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Los Lobos, Don Henley, Buffy Sainte-Marie Among Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Honorees 2015
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HypeBot
When Jason Isbell has the #1 country album in Billboard, you know that Americana music is finally entering the mainstream; and helping to drive that shift by promoting and empowering artists is the Americans Music Association. The Americana Music Association has announced that Buffy Sainte-Marie, Don Henley, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Ricky Skaggs and Los Lobos are this year's Lifetime Achievement Award winners. Their awards will be presented at a 14th Annual Honors & Awards ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 16 ...
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Jazz Journalists Association Honors Its Own: Chicago Writer-Broadcaster Neil Tesser Wins 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award
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Michael Ricci
NEW YORK CITY – Neil Tesser, a Chicago-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, author, educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and current board member of the Jazz Journalists Association, was honored with the JJA's 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award on Tuesday, June 16 at a cocktail reception at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Tesser's Award topped 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for excellence in media, winners ...
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GRAMMYs Alert: Deadlines To Submit For 2016 GRAMMY Awards Nomination Consideration
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HypeBot
It's often tempting to dismiss the Grammys as irrelevant. But face it, there's not much that can equal the PR and sales bump that the Grammys do. To make sure that you don't miss any deadlines, the folks at A2IM, who produce the great Libera indie music awards, offer a guide. If you are a voting member of The Recording Academy your deadline to submit music via their Online Entry Process is as follows: First Round: Opens July 1, 2015 and closes July 22, 2015 for ...
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Moers Festival Celebrates The EJN Award 2015 For Adventurous Programming
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Stefano Zucchiatti
The EJN Award 2015 for Adventurous Programming was celebrated today during Moers Festival, winner of this year’s Award. The Award Ceremony took place during the reception of the City Mayor in the Festival Hall. Ros Rigby, President of EJN, and Piotr Turkiewicz, EJN Vice President, congratulated the Festival team and the Artistic Director Reiner Michalke for the incredible work done in all these years in organsing a Festival that produces some of the most innovative music in the field of ...
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New England Conservatory Faculty And Grads Win 2015 JJA Jazz Awards For Musical Achievement
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
New England Conservatory Jazz Faculty Members Jason Moran, Miguel Zenón and Dave Holland Plus NEC Graduate & Board of Visitors Member Regina Carter And Former NEC Prep Student Mary Halvorson Winners of 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for Musical Achievement New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Department faculty members Jason Moran, Miguel Zenón and Dave Holland have won 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for Musical Achievement from the Jazz Journalists Association. Other NEC affiliated winners include Regina Carter, who graduated from NEC in ...
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2015 JJA Jazz Awards Honor Musical Excellence Randy Weston Praised For Lifetime Achievement
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Michael Ricci
NEW YORK – The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners of its 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for musical excellence in calendar year 2014 (see winners below), and released details about its annual public Jazz Awards party, at the Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W. 3rd St., NYC, on June 16, from 3 pm to 5:30 pm. Tickets are available here. The 19th annual JJA Jazz Awards celebrates Randy Weston, 89-year-old pianist, composer, lecturer, and Brooklyn-born Africanist with its top honor, ...
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Randy Weston, Lifetime Achiever
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Jazz Journalists Association has named 89-year-old pianist, composerand bandleader Randy Weston winner of the JJA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015. Weston’s 66-year career began in his native New York. In his early years it included work with Art Blakey, Bull Moose Jackson, Eddie Vinson, Kenny Dorham and his childhood friends Cecil Payne and Ray Copeland. He was a key figure at Music Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, during the institution’s influential years in jazz education. Also in the 1950s, he ...
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George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate at Boston University Commencement on Sunday, May 17
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEW YORK, NY: George Wein, music impresario, NEA Jazz Master and Grammy Award winner, will receive an Honorary Doctorate at Boston University’s (BU) 142nd Commencement on Sunday, May 17. The founder of the Newport Jazz Festival (1954), Newport Folk Festival (1959), New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (1970) and countless other events around the world, Wein forever changed how music is presented and, at 89, continues to build new audiences for emerging and established artists at the iconic Rhode Island ...
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