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| Christopher Tin's 2x Grammy-Winningn CD "Calling All Dawns." |
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CONGRATULATIONS TO
CHRISTOPHER TIN
2X GRAMMY-WINNER 2011 !
OFFICIAL GRAMMY WINNER :
53rd Annual Grammy Awards
CHRISTOPHER TIN :
"CALLING ALL DAWNS"
- Best Classical
Crossover Album
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists
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| Grammy Winner for Best Hawaiian Music Album. |
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| Tia Carrere - Huana Ke Aloha |
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CONGRATULATIONS TO
Tia Carrere
GRAMMY-WINNER 2011 !
OFFICIAL GRAMMY WINNER :
53rd Annual Grammy Awards
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John McEuen
2010 GRAMMY WINNER:
John's production of Steve Martin's -
"The Crow - new songs for the 5-string banjo"
won Best Bluegrass Album.
John assembled: Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Mary Black, Earl Scruggs, Stuart Duncan,
Jerry Douglas, Tim O'Brien, David Amram, Hans Olson, Pete Wernick, Tony Trischka and others. All Martin originals. it held the #1 spot on the Bluegrass charts for 7 months.
John McEuen
was also honored with
The Best of The West Performer Award
On October 23, 2010
presented by
The Folk Alliance Region West
(FAR-West) the West-Coast Region of
Folk Alliance International
John McEuen is a founding member of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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now in their 45th year.
John's XM
radio show - Acoustic Traveller - (channel 15), is in its 5th year.
McEuen instigated what Rolling Stone called “The most important
record to come out of Nashville” and what the 2004 ZAGAT survey called “the most important record in country music”
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken -
in 2006 Circle was named by CMT as one of the 40 most important albums in Country Music.
2010 GRAMMY HALL OF FAME: Mr. Bojangles by NGDB was inducted this year in to the Grammy Hall of Fame as an important
Historical Recording.
2010 GRAMMY WINNER: John's production of Steve Martin - The Crow new songs for the 5-string
banjo won Best Bluegrass Album. John assembled: Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Mary Black, Earl Scruggs, Stuart Duncan,
Jerry Douglas, Tim O'Brien, David Amram, Hans Olson, Pete Wernick, Tony Trischka and others. All Martin originals. it held the #1 spot on the Bluegrass charts for 7 months.
Recently
released (on Sugarhill Records) to great reviews, the first Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album in 5 years, Speed of Life, produced by George Massenburg..
John has made over
40 albums (6 solo) that have earned 4 platinum and 5 gold recognition awards, Grammy nominations, CMA and ACM awards, Emmy
nomination, IBMA record of the year award, and performed on another 25 albums as guest artist.
John is the only California
musician to perform solo on the Grand Ole Opry, also play it several times with his band NGDB, and then
be a featured guest “sittin' in” with several of the Opry member acts - and recorded with Nashville's Country
music creators, and had records
in the pop and country charts. He also brought Steve to Nashville and performed with him on his Opry debut in 2009.
Released '07 - the Sesame Street DVD - Children's Favorite Country Songs. McEuen sings and plays
Oh, Susannah with 50 goats, a cow and two dozen kids (human ones)! other songs feature Lee Ann Womack, Alison
Krauss, Garth Brooks .
McEuen did music scores for three documentary films in 2008: Maynard Dixon -
Art & Spirit ; Sizzle - a global warming comedy; and
Losing the West.
The Music of the Wild West CD- Produced by John, was honored with the Western Heritage
Award, available on Varese/Sarabande label. John calls it “the Will the Circle Be Unbroken of 1890.”
(McEuen has scored 13 film projects, including Emmy nominated 10-hour mini-series The Wild West for Warner Bros.,)
Produced and directed by John,
also on Varese/Sarabande (released 2006) is the documentary film The Dillards - A Night In the Ozarks, , shot with 5 cameras with live music. It captures his
early mentors at their best.
Released winter 2007: the Live in Las Vegas concert with the jam band Phish, features John as a guest musician.
McEuen was presented
with the 1994 Uncle Dave Macon Award for his excellence in and pursuit of preserving historic music.
He has continually performed - over 8,000 shows
- and traveled 3 million miles to do it … and performed on over 300 television shows, both with the band, others, and
solo, as well as producing shows for television
Having known Martin since their teenage years working in Disneyland,
McEuen was recently featured in an A & E biography two-hour special about Steve. (John also did the music score for Steve's
first two NBC television specials; in 1977 The NGDB was 'the band' on Steve's King Tut).
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| Scott Gates, John McEuen, & Nathan McEuen at The Coffee Gallery Backstage. |
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| John McEuen (Guest) with Michael Sunday (Host) on the set of BackStage:Los Angeles. |
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| Scott Gates with John McEuen at The Coffee Gallery Backstage. |
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| Michael Sunday (Host), Sandy Jacobson (Producer), with Matt Cartsonis (Guest) outside the studio. |
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