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2010 Blues Music Awards (all nominees by category)
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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Here's a little information about me...
Despite the fact that I'm extremely involved with music in the NY/NJ area today, I am not a musician. My connection to the music scene was purely accidental. When I took an early retirement from the corporate world, I wasn't sure what to do & I became restless. I was accustomed to being extremely busy. I found the answer through reconnecting to my life-long love of music. That which started as an attempt to help a friend promote his performances, evolved into a newsletter, and eventually morphed into a Music Community.
I am a former Operations Manager, Engineer, and Adjunct Professor and today I do consulting work, volunteer, and run the Web Music Community. This is my way of thanking my musician friends for the many hours of enjoyment they have given me.
My Favorite Music:
Since this is a social network, and the question is usually asked, here goes:
There is only good music & bad music.
I have a very diverse music collection, but favor music with meter and melody. I listen to everything from Monk to Muddy Waters to Metal to Mozart & everything in between.
Education:
Wagner College - Staten Island, NY
MBA - Business Administration - 2000
George Washington University - Washington,DC
Master’s Certificate in Project Management - 1999
Polytechnic University - Hawthorne, NY
MS - Telecommunications & Computing Management - 1995
Cuny Bernard M Baruch College - New York, NY
BBA - Human Resource Management / Psychology - 1974
You can find me here:
www.MakinMusicNY.comhttp://facebook.com/MakinMusicNY
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8th ANNUAL LADY GOT CHOPS WOMEN’S MONTH JAZZ FESTIVAL
Posted on February 28, 2010 at 4:00pm —
Blues Festivals North America 2010
Posted on February 23, 2010 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments
2010 BMA Awards
As I member of the Blues Foundation, I have just received the link to vote for the 2010 Blues Music Awards (BMA… Continue
Posted on February 22, 2010 at 12:20am —
PHAROAH SANDERS RETURNS to BROOKLYN!
Two of Brooklyn’s vanguard organizations for African American music and culture, Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium and International African Arts Festival, will collaborate to produce a Community Day Gala Concert, as part of the 11th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, featuring saxophone great Pharoah Sanders. This event will take place on Saturday, March 27th at Boys and Girls High School auditorium located at 1700 Fulton Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section… Continue
Posted on February 18, 2010 at 11:00pm —
Phoebe Snow: Her First Love
Posted on February 11, 2010 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments
10 Ways The GRAMMYs Are Taking Over The Social Web
Liz Burr - January 22, 2010 - 12:00pm
Earlier this month I had the privilege of visiting the offices of The Recording Academy to learn more about the social media and online initiatives planned for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY… Continue
Posted on January 30, 2010 at 1:51pm —
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Nicholas Payton: Live At The Village Vanguard
He found his footing in jazz through its hard-swinging main stem. But after he'd proved his hard-bop mettle, he took a fork in the road toward electric experimentalism. Now, trumpeter Nicholas Payton seems comfortable pursuing a middle ground. Hear his band play live.The Soft Pack On World Cafe
Tired of the new-wave explosion in their hometown of San Diego, The Soft Pack's Matt Lamkin and Matty McLoughlin got their start after deciding to revive old-school grunge. Later joined by Dave Lantzman and Brian Hill, the group found a knack for writing simple and catchy tunes that hint at the New York underground and subtle '60s California surf-rock.OK Go Fights For Its Viral Video
Damian Kulash, singer-songwriter-guitarist with OK Go, talks about the group's split with its label as the result of a label policy that kept a popular video the band made from being embedded on YouTube. "This Too Shall Pass" is a viral video that took a month to make; it displays an elaborate two-story Rube Goldberg device timed to the song.Midlake: In Tune With Nature
"If all that grows starts to fade, starts to falter / Oh, let me inside, let me inside not to wake," Midlake's Tim Smith sings in "Acts of Man," which surrounds his meditation on man and nature with dense harmonies and the rich sounds of a folk-pop orchestra.Voice From The Darkness: Johnny Cash's Final Record
Seven years after the death of Johnny Cash, producer Rick Rubin has selected 10 more songs among the many he produced for Cash late in the singer's life. Rock critic Ken Tucker examines the end result, the album American VI: Ain't No Grave.NYTimes Music
Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.Arts, Briefly: Lady Antebellum Returns to Top of Chart
Six new albums entered the Billboard Top 10 this week, but none could best the two titles that have dominated the chart for the last five weeks.Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier
The Grawemeyer Players, a faculty ensemble from the University of Louisville, performed works by winners of the university’s annual composition prize at Weill Recital Hall.Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum
On Tuesday, the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth, the Ying Quartet performed the composer’s Op. 11 String Quartet in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum.‘The Nose,’ and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera
Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “The Nose.”© 2010 Created by Mike Stokes on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
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Thanks so much for your support. I would love some pointers on how best to utilize this space. It is a wonderfully comprehensive website.
I don't speak english very well but I'm going to try...
"Makin'Music NY" is a nice site
Claudie from France
Thank you for creating such a nice, well laid out site. Houston Jones (the band's name) is excited about their April visit to the East Coast. Hope you can make it to one of their shows!
Sending lots of sunshine from California,
Kathy
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Thanks for the add...what a wonderful site!
Hope that all is well with you. We opened tonight for a few hours, but everyone was snowed in! We have a great show planned for tomorrow evening. If you can get out, you should come! I'll put you on the guest list. Kristine
It's a mental thing !
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