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Huntington Station N.Y. - M.C. Records is proud to announce that it has just been honored with The Keeping The Blues Alive (KBA) Award For Record Label of the Year. The award
is given by The Blues Foundation based on years of contributions. President and founder of the label Mark Carpentieri said "to be honored like this is truly a humbling experience."
Mark
Carpentieri started M.C. Records in 1991 at the tender age of 28. To date, M.C. Records has released over 20 recordings with distribution all over the world. The label's albums have been nominated for
more than 30 W.C. Handy Awards and four Grammy Awards. M.C. Records has released recordings by Odetta, Pinetop Perkins, Gary U.S. Bonds, Kim Wilson, Sleepy LaBeef, Big Jack Johnson, Joanna Connor, R.L.
Burnside, and, most recently, Angela Strehli and a Holiday recording by Odetta, Gonna Let It Shine. M.C. Records most ambitious project has been Shout Sister Shout, A Tribute To Sister Rosetta Tharpe
released in 2003 with Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Joan Osborne, Michelle Shocked, Marcia Ball, Sweet Honey on the Rock, Odetta, Phoebe Snow, Janis Ian, Victoria Williams, Tracy Nelson, Angela Strehli, Marie Knight, and the Holmes Brothers. Mark Carpentieri also hosted a weekly blues show on WBAU in Garden City from 1984-2004. He also is a professional drummer having performed over 1500 gigs with his own band Somethin' Blue as well as Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Shorty Jackson and many others.
For more info on the other recipients please go to http://www.blues.org
Twenty individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to Blues music will be honored with The Blues
Foundation's 2006 Keeping The Blues Alive (KBA) Award during a recognition brunch Saturday, January 28, 2006, in Memphis, Tennessee. The KBA ceremony will be part of the International Blues Challenge
(IBC) weekend of events that will feature the semifinals and finals of the 22nd IBC competition as well as seminars, presentations, and receptions for Blues societies, fans, and professionals.
Unlike the Blues Music Awards, the Blues musicians' most sought-after honor voted on by thousands of The Blues Foundation's members, the KBAs are awarded to non-performers on the basis of merit by a
select panel of Blues professionals. Board member and KBA Chairman Art Tipaldi commented on this year's recipients, "Each year the committee sifts through many worthy submissions in the process of
determining the most deserving, whether that decision is based on a particular event of the past year or on years of contributions. After more than twenty years, one might think we would be running short
on candidates, but the opposite is true. The sifting remains very difficult."
Tickets to the KBA ceremony are included in the Big Blue ticket package available online at www.blues.org. The IBC
weekend, commencing Thursday, January 26, 2006, is sponsored in significant part by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Tennessee Film, Entertainment & Music Commission, Greater Memphis Arts Council,
Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, bandvillage.com, Budweiser, XM Satellite Radio, the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise and Strings & Things. Additional sponsors include: Bar-B-Bar BBQ
Sauces, Beale Street Merchants Association, Center for Southern Folklore, Delta Groove Productions, Doubletree Hotel, FedEx, Gibson Guitars, Ginnin' Cotton Records and sonicbids.
Contact: Catherine Mannarino
631-754-8725
www.mc-records.com
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