NYFA Alum Priya Darshini Nominated at 2021 Grammy Awards For Best New Age Album
Music’s biggest night of the year will include NYFA Acting and Filmmaking alum Priya Darshini, who is nominated for Best New Age Album at the 63rd Annual Grammys for her debut album
Darshini studied 4-Week Acting for Film and 8-Week Filmmaking at NYFA’s New York campus. After her studies, she appeared in
The Letters and went to Bollywood. She then decided to pursue her first love of music and began focusing on her recording career.
Album cover for Priya Darshini’s “Periphery”
“I craved to create original music,” she told the
European Cultural Institutes in New York spearhead a transatlantic, collaborative art initiative
Artists are only expected to collaborate on a singular project, that they each own 50/50.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Creating a fair and equitable space after COVID shuttered artists from residencies, travel, studio visits, exhibitions, and physical networking, UN/MUTE is an online residency that provides artists an opportunity for a critical exchange and collaboration while simultaneously connecting resources from the global cultural epicenter of New York City.
This project is co-organized by Undercurrent and the European Union National Institutes for Cultures New York Cluster.
The online world that has emerged in response to the pandemic reshapes our definition of social contact, obscures our private and public environments, and circumscribes the evolution of communication. UN/MUTE- 10002 follows the narratives of ten European artists who have never visited New York City and ten NYC-b
Hackensack piano prodigy Matthew Whitaker draws comparisons to Stevie Wonder
Matthew Whitaker has played a lot of rooms.
The room showbiz-speak for the venue might be large, like the Apollo Theater in Harlem (1,506 seats). Or it might be more modest, like the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (268 seats). But the room where he s most at home is the one he s in right now: the living room. How wide do you want the piano open? he asks.
As if it matters. Open or closed, Matthew Whitaker is going to fill his house in Hackensack with more music than it can handle.
Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson
Fri, Mar 26, 2021
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In light of the Christmas holiday tomorrow, I m posting the usual
Friday Rush updates post a day early this week. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday season despite the challenges of the Pandemic. As the New Year approaches, various news outlets tend to post a number of stories reflecting back on the year that was, including remembrances of all the people we lost. As Rush fans, no loss looms larger than that of Neil Peart, who tragically died from cancer in early January. While most of these tribute articles simply list off the person who died and when, Ultimate Classic Rock is taking a more in-depth look back on 2020 one month at a time, beginning with January, and included this tribute to Peart: