IMPRESSIONISM Play Updates

Previews for the Broadway play IMPRESSIONISM, starring Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Michael T. Weiss, Marsha Mason and Aaron Lazar among others, start this Saturday, Feb 28th.  The play will have an 18-week limited run (due to other obligations for Jeremy Irons, who will go on to another project right after.)

As part of promoting the play, the actors did a Meet and Greet for the press, some of which you can see below: 

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Vintage Gibson Guitars – Investment?

 

Vintage 1959 Gibson Les Paul Flametop Guitar

In this day and age where cash seems to be worth less and less, there still are a few items that seem to appreciate with age. One of those categories appears to be vintage guitars, especially vintage Gibson guitars.

In recent years, Gibson guitar collectors have been known to pay as much as $400,000 (yes, that’s a 4 with 5 zeros!) for a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Flametop.  According to Jay Boone, owner of Emerald City Guitars in Pioneer Square, that particular guitar was sitting under a bed gathering dust for 40 years, unbeknownst to the adult children in the family in Illinois who discovered its worth after seeing some press about Boone and its sister guitar.* Read more

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The 2009 Grammy Awards

On Sunday, February 8th, the 2009 Grammy Awards were given.  Here are the winners:

Album of the Year
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

Best Rap Album
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
John Mayer, "Say"

Record of the Year
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Please Read This Letter"

Best New Artist
Adele

Best Rock Album
Coldplay, Viva la Vida

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Rich Woman"

Song of the Year
Coldplay, "Viva la Vida"

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
Sugarland, "Stay"

Best R&B Album
Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson

Industry Icon Award
Clive Davis

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Rick Rubin

Best Rock Song
Bruce Springsteen, "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
"Peaches En Regalia," Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock

Best Metal Performance
Metallica, "My Apocalypse"

Best Hard Rock Performance
The Mars Volta, "Wax Simulacra"

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire"

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
John Mayer, "Gravity"

Best Alternative Music Album
Radiohead, In Rainbows

Best Pop Vocal Album
Duffy, Rockferry

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
Coldplay, "Viva la Vida"

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Adele, "Chasing Pavements"

Best Pop Instrumental Album
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Eagles, "I Dreamed There Was No War"

Best Spoken Word Album
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)

Best Contemporary R&B Album
Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains

Best R&B Song
Ne-Yo, "Miss Independent" (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)

Best Urban/Alternative Performance
Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, "Be OK"

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, "You’ve Got the Love I Need"

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
Al Green Featuring John Legend, "Stay With Me (by the Sea)"

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Alicia Keys; "Superwoman"

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
Ne-Yo, "Miss Independent"

Best Rap Song
Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, "Lollipop"

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Estelle Featuring Kanye West, "American Boy"

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, "Swagga Like Us"

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