Songbook Foundation adds Communications Manager
12/17/2024 12AM
Brian Bosma brings extensive experience in PR, marketing and media
CARMEL, Ind. – The Great American Songbook Foundation has hired an experienced professional for a new staff position focusing on communications.
Brian Bosma has begun work as the Foundation’s first Communications Manager, creating and managing content for a comprehensive communications strategy that includes newsletters, social media, event publicity, web updates, marketing materials and other digital and print communications.
Brian Bosma
Bosma served most recently as director of marketing and communications for Damar Services in Indianapolis. Previous work has included overseeing digital media for Ivy Tech Community College and Traders Point Christian Church and managing media relations and communications for the Indianapolis Indians.
“Out of many strong candidates, Brian stood out as having the ideal skill set for this new position, which is crucial to the organization as we continue to expand programming and elevate our national profile,” said Christopher Lewis, Executive Director of the Songbook Foundation. “He is the right choice to take our communications game to the next level.”
Bosma holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Calvin College (now Calvin University) in Michigan. He and his wife, Kelly, live in Brownsburg and have two children, Joshua, 11, and Amelia, 8.
About the Great American Songbook Foundation
The mission of the Great American Songbook Foundation, founded in 2007 by five-time Grammy® Award nominee Michael Feinstein, is to inspire and educate by celebrating the 20th-century foundational era of American popular music. Headquartered at Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, the Foundation advances this rich legacy by curating physical artifacts of its creators, performers and publishers in the Songbook Library & Archives; operating a multimedia exhibit gallery; overseeing the Songbook Hall of Fame; offering programs for the public and research opportunities for scholars and artists; and providing educational opportunities for student musicians, including the annual Songbook Academy® summer intensive. The Foundation is a Cultural Affiliate of the Los Angeles-based Grammy Museum®. More information is available at TheSongbook.org.
