Comments for The Afro-American Music Institute http://afroamericanmusic.org/home Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:21:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Comment on Staff & Volunteers by Cashmere Gore http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=110#comment-6669 Cashmere Gore Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:21:03 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=110#comment-6669 Dear Mr./Mrs. Johnson, My name is Cashmere Gore I am the Government Affairs Associate for Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and I would like to meet with you both to discus your great work in the community. Please feel free to give me a call at (412) 255-2608 or by email and I will be happy to hear from you. I appreciate your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Dear Mr./Mrs. Johnson,

My name is Cashmere Gore I am the Government Affairs Associate for Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and I would like to meet with you both to discus your great work in the community. Please feel free to give me a call at (412) 255-2608 or by email and I will be happy to hear from you. I appreciate your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

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]]> Comment on Mission by Nat Dove http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=370#comment-6412 Nat Dove Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:47:44 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=370#comment-6412 5901 Fair Oaks Drive ? Bakersfield, CA 93306 ? 661-873-1456 ? natdove@sbcglobal.net Nat Dove Objective: Nat Dove for the 2013 “Keeping the Blues Alive” Award in the category of Lifetime Achievement in Education Summary Nat Dove is an international renowned Blues and Jazz music educator, performer and author. He has taught Blues and Jazz music at University of California, Bakersfield and is the founder and CEO of the Bakersfield Blues Preservation Society, as well as the Musical Arts Ambassador for the Arts Council of Kern. Dove is a historian and lecturer in ethnomusicology at California State Universities, throughout the state, Baldwin Hills Academy of Music in Los Angeles, Calif., New York University, Dominican University, in Chicago, IL, University of California/Santa Barbara and many others. Dove has lectured and performed worldwide, including being Composer-in Residence at The American Cultural Center in Paris, France for 11 years. He also was professor of African-American music and culture at The Kunitashi Music Academy, In Tokyo, Japan for seven years. Nat Dove has had a long and highly successful career in music as a performer, in-demand side-man for some of the greats in music both in concert and in the recording studio, and a composer and arranger for stage, film, and television. He became a full time music educator in 1980. For over thirty years he has been teaching, writing books and lecturing on African-American Music and culture. Dove was invited to perform and lecture at the 45th Folklife Festival for the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington DC on the capitol Mall. In 2008 Dove was inducted into the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame. Nat Dove has brought his blues educational programs to public concert halls, school, colleges, universities, and students of all levels and ages. Skills and Accomplishments Nat Dove is considered a walking history of the blues/jazz/gospel musics: Blues Musician-Historian-Educator Founder of: Bakersfield Blues Preservation Society Ethnomusicologist- California State University, Bakersfield INDUCTEE WestCoast Blues Hall of Fame...2008 Participant in Smithsonian Institution 45th Folklife Festival Washington, DC...2011 Director of 2012 Bryan Texas Blues Festival & Celebration Bryan, TX. Other Skills and Accomplishments Director of 2012 Bryan Texas Blues Festival & Celebration Bryan, TX. “Bringing the Blues Back Home” Dove states: As a composer, educator and historian, it is my duty to share the blues with as many people as possible—young and old—letting them know the true origins and the development of this music that came to define a people in a specific time in our history. I have been all over the world spreading this message for over fifty years. Now, I am home to do the same. Nat Dove’s Discography Artist Album Year Credits Various Artists Can You Dig It? Music & Politics of Black Action Films: 1968-1975 2009 Composer Rudy Ray Moore Petey Wheatstraw 2007 Arranger, Composer, Producer Various Artists R&B on Lakewood Boulevard 2007 Composer Nat Dove and the Neo-Classic Blues Ensemble Real Texas Piano Blues 2006 Main Performer Various Artists American Music: The Hightone Records Story [Box Set] 2006 Keyboards Johnny Shines Heritage of the Blues: Skull & Crossbones Blues 2003 Piano Johnny Shines Heritage of the Blues: Skull & Crossbones Blues 2003 Piano Lowell Fulson Blues Show! Live at Pit Inn 1980 2003 Piano Phillip Walker Heritage of the Blues: The Best of Phillip Walker 2003 Piano Various Artists Box of the Blues 2003 Piano Nat Dove Deep Blues Experience 2002 Main Performer Various Artists Downey Blues 1997 Piano Bee Houston & His High Steppers Hustler 1997 Piano Freddie King Key to the Highway 1995 Piano Robert Cray Score: Charly Blues Masterworks, Vol. 16 1993 Keyboards Robert Cray Too Many Cooks 1990 Keyboards Various Artists Louisiana Scrapbook 1987 Piano Robert Cray Who's Been Talkin' 1980 Keyboards Louis Myers I'm a Southern Man 1978 Piano Lonesome Sundown Been Gone Too Long 1977 Keyboards Most Requested Rhythm Band Got to Give It Up [Single] 1977 Arranger, Producer Nat Dove & The Devils Petey Wheatstraw 1977 Main Performer Lonesome Sundown Been Gone Too Long 1977 Keyboards Johnny Shines Johnny Shines [Hightone] 1976 Piano Johnny Shines Johnny Shines [Hightone] 1976 Piano Johnny Shines Johnny Shines [Advent] 1974 Piano Phillip Walker Bottom of the Top 1973 Keyboards Big Mama Thornton Ball n' Chain 1968 Piano Education Los Angeles City College Commonwealth College of Science Columbia College Manhattan School of Music University of California, Los Angeles Awards Music Producer of the year, 1977 Best Arranger/Producer, 1977 Professional and Community Memberships Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce Black Chamber of Kern Arts Council of Kern Publications Blues Renaissance Man (February 2012), Living Blues Magazine An overview of the life and career of Nat Dove Personal Interests Reading non fiction Chess Traveling to interesting places References References available upon request.? 5901 Fair Oaks Drive ? Bakersfield, CA 93306 ? 661-873-1456 ? natdove@sbcglobal.net
Nat Dove
Objective:
Nat Dove for the 2013 “Keeping the Blues Alive” Award in the category of Lifetime Achievement in Education
Summary

Nat Dove is an international renowned Blues and Jazz music educator, performer and author. He has taught Blues and Jazz music at University of California, Bakersfield and is the founder and CEO of the Bakersfield Blues Preservation Society, as well as the Musical Arts Ambassador for the Arts Council of Kern.
Dove is a historian and lecturer in ethnomusicology at California State Universities, throughout the state, Baldwin Hills Academy of Music in Los Angeles, Calif., New York University, Dominican University, in Chicago, IL, University of California/Santa Barbara and many others. Dove has lectured and performed worldwide, including being Composer-in Residence at The American Cultural Center in Paris, France for 11 years. He also was professor of African-American music and culture at The Kunitashi Music Academy, In Tokyo, Japan for seven years.
Nat Dove has had a long and highly successful career in music as a performer, in-demand side-man for some of the greats in music both in concert and in the recording studio, and a composer and arranger for stage, film, and television. He became a full time music educator in 1980. For over thirty years he has been teaching, writing books and lecturing on African-American Music and culture.
Dove was invited to perform and lecture at the 45th Folklife Festival for the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington DC on the capitol Mall.
In 2008 Dove was inducted into the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame.
Nat Dove has brought his blues educational programs to public concert halls, school, colleges, universities, and students of all levels and ages.
Skills and Accomplishments

Nat Dove is considered a walking history of the blues/jazz/gospel musics:
Blues Musician-Historian-Educator
Founder of: Bakersfield Blues Preservation Society
Ethnomusicologist- California State University, Bakersfield
INDUCTEE WestCoast Blues Hall of Fame…2008
Participant in Smithsonian Institution 45th Folklife Festival Washington, DC…2011
Director of 2012 Bryan Texas Blues Festival & Celebration Bryan, TX.
Other Skills and Accomplishments
Director of 2012 Bryan Texas Blues Festival & Celebration Bryan, TX.
“Bringing the Blues Back Home”
Dove states:
As a composer, educator and historian, it is my duty to share the blues with as many people as possible—young and old—letting them know the true origins and the development of this music that came to define a people in a specific time in our history. I have been all over the world spreading this message for over fifty years. Now, I am home to do the same.

Nat Dove’s Discography
Artist Album Year Credits
Various Artists Can You Dig It? Music & Politics of Black Action Films: 1968-1975
2009 Composer
Rudy Ray Moore
Petey Wheatstraw
2007 Arranger, Composer, Producer
Various Artists R&B on Lakewood Boulevard
2007 Composer
Nat Dove and the Neo-Classic Blues Ensemble
Real Texas Piano Blues
2006 Main Performer
Various Artists American Music: The Hightone Records Story [Box Set]
2006 Keyboards
Johnny Shines
Heritage of the Blues: Skull & Crossbones Blues
2003 Piano
Johnny Shines
Heritage of the Blues: Skull & Crossbones Blues
2003 Piano
Lowell Fulson
Blues Show! Live at Pit Inn 1980
2003 Piano
Phillip Walker
Heritage of the Blues: The Best of Phillip Walker
2003 Piano
Various Artists Box of the Blues
2003 Piano
Nat Dove
Deep Blues Experience
2002 Main Performer
Various Artists Downey Blues
1997 Piano
Bee Houston & His High Steppers
Hustler
1997 Piano
Freddie King
Key to the Highway
1995 Piano
Robert Cray
Score: Charly Blues Masterworks, Vol. 16
1993 Keyboards
Robert Cray
Too Many Cooks
1990 Keyboards
Various Artists Louisiana Scrapbook
1987 Piano
Robert Cray
Who’s Been Talkin’
1980 Keyboards
Louis Myers
I’m a Southern Man
1978 Piano
Lonesome Sundown
Been Gone Too Long
1977 Keyboards
Most Requested Rhythm Band
Got to Give It Up [Single]
1977 Arranger, Producer
Nat Dove & The Devils
Petey Wheatstraw
1977 Main Performer
Lonesome Sundown
Been Gone Too Long
1977 Keyboards
Johnny Shines
Johnny Shines [Hightone]
1976 Piano
Johnny Shines
Johnny Shines [Hightone]
1976 Piano
Johnny Shines
Johnny Shines [Advent]
1974 Piano
Phillip Walker
Bottom of the Top
1973 Keyboards
Big Mama Thornton
Ball n’ Chain
1968 Piano
Education

Los Angeles City College
Commonwealth College of Science
Columbia College
Manhattan School of Music
University of California, Los Angeles

Awards

Music Producer of the year, 1977
Best Arranger/Producer, 1977

Professional and Community Memberships
Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce
Black Chamber of Kern
Arts Council of Kern
Publications

Blues Renaissance Man (February 2012), Living Blues Magazine
An overview of the life and career of Nat Dove

Personal Interests
Reading non fiction
Chess
Traveling to interesting places

References
References available upon request.?

]]> Comment on Staff & Volunteers by Kelly Westlund http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=110#comment-5831 Kelly Westlund Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:48:52 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=110#comment-5831 My name is Kelly Westlund and I work for a company called Prom Management Group. Prom is still looking for different nonprofit organizations who might be interested in coming out and volunteering in the concession stands for the week at the Constellation Golf Classic taking place at Fox Chapel. The dates are Tuesday 6/26 through Sunday 7/1 2012. Could this be a fundraiser you might be interested in? This is totally free for your organization. Prom provides parking, a ticket in for the day and free meals to the volunteers. And as a thank you Prom will give back a financial donation based on the percentage of our sales. Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to hear from you soon. Also even if you do not wish to volunteer let me know thus I will take your name off my contact list. Thank you. My name is Kelly Westlund and I work for a company called Prom Management Group. Prom is still looking for different nonprofit organizations who might be interested in coming out and volunteering in the concession stands for the week at the Constellation Golf Classic taking place at Fox Chapel. The dates are Tuesday 6/26 through Sunday 7/1 2012. Could this be a fundraiser you might be interested in? This is totally free for your organization. Prom provides parking, a ticket in for the day and free meals to the volunteers. And as a thank you Prom will give back a financial donation based on the percentage of our sales.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to hear from you soon.
Also even if you do not wish to volunteer let me know thus I will take your name off my contact list.

Thank you.

]]> Comment on Contact AAMI by Tracy L. Edmunds http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=13#comment-5739 Tracy L. Edmunds Thu, 03 May 2012 18:52:44 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=13#comment-5739 Dr. Johnson & Mrs. Johnson I would like to invite the Afro-American Music Institute students to participate in the Pittsburgh International JazzLive – Jazz Crawl again. Please let me know if you are able to commit. Here are the detail: EVENT: Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival - Jazz Crawl DATE: June 1, 2012 VENUE: Trust Arts Education Center 805-807 Liberty Avenue TIME: 5:30 – 9PM FEE: $400 In June 2011, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presented Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival (PJIF) festival in the Cultural District. The Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival is a regional, national, and international attraction anticipated to drawl 10,000 to 30,000 patrons. PJIF will take place June 1-3, 2012 and will feature local, emerging, and renowned jazz and jazz-influenced musicians in a variety of performance settings that include: •Three days of free concerts on outdoor stages throughout the Cultural District •Ticketed performances featuring internationally-renowned musicians •Jazz and jazz-influenced music from all over the world •Jazz Crawl in the Cultural District, featuring 150 local and regional musicians •Education workshops for students, musicians, and the community •Fine arts showcase featuring artists from around the county Pittsburghjazzlive.com Tracy L. Edmunds Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 412-471-5011 edmunds@trustarts.org Dr. Johnson & Mrs. Johnson

I would like to invite the Afro-American Music Institute students to participate in the Pittsburgh International JazzLive – Jazz Crawl again. Please let me know if you are able to commit. Here are the detail:

EVENT: Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival – Jazz Crawl
DATE: June 1, 2012
VENUE: Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue
TIME: 5:30 – 9PM
FEE: $400

In June 2011, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presented Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival (PJIF) festival in the Cultural District. The Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival is a regional, national, and international attraction anticipated to drawl 10,000 to 30,000 patrons. PJIF will take place June 1-3, 2012 and will feature local, emerging, and renowned jazz and jazz-influenced musicians in a variety of performance settings that include:
•Three days of free concerts on outdoor stages throughout the Cultural District
•Ticketed performances featuring internationally-renowned musicians
•Jazz and jazz-influenced music from all over the world
•Jazz Crawl in the Cultural District, featuring 150 local and regional musicians
•Education workshops for students, musicians, and the community
•Fine arts showcase featuring artists from around the county

Pittsburghjazzlive.com

Tracy L. Edmunds
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-5011
edmunds@trustarts.org

]]> Comment on Boys Choir by pamela http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=9#comment-5535 pamela Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:01:40 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=9#comment-5535 Hello Grace, Thank you for visiting our website. We have received your inquiry and would like to talk with you further. Please email us your contact telephone information so our programs coordinator can follow up with more detail. Have a wonderful day Gabriel Gray Afro American Music Institute Webmaster 412-241-6775 Hello Grace,

Thank you for visiting our website. We have received your inquiry and would like to talk with you further. Please email us your contact telephone information so our programs coordinator can follow up with more detail.

Have a wonderful day

Gabriel Gray
Afro American Music Institute
Webmaster
412-241-6775

]]> Comment on Boys Choir by Grace H. Kelly http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=9#comment-5476 Grace H. Kelly Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:18:07 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=9#comment-5476 We are in West Chester, PA and would wonder if the group travels and for a Black History Month program next year, how much would it cost for a concert here on our campus. Thank you. We are in West Chester, PA and would wonder if the group travels and for a Black History Month program next year, how much would it cost for a concert here on our campus.
Thank you.

]]> Comment on Classes by pamela http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=5#comment-4031 pamela Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:42:37 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=5#comment-4031 Dear Hillary, Thank you for your interest in the AAMI. Fortunately the Institue does offer classes for youth. Please call us at 412-241-6775 or visit us at 7131 Hamilton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (between Homewood and Lang Avenues) to learn more about the registration process. Thank you and best regards Dear Hillary,

Thank you for your interest in the AAMI. Fortunately the Institue does offer classes for youth. Please call us at 412-241-6775 or visit us at 7131 Hamilton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (between Homewood and Lang Avenues) to learn more about the registration process.

Thank you and best regards

]]> Comment on Contact AAMI by pamela http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=13#comment-2770 pamela Mon, 23 May 2011 02:38:53 +0000 http://afroamericanmusic.org/home/?page_id=13#comment-2770 call AAMI at 4122416775 ....... to get more info on vocal classes. call AAMI at 4122416775 ……. to get more info on vocal classes.

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