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Steve Martin's 'Crow' Wins Kudos
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Michael Ricci
He's won an Emmy and a Grammy, and now Steve Martin is nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Assn. Awards.
The writer-comedian picked up six nominations Thursday in connection with his first music record, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo.
Martin was nominated as best banjo player and the album, which is No. 1 on Billboard's bluegrass chart, was nominated as best instrumental recorded performance of the year.
The Dan Tyminski Band led all nominees with nine. Tyminski, ...
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Grady Nichols,Zac Maloy and David John Receive Grassroots Nomination
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PCS Management
Grady Nichols, Zac Maloy and David John received a nomination from the grassroots music organization Just Plain Folks for their song, “Bellisimo."
Recorded by Nichols for his Take Me With You project, “Bellissimo" was nominated in the Smooth Jazz Song category. The 2009 Just Plain Folks Awards is billed as the Worlds Largest Music Awards. They received a record setting 42,000 albums and over a half million songs from 163 countries around the world for consideration. As their staff and ...
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Grammys: Neil Young to Receive Musicares Honor
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Michael Ricci
The Recording Academy has named Neil Young its 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year. The musician will be honored at a charity gala on Jan. 29, two days before the organization hosts the Grammy Awards.
Artists receiving the recognition, which benefits the charity arm of the Recording Academy, traditionally receive a tribute on the Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast live for the East Coast on Jan. 31.
The honor is reserved for artists who have dedicated a portion of ...
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King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame
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rock paper scissors, inc.
King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn On July 18th
King Sunny Ade, Nigeria's beloved entertainer and maestro of juju big band dance music, was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn's African Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Afropop Producer Sean Barlow did the honors of inducting “Chairman" (what his friends and colleagues call him.)
Barlow explained to the 10,000 enthusiastic fans at Celebrate Brooklyn that the criteria for selection were ...
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Charlie Harrington Becomes Member of the National Association of Rudimental Drummers
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Michael Ricci
CMA Announces $253,000 in Grants to Jazz Ensembles
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Michael Ricci
NEW YORK, NY -- Chamber Music America (CMA), celebrating its 32nd year of service to ensemble music professionals, today announced the recipients of 12 grants through CMAs New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development program. The grantees were selected in June by an independent, five-member panel of professional jazz musicians. CMA received 161 applications from jazz ensembles in 16 states. Made possible through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Jazz Works supports the creation and performance of ...
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Charlotte Glasson: A Cat, Hat and a Grammy
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Michael Ricci
Musician Charlotte Glasson named her cat after Bernard Herrmann, the Oscar-winning composer of Alfred Hitchcock's films including the famous Psycho shower scene. Now Herrmann's widow, Norma Dice, who says her husband would have been more moved by this personal tribute than by all the film honours bestowed upon him, has given Charlotte one of his three surviving awards Herrmann's Grammy Award nomination for the 1977 film Taxi Driver. Herrmann threw away all his awards, but three were rescued from the ...
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Roy Haynes Receives the Highest Award of the San Sebastian Jazz Festival
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Michael Ricci
Roy Haynes received the award given by the Director of the Heineken Jazzaldia, Miguel Martin, for his outstanding career. The Donostiako Jazzaldia Award is the highest recognition given by the San Sebastian Jazz Festival to a musician every year. In that way Roy Haynes adds his name to the list of outstanding musicians who have received the Donostiako Jazzaldia: Doc Cheatham (1994), Phil Woods (1995), Hank Jones (1996), Steve Lacy (1997), Chick Corea (1998), Max Roach and Clark Terry (1999), ...
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