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Jazz Guitarist Pat Metheny Provides Soundtrack For Cancer Support Community Of Philadelphia’s Holiday e-Card
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Scott Bluebond
PHILADELPHIA, PA: Pat Metheny, legendary jazz guitarist perhaps best known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group, and 19 GRAMMY awards (with the possibility of a 20th for his recent Unity Band release), has stepped up to help the Cancer Support Community of Philadelphia (CSCP) by providing the music for the organization’s 2012 electronic holiday card. The e-card, designed by Lauren Keswick and marketing and communications director Scott Bluebond and produced by Keswick was distributed today to the cancer ...
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Global Noize Donates Proceeds to Support Hurricane Sandy Victims
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Michael Ricci
Global Noize the jazz/funk/world/groove band comprised of Jason Miles, DJ Logic, Falu, Jay Rodriguez and Amanda Ruzza are keeping the Global Spirit alive by donating all of the proceeds from their new song “Dreams" to benefit the families and business's devastated by super storm Sandy. Miles states, “There is so much pain, suffering and loss that has been put upon so many people impacted by Hurricane Sandy, and we wanted to do our part to help them. Global Noize will ...
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Disaster relief service at The Paramount in downtown Huntington, Long Island, NY
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Michael Ricci
The Paramount is providing disaster relief services for Hurricane Sandy victims. The Paramount 370 New York Avenue Huntington, NY 11743 631-673-7300 From The Paramount's Adam Ellis: We are set up to collect food for Long Island Cares daily in the box office from 12p-6p We are hosting a blood drive for the Long Island Blood Center on Tuesday from 3p-9p We are setting up a warming station with the Town of Huntington from 12p-12a ...
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Singer, Actress Cynthia Basinet Petitions The United Nations
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
Singer, Actress Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations Sixty-seven General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: CYNTHIA BASINET, a singer, actress and humanitarian, said there was a recent trend “spoken aloud and unabated” asking what percentage of care, value and support was owed to the marginalized. The question was posed as to what percentage of people could justifiably be left behind. She asked the United Nations, “this “percentage of deciders” ...
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Does UX for Good Know What's Best for New Orleans' Musicians?
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HypeBot
UX for Good is a project that takes user experience designers into the field to see how their research and solution-generation skills can be put to use in real world settings. In May they assembled a group of designers in New Orleans for a brief fieldwork investigation followed by presentations of possible solutions to address the needs of musicians in New Orleans. It's an interesting if limited experiment that ultimately depends on the desires of New Orleans' music community to ...
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Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) Annual Drive for Musical Instruments, Donations to Begin October 1
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This year's Music for Lifelong Achievement instrument drive will begin Monday, October 1 and continue through Sunday, November 4. MFLA is a not-for-profit organization based at the Sheldon Concert Hall that donates used and new musical instruments to school and community music programs serving disadvantaged young people. MFLA also raises funds for instrument repair and musical accessories. Over the years, MFLA has collected and re-distributed more than 500 instruments. The organization's 2011 drive set a record with more than 50 ...
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Soundexchange and Bandpage Partner to Help Claim $2 Million in Unpaid Royalties
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HypeBot
BandPage and SoundExchange have teamed up to distribute $2 million of unclaimed digital performance royalties to a number of music artists and labels. These royalties are being sent out to BandPage artists who have not yet signed up for SoundExchange, and who are missing out on monies from satellite radio, Internet radio, and digital cable TV plays. BandPage is emailing artists among their 500,000 users who have uncollected royalties waiting for them. Last year, BandPage (then RootMusic) connected nearly 7,500 artists to ...
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Konbit Mizik Harnesses The Universal Power Of Music To Build Community In Haiti
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Muse Media
Konbit – n. Creole. The act of the community coming together to achieve a common purpose or goal. Mizik – n. Creole. Music. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Konbit Mizik, a not-for-profit recording studio currently based in the streets of Port-au-Prince, uses music to build community and grow community leaders through education, workforce development and artistic expression for Haiti’s most vulnerable youth. Founded by musician Ian Evans and filmmaker Nick Cannell in the wake of one of the most catastrophic natural disasters of ...
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