Telarc & Heads Up Win 3 Grammy® Awards

Cleveland, OH
– Telarc International and Heads Up International, divisions of Concord
Music Group, have been honored with x GRAMMY® Awards by the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) at the 51st Annual
GRAMMY® Awards Ceremony on Sunday, February 8, 2009, at the Staples
Center in Los Angeles.

Quotes:

“We
are very proud of this great acknowledgment that our artists have
achieved,” says Dave Love, President of Telarc/Heads Up. “It is also
wonderful to see the legacy of wins continue for Bob Woods, Michael
Bishop, and the Telarc production team.”

Since
1980, Telarc International, a division of Concord Music Group, has been
honored with 57 GRAMMY® Awards for performance, production, and
engineering. Other important awards have included the French Grand Prix du Disque and Diapason d’Or; Japan’s Record of the Year; Germany’s Audiophile CD of the Year; and Gramophone Magazine’s
2004 Label of the Year. Although it began as a classical-only label,
Telarc now boasts a catalog of more than 1000 recordings, ranging from
classical and classical-crossover to jazz, contemporary jazz,
Americana, pop and blues. Telarc releases approximately fifty-five
recordings each year, working with a notable roster of artists.

For
nearly 20 years, Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music
Group, has been successfully carving its niche in the world of
contemporary instrumental music. In that time, Heads Up artists and
releases have consistently landed on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz, Traditional Jazz and World Music charts, and have garnered numerous industry awards, including Billboard’s
Contemporary Latin Jazz Album of the Year, the AFIM’s Independent
Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year, six GRAMMY® Awards and numerous
GRAMMY® nominations. Heads Up was also the winner of JazzWeek’s
Radio Programmers Album Of The Year Award for two consecutive years,
and Gibson Guitar’s Best Female Jazz Guitarist. In addition to the
awards and accolades, Heads Up artists have regularly captured the #1
slot in national radio airplay.

Telarc/Heads Up International