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MTV Spotlights Music Tech for New Awards Show
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HypeBot
MTV's new awards show, The O Music Awards, is now announcing categories and nominees. The best thing about it? Music tech companies are also getting recognized for their efforts. Unlike MTV's other shows, The O Music Awards will run year-round and continue to report on the changes in the digital music sector. This show, along with Music Meter and Hive, are a part of MTV's ongoing efforts to re-establish itself as a premium music brand. Here are a few of ...
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Hammer Klavier Trio video nominated for Video-of-the-Year candidate by the Jazz Journalists Association
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Jan Matthies Music Management
Beats & Pieces Big Band - European Young Artists' Jazz Award Winners 2011
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Ben Cottrell
Efpi Records is proud to announce that the Beats & Pieces Big Band have been named as the winners of the 2011 Burghausen European Young Artists' Jazz Award. Their prize was a cheque for £ 15,000 and the honour of performing the opening concert of the 42nd Burghausen International Jazz Festival in Germany, taking to the stage before Chick Corea and Gary Burton in an event that was filmed and recorded for German national television and radio. Ben Cottrell, the ...
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Kellylee Evans Wins Canada's 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year
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Raul Li
Kellylee Evans has won Canada's 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. The album, entitled Nina (Plus Loin Music), is a tribute to jazz great Nina Simone. Other nominees for the 2011 award included Emilie-Claire Barlow, Nikki Yanofsky, Laila Biali and the late Jeff Healey. This was the Ottawa-based singer-songwriter's second Juno Award nomination and first win. “It was an honour to be nominated alongside such talented artists," said Evans. “And I am extremely grateful to have ...
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Trumpeter Jeff Lofton wins Best Jazz Band 2010-2011 Austin Music Awards @ SXSW
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Jeff Lofton
Meet The Composer offers two $7,000 Van Lier Fellowships
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New Music USA
Meet The Composer/Van Lier Fellowships 2011 Call for Applications Deadline: April 11th, 2011 meetthecomposer.org The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust provides support for talented, culturally diverse young people who are seriously dedicated to a career in the arts. Meet The Composer administers the Van Lier Fellowship on behalf of Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust. The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide financial support for ...
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The Winner of the #SXSW Music Accelerator Is...
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HypeBot
The Grand Prize winner of the SXSW Music Accelerator is Roqbot. It is a new company and mobile app that enables you to vote for which songs should be playing in bars, restaurants, and cafes, making you the DJ. The runners-up were RootMusic and Next Big Sound, two companies that should be familiar to the Hypebot readers. The second award, for Best Bootstrapped Company, went to Air Guitar, which is an interactive game that enables you to partake in a ...
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Jazz Singer Billie Holiday Being Inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Billie Holiday, famed American jazz vocalist, is one of eleven women being inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame later this year, on September 30-October 1, 2011 in Seneca Falls, NY, the birthplace of the American Women's Rights Movement. Holiday (1915-1959) was considered one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time, noted the press announcement, writing: “Billie Holiday forever changed the genres of jazz and pop with her unique style. Holiday began her career as a singer in ...
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