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Music Professor Awarded Third Place in National Competition

Joslyn Michelle Photography Katey J. Halbert, horn Katey J. Halbert, a visiting assitant professor of music, was awarded third place in the American Prize National Competition for the Performing Arts in the category of Professional Soloist-Brass Division. Her submitted work for the competition, Borealis: An Essay in Three Movements for Horn and Piano, was a commissioned work composed by Catherine McMichael in 2018. The work was […]

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Hopscotch Music Festival elevates local artists, welcomes national acts

Many of these smaller musicians and bands, such as Black Bouquet, performed in day parties that Hopscotch Music Festival organized over the weekend.  While acts like Black Bouquet have been creating music for a few years now, Hopscotch welcomed newer acts, such as UNC student Cecelia Nobles’ band Sabrosura, which started practicing this summer.  Nobles’ Latin jazz band took the stage at Longleaf Swine on Saturday afternoon, part of lineup […]

todaySeptember 12, 2023 9

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Yothu Yindi & Frontier Touring’s Susan Heymann Named National Live Music Awards’ ‘Live Legends’ | theMusic.com.au

More Yothu Yindi Today, the National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) reveal the two recipients of the Live Legends program – one artist and one music industry member – to celebrate their contributions to the Australian live music sector. Joining Magic Dirt and Deborah Conway today are two heroes, Yothu Yindi and Frontier Touring’s Susan Heymann. A press release notes that Yothu Yindi will be inducted in a destination to be […]

todaySeptember 5, 2023 5

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18 bands to perform at benefit for National Alliance on Mental Illness

CAMBRIDGE — An all-day music festival featuring bands from eight counties will take place from 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday, Sept. 9, at the Pritchard Laughlin Center, 7033 Glenn Highway, Cambridge. The event will benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).Led by Cambridge area musician Bo Jamison and Kaleb Graham of Kaleb Graham Productions, the Bo & Co. music festival will bring 18 of some of the best bands from […]

todayAugust 31, 2023 3

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Sir Peter Jackson, Dame Fran Walsh gift Wellington national music centre $2 million

"This amazing new facility has far more significance than just being an old building that's been converted into a recording studio. Twelve years ago, we recorded the music for our Hobbit movies in the old Town Hall with the NZSO and the help of London's Abbey Road studios and several of their best sound engineers. "After they'd spent a couple of weeks analysing the auditorium, the Abbey Road engineers declared […]

todayAugust 28, 2023 5

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Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh gift $2 million towards Wellington’s National Music Centre

MONIQUE FORD/StuffA $2 million donation from Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh will go towards a fit out of “state-of-the-art” recording studios in the basement of the Wellington Town Hall. (File photo)Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh have gifted $2 million towards Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s new National Music Centre. A collaboration between the Wellington City Council, the New Zealand […]

todayAugust 28, 2023 3

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Music copyright is still a mess after 500 years. Can we finally change things before AI takes over? – National

Controlling the distribution of music — and thus making sure composers get paid for their labour and talent — has been a problem that dates back to the invention of the printing press. In 1498, less than 50 years after Johannes Gutenberg revealed the printing press, a savvy entrepreneur named Ottaviano Petrucci received a patent from the Venetian Senate for publishing musical notation with one of these new-fangled machines, giving […]

todayAugust 27, 2023 8

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ECDE learners show exemplary performance in ongoing Kenya National Music Festivals » Capital News

NYERI, Kenya, Aug 15 – Early Childhood learners in Nairobi show exemplary perfomance in the ongoing Kenya National Music Festivals in Nyeri. A total of 215 ECDE learners who qualified to represent Nairobi County in the National Music Festivals finals in Nyeri County from 10th-23rd August, 2023 has shown exemplary results in the ongoing Kenya National Music Festivals in Nyeri County. Nairobi County ECDEs participated in 15 categories Choral verse, […]

todayAugust 15, 2023 3

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King Stingray, Wildfire Manwurrk Win Big At The 2023 National Indigenous Music Awards | theMusic.com.au

More King Stingray Another year of the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) has passed, honouring one of the most influential Indigenous Australian acts of all time, Yothu Yindi, and celebrating young, up-and-coming First Nations artists. King Stingray and Wildfire Manwurrk, the only outfits to win more than one award at the 2023 NIMAs, ended up dominating the event. King Stingray swept up the Song Of The Year and Film Clip […]

todayAugust 12, 2023 11

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