by Music Performance Trust Fund | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
October 5th, 2022 / Making it as a professional musician or singer takes a lot of talent, a huge amount of work, and a little bit of luck. Part of making it is being in the right place at the right time (even if that’s online), which sends droves of aspiring musicians...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Sep 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
September 17, 2022 / The upcoming Curtain Up Broadway Festival will bring more than fifteen free interactive public events and live performances to the heart of NYC, from Times Square to Duffy Square, between 45th and 48th Streets on Broadway....
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Sep 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Established by major music recording labels, the MPTF distributed 120 scholarships to benefit aspiring professional musicians and children of professional musicians NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A scholarship program utilizing assets of the...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
WHEELING — Labor Day weekend usually marks the end of summer, but it also marks the beginning of a new and exciting season for the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra. That tradition continues this year when the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and Kalkreuth Roofing and Sheet...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ray Hair – AFM International President August 1st, 2022 / I was a 19-year-old college student when I first came in direct contact with the American Federation of Musicians. Of course, I’d heard about the musicians’ union and how it stood for good...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Celebrating Black music and culture, free evening performance in Peterborough Square courtyard takes place the day after Emancipation Day Peterborough’s Beau Dixon (left) and the cast of “Freedom Cabaret: The Spirit and Legacy of Black Music”...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jul 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
50 Years Ago ■One of the first mechanical utensil and glassware washers in western Massachusetts was installed in the Cooley Dickinson Hospital Central Sterile Supply Department when it opened in December 1960 as part of the hospital’s expansion plans of that year....
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
BANDSTAND CONCERTS RETURN IN JULY David Benjamin, the Summer Music Director for the City of Gloucester announces a nine- concert series beginning on Sunday, July 10, 2022, at 7:00pm with the Cape Ann Big Band and ending on August 28, 7:00pm with the Rico Barr Band....
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 1982, France’s Ministry of Culture established a holiday known as “Fatand Music” A day of music, performance, and community to be celebrated each year on June 21. Forty years later, this holiday has made its way to America, where we’ve dubbed it National Make Music...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jun 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Times Square concert was part of the Broadway League’s Black to Broadway initiative. Myles Frost and young Broadway actors Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) hosted the second annual Broadway Celebrates...
