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Canadian cities join hundreds of cities for Car-Free Day
Toronto :: Canada | 2 months ago
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Toronto and Montreal and a host of other Canadian and world cities join up today for the annual Car-Free Day. The idea began born in Europe in 1999 as a way to reduce pollution and has since grown to include some 1,500 cities around the world. Toronto...
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Polaris Prize short list announced
Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility Previous winner Patrick Watson and previous nominee K'naan are among the 10 acts that will vie for this year's Polaris Music Prize. On Tuesday, organizers unveiled a short list for the $20,000 prize for the best popular full-length Canadian album.
Tags: Patrick Watson, music prize, Polaris Prize, polaris music, short list
Tim Hecker, Junior Boys Up for Polaris
Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility The nominees for this year's Polaris Prize are in, and we're thrilled to see a number of XLR8R favorites making the list for what is Canada's annual nod to its best album...Among various indie-rock and pop nominees, others on the 2009 long list include...
Tags: polaris prize, Polaris, long list, Leonard Cohen, music prize
Italian mezzo-soprano Bartoli wins Sonning prize
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 7 months ago
Credibility Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has won Denmark's Sonning Music Prize. The award committee says Bartoli's "sound is unique, her technique has not been surpassed and her radiation on stage is like (opera legend Maria) Callas." The Leonie Sonning...
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Peter Gabriel shares Polar Music Prize with Venezuelan conductor
Stockholm :: Sweden | 7 months ago
Credibility The winners will receive 1 million kronor ($122,000) each and formally accept the prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on August 31. Gabriel, 59, was honoured "for his ground-breaking, outward-looking and boundary-busting...
Tags: Peter Gabriel, music prize, Jose Antonio Abreu, polar music, Stockholm
Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA: New classical music prize established in Sweden
Stockholm :: Sweden | about 1 year ago
Credibility The late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson will be commemorated through the establishment of a $1 million classical music prize. The Birgit Nilsson Foundation said Friday the prize is being created according to the singer's wishes and is the largest in classical...
Tags: Birgit Nilsson Foundation, classical music, music prize
Polaris win 'completely overwhelms' solo act Caribou
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility n "overwelmed" Dan Snaith, better known as Canadian electronic musician Caribou, walked away with the third annual Polaris Music Prize in Toronto on Monday night. The solo performer, who hails from Dundas, Ont., took home the $20,000 cash prize for his...
Tags: polaris music, music prize, Dan Snaith, Caribou, London, Andorra, Ontario, Polaris
Bookies favour Burial to win Mercury Prize
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility The south London dubstep artist was largely unknown until earlier this year, when a Mercury nomination sent Burial's music – and his veiled identity – to the front pages of the tabloids. He eventually revealed himself as an ordinary bloke called Will...
Tags: mercury prize, music prize, mercury music, seen kid, Elbow, Britain, seldom seen, London, band elbows, Guy Garvey
Polar Music Prize
Stockholm :: Sweden | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Stockholm audience gave the prizewinners a standing ovation...Beauty contests Canceled An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of...
Tags: music prize, Renee Fleming, polar music, Pink Floyd, polar prize, Sweden
Mercury Music Prize 2008 nominations announced
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Burial ... the shadowy dubstep figure picks up his first Mercury nomination As always, it has been a "remarkably rich year for music", one in which the epic melancholy of Elbow's fourth album gets recognition alongside debut efforts from Adele, Laura...
Tags: mercury prize, ET Radiohead, Alison Krauss, music prize, Sea Power and Elbow, Robert Plant
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