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Grace grew up in Minnesota playing violin and piano from age 5 until 12. She picked up percussion in school band where she learned the vibraphone, and fell in love with the instrument in high school. It was after this that she then decided to apply to Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Grace is now pursuing a performance degree from Berklee and is in her 5th semester.

Awards

Berklee Achievement Scholarship Made the Dean's list every semester so far at Berklee.


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Pianist Marcio Garcia Is At His Graceful Best On 'Nocturnal'

Pianist Marcio Garcia Is At His Graceful Best On 'Nocturnal'

Source: Marcio Garcia

Featuring 2x Grammy award-winning conga player Giovanni Hidalgo, Marcio Garcia is at his majestic best with an ear-calming melody to play all night as the rain flows cheekily from gutters on Nocturnal. Marcio Garcia is a multi-talented Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic-born jazz pianist, composer and educator who was classically trained at various prestigious institutions. Marcio has performed at the Festival de Jazz Restauración Santo Domingo, White Plains Jazz Festival, Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, Five Points Jazz Festival, Dazzle Jazz ...

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Guitarist/Composer Grace McNally Debut Release 'Full Circle' - Africa-South America-Gullah-Charleston, SC

Guitarist/Composer Grace McNally Debut Release 'Full Circle' - Africa-South America-Gullah-Charleston, SC

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations

Full Circle is my debut album which explores the musical continuities between the American Southeast, Central America, West Africa and Northeast Brazil. It is a musical memoir featuring musical traditions that have impacted my journey and perspective as a musician. It is a love letter to Charleston, South Carolina and to all the places that I lived in and traveled to in my young adulthood. Places that have shaped me into the woman and musician that I am today. Places ...

Music Industry

Gracenote Partners With Muzooka For Photos, Artist Assets

Gracenote Partners With Muzooka For Photos, Artist Assets

Source: HypeBot

Gracenote is now using Muzooka's unified artist asset management platform to help deliver the latest photos and more.  Gracenote is a leading provider of music metadata to many top music platforms and electronics devices. With the Muzooka partnership, when an artist or manager updates a photo on the Muzooka platform, that photo will be made available to Gracenote for inclusion across their client platforms and devices. SOCAN and GRAMMYConnect are also among the growing number of music sites and services ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: It's "Go Time" for Grace Kelly

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: It's "Go Time" for Grace Kelly

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, let's check out some videos featuring saxophonist and singer Grace Kelly, who's coming to St. Louis to perform starting Wednesday, February 13 through Sunday, February 17 at Jazz St. Louis. Already a music business veteran at age 26, Kelly grew up in the Boston area, recording and releasing her first album when she was just 12 years old. She subsequently earned her GED at 16, and went on to study at the New England Conservatory and Berklee, graduating ...

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Music Industry

Mixcloud Partners With Nielsen's Gracenote To ID Music In Tracks, Mixes

Mixcloud Partners With Nielsen's Gracenote To ID Music In Tracks, Mixes

Source: HypeBot

Music streamer Mixcloud has partnered with Nielsen's Gracenote for advanced music recognition using Gracenote MusicID to more accurately identify copyrighted audio content and ensure proper royalty payments to rights holders.   As the Mixcloud community of more than 1.2 million creators upload music mixes, radio shows and podcasts, Gracenote will automatically fingerprint each piece of content to identify copyrighted work and enable compliance.  Once Gracenote MusicID identifies a song, Mixcloud maps it to its proprietary database of artist, label and ...

Performance / Tour

Jazz this week: Grace Kelly, Steve Swell Quintet, Kevin Eubanks, a benefit for Puerto Rico, and more

Jazz this week: Grace Kelly, Steve Swell Quintet, Kevin Eubanks, a benefit for Puerto Rico, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

The fall presenting season is gathering some momentum this week, as the calendar of jazz and creative music for the next few days in St. Louis includes three significant touring headliners- two of whom are making their local debuts- plus a benefit raising money for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 4 Saxophonist and singer Grace Kelly makes her St. Louis debut in the first of four nights at Jazz at the ...

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John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola & Paco De Lucia "Passion Grace & Fire" Reissued On 180g Virgin Vinyl by Audio Fidelity

John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola & Paco De Lucia "Passion Grace & Fire" Reissued On 180g Virgin Vinyl by Audio Fidelity

Source: All About Jazz

In 1983 the guitar super trio of John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía reunited for another set of acoustic guitar trios. Unlike their first album the phenomenal live acoustic performance Friday Night In San Francisco this masterpiece consists entirely of studio sessions. Passion Grace & Fire is a mix of flamenco, fusion, jazz, latin and classical music, bathed with beauty and compassion. It is simply three mindblowing musicians that united to produce the last word in acoustic ...

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Performance / Tour

Grace Note Productions Presents Amina Claudine Myers In Concert in Manassas, VA on June 3

Grace Note Productions Presents Amina Claudine Myers In Concert  in Manassas, VA on June 3

Source: Cynthia Cotton

Grace Note Productions is pleased to announce that they are sponsoring jazz pianist and vocalist, Amina Claudine Myers in Concert on Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 3 PM at the Wyndham Garden Manassas Hotel in jny: Manassas, VA. Accompanying Amina will be Alto Saxophonist Antonio Parker, Bassist James King, and Drummer Nasar Abadey. Also, to open the concert will be The Cristian Perez Trio, featuring Jazz Guitarist Cristian Perez, Flutist Yana Hristova, and Bassist Dan Brown. “Jazz is America’s only ...

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Music Industry

Nielsen Completes Gracenote Acquisition

Nielsen Completes Gracenote Acquisition

Source: HypeBot

Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it had completed its acquisition of entertainment metadata provider Gracenote.   Gracenote's data and technology is a key element of user interfaces and programming guides and includes everything from song data on compact discs to multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), smart televisions, streaming music services, connected devices, media players and in-car infotainment systems. Nielsen says the acquisition will give them greater ability to provide audience and usage analytics as well as allowing Nielsen's clients to ...

Music Industry

Nielsen Acquires Gracenote From Tribune For $560 Million Cash To Improve Music, Media Data Measurement

Nielsen Acquires Gracenote From Tribune For $560 Million Cash To Improve Music, Media Data Measurement

Source: HypeBot

Nielsen has acquired Gracenote from Tribune in an all cash deal. For the music industry, that leaves its main source of track metadata in familiar hands and the hope of improved tracking across new and emerging platforms globally. Tribune Media (NYSE: TRCO) is selling Gracenote to Nielsen Company (NYSE: NLSN) for $560 million in cash. Gracenote supplies metadata on more than 200 million songs and 12 million movies and TV episodes to Apple, Comcast, DirecTV, Sony, Amazon and others including auto ...

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