The News Review:
- ELEVENTH ANNUAL MAPLE BLUES AWARDS RESULTS ARE IN EAST T WEST
- Martinborough’s new health centre officially open
- … Jamaican Musicologist to be Beamed Globally from 2008 Air…
ELEVENTH ANNUAL MAPLE BLUES AWARDS RESULTS ARE IN EAST T WEST
eJazzNews – Jan 22, 2008
BUILDING A HISTRY – THE MAPLE BLUES AWARDS The Maple Blues Awards is Canada’s national blues awards program organized by the Toronto Blues Society with the support and participation of blues societies across Canada and the newly formed Canadian Blues Alliance. Its goal is to promote blues music nationally and to recognize outstanding achievement in the field. The nominees are selected by a national panel of distinguished blues DJs and journalists and the winners are selected by on-line voting by blues fans across Canada. -30- For more information photos interviews please contact: Beverly KrellerSPEAK Musicwww.
Martinborough’s new health centre officially open
Wairarapa Times Age – Jan 22, 2008
That really makes it a community project. “So many of you have helped in so many way to bring this project to fruition a tremendous achievement which demonstrates the resolve and commitment to a cause when the community needs to take action. ” Joan Gibson and Noeline White two Martinborough residents who lobbied for the centre with a petition in 2004 cut the ribbon and on conclusion people filed into the new building to the sounds of blues music by Wairarapa group The Restoration Project. Coincidentally two Masterton doctors were among those invited to provide background music including Rob Maunsell and David Nixon. The celebrations ended with a morning tea at the Lions building beside the centre provided by Lionesses Playcentre mothers and Plunket members. Margaret Parkinson stopped as she left through the double doors of the new centre yesterday is convinced that such a centre will benefit Martinborough in a big way because everybody whether they’re farmers or a winemakers needs to go to the doctor. “I think it’s a great asset for Martinborough.
… Jamaican Musicologist to be Beamed Globally from 2008 Air…
eJazzNews – Jan 22, 2008
airjamaicajazzandblues. Meanwhile veteran radio broadcaster and co-author of ‘Bob Marley: Reggae King of the World’ Dermott Hussey is set to be honored for his lifetime dedication to music by organizers of the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival. Hussey will be presented with an award by Walter Elmore executive producer of the January 24-26 2008 festival. The award will be presented on January 26 2008 the final night of the festival in recognition of Hussey’s contribution to the creation of the festival. The veteran radio journalist has already won a Musgrave Medal and a prestigious Jamaican award for services to media and music. The Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival since its introduction in 1996 has attracted thousands of patrons from the USA Europe the Caribbean and Jamaica.