Patience pays, an adage says, and with a growing interest in world music, contemporary musicians are at last getting their share of limelight.

IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music and film industry, today announced new partners, Discograph, Forte Music Distribution, Harmonia Mundi Distribution, Cobayn and the Music Information Center Austria, have selected IODA's D3 platform to power digital distribution for their labels.

"Jan and Gerald: The Extraordinary Couple" will renew a long friendship and professional alliance next week. Jan Merchant, mezzosoprano, and Gerald Floyd, tenor, will present a musical program Friday, October 17, 2008, at 7 pm, at Washington Street Methodist Church.

With his shock of curly hair, and his acute musical ability, he holds orchestras in the palm of his hand. From Italy to Austria and beyond he receives rave reviews from audiences, critics and the players under his baton.

Investors still see no resolution to the credit crisis.