Keb' Mo' on the cover of Living Blues magazine in 2012

GRAMMY winner Keb' Mo' as featured on the cover of 'Living Blues' in 2012. The magazine's co-founder is one of 14 2017 GRAMMY Museum Grant Program recipients

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GRAMMY Museum awards $200K for music grants

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14 recipients, including Berklee College of Music, Yale University and 'Living Blues' magazine, aided by the Museum to support archiving and preservation efforts of the recorded sound heritage of the Americas
Tim McPhate
GRAMMYs
May 15, 2017 - 2:36 am

The GRAMMY Museum Grant Program has awarded more than $200,000 in grants to 14 recipients in the United States to help facilitate research on a variety of music-based subjects, as well as support a number of archiving and preservation programs.

Funded by The Recording Academy, the Grant Program provides funding annually to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations, in addition to research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.

With a $20,000 grant, the Yale University Library will preserve and digitize approximately 335 hours of unique noncommercial audio, predominantly from 1937–1956, featuring music by Charles Ives. The content will be ingested into the library's digital preservation system and made available via one of its mediated streaming tools.

Berklee College of Music in Boston will receive $13,000 to digitize an impressive collection of analog video tapes spanning 1985–2001, which capture music legends imparting their wisdom in memorable commencement speeches and unique performances. 

Living Blues magazine co-founder Jim O'Neal was awarded $5,000, which will be used to catalog and assess a historic collection of more than 2,000 tapes of interviews and live music. These one-of-a-kind tapes, which date from 1968 to 2012, document many major figures in blues, R&B, gospel, and jazz from Chicago, Mississippi, Memphis, and elsewhere.

The Memphis, Tenn.-based Soulsville Foundation will receive $13,000 to support an effort to digitize, preserve and share a collection of more than 250 concert and promotional posters, advertisements and album artwork proofs highlighting the rich history of Stax Records from 1957–1975. 

Awarded $5,000, T. Christopher Alpin in Pasadena, Calif., will evaluate and preserve the sound collections of the Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache tribe. Collections contain the musical heritage of the Chihene, or Warm Springs Apache youth impressed into Nednai camps in the Mexican Sierra Madres between 1882 and 1883.

Iowa State University Foundation was awarded more than $19,000 for a scientific research grant that will examine the acute and long-term effects of therapeutic singing on both the motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, including depression, stress and inflammation.

To date, the Grant Program has awarded more than $7 million to nearly 400 initiatives that explore the intersection of music and science for the benefit of the general public.

"The compelling and far-reaching endeavors represented by our 2017 grantees reflect a commitment to issues that The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Museum members are passionate about: our goal to recognize and sustain the value of music in all of our lives," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy and Chair of the GRAMMY Museum Board.

View a complete list of 2017 GRAMMY Museum Grant Program recipients

 

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Human Rights Day Hits Musical High Note With U.N.

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First High Note Music Prize to be awarded next year by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Dec 8, 2017 - 5:43 pm

Human Rights Day on Dec. 10 commemorates the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Now a new High Note international partnership including the GRAMMY Museum has come together to commemorate music's power to stand up for the human rights principles of "the equality and dignity of every person."

"We commend The High Note Project and the U.N. Human Rights Office on their launch of The High Note Music Prize, which will place a deserved spotlight on artists using their music and platform for good," said GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Scott Goldman. "Music is a powerful tool, and when used to call out injustice that power inspires goodwill in others and affects change across a broad spectrum of social issues."

High Note Project executive producers David Clark and Chantel Sausedo are helping to organize the first annual High Note Honors Concert in London, Fall 2018, with proceeds benefitting a charity to be chosen by its recipient — a major recording artist with more than a decade of philanthropic efforts — as well as the GRAMMY Museum and the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

GRAMMY Museum Awards $200K For Music Grants

Scott Goldman and Jack Johnson

Scott Goldman and Jack Johnson

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GRAMMY Museum Looks Forward To 10th Anniversary

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Executive Director Scott Goldman explains integrated approach with national scope, online and off
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Sep 22, 2017 - 5:26 pm

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Producer David Foster Honored By The GRAMMY Museum

GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Scott Goldman spoke to Billboard recently for a wide-ranging interview about new ways the Museum is poised for the future. Going on 10 years exhibiting music history, educating and hosting great programs, the popular L.A. Live attraction can be pleased it now has a history of its own, attracting 150,000 visitors and 25,000 students last year.

"We need a refresh," said Goldman, explaining the integrated, online and national approach for the future. "We're going to launch a 10th-anniversary campaign [in 2018]. It will lead toward having the resources to do the things we want to do."

The Museum is dedicated to exploring "the enduring legacies of all forms of music; the creative process; the art and technology of the recording process; and the history of the GRAMMY Awards, the premier recognition of recorded music accomplishment." Although that's a wide-ranging mission for Goldman, his work for 12 years with Recording Academy education and MusiCares have made him accustomed to its scope.

On a personal note, Goldman shared a thank you note from Ozzy Osbourne he received following the 2014 MusiCares MAP Fund event, supporting addiction recovery for musicians. Many other memories through the years and through decades of American music will mean more to an even wider reach of visitors, whether at L.A. Live, GRAMMY Museum Mississippi, or other Museum events and initiatives.

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The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Museum's Music Educator Award

The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Museum's Music Educator Award

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Who are the GRAMMY Music Educator Award quarterfinalists?

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A joint presentation by The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Museum, 2018's Music Educator Award quarterfinalists have been announced
Renée Fabian
GRAMMYs
May 31, 2017 - 5:00 pm

A total of 197 music teachers from 187 cities, across 45 states plus Washington, D.C., have been announced as quarterfinalists for the Music Educator Award, presented by The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Museum. Quarterfinalists were selected from more than 2,300 initial nominations submitted from all 50 states.

Read the full list of Music Educator Award quarterfinalists

The Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools.

The award is open to current U.S. music teachers, and anyone can nominate a teacher — students, parents, friends, colleagues, community members, school deans, and administrators. Teachers may also nominate themselves, and nominated teachers are notified and invited to fill out an application.

Each year, one recipient is selected from 10 finalists and recognized for their remarkable impact on students' lives. The fifth annual honoree will be flown to New York to attend the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards and a range of GRAMMY Week events.

The nine additional finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and the schools of all 10 finalists will receive matching grants. Fifteen semifinalists will receive a $500 honorarium with matching school grants. Semifinalists will be announced in September.

Who is your favorite music teacher? Nominate them for the 2019 Music Educator Award

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Florin High School students rehearse during their 2016 GRAMMY Signature Schools award presentation on May 10, 2016, in Sacramento, Calif.

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GRAMMY Museum awards grants to 7 school music programs

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Underscoring the fundamental role of arts in education, GRAMMY Signature Schools program provides monetary grants to underserved U.S. public high schools to bolster their music programs
Tim McPhate
GRAMMYs
May 15, 2017 - 2:36 am

The GRAMMY Museum has announced the selection of seven economically underserved U.S. high schools as 2017 GRAMMY Signature Schools Enterprise Award recipients. Each recipient will receive a custom award and a monetary grant to benefit its music program. The cash grants for the 2017 GRAMMY Signature Schools Enterprise Award recipients total $106,500.

The recipients are Culver City High School (Culver City, Calif.), Huntington Park High School (Huntington Park, Calif.), Manual Arts High School (Los Angeles), Robert Fulton College Preparatory School (Van Nuys, Calif.), East Anchorage High School (Anchorage, Alaska), Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville (Chicago), and Overton High School (Memphis, Tenn.)

The GRAMMY Museum also presents the GRAMMY Signature Schools Community Award, which provides financially challenged public high school music programs with a $2,000 grant. Approximately 150 schools have received the Community Award this fiscal year, with grants totaling $300,000.

"The GRAMMY Signature Schools program is one of the most far-reaching of our key education initiatives and it has grown significantly since its establishment," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy and Chair of the GRAMMY Museum Board. "Especially now, when we are engaged in a critical national discussion about the importance of the arts and the role of our educational institutions, it seems imperative that The Recording Academy continues to lend its resources and reputation to underscore the fundamental necessity of these in all of our lives."

GRAMMY Museum, GRAMMY Foundation join forces for education