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Detroit Blues Society Announces 2008 Awards Recipients

November 9, 2008

Last night at their November Monthly Meeting and Jam at Memphis Smoke in Royal Oak, the Detroit Blues Society announced their annual award winners in the Lifetime Achievement and Blues Horizon categories. These awards are given annually to those individuals that have made meritorious strides in keeping the Blues alive in Detroit. The LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...

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The Keeping the Blues Alive Awards Recepients Announced

November 9, 2008

Memphis, TN Twenty-two individuals and organizations will be honored with The Blues Foundation's 2009 Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Award during a recognition brunch at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel Saturday, February 7, 2009 in Memphis Tennessee. The KBA ceremony begins at 10:00 a.m. and will be held in conjunction with the 25th International Blues Challenge (IBC) ...

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McCartney to Receive Ultimate Legend Award

November 8, 2008

Former Beatle Paul McCartney stole the show at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday, accepting a one-off prize from the pop channel in his home city of Liverpool to deafening applause. The 66-year-old was named Ultimate Legend at the 15th edition of the annual awards ceremony, one of pop music's biggest nights outside the United ...

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Blues Blast Music Award Winners Announced at Buddy Guys Legends

November 6, 2008

The winners of the 2008 Blues Blast Music Awards were announced Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at a Gala Blues celebration at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, IL. The award winners are: Best Contemporary Blues Recording - Holmes Brothers - State Of Grace Best Traditional Blues Recording - Lurrie Bell - Lets Talk ...

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Jazz Vocalist Sheila Jordan Honored in Concert

November 1, 2008

At the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., long-stemmed roses are wrapped in a big red ribbon on the stage, and words like “innovative and passionate" are used to honor vocalist Sheila Jordan with the 2008 Mary Lou Williams Award for a Lifetime of Service to Jazz. Jordan accepts the honor by thanking Kennedy Center artistic advisor ...

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41st Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Announced

October 30, 2008

The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers has announced the winners of the 41st Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music. The winners will be honored at a special invitation-only ceremony and reception on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at The Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz ...

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Correspondence: A Grammy Plea

October 29, 2008

Not all of the campaigning this month is political. It is not unusual at this time of year to receive from recording musicians suggestions that they be nominated for awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. As part of his quest to win a Grammy nomination, the British film composer, band leader and ...

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Jazz It Up! Nominated for Global Media Award

October 28, 2008

New York, NY – The web’s first interactive video series devoted to jazz, Jazz it Up!, has been nominated for a Global Media Award, in the category of Outstanding Long Form – Entertainment. A partnership between The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Consumer Electronics Association, the Global Media Awards honor excellence in ...

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Liesl Schoenberger: America's Hot Musician Announces Winner

October 26, 2008

Washington, DC- Saturday, October 25, 2008- America's Hot Musician announced this week that Liesl Schoenberger is America's Hot Musician 2008. Schoenberger, 24, is a violinist from Cape Girardeau, Missouri and graduated from the University of Indiana School of Music this past May. The show also awarded individual instrumental winners: Bobby McManus, 21 - guitar, Detroit, MI; ...

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Clifford Brown Honored on Philadelphia's Walk of Fame

October 25, 2008

On Thursday, October 23, 2008, a long overdue plaque honoring the great trumpet player Clifford Brown was dedicated on Philadelphia's fabled “Walk of Fame," a series of “stars” laid in the pavement on either side of South Broad Street (the Avenue of the Arts), surrounded by the Academy of Music, the Kimmel Center, the Merriam Theater, ...