TALENT MANAGEMENT / LIVE EVENTS / MERCHANDISE / CONSULTANTS

Worldwide Entertainment Group [WEG] is a proven leader in successful talent management and producing live events in its over 30 years in the entertainment industry.

Worldwide Entertainment Group is a music management company that offers individual and independent services.  As Artist Managers, we take our client’s vision and make it happen. It is our mission to provide our clients with the best career advice, maintain a creative atmosphere, and promote their careers to be as successful as possible. We will guide them and support them to continually reach the next level of their careers on a global level.

Founded originally by Dave Lory, in 2026 WEG relaunched and is now a partnership with Lory & long-time experienced manager Sandy Rizzo with offices based in New York, Los Angeles and representation in Nashville.  

Together they have a reputation for artist integrity in everything they have done in their careers with a proven track record of success in representing artists and their individual careers on a global basis.

Dave Lory

Co-Founder/WEG President
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Sandy Rizzo

Executive Vice-President
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In keeping with past integrity & that the music and the artist comes first, WEG has a team in marketing, A&R and licensed merchandise with a proven record over the decades in signing successful artists, recording multiple platinum music sales globally, graphic design and imaging an artist, along with the having experience with worldwide merchandise fulfillment, printing and touring merchandise sales maximizing artist revenues. All of this provided in house at WEG and as part of WEG’s commitment to their artist’s success.

NEWS!

Worldwide Entertainment Group’s Artists
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  Class of 2025

Worldwide Entertainment Group wants to congratulate our current management client Hiro Yamamoto with the band Truly [former founding member of Soundgarden], and the late Warren Zevon [former client] on their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025 on November 8th

Dave Lory with the late Warren Zevon and attorney Ken Anderson

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Hiro Yamamoto celebration speech

Dave Lory – Co-Founder/President, WEG Live Performance, Talent Management, & Licensed Merchandise Groups
Dave Lory has a diverse and extensive background in arts and entertainment over his 35-year career. An accomplished entertainment executive, event producer, author and marketing professional, he has worked across all genres of music and produced numerous memorable and successful events.

EXPERIENCE
Producer
Festivals, awards dinners, corporate events, concerts, brand and sponsorship management and marketing campaigns, including:

  • Songwriters Hall of Fame Dinner with Mark Krantz and the John Schieber Group
  • Grammy’s Heroes Awards Dinner (NY)
  • New Music Seminar music conference and festival
  • Escape from New York Music Festival, Southampton, NY/Secret Garden Party UK
  • Grammy’s National Unsigned Band Contest
  • Hawke Media’s HawkeFest themed events for major marketing company tech CEO’s
  • VH-1’s Idols and Icon TV show with Paul Simon and John Mayer hosted by Randy Jackson for advertising agency JW
International Marketing and Artist Development
  • Sr. VP, International & Artist Development, Mercury Records Group (#1 International Company each year during his tenure). Record companies included Mercury, Mercury Nashville and Def Jam among others
  • Sr. VP, International & Artist Development, Artemis Records (#1 Independent Label of the Year each year during his tenure… Billboard Magazine)
Artist Management
  • The Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman, Jeff Buckley, Courtney Love, Ronan Tynan, Duncan Sheik, Ronnie Spector
  • Author, “Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye” (Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster)
  • Released on the 21st anniversary of the singer’s death from drowning in the Mississippi river May 28, 2018 and worldwide promotional tour speaking engagements booked over two years worldwide in music venues with fan Q&A, including radio, TV and print interviews.
EXPERTISE
  • Implementing and overseeing multi-million-dollar events and corporate budgets
  • Leadership and oversight of hundreds of employees on events and projects both domestically and internationally
  • Licensed NY State Security and Fire Marshall
  • Effective negotiator working with contracts, vendors, artists and obtaining permits as needed through city and state as needed
  • Strong marketing background with excellent communication and people skills
  • Well-connected worldwide with media, vendors, event spaces and entertainment companies

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Co-Produced golf outing for the National Music Publisher’s Association with Steve Demarco and Golf On Earth Event Services 
  • Oversaw a worldwide staff of several hundred employees at Mercury Records Group while leading the company to be the #1 international record company in the world. Oversaw all sales and marketing globally. Successes included breaking country singer Shania Twain worldwide as a pop artist and taking the label from one million seller [Bon Jovi] to five [Shania Twain, Hanson, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Cake].
  • Assisted in starting Artemis Records and structured the company’s budgets, reporting and international structure and job duties. During the first two years the record company was named by Billboard Magazine “Independent Label of the Year” and Lory was voted personally “Artist Development Executive of the Year” by Pollstar Magazine two years in a row.  Label had 8 Grammy nominations during these first years with two winning Grammys [Baha Men for “Who Let the Dogs Out” , Rickie Lee Jones and blues artist Jimmie Vaughan, a personal signing to the label].
  • Took over the “Songwriter Hall of Fame” Dinner as Producer and in 2 years secured a TV deal with USA Networks as a result.
  • Produced the largest festival and music industry conference in the world, the “New Music Seminar”, for 8 years with over 8000 delegates annually in attendance. Lory booked over 300 speakers and 350 artists in 35 venues a night over a 5-day period annually.  In 2015 found country artist Maren Morris through the “Artist on the Verge” project and signed her to BMI Nashville and within two years was the Grammy’s New Artist of the Year”.
  • Produced the first festival in over 10 years in Southampton, NY called “Escape to New York”. Very difficult working with the local officials to convince them to do the event because of all the different police, fire, city and town councils involved. The event was also on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, which had its own governing body.  Because of the success involving getting 15,000 people in and out on a daily basis without incidence in a high traffic area, the PGA used Lory’s traffic pattern and parking implementation for the 2018 PGA golf championship at Shinnecock Golf Club that was implemented for the music festival.
  • Managed several international artists successfully Sophie Zelmani [Sweden], Shannon Noll, [Australia], Katell Keineg [Ireland], and reunited the Allman Brothers Band after a 10-year hiatus in 1989, broke new artist Jeff Buckley globally on his first and only recording and crossed-over classical artist Ronan Tynan into the pop world. Also, tour managed Lady Gaga’s first US tour with her first hit record.
  • Assistant publicity representative for Prince’s Purple Rain tour, Jackson 5 tour, Kenny Loggins among others at the Howard Bloom Organization while attending New York University.
  • Naras Board of Governor’s New York Chapter [8 Years]
  • Lory lives in Montclair, NJ and studied at New York University with a major in Music Business and music performance and regularly teaches at William Patterson and NYU. He was a founding member for the Manager’s Forum in the US, a watchdog group protecting artists and their rights in the industry and with governmental agencies.

Sandy Rizzo -Executive Vice-President, WEG Talent Management Group
In this ever changing face of the current music industry, Sandy Rizzo and 18-Hour Management have found a specialized niche. She works directly with artists, their agents, business managers, and their labels on all aspects of artist management which includes local, regional, U.S. and international touring, live performances, marketing, recording CD’s and promotion of both new and established artists.  With a proven track record of 25 years of hard-core, fast paced experience in artist management, Sandy uses her skills and experience to assist artists in obtaining the next level of their careers in the smartest and most productive way possible.

Sandy Rizzo has extensive management experience with various levels of talent and several genres throughout the music industry.  She obtained her start in the industry like so many others before her. . . .by accident.  Sandy is a certified paralegal and while working in a downtown Boston law firm, she met their clients Joe Perry and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith handling divorce papers and notarizing documents. Shortly thereafter she accepted the opportunity to work for Aerosmith’s management company, Collins Management.  Holding a variety of different positions within the company, she learned all the ins and outs of the industry.

“That was a great experience for me, as it really taught me the business from the top echelon of talent in the music industry”, says Sandy

The next venture came when Sandy moved to the west coast and began a long career with famed rock manager Doc McGhee and the “highly trained professionals” of McGhee Entertainment. Working in tandem with Doc and the best that era had to offer, i.e. Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Richie Sambora, Skid Row, Caroline’s Spine and KISS, she was able to make a name for herself throughout the industry by honing her innate talents in management, touring and production. A decade later, Sandy found herself prepared to branch out and tried her hand with different styles of music and management arenas including those of Dave Kaplan, Doug Goldstein, and Terry Lippman. Within those management companies, she was able to advance her repertory of knowledge even further with respect to touring, production and management and successfully aided the careers of The Road Kings/Jesse Dayton, Gary Hoey, Pimpadelic, Dr. Dre tour with Eminem, Guns n’ Roses, The Color Red, and Adema. She was instrumental in keeping Adema on track with touring budgets which allowed them the opportunity to accept and fulfill being on main stage Ozzfest and write and record the song for the video game Mortal Combat II.

Sandy is continuing with her artist management duties and looking for the next exciting chapter in her experienced career.