Award / Grant News

ArtistShare and the 53rd Grammy Awards

Source: Clay Wilson
October 31, 2010

As the season for Grammy Nominations starts, ArtistShare is pleased to announce it's 10 exciting new recordings eligible for nominations in the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. Having recently celebrated the seventh anniversary of it's first fan-funded project, ArtistShare recordings have received 4 Grammy wins and 14 nominations since 2005. If you would like to vote at the Grammys and are not currently registered as a voting member, simply to register for free. ArtistShare 2011 Grammy Nomination Contenders: Barbara ...

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Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces Second Round Grants for Jazz.NEXT Program

Source: Graziella D'Amelio
October 13, 2010

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces Second Round Grants for Jazz.NEXT Program $462,350 Awarded to Support Jazz Through the Use of Technology Baltimore, MD—Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation has announced the second round of grants for the Jazz.NEXT program. Jazz.NEXT is a national jazz initiative focused on how innovative approaches incorporating technology can profoundly influence the operating practice of jazz artists and organizations in relation to developing audiences; communicating with the public; marketing, distributing, and selling the work of jazz artists; and ...

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BT Digital Awards Best for Music Discovery, Promotion, Music Blog, App, Site and More

Source: HypeBot
October 2, 2010

At last night's BT Digital Music Awards in London, one of the few awards that honors musicians as well as the digital media and technology sectors, Songkick, iTunes, YouTube, BBC Introducing, Gorillaz and Muse were among the big winners. 2010 BT Digital Music  Award Winners:

Best Innovation or Gadget BandCentral BuzzDeck Pledge Music Songkick SoundCloud SoundOut Winner: Songkick

Best Artist Promotion Christina Aguilera Bionic album collaborator map Giggs Freestyle competition Gorillaz Escape to Plastic Beach games Gorillaz Escape to Plastic ...

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Skipp Pearson Becomes an Endorsing Artist for Conn-Selmer Paris

Source: Skipp Pearson
October 2, 2010

Columbia, SC—it is with great pleasure the Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation announces that Skipp Pearson, the official ambassador of jazz music for the state of South Carolina, has joined the distinguished international endorsing artist roster of Conn-Selmer Inc/Selmer Paris Saxophones. The Conn-Selmer endorsing artist roster includes many of the finest professional players of brass and woodwind instruments in the world. In addition to Ambassador Pearson's current duties; the preservation of live jazz music presentations for the benefit of generations, the ...

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Philippine Jazz Icon Boy Katindig, youngest to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from PARI/23rd Awit Awards

Source: Boy Katindig
September 30, 2010

Jazz Musician/Yamaha Artiste/ KoolKat Productions Pres. Boy Katindig, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award (Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino Award) from the 23rd Awit Awards. The youngest recipient of the award, Mr. Katindig was recognized for his exemplary and outstanding achievement as one of the pioneering artists in the propagation of original Filipino music and as an award winning songwriter and producer by the Philippine Record Industry (PARI). “It came quite early cause I'm not done yet" quoted the jazz artist ...

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Jazz Pianist and Composer Jason Moran Winner of 2010 Macarthur Fellowship

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
September 29, 2010

(Boston)—Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran has been named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, it was announced today. The unrestricted fellowship encourages “people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations," according to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Moran is one of 23 recipients of this year's so-called genius award, and recieves a stipend of $500,000. Born and raised in Texas, Moran is a newly appointed member ...

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NEC Jazz Pianist Jason Moran Awarded MacArthur "Genius" Grant

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2010

Moran Joins NEC's Distinguished Roster of Jazz “Geniuses" Including Gunther Schuller, George Russell, Steve Lacy, Ran Blake Jazz pianist Jason Moran, who joined the New England Conservatory faculty this month, has been named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Among 23 recipients of the famous MacArthur “Genius grants," Moran, 35, has been recognized as the “Up-'n-Coming Jazz Musician" of 2003 by the Jazz Journalists Association and “the most provocative thinker in current jazz" ...

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Karkwa win the 2010 Polaris Music Prize

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
September 21, 2010

Karkwa was named the winner of the fifth annual Polaris Music Prize. This award, given to signify the best Canadian album of the year, was presented tonight at the gala ceremony held at CTV's Concert Hall at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. In addition to bragging rights, Karkwa take home $20,000 for their album Les Chemins de Verre. “It's an unbelievable thing to win this prize. We have a lot of respect for this contest and we think they do ...

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