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American Jazz Museum Awarded 2012 National Endowment For The Arts - Art Works Grant
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Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
The American Jazz Museum is pleased to announce the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS has released its 2012 Art Works Grant Awards Recipient listing. The American Jazz Museum is honored to be among those recipients. Specifically, the American Jazz Museum has received $16,000 to support the 2012 Rhythm & Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival. The Rhythm & Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival is a day-long indoor/outdoor event featuring 15 performances on three stages by local and nationally known jazz and ...
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Best Ideas For The Philadelphia Arts Receive $2.76 Million In Funding
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Canary Promotion + Design
PHILADELPHIA, PA: Thirty-five ideas for the arts in Philadelphia will receive $2.76 million as winners of the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge. Now in its second year, the community-wide challenge funds the best ideas for engaging and enriching Philadelphia through the arts. Emerging from more than 1,260 submissions, the 2012 winners represent a wide range of Philadelphia’s creative thinkers, including artists Erica Hawthorne and Sean Stoops, small organizations like the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and the Little Berlin collective, and established institutions ...
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Two Pianists, Two Awards
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
When you look at Critics Polls for jazz piano, two names that consistently rise to the top these days are Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer. The two have a lot in common—around the same age; known for their inventive, on-the-spot improvisations in solo and ensemble contexts; leaders of acclaimed groups and recording projects; and favorites among cutting-edge musicians. And among their projects is their own duo, yet to be recorded, but cross your fingers. In the past week or so, ...
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KPLU’s Jim Wilke Among Jazz Journalists Association Award Nominees
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Groove Notes
The Jazz Journalists Association posted their list of finalists for the 2012 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards last week. Nominees in the first 38 categories were chosen by the votes of the Professional Journalist Members of the Jazz Journalists Association. Nominations were made on the basis of work done in calendar year 2011, with the exception of Lifetime Achievement Awards categories, in which nominations are for a lifetime body of work. Members and others were able to submit their own ...
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Gico Music’s Gina Carey Wins The Deserts 2012 Jazz Music Award
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Lisa Falls
Gina Carey is presented with the 2012 Jazz Music award for the Rising Stars of the Desert Music Video Contest. On Wednesday April 11, 2012, Gico Music recording artist Gina Carey won the Rising Stars of the Desert 2012 Music Video Competition and was awarded the Marker Broadcasting 2012 Jazz Music artist Award. This prestigious award was presented to Gina Carey at the Marker Broadcasting’s Inaugural in the Fantasy Springs Casino Lit Lounge in Indio California. This was the first ...
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Roy Haynes Honored By The Peabody Conservatory
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Margaret Bell
ROY HAYNES TO RECEIVE GEORGE PEABODY MEDAL Legendary drummer and bandleader Roy Haynes will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America on May 24 at graduation ceremonies for the Peabody Conservatory, the highly regarded music school of The Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore. Haynes, who turned 87 on Mar. 13, developed styles of snare drum and cymbal playing that influenced several generations of drummers. He began performing with Lester Young and Charlie Parker in the ...
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"Stand By Me," Written By Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Ben E. King, To Receive Towering Song Award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala Event
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Chris M. Slawecki
“Stand By Me,” the song written by Leiber & Stoller and Ben E. King will receive the Towering Song Award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Gala Event to be held at the Marriott Marquee Hotel in New York City on Thursday, June 14, 2012, Songwriters Hall of Fame Chairman Jimmy Webb announced today. Mike Stoller will accept the award along with Ben E. King, who will also be honored with the Towering Performance Award for his performance ...
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Van Lier Fellowships Open For Applications! Deadline: April 16th
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New Music USA
New Music USA is currently seeking applications for its 2012 Van Lier Fellowships and is putting out a call to help spread the word! The deadline is coming up on Monday April 16th! We are awarding two fellowships of $7,000 each to young composers in their early stages of their careers, working in any style of music or sound art that have proven their artistic merit. Applicants must be African-American or Latin-American who are 32 years of age or younger ...
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