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Music Forward Foundation Brunch Honors Incubus, Lollapalooza, Brooklyn Bowl and Other Charitably Minded Industry Leaders
The Music Forward Foundation honored Incubus, Lollapalooza, the Brooklyn Bowl, BMG, Steve Rifkind and Gina Belafonte, plus a Maxie Solters tribute.
Hosted by KCRW air personality Novena Carmel, the awards banquet took place 51 floors above downtown L.A. at City Club Los Angeles, with hundreds of attendees noshing and applauding charitable efforts in an afternoon that ended with a set by celebrated singer Judith Hill. At the helm for the last six and a half years has been executive director Nurit Siegel Smith, who said at the event’s outset that Music Forward exists “to remove those barriers to ensure that under-represented voices have a bridge into the industry and into life-long sustaining skills and careers. Peter Shapiro, although accepting an award for his work with the Brooklyn Bowl, looked back on his years running the Wetlands club in New York, which hosted meetings from local orgs and activists during the day as well as rock shows at night.
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