The Pugs and Crows Band and Very Good win Galaxie awards
Posted on | July 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
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The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Galaxie have announced the Pugs and Crows Band and Very Good as the winners of the 8th annual Galaxie Rising Stars Awards. Chosen from the artists competing for the Award as the new artist of the year, the winners will each receive a $2500 grant.
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July 5th, 2010 @ 10:07 am
Congratulations to both Pugs and Crows and Very Good for the awards; also got this note this morning from Darren Sigesmund who was nominated for a Juno this year for his Strands II recording:
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I wanted to let you know that I have been awarded the Galaxie Rising Star Award for Best Composition at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. My band performed at the festival last week as part of the TD Prix de Jazz & the Galaxie Rising Star competition. My composition “Dance for Leila” was awarded the Galaxie prize.
You can check out the tune at http://www.myspace.com/darrensigesmund or http://www.darrensigesmund.ca. You can also buy the song or my Strands II CD at CD Baby or iTunes. The tune will be featured on CBC Galaxie Radio http://www.galaxie.ca.
A huge thanks to my band (Eliana Cuevas, Luis Deniz, Reg Schwager, Jim Vivian, and Ethan Ardelli) for a great gig in Montreal. Also, I’d like to thank once again the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council & the Toronto Arts Council for recording & composition support.
Some upcoming gigs:
Sunday July 11 Atlantic Jazz Festival (Halifax) 8pm main stage
Tues. Oct. 19 L’Off Festival de Jazz (Montreal) 9:30pm Sala Rossa
Nov. 2010 – we hope to be back in Europe!!
Thanks,
Darren
Strands II CD — 2010 Juno Nomination
“Canadian Jazz CD of 2009″ (Ottawa Citizen)
Available at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon
website: http://www.darrensigesmund.com
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Congrats to Darren and the other winners as well,
N.
July 13th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm
And news of another BC winner:
Five Alarm Funk!
http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2787
Congratulations! … N