More than 3,400 people are expected to converge on New York City, Jan. 6-10, 2012, for the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP). Now in its 55th year, the global performing arts marketplace and conference will feature daily plenary sessions and a wide array of professional development workshops and forums. As in years past, exhibition halls will be teeming with booking agents and presenters eager to speak with them, and there’ll be a whole lot of networking opportunities. More than 1,200 artist showcases also are slated — including dozens by performers from the folk, roots and singer-songwriter communities in the U.S., Canada and several other countries.
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Seeking more personal time for herself and to spend with her family and friends, Mary Katherine Aldin will discontinue hosting “Alive & Picking,” her longtime weekly radio show that airs Saturday mornings on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, after the Dec. 31 broadcast. The show — which also is simulcast on stations in Santa Barbara, China Lake and North San Diego — has featured vintage and current recordings of traditional and contemporary bluegrass, folk and old-time roots music, as well as a community calendar of live music events in Southern California.
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Category winners have been named in the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, sponsored by the Songwriters Association of Washington, while overall grand, second and third prize winners will be announced during the 28th Mid-Atlantic Awards Night Gala on Jan. 15, 2012 at Jammin’ Java in Vienna, Virginia.
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Pieta Brown’s Mercury continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Robert Earl Keen’s Ready for Confetti retains the #1 spot on the roots country chart.
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