Taking place at the Hamilton Live, a block from the White House, the event began with a performance from traditional New Orleans jazz trumpeter Leroy Jones, who’s performed with everyone from Harry Connick Jr. While the week’s events focused on progress and positive change, the GRAMMYs On The Hill Awards celebrated music people - and those who valiantly fight for their rights - on a higher level. The purpose of the act - to limit the admissibility of lyrics in criminal proceedings and legal court cases - is essential for fairness and equity across the wider music industry, but carries a heightened impact on the rap community that is commonly the target of this prosecutorial tactic.Īll of this would be on the table by the next morning, at the dawn of Advocacy Day 2023, when the Restoring Artistic Protection Act was reintroduced by Congressmen Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), alongside Recording Academy leaders and members at a press conference on Capitol Hill. De novo, the music landscape has found itself in uncharted waters - financially and structurally.Ĭentral on the docket for GRAMMYs On The Hill 2023 is the newly reintroduced Restoring Artistic Protection Act. "It’s a time of opportunity, but I think it’s a time of peril, too."īy his telling, the evolving nature of today’s music industry is wide-spanning: There’s the collision between AI and music as well as the ongoing growth of music revenues via streaming. Panay, President of the Recording Academy, said on the red carpet ahead of this year’s GRAMMYs On The Hill Awards last Wednesday. "We find ourselves at a crossroads," Panos A. Once again, the music industry paradigm is today shifting in real-time, driven by the rapid rise of emerging technology, the ongoing fight for fair compensation for songwriters and artists, the protection of artists' freedom of creative expression, and other key music industry issues impacting creators - all of which played a central role at the 2023 GRAMMYs On The Hill Awards. But for manifold reasons, 2023 stands alone. It virtually goes without saying that every year, the annual GRAMMYs On The Hill Awards are monumental in their own way.
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