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• Grammy Awards Deliver Some Surprises

  Sunday evening was all glitz and glamour at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards as music-lovers gathered to honor artists who stood out above the crowd in the past year – and the evening proved to ...

• Rochester International Jazz Festival

  Jazz enthusiasts living in New York will already be aware of the Rochester International Jazz Festival. This great annual event has been taking place regularly since it was established in ...

• The May Cultural Festival in Mexico

  Are you planning a trip to Mexico soon and looking for a great place to enjoy some music? There is simply no better musical experience in Mexico than the May Cultural Festival. A mixture of ...

• 2010 Woman of the Year

  The Billboard Women in Music gala event will be held in New York on 2 December 2010. Receiving a Billboard Magazine award is seen as an achievement and many wonderful female musicians have ...

• Steve Howe – More than Just an Ordinary Guitar Player – Musicians

  Although already an accomplished musician and sought guitar player in the late 1960’s with bands like BODAST, it was during his on-again/off-again/on-again stint as the lead guitarist for YES ...

• Global Drum Project on the Road Again

  Fifteen years ago the widely acclaimed album “Planet Drum” earned a Grammy Award in the World Music category. After an absence from the touring scene for almost a decade, the Global Drum ...

• Europe’s Music Royalties Regulations Revised

  Proposed European Union plans to end the current European system of collecting music royalties and replace it with regulations geared to the 21st century digital world, have been met with ...

• Susan Boyle: A Success Story

  Susan Magdalane Boyle, born in 1961, has taken the world by storm. Within a year she has become a renowned figure in homes around the world, taking second place in Britain’s Got Talent and ...

• The Role of Live Sound Engineers

  A live sound engineer is responsible for the set up and operation of sound amplification systems at theatres, sports arenas, music concerts and other live events. Live sound engineers play a ...

• Building Communities Through Music Improvisation

  The Modern Improvisational Music Association (MIMA) is a global initiative which has been promoting the innovative creation of music for more than ten years. MIMA's musical network is ...

• Battle of the Corporate Bands

  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has been paying tribute to musicians, artists, producers and other members of the music industry for many years. Famous names such as Elvis Presley, ...

• BBC Jazz Awards 2008

  The historic Mermaid Theater in London was the venue on 21 July for the BBC Jazz Awards 2008. Rather than being a gathering of a mutual-admiration society as so many awards ceremonies can ...