considering your credentials and interest, maybe you should look in the journalism area of the music and party industry. i.e., magazines, surveys, advertising promoting is competitive and largely on who you know. if you're asking on a messageboard for contacts, your strengths may be elsewhere. most of the people i know started promoting through partying, not as having it as a specific goal i can't really tell if you're asking about promoting in the sense of throwing parties, or promoting in the sense of advocating parties