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Alyce Myatt Unveils New NEA Grant Opportunities as Media Category Redefined
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Michael Ricci
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced a new grant category, Arts in Media, which will replace Arts on Radio and Television and expand the parameters of projects previously funded through that category. All project types that were previously eligible remain eligible. In addition, the expanded category now supports: All available media platforms such as the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, digital games, arts content delivered via satellite, as well as on radio and television. Dramatic narrative or fictional ...
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Jazz Arts Group Announces Winner of 2011 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has announced its winner of the 2011 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohios young students of jazz. On Saturday, April 30, 2011, three talented high school students competed at the Jazz Academy in the finals of Jazz Arts Group's 9th Annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. Dylan Bram, vibraphonist and senior at Dublin Jerome High School; William England, alto saxophonist and ...
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RFT 2011 Music Awards Ballot Now Online
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Reader voting is underway for the 2011 Riverfront Times Music Awards. This year's nominees for “Best Jazz Artist" are guitarist Dave Black, saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett, pianist Peter Martin, singer Denise Thimes and pianist Reggie Thomas. (If none of those choices are to your liking, there's also a write-in option. ) For the first time, this year all the voting for the awards will be online only. The balloting will end on Saturday, June 4, which also is the date of ...
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David Hoffman, "Calmness Of Spirit" Album Among The Winners In The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Peoria, IL—David Hoffman, Jackson Browne and David Lindley, Flying Lotus, Melissa Auf der Maur, Pokey La Farge and othersare among the diverse self-released and independent label talent named today by Music Resource Group (MRG) as the judge-determined winners of The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards (The IMAs), the influential awards program for fans and bands. The winners were determined by a panel of 62 influential music industry pros including Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Seal, Aimee Mann, Ozzy Osbourne, Bettye ...
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Randy Weston Captures Prestigious Guggenheim
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston has been announced as a 2011 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship award. This particular award is a purpose-driven honorarium and Randy does indeed have big plans for his Guggenheim. I spoke with Weston recently on this subject after he'd surprised me with the great news in the midst of a plethora of activities in the Washington-Baltimore area celebrating his 85th birthday (April 6). Randy excitedly detailed the fascinating archealogical discovery in recent years of ...
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UDC Receives Calvin Jones Big Band Jazz Festival Proclamation
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Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives
Mayor Vincent C. Gray has issued a proclamation to the University of the District of Columbia in honor of the Calvin Jones BIG BAND Jazz Festival, which is celebrating its milestone 25th anniversary on April 25, 2011. “We are delighted that the Mayor has recognized what has proven to be a signature event for our program, the University and Washington, DC. We are also excited that Congressman John Conyers, Jr., the longtime advocate for jazz, is serving as our Honorary ...
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A2im Analysis Show Grammy Hurt Indie Labels More Than Majors
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HypeBot
(UPDATED) An analysis by the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) trade organization of the past two years of Grammy Awards showed that if winning is the primary measure of success, the impact of the recent category reductions and consolidations would effect the independent label community and the four major labels equally. But the bottom line effect of the Grammy's changes cut far deeper for some independent labels. The major labels, according to A2IM, were most affected by combining genders ...
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Bassist Alex Blake to Be Honored by Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame and Museum With Lifetime Achievement Award
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Manjari Prakash
NEW YORK, NY—World renowned double bassist Alex Blake will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame and Museum by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium on April 28th, 2011 from 6:00 to 8:30pm in a ceremony at the Brooklyn Historical Society. The Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges a “master musician who continues to play" and contribute to the arts as an ongoing inspiration for other musicians and future talent. The ceremony is one ...
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