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The Producers: London Blues Band Coming to Rooster's, February 18th - Feb 6, 2012 - 10:17:15 PM
Freeport, Bahamas - Rooster's is pleased to present
The Producers, a Blues band visiting from the Bournemouth, England on
Saturday, February 18th, 2012.
Renowned
‘till the mid-90’s as one of Britain’s best blues bands, the band has
reformed with two original members (Harry Skinner, vocals/guitar, and
Dave Saunders on bass) and two new members (Ray Drury on keyboards and
Biff Smith on drums) after a seven-year break. Since reforming they've
been receiving rave reviews, and are regaining the loyal following which
made them so popular previously. New material is continually being
written and incorporated into their sets which contains many of their
previously recorded tracks.
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Pelican Bay Hotel
Pelican Bay Hotel and Poet's Inc present Snapz! - Feb 6, 2012 - 8:35:00 PM
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island -
Pelican Bay Hotel and
Poet's Inc are pleased to present
Snapz!
Snapz began
Thursday, November 10th at the Canal House, Pelican Bay Hotel at 9pm and continues monthly on
December 1st, 2011,
January 12th 2012 and
February 16th, 2012.
The event features the work of Poet’s Inc. The Poet’s Inc is comprised of a group of
poets and spoken-verse artists...
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getMusic Productions by TaDa
FEBRUARY Lineup on ArtOvation with TaDa Radio (Saturdays) - Feb 6, 2012 - 7:35:02 PM
Saturday, February 11th -
Jah Hem
Nassau, Bahamas -
ArtOvation with TaDa is a
weekly one-hour radio show of one-on-one interviews with the brightest
personalities in arts, entertainment and innovation!
Saturdays at 8am EST tune in to ArtOvation on Star 106.5 FM.
Here is our Lineup for February:
Saturday, February 4th -
Dynamite Daisy; Saturday, February 11th -
Jah Hem; Recording Artist -
Tyrina Neely Saturday, February 18th; - Saturday, Febuary 25th -
Dede Brown...
Entertainment
Milla Jovovich to Host Academy's Sci-Tech Awards - Feb 6, 2012 - 6:58:37 PM
Beverly Hills, CA – Actress Milla Jovovich will host the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards on
Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills.
Jovovich will present 10 awards to 30 individual recipients during the
evening.
Jovovich is the star of "The Fifth Element" and the "Resident
Evil" franchise. She will next be seen in the feature "Resident Evil:
Retribution."
Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation will be included in the Oscar® ceremony.
Entertainment
Children of God to screen at Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF) - Feb 5, 2012 - 9:28:13 PM
Children of God selected as 2009 PAFF Jewel
Culver City, CAL - The Pan African Film
and Arts Festival (PAFF), America's largest and most prestigious Black
film and arts festival, is gearing up for its 20th year of screening
more than 150 films made by and/or about people of African descent from
the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South
Pacific, Europe and Canada. PAFF holds the distinction of being the
largest Black History Month event in the country...
Entertainment
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to perform at 54th Grammy's - Feb 4, 2012 - 9:10:27 PM
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -
Twenty-time GRAMMY® winner Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have
been added to the stellar lineup for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards®.
Actor/recording artist Jack Black, six-time GRAMMY winner and current
three-time nominee Fergie, three-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee
Amir "?uestlove" Thompson (The Roots), and nine-time GRAMMY winner Ringo
Starr will appear as presenters.
Previously announced performers for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards
include Adele (in her first live performance since undergoing vocal cord
surgery last fall); Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson; Glen Campbell with
The Band Perry and Blake Shelton; Coldplay and Rihanna; Foo Fighters...
Entertainment
R.I.P. Don Cornellius from T-Connection lead guitarist, Dave Mackey - Feb 3, 2012 - 11:42:10 AM
Freeport, Bahamas -
It seems like forever
ago when I was granted privilege as a member of Theo Coakley's
T-Connection band to perform on the famous stage of music industry
giant, Don Cornelius' Soul Train TV Show in 1981. Having had the
opportunity meet, speak and shake the hand of this legendary figure in
the history of Soul Music, I am indeed humbled as take the opportunity
to quote a few words from lyrics of one the songs that we performed on
his show called "Paradise" composed by by Theo Coakley, a musical genius
himself...
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Hott Caribbean Radio: The New Era of Broadcasting - Feb 2, 2012 - 4:24:14 PM
New York, New York - Over the years there has been
tremendous change in the radio landscape due to the adoption of both the
Internet and streaming media by the mainstream. As internet usage and broadband
access become more accessible to all, online radio has seen a vast increase in
its listenership.
Total Caribbean Network
is pleased to announce the launch of
Hott
Caribbean Radio, streaming a diverse mix of Caribbean News, Music, Talk;
Celebrity Interviews and so much more! Our programs are available 24/7...
Entertainment
The Recording Academy to host Special Merit Awards Ceremony - Feb 2, 2012 - 12:33:37 PM
Los Angeles, CAL - The Recording Academy will present the Lifetime Achievement Award at a
Special Merit Awards Ceremony on Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at the
Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. The event will
honor lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium, to
Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antonio Carlos Jobim, George Jones,
the Memphis Horns, Diana Ross and Gil Scott-Heron; the Trustees Award,
which recognizes outstanding contributions to the industry in areas
other than performance, to Dave Bartholomew, Steve Jobs and Rudy Van
Gelder; and the Technical GRAMMY Award, honoring an individual's and/or
corporation's outstanding contributions of technical significance to the
recording field, to Celemony and Roger Nichols...
Entertainment
The Recording Academy Statement on the passing of "Soul Train" creator, Don Cornelius - Feb 1, 2012 - 12:51:05 PM
The following is a statement issued by The Recording Academy on the passing of "Soul Train" creator, Don Cornelius:
Recording
Academy Trustees Award recipient Don Cornelius created a cultural
phenomenon with "Soul Train," providing a platform for recording artists
to showcase their talents to a wider, more diverse audience. He made an
indelible impact on American television, one that will continue to be
appreciated for generations to come.
His beautiful, deep voice and measured pace always sounded warm and...
Entertainment
AFTRA National Board of Directors Approves Merger Package with SAG - Jan 31, 2012 - 11:05:16 PM
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 28, 2012) – The National Board of
Directors of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists,
AFL-CIO – a national union of more than 70,000 actors, broadcasters,
singers, dancers, recording artist and other performers who work across
the spectrum of media industries including television, radio, cable,
sound recordings and digital media – today voted overwhelmingly to
approve and recommend to the AFTRA membership a plan to merge with
Screen Actors Guild.
The National Board met in a regularly scheduled meeting via
videoconference in New York and Los Angeles to vote on the merger
package put forward by the AFTRA and SAG Group for One Union (G1), which
includes a Merger Agreement, Constitution and Dues Structure...
Entertainment
2012 Video Web Awards Nominees Announced - Jan 31, 2012 - 7:33:16 PM
New York (NY) - The wait for the highly anticipated third installment of the CariVibez Video Web Awards is finally over.
Caribbean
music has come a long way over the last decade and nowhere is that more
evident than as seen through the quality of music being created by our
artists and producers, the creative and eye popping music videos from
our directors, and the creativity of the genre's unheralded heroes; our
dancers and dance groups. The Video Web Awards, as the name suggests,
is a web based award event that is true to its name and follows a format
where the web community determines the winners who will be awarded the
Global Tower...
Entertainment
Results of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® - Jan 30, 2012 - 1:31:14 AM
LOS ANGELES
(Jan. 29, 2012) - Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor®
statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television
performances of 2011 at the “18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®” in
ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held
Sunday, Jan. 29, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.
Honored with individual awards were Viola Davis, Jean Dujardin,
Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer for performances in motion
pictures and Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Lange,
Betty White, and Kate Winslet for performances in television. Screen
Actors Guild originated...
Entertainment
(VIDEO) Bahamian, Mathenee Treco auditions for American Idol - Jan 26, 2012 - 1:16:13 PM
American Idol just got far more interesting to watch for Bahamians!
Posted
to YouTube today (January 26th, 2012), is the audition clip by Bahamian
Mathenee Treco, a 25 year old dance instructor, who according to his
Facebook page, says he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Treco auditioned in Aspen, Colorado and sang "Hey Jude".
Putting his own twist on the Beatles classic he impressed the judges
Entertainment
Academy Partners with Everyone Counts – Electronic Voting System to Launch for 2013 Oscars® - Jan 25, 2012 - 3:24:15 PM
Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
has entered into an agreement with Everyone Counts Inc. to exclusively
develop an electronic voting system for the 85th Academy Awards®, to be
held in 2013.
Everyone Counts will work with PwC, the Academy's accounting
firm of record, whose role in tabulating Academy members' votes will
remain unchanged. Over the next year, the Academy will undertake a
rigorous security and user-acceptance testing process...
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Caribbean LIVE Programming now Mobile TV - Jan 11, 2012 - 11:00:40 PM
New York, New York - With the launch of Total Caribbean
Network (TCN) a little over a year ago, TCN set out to provide a space
where Caribbean people could feel at home. By giving its viewers access
to 24 hour streams of live Caribbean news, entertainment and so much
more; TCN became the “go to” location for everything Caribbean and also
proved to be fertile ground for up and coming producers, filmmakers and
artists, who were allowed to submit their content for review and
placement on the TCNHD network.
In the past year the network has grown exponentially as TCN has now
fully integrated itself into all things mobile and with the launch of
TCN’s Hott...
Entertainment
Wind Jammers now available on DVD - Oct 31, 2011 - 4:07:20 PM
Nassau, Bahamas -
Wind Jammers
is
the Bahamian made family movie
directed by Kareem Mortimer and Ric von Maur.
Wind Jammers
is an independent film production about an American girl who learns to
sail in The Bahamas but learns much more about herself and the world
around her.
The movie is now available on DVD on Amazon or locally at Super Video in Nassau.
The film stars Taylor Boswell, Nicholas DiMichele, Craig Pinder, Brad Thomason, Justice VonMaur...
Entertainment
Jazzy Saturdays at Sabor with Shelly Carey and Tru Music - Jun 4, 2011 - 9:45:56 AM
Grand Bahama Island -
Shelly Carey and Tru Music to perform at the next
Jazzy Saturdays
at Sabor Restaurant & Bar, Pelican Bay Hotel. Dance the night away with this popular featured band on
Saturday, June 4th.
The show begins at 8:00 and goes until 10:00 pm.
Sabor is the island's freshest place to savor all the tastes of the tropical. With its innovative fusion menu and Latin beat, Sabor is one of the hottest restaurants in The Bahamas.
Entertainment
Julien Believe releases new single featuring Shontelle - Jan 4, 2011 - 1:16:43 PM
Velvet
voiced Bahamian recording artist, Julien 'Believe' Thompson has teamed
up with Bajan singer Shontelle for his latest release called,
The Tribune.
The
production of this album was done by a 100% owned Bahamian company and
was produced by Grammy winning producer Jason A. Farmer and Preston K.
Stuart.
Julien was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas, the small island paradise
in the Atlantic Ocean. Growing up there offered Julien exposure to both
a cosmopolitan way of life combined with what is known as traditional
island living. Growing up Julien was captivated by many genres of music.
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