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• Rick Wright of Pink Floyd Passes Away

  After a long and successful career as both a musician and the keyboardist for Pink Floyd, Rick Wright passed away in Britain at age 65 on September 15, 2008, after a short and unfortunate ...

• Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: Honoring Outstanding Talent

  Presented to a composer or performer for their noteworthy contributions to popular music, the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was created in 2007 in honor of songwriting ...

• Research Reveals Interesting Trend in Music Pirating Dilemma

  A recent research study by the MCPS-PRS Alliance revealed that, even when music is available to download at no charge via an official website, the majority of fans still choose to download ...

• New Grammy Hall of Fame Inductees

  Since its inception in 1973, the Grammy Hall of Fame now has a total of 826 inductions. All the songs are chosen by certain members of a committee of historians and experts and are usually ...

• Gospel Music Heritage Month

  For quite some time now hundreds of thousands of Americans have been inspired by the harmonious tones of Gospel Music Choirs. This unique form of music has, in many ways, helped to shape the ...

• BBC Tops Live Radio

  Marconi himself was associated with the establishment of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the 1920s. It does much more than broadcast music, and has spread from Britain to every ...

• 2008 Celtic Fusion International Musical Arts Festival

  If you are looking for a novel cultural experience, then make sure that you get down to the 2008 Celtic Fusion International Musical Arts Festival. This ten-day music festival is certainly ...

• Bluegrass Awards Nominees

  The International Bluegrass Music Association was established in 1985 to promote and develop the music genre of bluegrass. The International Bluegrass Music Museum followed shortly ...

• 2010 ACM Honors

  To promote and develop the genre of country music in the western states of America, members of the West Coast music industry, the most notable being Eddie Dean, established the Academy of ...

• Spotlight On: The Beatles

  Widely considered to be one of the best bands of all time, The Beatles took the world by storm in the 1960s, stirring up emotions among fans in a phenomenon that came to be known as ...

• Icons of Music Auction II

  Music lovers looking for some great memorabilia should waste no time in getting to the Hard Rock Café in Times Square, NYC, where they can view all 200 of the items that have been put up for ...

• Boston Music Award Nominees For 2008

  It seems quite possible at this point that the 21st annual Boston Music Awards will be passing by without much notice. Very little has been said or done about them – a sharp contrast to last ...