenings are not uncommon on the Grammy red carpet, Service Corps students came prepared. “There was a two-hour run-through the day before the show,” Novak said.
While the students’ hotel stay in Los Angeles was paid for by the Service Corps and the School of Music Business, the students paid for their own plane tickets and meals.
The music business students studying at Belmont West in Los Angeles also helped out on the red carpet and with the radio remotes.
“Part of the theory is developing contacts,” Novak said. Service Corps has a Web site that coordinates events for its members. “Service Corps is a well-received organization and the Grammy organization complemented their performance,” Novak said.
Member recruitment is an essential part of Service Corps. “We catch them as freshmen because they can’t intern until they are juniors,” Novak said. “The organization allows them to get their foot in the door and make those necessary contacts.”
It’s an opportunity, he said, that is “priceless.”
Service Corps mission to serve while learning
Belmont University’s Service Corps is a volunteer organization of students of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.
The students network with professionals in the music industry. Service Corps members receive hands-on experience and apply the skills they’ve learned at events such as the CMT Awards, Grammys, Country Radio Seminar, Academy of Country Music Awards, Gospel Music Association week and many more.
In their service, members of the corps carry out their mission in the music industry to the“offer our abilities, experience, and time to numerous events and causes in an effort to increase our networking opportunities, improve our learning environment, and develop our leadership and management proficiency.
To become a member of Service Corps, students must maintain a 2.8 GPA or better and be a student in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. Dues per semester are $5.
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