More than 5.000 members in live music community Linked Musicians

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands - 7 July 2008 - Linked Musicians, the live music social networking site exclusively for musicians, bands and music businesses, honoured by the Webby Awards just a few months after their start in 2007, recently welcomed their 5.000th member.

Linked Musicians www.linked-musicians.com has been created to make networking between musicians, bands and music businesses easy, effective and fun, for professionals and for amateurs. Meanwhile over 5.000 musicians, 850 bands and 450 companies have registered, and the network is growing fast.

Linked Musicians www.linked-musicians.com enables musicians, bands, orchestras, fans and product & service providers to register a very detailed live music related profile, to invite and link to their friends and business contacts, and to link to other members. The site enables guests and members to find musicians, bands, band vacancies, band tour dates, events, companies, products, services, jobs, friends and dates in their own direct or extended network, and to be introduced through people they know and trust.

"We are seeing an accelerated growth," says Philip Wolffers, founder of Linked Musicians. "It was great to be honoured by the Webby Awards, and it is even better to get recognised by the people we created this live music community for". "It is a wonderful compliment for the Linked Musicians team including our business partners, and the Lync Interactive web developers in The Netherlands".