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Ghanaian burger highlife music legend Charles Amoah is collaborating with the Goethe Institute to provide Ghanaian music industry players with tools that would help push Ghanaian music into the international market. With sponsorship for the Goethe Institute, Charles Amoah is bringing down German publisher, Armin Wenzl, from Germany to hold a day�s workshop for stakeholders in the Ghanaian music industry. The workshop which takes place on March 26 and 27, 2013, at the Kumasi Cultural Centre, is under the theme: �Ghanaian Music Stakeholders: Transition into Foreign Markets�. The workshop is expected to provide concrete guidelines to marketing Ghanaian music internationally. According to Charles Amoah, the two-day workshop would trace the history of Ghana music, the various genres, types and styles and their originators. It would also seek to familiarizing participants with the technical and scientific aspects of writing, structuring and producing Ghanaian music, and streamline steps to producing a standard product, strengthen and encourage the need to seek available resources that will help meet the required and acceptable industry standards. He noted that participants would also be introduced to foreign expertise, like Germany and its benefits to Ghana�s style of music, adding participants would also be pointed to the available market trends and alternatives necessary to the global market. He said beside Amin Wenzl, highly qualified resource persons are also being drawn from Ghana, and they include Max Morris Twumasi (aka Morris Baby Face), Paa Kwesi Holdbrook-Smith, Eric Sunu Doe of the University of Ghana Music School, and Charles Amoah himself. Charles Amoah noted that no better expert that Armin Wenzl could have been more apt as a lead resource person for the workshop because apart from being an all-round musician, composer, producer, and publisher for years, Wenzl also has decades of experience in mainstream copyright, performing rights and neighbouring rights. Charles Amoah said Wenzl has been his publisher since the 1992 and he believes he has the quality, clout, expertise and the skill to help Ghanaian music make waves on the international market.