Category: Press Releases

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Festival Live Summit Announced for Live Event and Festival Sector

The UK music industry has announced the launch of Festival Live, a leading international B2B summit dedicated to the latest festival technologies and live event services which brings together the live event and festival (both music and film) industry in response to the sustained spike in sector growth, the growing need to facilitate trade and co-operation within the industry and desire to reveal and showcase the latest technologies, innovations, case studies and updates from the best music festivals and live events on earth.

The first event, taking place 10th-11th May 2019 at the Brighton Centre, East Sussex, UK will have attendance and speakers from organisations such as Glastonbury, Bestival, Latitude, Black Deer Festival, End of the Road Festival, AEG Presents, Beggars Group, Broadwick Live, Dreamland Margate, Sony Music, Raindance Film Festival, Digital Domain, Hospital Records, Discogs, London Craft Beer Festival, Todd in the Hole Festival and and Pollstar, to name but a small few.

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Sister Sledge Headline Crate Diggers

Discogs, the worlds 3rd largest online music destination after YouTube and Spotify, have announced that Sister Sledge will be headlining the Crate Diggers Festival in association with Audio-Technica at the Brighton Centre Saturday 11th May.

Crate Diggers is the largest international festival series in the world dedicated to vinyl collecting and music merchandise with hundreds of vinyl sellers, record labels, record shops, vinyl enthusiasts and world class acts performing to over 4000 attendees.

Key Features of Crate Diggers:

Hundreds of record shops, Vinyl sellers and record labels selling a selection of records, turntables, tapes and music merchandise new and old. Entrance to the record fair is FREE TO ATTEND.

Lineup includes including Sister Sledge, David Rodigan, General Levy, Zion Train, Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the heart, JFB and more. Tickets required for the live shows.

Sister Sledge

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Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences

Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences
This press release is from City of London Police

Steve Mather, 63, of Beaufort Street, Rochdale, Lancashire, has been sentenced to eight months suspended at Manchester Crown Court. He pleaded guilty to copyright offences for illegally creating and distributing karaoke tracks online without permission. Digitop have estimated their loss to be £485,000, while Sunfly Karaoke Ltd’s loss is projected to be £29,593.50

In 2015, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) received a referral from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) when one of their members, Digitop Ltd, became aware of online accounts called KaraokeRG and Karaokekid. These accounts were making torrented karaoke tracks available to the public without permission from the rights holders, Digitop and Sunfly Karaoke Ltd.

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Dame Colette Bowe, Chair of ABRSM Governing Body honoured with a music scholarship award in her name!

Dame Colette Bowe has had a music scholarship award named after her to mark her successful tenure as Chair of ABRSM’s governing body

Dame Colette Bowe

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ABRSM releases new piano syllabus with a broader range of styles than before

ABRSM has just released their new Piano syllabus which will come into effect in January 2019.


                           
The 2019 & 2020 syllabus lists cover a breadth of styles and an attractive, varied range of music, including pieces from the teaching canon, recent favourites, popular tunes as well as new commissions. Some highlights are Close every door (Andrew Lloyd Webber) in Grade 1, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) in Grade 3 and Lullaby Lullaby (for Edna Trident Hornbryce), one of the new commissions, by Raymond Yiu in Grade 8. As in previous years, there has been a 100% refreshment of the repertoire lists. There’s a vast amount of piano repertoire available and ABRSM always aims to bring a balance of familiar and new pieces to the syllabus, whilst maintaining consistency in both quality and standards. Specially commissioned items feature on Grades 3, 4, 5 and 8 and there are other contemporary options at all grades.

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