Results for "Award / Grant"

Barry Cleveland's "Hologramatron" Submitted For “Best Alternative Music Album” Grammy Award

September 13, 2010

New York, N.Y.—Barry Cleveland's critically acclaimed Hologramatron has been submitted for the Grammy Award for “Best Alternative Music Album." Hologramatron is a 21st Century protest record with songs featuring biting, sometimes brutal, commentary on the state of the Western world. It's a musical response to contemporary social, political, and even spiritual realities. The disc draws inspiration ...

Grammy Foundation Grant Program Deadline To Apply October 1

September 13, 2010

WHO: The GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program—generously funded by The Recording Academy®. Currently in its 23rd year, the Grant Program has awarded more than $5 million to more than 250 noteworthy projects. WHAT: The Grant Program administers grants annually to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded ...

Los Tucanes de Tijuana Nominated in The Latin Grammy

September 10, 2010

Mike Melvoin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

September 10, 2010

Jazz legend Mike Melvoin to be honored with the Los Angeles Jazz Society's 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award for his esteemed body of work as a Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Producer and Recording Artist. The annual Jazz Tribute Awards Dinner and Concert was established in 1983 to recognize and honor Los Angeles based artists for their contributions in ...

Devo Win Moog Innovation Award at Moogfest 2010

September 9, 2010

AWARD TO BE PRESENTED AT MOOGFEST, OCTOBER 29-31 IN ASHEVILLE, NC The Moog Innovation Award celebrates pioneering artists whose genre-defying work exemplifies the bold, innovative spirit of Bob Moog. Moog Music would like to congratulate DEVO on being the 2010 recipient of The Moog Innovation Award, to be presented to the band during MoogFest 2010 weekend, ...

Ely Guerra Nominated for Two Latin Grammy Awards

September 9, 2010

IMN artist Ely Guerra was nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards when nominees were announced earlier today at a press conference attended by national and international media at the Avalon in Hollywood, Calif. Guerra and her band were nominated in the categories of Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package (art direction—Pico Covarrubias) for her ...

Los Angeles Jazz Society's 27th Annual Jazz Tribute Awards Dinner & Concert, honors Grammy Award musician Poncho Sanchez on October 10th

September 8, 2010

GRAMMY WINNING MUSICIAN PONCHO SANCHEZ TO RECEIVE 2010 JAZZ TRIBUTE AWARD AT THE 27th ANNUAL LOS ANGELES JAZZ SOCIETY AWARDS DINNER & CONCERT LOS ANGELES MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN, SUN., OCT 10 Pianist and Composer Mike Melvoin Also To Receive “Lifetime Achievement Award"—Event Raises Money To Promote Music Education Throughout LA Los Angeles, CA—The Los Angeles Jazz Society's ...

Berklee Professor Phil Wilson Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

August 31, 2010

Phil Wilson, world-renowned trombonist and Berklee College of Music professor for 45 years, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Trombone Association (ITA) at the 2010 International Trombone Festival at the University of Texas, Austin. He was presented with the award by Don Lucas, president of the ITA and a Berklee alumnus who studied ...

David Liebman and Fusion Both Honored by Jazz Prize

August 29, 2010

WHEN the National Endowment for the Arts gives the 2011 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Award to the saxophonist David Liebman in January, it will represent more to him than a personal achievement. It will also mark the establishment's de facto validation of the fusion aesthetic, he said, because few, if any, of the 118 other award recipients ...

Jonathan Russell Awarded Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin

August 18, 2010

New York City—Jonathan Russell, the award winning fourteen-year-old jazz violinist has received one of the Daniel Pearl Memorial violins from Mark O'Connor and the faculty at the inaugural Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in New York City. Each year, two exceptional violinists are awarded this honor by O'Connor and the violin maker Jonathan Cooper. Mr. Russell will ...