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Big Easy Music Awards Toast Year’s Best in New Orleans

The 20th Annual Big Easy Music Awards honored the musical lifeblood still pulsing through New Orleans Monday, April 21 at Harrah's Theatre. Winners, performers and presenters featured a bevy of BMI legends: Entertainer of the Year Terence Blanchard and his band delivered a jaw-dropping performance; revered piano man Allen Toussaint presented the 2008 Lifetime Achievement in Music honor to beloved funk innovator Eddie Bo;…
Fats Domino: Rock & Roll Royalty Revisited

Fats Domino’s signature dancehall piano playing and drawling tales of love made him Elvis’s top rival during the dawn of rock & roll. When pressed, Fats softly declares undying admiration for Presley. “I like Elvis myself,” Domino says over the phone from his New Orleans residence. “So does everybody.” With a humble air that warmly wraps around each of his concessions, Fats says he was simply “lucky”…
Delfeayo Marsalis

Delfeayo Marsalis’s Minions Dominion, with its subtly swinging ballads, intertwining lines and fleet bop melodies performed by the late Elvin Jones on drums and brother Branford and Donald Harrison on saxophones, has the traditional sound of modern jazz. It’s become a well-established sound in the 20 years since the young lions upset the jazz establishment by being staunchly traditional and openly admiring of music first heard decades…
Blues Hall Names 2007 Inductees

The 2007 inductions to the Blues Hall of Fame have been announced by the Blues Foundation of Memphis, Tennessee. The awards will be given out at a banquet on May 7, 2007, the night before the annual Blues Music Awards. The inducted performers include: Dave Bartholomew: bandleader/songwriter/producer/arranger who helped to design the sound of New Orleans music; was instrumental in the career of Fats Domino; and…
Rock Hall Names 2007 Inductees
Indie rockers R.E.M. and hip-hop pioneers Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five are among the BMI talents set to be inducted into the 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The 22nd annual induction ceremony, which will make history by welcoming Grandmaster Flash as its first rap act, will be held March 12 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. …
B.B. King, Sonic Youth Added to Library of Congress List
The Library of Congress has announced the fourth annual selection of 50 sound recordings to be preserved in the National Recording Registry. The news conference, held April 11 in Washington, D.C., featured a wide variety of outstanding spoken and musical recordings that span the years 1903 through 1988. This year's selections include such renowned BMI songwriters and composers as Dave Brubeck (Time Out),…
BMI’s Elite Among Rock Hall Inductees
Some of BMI's biggest names in music were among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, including 70s new wave band Blondie, jazz master Miles Davis and Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd. The 21st annual induction ceremony was held March 13 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Win Tickets to the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Show!
BMI songwriters who sign up for membership in the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame between now and May 20, 2005 will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to this year's SHOF induction ceremony, to be held June 9 at New York's Marriott Marquis. BMI songwriters Steve Cropper, Isaac Hayes,
Broad Artistic Scope Helps Harry Connick Jr. Thrive

Ever since his 1989 breakthrough album When Harry Met Sally , Harry Connick, Jr. has willfully swum against the prevailing musical tides. Impervious to pop trendiness, the New Orleans native remains a one-man entertainment juggernaut — a singer, pianist, composer, arranger and actor whose boyish appeal is offset by an unrelenting ambition. Now, with the release of his new CD, Connick triumphantly returns to the…
Shemekia Copeland Leads Handy Award Winners With Three
BMI blues artist Shemekia Copeland collected three trophies at the 24th Annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards, presented by the Blues Foundation at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee (5/23). Copeland was named Contemporary Female Artist of the Year and her Talking To Strangers was voted both Blues Album of the Year and Contemporary Blues Album of the Year. BMI winners took home…
