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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2013 15:54:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2013 15:40:01 GMT
Taylor Swift is making waves around the world with her massive "Red" tour - but the pop/country superstar has a momentous weekend planned at home in Nashville.
On Saturday, the Taylor Swift Education Center will open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The center is the product of a $4 million donation pledged by Swift in 2012 – the largest single donation made by an artist in the museum’s 46-year history. Its facilities span two floors and include three classrooms and a “learning lab” as well as a children’s exhibit gallery, which will open next year. The center is opening earlier than expected - when Swift's donation was announced last year, it was slated for "early 2014."
Among the items set to be in that gallery are Swift’s songwriter/artist of the year awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association International -- and she'll be adding another trophy to that collection on Sunday. The organization announced Tuesday that Swift will be named their songwriter/artist of the year for the sixth time during their annual awards and induction ceremony Sunday night at the Music City Center.
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2013 5:34:07 GMT
Swift is up for both Entertainer of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year in the 2013 Country Music Association Awards. Swift has won Entertainer of the Year twice before. She’s the only woman nominee in this year’s field in that category. Swift has a total of five nominations this year (including her participation in Tim McGraw’s “Highway Don’t Care”).
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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2013 5:05:12 GMT
On Saturday, October 12th, the Taylor Swift Education Center officially opened at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Taylor's $4 million gift to endow the center is the largest individual artist gift in the Hall of Fame's history. Swift posed with fans at the center. The facility will have classrooms, instrument rooms, and education opportunities for kids. The Taylor Swift Education Center, which encompasses parts of two floors and features three classrooms, a learning lab and a state-of-the-art children’s exhibit gallery, increases the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s educational capacity up to seven-fold (the museum previously had one classroom). The classroom spaces are adjacent to a visible design studio; this space features thematic displays, e.g. dozens of instruments, and allows students to observe museum curators at work. The children’s gallery, situated on the second floor, will be a dedicated exhibit space for young patrons and will be filled with hands-on, interactive exhibits. The classrooms and learning lab are open now; gallery space will open in March, 2014.
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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2013 16:05:29 GMT
Taylor Swift was also on hand to accept her sixth award for Artist of the Year, presented by Nashville Songwriters Association International. "I think for me, song writing is the most incredible part of the process. I am making my next record right now, so it is my favorite time," Swift said. She continued, "You come home from the studio, you have these new songs, you play them for the people you care about, and you get to plan what the whole next album, and the next tour and the next concept is going to be for the next two years of your career." Swift has won the Artist of the Year award more times than any other artist. She is also the youngest recipient. Impressive: Taylor, who also remains the youngest person ever to win the award, picked up her prize in Nashville on Sunday As Swift accepts the award, she's six months deep in the songwriting process for her next album. "I think the goal for the next album is to continue to change, and never change in the same way twice," the seven-time Grammy winner said. "How do I write these figurative diary entries in ways that I've never written them before and to a sonic backdrop that I've never explored before? It's my fifth album, which is crazy to think about, but I think what I'm noticing about it so far is it's definitely taking a different turn than anything I've done before."
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