Jazz breaking news: Guy Barker to receive BASCA Gold Badge Award
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) celebrates 40 years of recognising outstanding contributors to the UK music industry with the 40th anniversary Gold Badge Awards on Wednesday 16 October at The Savoy Hotel in London’s Strand, sponsored by the Performing Rights Society for Music.
The only British association composed entirely of music writers, BASCA presents the awards with the aim of celebrating those who support composers and songwriters through exceptional skill and dedication in work across the music industry: from performers to producers, film-makers to artists, managers to engineers, and publishers to lawyers.
Recipients of this year’s award include: 2013 Parliamentary Jazz Awards’ jazz musician of the year, trumpeter and composer Guy Barker (pictured above); producer and founder of the Blue Horizon record label, Mike Vernon; Rolling Stones and Rhythm Kings bassist Bill Wyman; and punk and reggae fusing DJ Don Letts. Joining them to receive the golden tuning fork lapel badge are awardees Roger Dean, Jane Manning, Stephen Navin, John Scott, Bonnie Tyler, Johnnie Walker, Alison Wenham and James Wyllie.
Tickets for the awards and preceding lunch are available to BASCA members, those involved in the music industry, and corporate supporters of BASCA.
– Celeste Cantor-Stephens
For more info go to www.basca.org.uk