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Legendary Guitarist Doc Watson Ranks 12th on Gibson.com’s Top 50 Acoustic Guitar …
Gibson.com is counting down the Top 50 Acoustic Guitarists of All Time. The results come from votes by Gibson’s editorial team, writing staff and the readers. They have ranked legendary flatpicking guitarist Doc Watson as the 12th Best Acoustic Guitarist of All Time.
Blooming Twig Books has just released “Blind But Now I See,” (www.docwatsonbook.com) a no-holds barred biography of Doc Watson’s life and career.
Written by Dr. Kent…
AlphaDogs Post Production Battles It Out In New Series For ESPNU
Burbank, CA- Burbank based AlphaDogs Post Production is pleased to announce it has completed work on the new ESPNU series The Battle. Presented by AT & T the series will air five 30-minute shows during four straight weeks, every Thursday from November 4 to November 25, on ESPNU at 6:30pm EST.
Producer Eric Page faced extreme challenges to meet the deadlines for the show. AlphaDogs was chosen as…
Wisconsinmade.com Welcomes Schumann Sculpture Into Its Artisan Group
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Wisconsinmade.com Welcomes Schumann Sculpture Into Its Artisan Group:
MADISON, WISCONSIN (11/5/2010) – Wisconsinmade.com, an e-commerce gift store, is pleased to announce that Schumann Sculpture, of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, has joined our artisan group. Wisconsinmade.com carefully selects only the finest-quality products made in Wisconsin and offers them for sale on the Internet. "We are delighted to present Schumann Sculpture pewter ornaments and pins to our shoppers this holiday season. The…
Agora Gallery Presents Santina “Semadar” Panetta in Portals of Perception
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Italian artist, Santina “Semadar” Panetta, in Portals of Perception. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 23, 2010 through December 14, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, December 02, 2010).
Filled with the spirit of the natural world, Santina “Semadar” Panetta’s paintings blur the boundaries between landscape and abstraction. While her works remain largely nonrepresentational, one cannot help but feel the essence of the seasons which…
Local Asheville Artist Diane English Expands Business to Europe
Diane English, creator of The Great Cosmic Happy-Ass Card Company, in Weaverville, NC recently added a European distributor for her greeting cards. Her line is currently distributed to independent bookstores and galleries in the U.S. and Canada and also available on the Internet at http://www.greatcosmichappyass.com. “This is a wonderful opportunity to expand the reach of my cards.” “Cards,” she says with a smile, “that are purchased by brilliant, self aware…
Winter Exhibition at The Colomb Art Gallery, London
Paintings and Sculpture from award winning gallery represented artists.
Winter Exhibition: 3 Dec 2010 until 19 Feb 2011.
Contact gallery for Private View times
The Colomb Art Gallery
52a George Street, Marylebone, London. W1U 7EA. UK.
020 7487 5118 | www.colombart.co.uk
Baker Street or Bond Street
Free Admission
Award winning painters and sculptors include:
Peter Barker. British landscape artist
Adam Binder. British sculptor
Nick Hais. British painter
Wendy Hunt. British wildlife sculptor
Neill Jenkins. British artist
Fredrik K.B. Norwegian sculptor
Valery…
Officers’ Quarters Publication Launch: War Brides Issue
Fredericton, New Brunswick (November 10, 2010) – The York Sunbury Historical Society, through a partnership with the Stepping Stones Writers Group, is getting ready to launch their latest issue of the Officers’ Quarters.
Edited by Elaine Mercer, this issue of the local history publication features the first half of the York Sunbury Museum War Brides exhibit that was closed in 2009. Ms. Mercer joined the York Sunbury Historical…
Voice Actor and Producer, Dave DeAndrea, Offers Insights on Social Networking
Dave DeAndrea has been in the broadcast industry since 1985. His early experience producing radio ads gives him the ability to capture the essence for a wide variety of companies through his voice over services and has booked jobs for such prestigious companies as Disney, NASCAR, Mercedes-Benz, Pizza Hut, and many more.
DeAndrea extends his knowledge to Voice Over Experts with his debut podcast, "The Necessity of Social Networking," offering tried,…
FREE Piano-Yoga® Workshop in London for EPTA members Sunday, 12 December 2010, 1 …
Join the Piano-Yoga® team in which GéNIA will demonstrate methods and exercises from her latest Piano-Yoga® book
“It really does work … Many ailing pianists have been helped with this unorthodox and unusual method … All teachers should try it”
Piano Professional Magazine, Autumn 2010
Russian pianist and educator GéNIA, will highlight the foundation of the Piano-Yoga® method and demonstrate exercises from her Piano-Yoga® book: "Transform your hands: A complete ten…
Agora Gallery Presents Cory ‘Brendan’ Parker in the Apex of Transcendence
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Florida artist, Cory ‘Brendan’ Parker, in the Apex of Transcendence. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 23, 2010 through December 14, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, December 02, 2010).
Combining mixed media with acrylics, Cory ‘Brendan’ Parker’s highly textured abstractions and landscapes rise tantalizingly from the canvas, playfully interacting with light and shadow. In a technique he calls “experimental Impasto acrylic alchemy” Parker uses…
Chhat – An Astrological Understanding
The Sun is the only Grah (planet) whose rays and radiations can be felt by a living being and thus why it is considered as the soul of all the living beings and astrologically when it goes into debilitation i.e. when it starts its transit in the Tula Rashi( Libran Sign) the benefices associated with it is reduced to a great extent or broadly get reversed . This means that…
New Majors-Only Tarot Deck from Artist Emily Carding Features Imagery from the C …
San Francisco, CA, October 2010 – With traditional Tarot decks – featuring Western European cultures, religion, and imagery – crowding the market, artist Emily Carding instead searched for the unexpected. Drawing inspiration from a tiny country bordering the Adriatic sea in Eastern Europe, her Tarot of the Black Mountain, will be published by Tarot Media Company in Spring 2011, is an exciting new major arcana Tarot deck that echoes the…
Fodera Guitars Adds Certified Pre-Owned Basses & Guitars To Website In Response …
Fodera Guitars, a leading custom guitar maker since 1983, has recently added certified pre-owned instruments to its wide selection of handmade basses and solid body electric guitars for sale at Fodera.com.
According to the Fodera team, the decision to sell certified pre-owned instruments was made in response to steadily growing musician demands for more readily available, premium Fodera handmade instruments.
“Because we make our basses and guitars completely by hand,…
Grand Finale of the Light Art Biennial Austria 2010
the Project AREA 53 presents
Grand Finale
of the
Light Art Biennial Austria 2010
Patrick Baumüller (AT), Andrea Borgonovo (IT), Barbara Doser (AT), Heidulf Gerngross (AT), Hofstetter Kurt (AT), Manfred Kielnhofer (AT), Christoph Luckeneder (AT), Eric Michel (FR), Alexandre Murucci (BR), Anka Nidzgorska (PL), Peter Sandbichler (AT), Martina Schettina (AT), Reto Schölly (CH/D), Michael Schuster / Sonja Gangl (AT), Marco Testini (IT),
Two People One Work (AT), Mounty R. P. Zentara (AT)
Opening
11. Nov. 2010, 7.…
DASH and Las Tias Offer a Fresh Spin on Old Tales during Art Basel
Miami, FL: In celebration of Art Basel, The Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH) will be putting a fresh spin on old Grimm fairy tales, including Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Tom Thumb, Rapunzel, and Rumpelstiltskin. The talented students from this award-winning school will be creating a series of dynamic, site-specific multi-media installations including a combination of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and performance arts. The unique creations will be presented…
Exhibition: BEHIND THE BILLBOARD / Openig: Friday, November 12th 2010 at 6 pm
On the correlation between image and identity
Sonia Jiménez Alvarez (D), Kim Bouvy (NL), Sabrina Jung (D), Dieuwertje Komen (NL), Anne Lass (D), Patricia Neligan (D), Antje Peters (D/NL), Elian Somers (NL)
Contemporary photography from Germany and the Netherlands curated by Caroline von Courten (D/NL).
Opening: Friday, November 12th 2010 at 6pm
Duration: 13.11.–18.12.2010
Point of departure of the group exhibition Behind the Billboard with work of four Dutch and four German photographers, is the…
Murano Glass Store- A New Web Site Design
November 1, 2010- Murano Glass Store, one of the most successful online jewelry and accessories store, has restructured their web site, so it offers more accessibility and a more beautiful design.
Having acknowledged the fact that most of the Murano glass jewelry that you can find on the Internet today is nothing but cheap imitations, Murano Glass Store strives to provide their customers with some of the finest quality Murano…
Voices.com Presents New Webinar Series
Voices.com is establishing a new webinar series called Makeover Mondays where the women from Voices.com will give live reviews of voice actor profiles, helping a different person each week to take their web presence, marketing and auditioning strategies to the next level. Makeover Mondays is a fresh approach on how to polish up voice talent profiles and help them sell their services online.
Participants in Makeover Mondays will be randomly drawn…
How Eve Evolved
Eve has always been a popular subject for artists, and Lenore Simon is no exception. During her prolific career, Simon has created a number of versions of Eve which will be featured in her upcoming exhibition, “Simply Simon.”
Simon’s early version of Eve depicts a rather confused woman holding an apple in her hand, scratching her head, and deciding whether on not to take that first bite. The snake is…
Big Bad Wolf Studios Presents “Double Divas” Voice Over Work Shop
On December fourth the East coast meets the West coast in a rare opportunity to learn from two of the top female voice over coaches in Canada at Big Bad Wolf Studios in Toronto, Ontario.
Deb Munro, who is providing the voice for the upcoming 2010 Canadian New Media Awards, along with Gemini nominated voice actor Elley Ray Hennessy, bring together the perspectives of both union and non…
Mercury Quartet, ‘Mercury Acoustic’ As Next NONCLASSICAL Release
The next album set for release on NONCLASSICAL is the debut from The Mercury Quartet with an album entitled Mercury Acoustic uniquely charting the fine-line between improvisation and composed music, the Mercury Quartet comprises four rising stars of the UK’s contemporary music scene.
This will be the 8th release from the up and coming NONCLASSICAL label and marks what a momentous way they have come and as with previous Nonclassical releases,…
Writing Your Novel Is The Easy Part
Writing Your Novel Is The Easy Part
A free white paper from MichaelEdits.com
HANOI, Vietnam -- Is Michael LaRocca nuts? If he's going to claim that writing a novel is easy, it's a valid question.
Getting those characters just right, sorting out who they are, what they've been, what they want to become, what they're up against, and just how they twist and turn around each other in the struggle.
Wrestling with point of…
Johansson Projects presents Due By featuring Jennie Ottinger
In Due By, Jennie Ottinger crafts a canonical library stripped down to the barely-there essentials. There is a haunting affect to Ottinger's collection of newfangled classics; perhaps it is the quiet tick tock of our own mortality, urging us to read the greats before it is too late. To help us with our timely mission, the books' insides are cut out and replaced with far more entertaining summaries. Her humorous…
ECOSISTEMA URBANO - Looking through ecosistema urbano eyes - Exhibition in the D …
ecosistema urbano’s name is program: Their projects combine architecture, urbanism, engineering and sociology to strive for a ‘creative urban sustainability’. The focus of their work is on the complex phenomenon of the city, which they react to (or activate) through innovative, creative and holistic interventions. The interdisciplinary office from Madrid is an international consultant on sustainable urban development for cities and regions. Public space is thereby a central issue: ecosistema…
CONTESA Hong Kong to Host Fund Raising Gala “I Dream of Africa”
4th November 2010: CONTESA a UK registered charity that supports Aids orphans in Zambia, is excited and proud to be hosting a prestigious fund raising launch gala “I Dream of Africa” on Saturday 6th November 2010 at the Aberdeen Marina Club, Hong Kong.
The purpose of the Gala is to raise funds and reinforce CONTESA’s mission and vision of building basic shelter to accommodate Aids orphans in…
Trafford Publishing Introduces The iPad App Marketing Marketing Services To Self …
Trafford Publishing, the first company to offer an "on-demand publishing service," continues to provide innovative options to authors who want to stay on the cutting edge of the latest trends with their self publishing services. Trafford Publishing is excited to announce the iPad App Marketing as their newest addition to their Marketing Services. Because the iPad™, iPhone™ and iTouch™ are slowly transforming the book publishing industry, Traffod brings in the…
Power Rangers Writer Stewart St. John Releases New Holiday Children's Book
Snookery And The Great Glowing Acorn tells the power of appreciation in first book of the series that offers a contemporary spin on the "golden ules" for kids and family
Beverly Hills, CA, November 03, 2010 -- St. John-Fisher Entertainment, a rising star in the children and family publishing and multimedia market creating innovative content across all media platforms, announced today the release of Stewart St. John's new children's illustrated book,…
Author Gene K. Garrison To Be Featured In 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading
Author Gene K. Garrison was recently chosen to be featured in '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading'. The book is produced by The Authors Show. She was chosen as the result of her release entitled 'From Thunder To Breakfast'
"I am very pleased," stated Ms. Garrison "to have been chosen as one of the "50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading. It's a privilege."
Gene is originally from Delaware. After moving…
El Gallo Chantecler, The Gestural Charms of Kamyl Bullaudy Rodríguez at Queen Ga …
Queen Gallery proudly presents Kamyl Bullaudy Rodriguez’s rooster paintings from November 11-30, 2010. Everyone is invited to attend the opening reception on Saturday, November 13, 2010 from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. Kamyl’s expressive roosters are fun for everyone. A master of contemporary Cuban art, Bullaudy's range of production is impressive, including charcoal murals, collages, paintings that incorporate coloured pulp made in a blender from discarded paper and egg cartons,…
Boston’s Liveliest Holiday Meal!
Thanksgiving Day Dinner at The Beehive
The Beehive will be hosting their annual Thanksgiving Day dinner with festivities to include an a la carte Thanksgiving Day menu of traditional items and some with a twist (See Menu Below) and top rate live jazz all day and evening featuring three talented female vocalist with Cece Kim from 12:00PM-4:00PM, Tammy Scheffer from 4:00PM-8:00PM, and the funky soulful sounds of the Marsha Lubin…
Louise Brooks Celebrated at San Francisco Public Library
LOUISE BROOKS CELEBRATED AT SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Silent film star shines in censored film based on controversial book
A once controversial bestseller which inspired a silent film starring screen legend Louise Brooks will be celebrated at the San Francisco Public Library on November 14th. This special event on what would have been the actress’ 104th birthday takes place in the 250 seat Koret Auditorium of the main branch of the SFPL.…
Ashmin Skyy to release new single “Wrapped in Love” on November 9
For Immediate Release November 2, 2010
Ashmin Skyy to release new single “Wrapped in Love” on November 9
New single to debut in time for the Holiday season
(Orlando, FL) Ashmin Skyy, 14-year-old singer/songwriter and teen pop sensation will release her very first Christmas single, “Wrapped in Love,” to the world on November 9, 2010. With this…
Author Madeleine Herrmann To Be Featured In 50 Great Writers You Should Be Readi …
Madeleine Herrmann was recently chosen to be featured in '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading'. The book is produced by The Authors Show. She was chosen as the result of her release entitled 'Partita - A Psychological Mystery'.
"When I look at my life," stated Ms. Herrmann, "and remember coming to the States in the fifties, with a little suitcase and no money but a scholarship, when I look back…
Old Mining on Your Wall
Saxon Mining Calendar Sheds New Light on the History of Miners and Smelters
The “Original Saxon Mining Calendar” has been covering various topics from the history of the regional mining industry for 18 years. No other format has so far been continuously presenting ever newer aspects of Saxony’s most prominent cultural asset. The publishers Jens Kugler, René König and Dr. Rudolf Störr offer their latest edition under the headline “Traditionals of…
Nathan Sawaya, LEGO brick artist, returns to Agora Gallery
Starting on November 23, 2010, internationally renowned LEGO brick artist Nathan Sawaya returns to Agora Gallery with his newest and most personal sculptures.
Internationally famous LEGO brick artist Nathan Sawaya returns to Agora Gallery in RED – an exhibition featuring his all new work, which presents for the first time the recent artistic shift which Sawaya’s work has undergone. While the sculpture retains its surrealist charm, the artist says that his…
Voice Over Educator Provides Expertise on Performance Techniques
Bettye Zoller has given momentum to hundreds of voice over careers from her studio in Dallas, Texas, where she is a skilled audio engineer known for demo creation and audio book production. Zoller is a thirty year veteran of the voice over industry and is one of the most heard voices in America. She has been the voice of Bravo, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, PBS and many more.
Featured on…
Potter Barry Weiss of Hummingbird Pottery Joins Wisconsinmade.com
Wisconsinmade.com, an e-commerce gourmet food and gift store, is excited to welcome artist/potter Barry Weiss, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin into its growing family of Wisconsin artisans. Wisconsinmade.com carefully selects only the finest-quality products made in Wisconsin and offers them for sale on the Internet. "Barry epitomizes the true artist," said Linda Remeschatis, owner of Wisconsinmade.com, "His mastery of the technical details of his art enables him to transpose his most…
Chinese Graphic Novel RAVL’S JOURNAL gets UK Release in Online Arts Magazine
The successful graphic novel RAVL’S JOURNAL, by Chinese fine artist LI LI, has been released as an online series by UK arts publication MEDIUM MAGAZINE.
RAVL’S JOURNAL tells the story of a successful painter and pianist from Kang Lin called Ravl, who is in love with a girl called Eva, who he has never met before. Eva lives in Yun City, a faraway place that Ravl has never been to. He…
Harpist Caroline Léonardelli’s Juno nominated recording El Dorado released in th …
Centaur Classics is proud to announce that its recording El Dorado by harpist Caroline Léonardelli initially available in Canada has now been released in the United States & Europe. Caroline Léonardelli received a 2010 Juno nomination for “Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble” for El Dorado. The nomination firmly establishes Caroline as a world-class musician and recording artist. The recording features two compositions from the Juno…
Tom Schmelzer: Beautiful outside my head forever 5 November – 15 January 2010 Op …
A life-size baboon in a bishop’s robe that, with one hand, is gathering his brocade coat and with the other swinging a soap bubble dispenser. A machine that is gradually grinding one-and-a-half kilos of precious pearls to dust. Worms as thick as a finger winding their way on a lacquered wooden box while producing knocking sounds. The objects and installations of the Munich-based artist Tom Schmelzer have a disturbing quality…
New York Casting Director Guest Stars on Voice Over Experts
Doriane Elliott is a successful New York based voice over casting director and highly respected voice-over coach. Elliott’s four week intensive courses and private lessons cover each step an actor encounters from the moment they walk through the door of an audition to the moment they leave the casting session.
Elliott makes a guest appearance on Voice Over Experts offering insights on the pros and cons of operating out of…
Boston’s Liveliest Holiday Meal!
Boston’s Liveliest Holiday Meal!
Thanksgiving Day Dinner at The Beehive
The Beehive will be hosting their annual Thanksgiving Day dinner with festivities to include an a la carte Thanksgiving Day menu of traditional items and some with a twist (See Menu Below) and top rate live jazz all day and evening featuring three talented female vocalist with Cece Kim from 12:00PM-4:00PM, Tammy Scheffer from 4:00PM-8:00PM, and the funky soulful sounds of…
Author Greg Allen Chosen As One Of 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading
Author Greg Allen has been featured in '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading'. He was chosen for the book as the result of his latest novel, 'War Of The Heart'.
"To be included", stated Mr. Allen, "in '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading' is an honor. To be recognized by my peers based upon those words which pour from my soul is something to behold. Accolades such…
The MCO on tour in South America: Concerts and Educational Projects in Colombia …
A special tour takes the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO) to the South American countries Colombia and Brazil in November 2010. Under the baton of Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the orchestra will prepare a programme with works by Schubert, Mozart, Schittke and Haydn. Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Schnittke’s Moz-Art à la Haydn offer MCO musicians Konstantin Pfiz (cello), Gregory Ahss (violin; concertmaster) and Eoin Andersen (violin) a good opportunity…
The MCO opens the season at its Italian residence Ferrara under the direction of …
In autumn of 2010, as every year, the MCO returns to its Italian residence city Ferrara to open the concert season there. The event features the orchestra in its very first collaboration with Italian conductor Fabio Luisi and soprano Marlis Petersen. The programme includes Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no.4 and Alban Berg’s concert aria Der Wein. The MCO will then travel to Spain to repeat this program in…
La Rogaia Creative Holidays. Photography-Workshop in Umbria with Star Photograph …
Villa La Rogaia, renommated organizer of creative holidays in Umbria/ Italy, is happy to offer a photo workshop with internationally acclaimed photographer René van Bakel.
Award winning photographer René van Bakel comes from the Netherlands, where he studied Photography. For many years he has been working for the Dutch Ministery of Defence and traveled to many theaters of war and hazardous zones of the world (Bosnia, Ruanda, Arabian Gulf region and…
The Founders of Closed Sessions
Chicago, Illinois, 27th October, 2010: Making and distributing music is nothing new. The music industry has become a lucrative business built upon finding and developing talented artists and releasing their music to the masses. The digital age has drastically shaken things up and cracked holes in the old ways of doing business. What makes Closed Sessions, LLC unique is that its very formation is not a response…
Hugo E. Slepoy’s ‘Originals’ at Queen Gallery
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hugo E. Slepoy’s ‘Originals’ at Queen Gallery
October 27, 2010
Toronto
Queen Gallery proudly presents Hugo E. Slepoy’s solo exhibition entitled ‘Originals’. Twenty-five of Hugo’s highly-detailed, original drawings will be on exhibit from Thursday, October 28, 2010 until Tuesday, November 9, 2010. Everyone is invited to attend the opening reception which will be Thursday, October 29, 2010 from 6-9 pm.
Hugo E. Slepoy graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, in…
The “Spotlight” Program Sheds Light on the Impact of Art Exhibitions with its Ed …
The cultural importance of art and its place in our history is detailed in “Spotlight’s”comprehensive interstitial segments for Public Television.
There are multiple elements that mark the historical landmarks of the human race, including industry, religion, war, and science. The one that has permeated the entirety of our culture as people, though, is art. From the dawn of man and the sketchings on shelter walls to impressionistic modern…
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When it comes toNYC lifestyle, the options are unlimited. Being one of the most populous cities of the United States, it is also one of the most bustling metropolitan areas in the world. New York is a leading global city and exerts an immensely powerful influence over global finance, commerce, media, art, culture, research, fashion, entertainment and education. Since the city houses the United Nations headquarters, it has automatically become…
