Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. has been appointed co-chair of the Music Advisory Board for the Harlem Competition of Tradition (HFC). Launching the weekend of July 28-30, the inaugural HFC is a reimagining of 1969’s historic Harlem Cultural Competition, which impressed the Academy Award-winning live performance documentary Summer season of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Might Not Be Televised).
Mason can be working in tandem with fellow Music Advisory Board co-chair and Grammy Award-winning artist Wyclef Jean. HFC’s govt workforce additionally consists of Jordan Model chairman Larry Miller as strategic advisor and artist/enterprise entrepreneur Michael L. Bivins as inventive director.
Within the HFC press launch asserting his appointment, Mason commented, “I’m extremely honored to affix as co-chair of the Music Advisory Board. Not only a music pageant, I see this as a motion and a chance for the music group to get behind an occasion that authentically celebrates Black music and that builds on the wealthy legacy of Black innovation and creative brilliance. I look ahead to working alongside Wyclef and your complete HFC workforce to assist develop one thing extraordinary and impactful.”
“We’re thrilled to have Harvey on board as co-chair as he’s an unimaginable asset and useful resource,” mentioned HFC co-founder and technical & expertise producer Yvonne McNair. “Along with his position on the Recording Academy, he’s an award-winning songwriter/producer and was actually rooted and grown in music. It’s on the core of his DNA. We couldn’t ask for a greater thought accomplice for the pageant and for such a revered determine within the leisure trade who may also assist us provoke help for it. We’re grateful to Harvey for committing his time to this labor of affection and look ahead to working with him as we transfer full pace forward to the pageant launch.”
Added Jean, “I’m actually comfortable that Harvey is becoming a member of the board. With what we try to realize with this pageant, his perspective and experience on this area are extraordinarily priceless. His appointment actually exhibits the real strategy that HFC is taking to artist relations. I’ve by no means seen a pageant search to have this degree of engagement with artists and to have them be such a giant a part of the journey. The principle objective is to create a real accomplice relationship with artists that can assist us to supply a extra holistic pageant expertise for all.”
Mainstage occasions for the primary annual Harlem Competition of Tradition will happen on Randall’s Island in New York. Extra activations and occasions can be staged on the Apollo Theater and all through Harlem. For extra info, go to harlemfestivalofculture.com
