Giving 2010
Do you know a talented student whose school’s music budget has been cut? Do you know a music professional who doesn’t have health insurance and is facing eviction? Do you know a music archive in peril of being lost for lack of preservation funds? Giving 2010, the first annual GRAMMY Charities grassroots giving campaign, aims to alleviate some of the obstacles musicians and students of music have to face every day. Join MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation April 1 through May 15 in their campaign to raise money for and awareness of the issues facing the music community. For more information, follow the above link.
Northwest stacked with Grammy nominees
Seattle Times:
Congratulations to Olympia’s Kimya Dawson for last night’s Grammy win! The Juno soundtrack, which heavily featured Dawson’s songs, won for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Check out The News Tribune’s Q&A with Dawson at thenewstribune.com for her take on newfound fame. Other Northwest artists nominated for Grammy awards include Death Cab for Cutie, Eddie Vedder, Bill Frisell, Winston Ma, Gerard Schwartz, and artist Don Clark.
Neil Diamond Taps Seattle’s Own Los Volcanes for Grammy Party
Seattle Weekly:
In late October, Eddie Rodriguez and his band, Los Volcanes, were in their label’s home base of Corpus Christi, Texas, performing tejano music on Spanish-language television. Save for a handful of suburban clubs, tejano is an afterthought in the 42-year-old Rodriguez’s hometown of Seattle (he’s a Brownsville, Texas native). But in South Texas, which boasts an enormous Latino population, conjunto, the accordion-heavy subgenre of tejano music that Los Volcanes specializes in, is huge. A couple of weeks after returning home to Normandy Park, a suburb near the airport, Rodriguez, who sings lead and plays accordion in Los Volcanes, received a call on his cell phone marked “private.” Typically, Rodriguez lets private calls go to voice mail, but this time he picked up. The caller asked Rodriguez to identify himself. He did, and in turn the man on the other end of the line identified himself as Neil Diamond.
