Jones, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, was honored by the Kennedy Center in 2008 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
African-Americans always have been in the country music industry, said John Rumble, senior historian for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
Here to give us a tour through the presidential campaign music hall of fame, or not so famous, is Jim Nayder, host of the "Annoying Music Show" out of WBEZ in Chicago.
Musicians were underpaid, the orchestra had no permanent concert hall and the quality of the music wasn't great.
In three weeks, the NFL will once again prove its business prowess from the stage of the Radio City Music Hall.
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There is a healthy range of theatrical offerings and for music lovers, the exciting news is the development of Old Town Hall into a dedicated music and cultural venue.
He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
Consider that a correctible oversight, and applaud the Country Music Hall of Fame for spotlighting a seminal musical movement that can still thrill and delight.
"The announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname, " according to a biography on the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame website.
Last month Brown played at a ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace which saw his induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, 20 years after entering the US equivalent.
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While most 75-year-olds are retired or cutting back on their schedules, the Country Music Hall of Famer shows no signs of slowing down despite hospitalizations in January for double pneumonia, three stomach ulcers, eight polyps in his colon and diverticulitis in his esophagus.
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An international celebrity in his lifetime, the Russian composer was invited by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie to conduct during the opening festival of what was then called the Music Hall (renamed Carnegie Hall in 1894) in May, 1891.
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Before taking the stage at Radio City Music Hall to become the newest member of the Saints, Ingram was hanging out at the EA Sports NFL Pre-Draft Party.
Last year, Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music announced similar projects.
It makes perfect sense that Degas attended her debut engagement, as a connoisseur of spectacle, a regular at the opera, the music hall, the cafe concert and the racetrack, according to the evidence of his work.
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Cliburn won his first Texas competition when he was 12, and two years later he played in Carnegie Hall as the winner of the National Music Festival Award.
Within a six-block radius stood War Memorial Opera House, Herbst Theatre, Davies Symphony Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, all venues used by SFJazz during its 30-year rise from upstart weekend festival to standard-bearing year-round jazz nonprofit.
Macon, home of Georgia's Music Hall of Fame, also gave the planet Otis Redding, Little Richard and the Allman Brothers Band.
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It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).
Abba: The Museum will be a permanent fixture within a new Swedish Music Hall of Fame which is being built on Djurgarden, one of the city's many islands.
In the span of a few minutes early in Friday night's second round, the San Diego Chargers caused draftniks at Radio City Music Hall to let out a roar with the selection of Notre Dame's Manti Te'o.
Across the vast pitch on Saturday evening, a huge crush of fans dancing to Diplo's project Major Lazer, which mixes EDM with hip-hop and Jamaican dance-hall music, spilled onto the grass where the followers of the Dutch DJ Fedde Le Grand were bouncing to his pounding music.
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On cue, the sounds of the fife-and-drum corps filled the hall with Colonial-era music.
More than 2, 200 bands turned virtually every square foot of the city into a music hall last year, and organizers promise to ramp it up even more in 2013.
Kurt Gerron's "Het mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate" (Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata), a 1935 Dutch thriller shot using only natural light, bears the clear influence of both Weimar music-hall films and thrillers.
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Come the April 25 draft fans will descend upon New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall in hopes of hearing their favorite club call the name of a left tackle who can protect their quarterback's blindside for the next decade.
The hall is internationally renowned as a classical music venue because of its acoustics, attracting orchestras and singers from all over the world.
As the owner of the New York Rangers, the New York Knicks, Madison Square Garden itself and Radio City Music Hall, MSG shares are likely to benefit as the Rangers push deep into the playoffs.
The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best of Broadway, said Thursday the 67th annual awards will be broadcast live by CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9.
Abba: The Museum will be a permanent fixture within a new Swedish Music Hall of Fame.
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