| EVENT REPORT 02.01.10 5:55 PM |
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Inside the Grammy Parties: Midnight Brunch at the New W, Black Eyed Peas at the Palladium, MusiCares' Neil Young Honors
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 | The Dipdive Data awards at the Hollywood Palladium
Photo: Casey Rodgers/AP Images for Bacardi |
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Come Sunday night, the Grammy Awards would garner big ratings from the Staples Center stage. But days ahead of the ceremony—not to mention late into the night afterward—a slate of performance-packed, celebrity-heavy related events, both official and unofficial, took over town. Here's a look inside six of them.
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| NEWS 08.11.09 6:02 PM |
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Recording Academy to Honor Neil Young at MusiCares Person of the Year Gala
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Neil Young will be honored at the 20th anniversary MusiCares Person of the Year gala; Recording Academy and MusiCares Foundation president and C.E.O. Neil Portnow and MusiCares Foundation chair Paul Caine announced the news today. Proceeds from the annual Grammy week gala dinner and concert on January 29—two days before the 52nd annual Grammy awards at Staples—will support the nonprofit MusiCares.
The 2010 gala will begin with a reception and silent auction, including one-of-a-kind experiences and celebrity memorabilia. A dinner, award presentation, and tribute concert will follow. Warner Brothers Records chairman emeritus Mo Ostin, Lookout Management president and founder Elliot Roberts, and Warner Brothers Records chairman and C.E.O. Tom Whalley will co-chair the ceremony. —Alesandra Dubin
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Recording Academy, Grammys, Neil Young, MusiCares, Award Season |
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| EVENT REPORT 02.09.09 12:46 PM |
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Grammy Weekend Standouts Include a Big-Name Host, a Can't-Miss Charity Concert, and a Place to Actually Chill Out
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Grammy weekend: so many events, so many miles of gridlocked, rain-slicked freeways separating them. But some parties still had no problem drawing huge throngs of eager guests. The Recording Academy's pre-Grammy gala honoring Clive Davis, the MusiCares gala dinner honoring Neil Diamond, and the industry-favorite Friends and Family party offered some notably attractive lures—respectively, a big-name host, a benefit concert, and a bona fide environment in which to relax—that helped them stand out from the crowd. (Admittedly, it was an easier task in a year that record labels, already ailing, scaled back their individual party offerings in the tough economy.)
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| EVENT REPORT 02.11.08 4:39 PM |
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Grammy Event Highlights: What Lured Guests Where
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 | Nicole Khristine's guests took over Social Hollywood, plus its new restaurant, Citrus.
Photo: Todd Williamson/WireImage |
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On Grammy weekend, you can bet many potential guests had a stack of invitations from which to choose. And the notorious sprawl synonymous with Los Angeles only made it less likely that would-be attendees could make stops at all of those events. So how did hosts pull crowds? Here are some of their strategies.
A Gorgeous Venue
The restaurant at the spectacular Getty Center set the scene for Montblanc's pre-Grammy party on Thursday night, a rare opportunity for guests to make it up the hill after the museum's closing time (and to drive up, instead of ascending by tram). The program included cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and performances by cartoonishly cute kid pianist Marc Yu and the new chairman of the Foundation D'Enterprise Montblanc de la Culture, Grammy-nominated pianist Lang Lang. (Alas, come Grammy night, he would not take the prize.)
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| NEWS 02.06.08 11:05 AM |
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Grammy Events: Who's Going Where
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Across the land—Hollywoodland, that is—a broad array of folks involved with award-season planning have seen their share of disappointments this year. With the writers strike still ongoing (although showing signs of a reprieve) and some events over the last few weeks scaled back or canceled altogether (most notably the intimate fetes known as the Golden Globes and Vanity Fair's Oscar party), the Grammys may start to bring some luster back to the bummer-tinged season. Events related to the music spectacle begin in earnest this Thursday and continue through the weekend.
In fact, Thursday night looks to be one of the busier nights on the slate, with a party at the Getty Center to announce Grammy-nominated classical pianist Lang Lang as the new chairman of the Foundation D'Enterprise Montblanc de la Culture. Later in the evening, at Boulevard3 across town, the Recording Academy will join with In Style for the magazine's first attempt at a fashion show, showcasing the clothing lines of musicians-turned-designers such as Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z.
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Grammys, Award Season, Warner Music Group, Recording Academy, In Style Magazine, People Magazine, Verizon, Montblanc, Clothes Off Our Back, MusiCares, Writers' Strike, Nicole Khristine |
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| NEWS 01.30.08 7:00 PM |
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Grammy Red Carpet Sales to Benefit Music Charities
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Here's a new take on recycling—and celebrity worship: In an unusual fund-raising effort, Beverly Hills art gallery Celebrity Vault will sell 1,000 pieces of the red carpet from the 50th annual Grammy awards to benefit MusiCares and the Grammy Foundation. For around $100 a pop, collectors will have a chance to snag a framed piece of carpet alongside a ceremony ticket. Pre-orders begin February 3, and plaques will be shipped a few weeks after the February 10 awards, according to a press release from Rogers & Cowan. —Laura Kasavan
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