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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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Erin Dickins Awarded By Maryland State Arts Council - 2012 Artist Award For Solo Music Performance
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Guy Zinger
MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES 2012 INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AWARD RECIPIENTS State awards grants in playwriting, crafts, photography, music composition, and music performance Baltimore, MD: The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), an agency of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, has recognized vocalist Erin Dickins from Talbot County for creating work of exceptional quality. Ms. Dickins has been awarded the 2012 Individual Artist Award for Non- Classical Music Solo Performance for her CD, Nice Girls. “Artists of this high ...
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Chicago Jazz Musician Wins International Religion Award
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Karl E. H. Seigfried
The Norse Mythology Blog has won the international vote for Best Religion Weblog in the 2012 Weblog Awards. The blog features original articles and interviews by Chicago-based Norse mythologist Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried. Seigfried is also a critically-acclaimed jazz musician in Chicago. His 2010 album PORTRAIT OF JACK JOHNSON received four-star reviews from DownBeat and Jazz'n'More (Switzerland), and it was named a “Top Ten Album of 2010" by the editors of Jazziz. His next recording (due in Spring 2012) ...
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Terence Blanchard Named Jazz Chair For The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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Muse Media
DETROIT, MI: Today, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) unveiled one of the most ambitious seasons in recent years for the Paradise Jazz Series—a collection of one-night-only appearances hand-picked by the legendary jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard. Five-time Grammy Award-winning Blanchard will join the DSO as the Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Chair beginning with the 2012-13 season of the Paradise Jazz Series, sponsored by MGM Grand Detroit. “We are thrilled to welcome such a renowned jazz ...
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International Women In Jazz Festival Honors Bobbi Humphrey
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319 Public Relations
Spring will be a little warmer this year. The hot flute sounds of legendary “First Lady Of Flute" Bobbi Humphrey will resonate the walls of Saint Peters Church on April 14, 2012. In celebration of her 40th anniversary in Jazz, she has been selected as the 2012 honoree of the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL. She will also headline the festival with an hour-long concert starting at 8p.m. Ms Humphrey, world renown for her soaring, sultry, sometimes fiery flute sounds ...
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World Without Walls by Ancient Future with Zakir Hussain Nominated Best World Album of 2011
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Matthew Montfort
Ancient Future Receives Best World Music Album of the Year Nomination from ZoneMusicReporter World Without Walls by Ancient Future with special guest Zakir Hussain was nominated by broadcasters worldwide as ZoneMusicReporter's Best World Album of 2011. The record debuted at #39 on the October 2011 ZMR Airplay Chart, which covers many different radio genres, from Ambient to Folk, Jazz, and World, and at #34 on the CMJ New World Chart in November 2011. Radio broadcasters who report to the ZoneMusicReporter ...
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Bela Fleck & The Flecktone Win Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition
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Michael Ricci
Port Washington, NY: eOne Music is happy to announce that Béla Fleck and Howard Levy, of the group Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, have won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for their “Life In Eleven," from the band's #1 Billboard Jazz Chart album Rocket Science. For the new album Rocket Science, pianist/ harmonica player Howard Levy returned to the fold alongside bassist Victor Wooten, percussionist/Drumitarist Roy “Futureman" Wooten and banjoist bandleader Fleck for the first time since 1991 to ...
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Diana Krall Kicks Off Grammy Week With A String Of Special Performances
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Michael Ricci
Diana Krall Kicks Off Grammy Week With A String Of Special Performances Joins Paul McCartney for an intimate show from Capitol Records Studio Performing at the all-star MusiCares Person of the Year event Week capped with performance on 54th annual Grammy Awards GRAMMY Award-winning jazz singer/pianist Diana Krall makes a stop in Los Angeles to participate in a number of special events. First, Diana Krall joins Paul McCartney who will commemorate the release of his new album Kisses On The ...
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