As well as the night show, don’t forget to watch the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony! The telecast only shows those top 10-15 Awards and tons of performances, but the other categories are awarded the same day in the hours before the big show. The Premiere Ceremony streams on http://www.grammy.com and is really fun to follow – it’s where most of our local nominees’ categories live and some breathtaking performances happen – and this year, while it won’t be live, it sounds like there will be some great surprises in store. Details are below.
The 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards® will air on CBS on Sunday, March 14.
The GRAMMY Awards PREMIERE Ceremony™ – which is the other 75 or so Awards that they don’t show on prime time – will be streaming on http://www.grammy.com beginning at 12:00 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. MT.
See below for more about this year’s Colorado-related nominees!
About the GRAMMY Awards process: http://www.grammy101.com
About Recording Academy membership: http://www.grammy.com/join
About Recording Academy Advocacy: http://www.grammy.com/advocacy
About our #ChangeMusic Roadmap and DEI work: http://www.grammy.com/inclusion
Thank you again for including us!
Cheers,
Christen McFarland, Executive Director
415.749.0779 x2
Recording Academy®
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San Francisco, CA 94102
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Arvada West High School Choir Director Chris Maunu Nominated for Grammy Music Educator of the Year
Aleisha Pfaff Maunu re her hubby Chris Maunu: Beyond proud of and inspired by this guy! He was nominated by students at Arvada West High School this year for the GRAMMY Music Educator award, and is now in the top 10 finalists, out of more than 3,300 nominations. His work in the school system has inspired so many students and they will be the first to tell you how truly selfless he is. He cares most about the success and growth of his students. He truly loves and cares about them. No matter what happens, he is an amazing educator in my book, worthy of all the praises and accolades he has coming to him.
https://www.grammy.com/press-releases/music-educator-award
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Boulder’s Richard O’Neill Nominated for Grammy – From UCBoulder’s website:
Praised by the New York Times for his “elegant, velvety tone,” violist Richard O’Neill has distinguished himself as one of the great instrumentalists of his generation. He has appeared as soloist with the world’s top orchestras, including the London, Los Angeles, Seoul and Euro-Asian Philharmonics, and he has worked with distinguished musicians and conductors, including Andrew Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, Francois Xavier Roth, Leonard Slatkin and Yannick Nezet-Seguin. He is in his 10th season as artistic director of Ensemble DITTO, as well as artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and principal violist of Camerata Pacifica. O’Neill is a Grammy- nominated Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon recording artist who has made 10 solo albums and many other chamber music recordings, earning multiple platinum discs. He has appeared on major TV networks in South Korea and enjoyed huge success with his 2004 KBS documentary “Human Theater,” which was viewed by over 12 million people, and his 2013 series “Hello?! Orchestra,” which featured his work with a multicultural youth orchestra for MBC and led to an International Emmy in Arts Programming and a feature length film. He serves as Goodwill Ambassador for the Korean Red Cross, The Special Olympics, UNICEF and OXFAM and serves on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Visit O’Neill’s website.
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Get to Know Highlands Ranch Native Ingrid Andress
Ingrid Elizabeth Andress (born September 21, 1991) is an American country music singer from Colorado. Her debut single “More Hearts Than Mine” debuted at number 59 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart dated July 1, 2019. In March 2020, she released her first album Lady Like.
Andress was born in Southfield, Michigan and grew up in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. As a child, she learned to play piano and drums while also participating in high school choir competitions at Rock Canyon High School. Andress attended Berklee College of Music and majored in songwriting and performance.
She founded an a cappella group called Pitch Slapped, which performed on the NBC singing competition The Sing-Off. Another one of her groups, Delilah, also performed on the show and placed sixth. After leaving the show, Andress finished her degree and underwent a mentorship with pop songwriter Kara DioGuardi. She then moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she began writing songs for artists such as Sam Hunt, Alicia Keys, and Charli XCX.
Andress signed with Warner Nashville in mid 2018. In 2019, she debuted with the single “More Hearts Than Mine”. The song has charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. Andress cites Faith Hill and the Dixie Chicks as her musical inspirations, and notes that she always wants to write her own songs unless she finds an exceptional song written by someone else.
On March 27, 2020, she released her debut studio album Lady Like through Warner Music Nashville. Andress reached No. 1 on the Billboard Emerging Artists chart in April 2020 due to the chart arrival of Lady Like and the rise of her single “More Hearts Than Mine”, which reached the top five of the American and Canadian country charts. A deluxe edition of Lady Like was released October 2, 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Andress
http://www.ingridandress.com