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Starr-Gennett Foundation The Starr-Gennett Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting and celebrating the legacy of Gennett Records and its parent organization, the Starr Piano Company
Starr-Gennett Foundation Walk of Fame Medallions In 2007, as part of its ongoing effort to promote and celebrate the music legacy of Starr Piano Company and its subsidiary, Gennett Records, the Foundation inaugurated the Gennett Records Walk of Fame to honor those who recorded for Gennett Records and whose work contributed significantly to American history
Starr-Gennett Foundation In September 2007, the Starr-Gennett Foundation began to honor the most important Gennett artists on a Walk of Fame near the site of Gennett's Richmond, Indiana, recording studio
Starr-Gennett Foundation The Starr Piano Company story begins in Richmond in 1872 when two business leaders, including James Starr, partnered with Alsatian piano craftsman George Trayser to open a small piano factory downtown
Starr-Gennett Foundation In the summer of 2022, after years of fundraising and building local support, the Starr-Gennett Foundation commissioned artist Wilson Tile to begin a revitalization of the Walk of Fame Medallions
Starr-Gennett Foundation The Starr-Gennett Foundation announces the 2023 Music At The Club - a series of music and dancing events at Forest Hills Country Club in Richmond Doors open: 6:00 p m Music Dancing: 7:00 p m - 9:00 p m
Starr-Gennett Foundation Starr-Gennett Foundation sponors 4th of July Music The Starr-Gennett Foundation partnered with the American Legion Post 65 to provide the music for the 79th Annual 4th of July on Roosevelt Hill Starr-Gennett Foundation Sponsors album release party of local Artist
Starr-Gennett Foundation Francis Hillman “Scrapper” Blackwell was an American blues guitarist and singer Best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an acoustic, single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues styles, with some critics noting that he veered towards jazz
Starr-Gennett Foundation (2008 inductee) as the first great mississippi delta bluesman, charley patton greatly influenced future performers a singer and guitarist, he recorded at gennett’s richmond studio in 1929
Starr-Gennett Foundation (2008 inductee) a canadian, guy lombardo, founded a perennially popular dance band known as the royal canadians their first recordings were made in gennett’s richmond studio in 1924