Merry Mary
Posted by Kinley Levack under Music
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I recently went to see Mary Poppins on Broadway and wanted to take a moment to plug it for any groups soon heading near the Great White Way. As a little girl, Mary Poppins was one of my favorite movies and I get a bit nervous seeing favorite books, films, or plays translated to another medium. A few months ago I heard a group of young girls talking about the show in the subway…
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Posted by Sara Welch under Music
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If you're a planner in the New York area and you have VIPs who are music fans, consider doing a group event at the Blue Note, Greenwich Village's most famous jazz club,
Here's Barbra, Bubaleh
Posted by Jennifer Levey under Music
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I attended the Barbra Streisand concert at Madison Square Garden the other night, and what an event it was. It was a celebrity-spotting night, with Rosie O'Donnell, Oprah Winfrey and Bette Midler in attendance (fortunately, I had really strong binoculars). Even the politicians showed up to pay homage to the Diva: Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and Al Sharpton sat within a few rows of each other.
Cowboy Hospitality Twang, from Nashville to New York
Posted by April Torrisi under Music
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The Country Music Association (CMA) Awards is taking place tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City. For the past 38 years, the CMA Awards have been hosted in Nashville, TN, and will return there next year for the program's 40th anniversary. It is a huge event, even here in NYC, which lacks a proper country music radio station. It has even been reported that the live event is expected to garner its largest audience ever. And I got to listen to a portion of it yesterday at the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau’s press event held at Gotham Hall in midtown Manhattan. With large Romanesque columns and a stained-glass-domed ceiling, the event space was truly magical. And the bureau bent over backwards to entice tourism to Nashville. We were charmed with a sit-down luncheon, a shout out from Butch Spyridon, president of the bureau, and the mayor Bill Purcell, and live entertainment from country singer Sara Evans, who truly rocked Gotham. It was a spectacular event and I never knew that I would dig the heart and soul of country music and even admit it!
How They Got to Carnegie Hall
Posted by Terri Hardin under Music
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With New York City one of the top markets for country music, it’s no mistake that the Country Music Awards will be held in the Big Apple tonight at Madison Square Garden. To celebrate, the Big Apple has been holding a string of citywide (or “countrywide”, if you please) events that range from putting a cowboy hat on Mayor Bloomburg (yikes) to galas at chi-chi restaurants complete with live music from Nashville.
One of the most ambitious of these events was the 80th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry held at New York City’s Carnegie Hall last night, November 14 (pictured). It was the third such Carnegie Hall road show in the Opry's history; this one included Trace Adkins, Bill Anderson, Little Jimmy Dickens, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, Charley Pride, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, and Trisha Yearwood. Gill emceed, accompanied by Eddie Stubbs, the mellifluous announcer of the Grand Ole Opry radio program.
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