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Scalloped Fretboard Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort Added To Digitaldreamdoor.com List Of 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists
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Matthew Montfort
DigitalDreamDoor.com's 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists DigitalDreamDoor.com is a website featuring Greatest 100 Music, Movie, and Book lists. On August 12, 2012, scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort was added to their 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists list. Inclusion on the list is based on originality, innovation, technique, and influence on other acoustic guitarists. The list is intended for musicians whose primary instrument is the acoustic guitar, but not including the pioneers of jazz, classical, or flamenco, as DigitalDreamDoor.com maintains separate lists ...
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Drum! Night 2012 A Hit With Diverse Drumming Performances; Paul Bostaph Reels In Second Annual Badaas Award
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., Enter Music Publishing’s third annual DRUM! Night was quite a hit. The event, a benefit for San Jose’s Lincoln High, featured diverse drum concerts and clinics by world-respected drummers and local legends. The third annual benefit, which also included a raffle and silent auction, rocked the San Jose Repertory Theater on August. 10. “Enter Music Publishing really has made it a commitment to conduct events like this for the good of music education,” said Phil Hood, publisher ...
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Results Of The NFA Jazz Flute Soloist Competition
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Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
Canadian jazz flutist, Bill McBirnie, was selected as a winner in the inaugural Jazz Flute Soloist Competition at the 40th annual National Flute Association (NFA) convention, held August 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The NFA was founded in 1972 in the USA and is international in scope. It has grown to become one of the largest instrumental organizations in the world (and certainly the largest with respect to the flute) with more than 6,000 members from more than 50 countries. ...
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Louis Armstrong Center For Music & Medicine To Honor Jon Hendricks With 2012 What A Wonderful World Award On Sept 24
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Carol Rubiano
Four individuals of distinction –Jon Hendricks, Louis Harrison, MD, Ilene Harrison, RN, and Deena Harburg – are the recipients of the 2012 What A Wonderful World Award, announced Joanne Loewy, DA, MT-BC, LCAT, Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center. The honorees will be feted at a special cocktail reception to be held on Monday, September 24 at Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center’s Nerken Family Atrium, 10 Union Square East in Manhattan. Dancer/choreographer ...
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Patrick Lamb to be Inducted Into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame
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Chris M. Slawecki
Following his highly successful #5 Billboard Hit Single “Sweet Tea" and his latest chart climbing hit track, “Get Wid It," Funk/Soul/R&B/Jazz musician and song-writer Patrick Lamb was announced by the Oregon Music Hall of Fame (OMHOF) as one of the inductees that will be honored at the 6th Annual Oregon Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Concert, to be held Saturday, October 6th at 7pm at the Aladdin Theater. A native Mississippian, Patrick began his career as a teenager ...
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Six Emmy Nominations for "George Harrison: Living in the Material World"
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Chris M. Slawecki
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 2012 Emmy Awards, honoring Martin Scorsese’s film George Harrison: Living in the Material World with a remarkable total of six nominations. The film was nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Special, Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming (Martin Scorsese), Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Sound Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) and Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming. The 64th Annual Primetime Emmy ...
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2013 NEA Jazz Masters
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AAJ Staff
Washington, DC: Dizzy Gillespie. Count Basie. Ella Fitzgerald. Herbie Hancock. Names of the greatest purveyors of America’s homegrown art form, jazz-and all NEA Jazz Masters. Today, the National Endowment for the Arts adds four new names to the list with the announcement of the 2013 NEA Jazz Masters. Like the 124 honorees who came before them, these four individuals are recognized for their lifetime achievements and significant contributions to the development and performance of jazz. They will each receive a ...
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WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 Receives Honors from Public Radio News Directors. Jazz Journalists Association and CUNY
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 continued its winning streak at this year’s awards celebrations, adding eight more honors from the Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI), Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Earlier this year in May, the station swept the Radio Category with three First Place honors at the 2012 New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ). WBGO News received six national awards at the annual PRNDI Conference in Houston, Texas, on June ...
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