Local entrepreneur building a music empire benefitting local artists and businesses in New Hartford

Local entrepreneur building a music empire benefitting local artists and businesses in New Hartford
NEW HARTFORD — Shane Martin has always fostered a deep passion for music and business that started at a young age and hasn’t stopped growing.
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Birmingham cuts arts funding. Can audiences make up the difference?
As the council reduces subsidy for innovative work, could philanthropy save the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group? The biggest loser of Birmingham city council’s round of arts cuts announced earlier this week was the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group . Along with 10 other organisations, including Birmingham Jazz , Craft Space , and theatre group Stan’s Cafe, the BCMG will have all of its …
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Hurt by lack of BTA deal
At the start of the month,  GMR International Tours, producers of the Barbados Jazz Festival, issued a press release formally announcing that the 2011 installment was off.
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101 things to do in Wyobraska
Nothing to do? No way! For years we’ve heard the lament that there’s nothing to do in Nebraska. At the Star-Herald, we don’t believe that.
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