ASCAP, the American Society of Composer, Authors and Publishers, the world leader in public performing rights and advocacy for music creators, today announces the appointment of Nicole Carbone-Rogers as Senior Vice President and Head of Events. Effective February 11th, Carbone-Rogers will be responsible for the successful execution of ASCAP's major awards shows and other key ASCAP events as part of ASCAP's mission to elevate and honor the contributions of its songwriter, composer and music publisher members.
Marriages fail for many reasons, or perhaps, more often than not, it boils down to the fear that you have sacrificed something for that commitment, and you want another chance to get it back. And if you have children, the weight is much greater.
After closing out 2018 with the release of “Falling,” which Billboard hailed as her “most infectious song yet,” LEON is kicking off 2019 with a brand new collaboration with Los Angeles-based production duo, Grey called “Want You Back,” out today via Island Records.
Pandora (NYSE: P) makes their first down of the year in Atlanta, Georgia on January 31st at the Bud Light Dive Bar at The Tabernacle with a free concert to kick off the weekend of The Big Game. The largest streaming music provider in the U.S. is proud to present hometown favorites, Zac Brown Band as part of their Pandora LIVE series. Fans who are 21 years old and older can directly RSVP for free, listeners can click HERE.
Bistro, BroadwayWorld, MAC and Margaret Whiting Award winner Celia Berk returns to the Beach Cafe on Saturday, February 23rd with a special preview of her new collaboration with pianist Sean Gough. Together, they have created a program of songs about love, including the kinds of hidden gems by great songwriters that have become Celia's trademark.
Calling all ladies!!!! Ladies Night Out Comedy Tour featuring ADELE GIVENS, SHERRI SHEPHERD, LONI LOVE, JANELLE JAMES, and hosted by Bravo's leading lady NENE LEAKES makes a stop at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 8PM.
Southern California based Them Evils are heading back out on tour to kick off the New Year in direct support for Pop Evil. Along the way they will be setting sail on the Shiprocked Cruise, where two live performances are slated. The band continues to promote their 'Rollin' Stoned and Livin' Free' EP as they add the track 'Practice What You Preach' to their live shows and put the finishing touches on a new song to be released in the late 1st quarter of 2019. The band played more than 100 dates in 2018, including a national tour with stops at Welcome To Rockville, Carolina Rebellion, and main stage @ Rock On The Range.
BRIC, the pioneering arts-and-media organization in Brooklyn, proudly presents a live taping of Tour Show, January 10 at BRIC House (647 Fulton Street). For his show, author, television host, podcaster and Brooklynite Tour conducts in-depth interviews with successful Black people, exploring what makes them successful and how they dealt with the most difficult moments of their lives. For the live event, which is being presented as part of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival, Tour will be in conversation with actor, athlete and activist Terry Crews.
Kalie Shorr, one of Nashville's hottest up-and-coming artists, was recently featured on NPR's Morning Edition in a piece titled “Female Country Music Singers in Nashville Navigate Gender Bias To Be Heard”. The seven-minute segment, premiered on Dec. 26, focuses on Shorr's journey through the Nashville music industry and how she and other women in country music are fighting and overcoming gender bias. The feature also includes commentary from CMT Senior Vice President of Music Strategy Leslie Fram, Shorr's manager and Song Suffragettes founder, Todd Cassetty, and fellow Song Suffragettes Chloe Gilligan and Regan Stewart.
Asian American musician Jennifer Zhang is bridging cultural borders on the global music scene with the premiere of her new single and accompanying video 'Flying High,' an innovative song exploration that melds American pop music with traditional Chinese instrumentals.
Musicians On Call (MOC), a nonprofit that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities, welcomed The Greatest Showman's Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Keala Settle and Greg Wells to healthcare facilities in New York and Los Angeles to perform for patients as part of the organization's The Greatest Showman Holiday Concert. Settle, who played 'The Bearded Lady' Lettie Lutz in the film, performed her show-stopping rendition of the Oscar-nominated song 'This Is Me' for patients at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital in L.A.
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It's the last week to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
Decorating the stage nonchalantly, stretching and chatting with little regard to the fourth wall, six actors join together to explore the storytelling possibilities into the lives of the Herero people of Namibia. Creatively presented by Director Liz Fisher, the action onstage toggles between artistic commentary on the feelings of how the actors desire to present this story, and the social responsibility of portraying the truth about colonialism. The six characters often onstage debated how the story should be told, experimenting with comedy and how the color of one's skin impacts the perception of and more often the ignorance of historic events. Written by Jackie Sibblies Drury, WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRIKA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884 - 1915, opens a pandora's box about the genocide of the Herero Tribe in Namibia committed by Germany long before the holocaust of World War II.
Luke Combs' recently added summer concerts as part of his extensive “Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour” are all sold-out. The six shows—at Detroit MI's DTE Energy Music Theatre, Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavilion, Gilford, NH's Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, Charleston, SC's Volvo Cars Stadium, Alpharetta, GA's Verizon Amphitheater and Charlote, NC's PNC Music Pavilion—total 70,000 tickets sold including 40,000 through Combs' Bootlegger fan club/Verified pre-sale.
Pandora Productions continues the 2018-19 season with Peter Parnell's funny and touching look at fidelity and gay parenting in DADA WOOF PAPA HOT. The title refers to the first words of the offstage child of Alan and Rob. 'Dada' for Rob, 'woof' for dog, 'Papa' for Alan and 'hot' for radiator. But as Alan explains, if you put those four words together it's 'what every gay dad wants to hear'... The play will run January 11 - 26 at the company's home at the Henry Clay Theatre and is sponsored by Crosby Law Offices, PSC. (**please see note below regarding change in scheduling.)
There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
The CUNY Dance Initiative and John Jay College, in collaboration with Rocha Dance Theater, present the World Premiere of Half-Heard at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 524 W. 59th Street, NYC on Friday, February 15, 2019 at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and are available at https://halfheard.brownpapertickets.com/.
The first annual "Medusa Underground Film Festival" brings together more than 50 short films to showcase the women changing the filmmaking landscape around the world! Taking place at the Las Vegas based Artisan Hotel Boutique (Artisanhotel.com), the "Medusa Underground Film Festival" will feature such events as a huge filmmakers panel Q&A, workshops, a special guest of honor (TBA), after parties, activities, networking, an awards ceremony, two feature films (closing night feature TBA), and multiple blocks of short films showcasing the different sides of underground filmmaking.
