Web developers Cahoona - have won the Big Chip Award for Best Not-for-Profit Project for the Band on the Wall website.
The prestigeous award ceremony took place last week at the Palace Hotel where, with nominations across four catagories, Cahoona also won the Tastiest Website award for their own website based on a public vote.
Gavin Sharp, CEO of Band on the Wall said "We are delighted that Cahoona have been recognised for developing our pioneering website. We wanted a site that would reflect the 'live' aspect of staging live music and engaging with audiences in our famous space. In delivering a brilliant site that incorporates our user network BandWidth, a rich online music archive and a platform for videos and file uploads they certainly met the brief"
To join BandWidth for free click here now
To view Cahoona's website click here now
To find out more about the Big Chip Awards click here now
Band on the Wall now has an official YouTube Channel.
Free to subscribe to if you have a YouTube account (also free), you can now enjoy Band on the Wall concerts in hi definition from the comfort of your home or office.
Subscribe to Band on the Wall's You Tube Channel by clicking here now
This online platform is an addition to Band on the Wall's acclaimed online archive - accessed via our website by clicking here where you can already access and enjoy this footage.
The Archive
In the past almost all of the thousands of music performances over the years went unrecorded, undocumented and un-notated. Lost in time. Our archive seeks to ensure that, from now on, all will not be lost.
AV Recordings
Music and the musicians are at the heart of the archive; and contemporary audio-visual recordings of performances are its core.
All of the artists have granted permission for the performances to be available as streamed excerpts and, from time to time, shown on the screens at Band on the Wall. Many more video clips will follow online.
History
While the building of this archive of contemporary recorded performances will remain our priority, we also are expanding the written history of the venue. Already some of this history is described in this archive. Our current work concentrates on the 1975-85 decade, and the updated story for this crucial period in the venue’s survival and development will be added to the archive’s history page later in 2010. Subsequent work will take in the past 25 years, including the roller-coaster story of the building refurbishment scheme, completed in September 2009. We also welcome information about the venue’s earlier history.
We also plan to transfer various existing (pre-2005) recordings (audio & video) to digital formats and, where appropriate, make them available for streaming online.
Our archive also encourages input from individuals and organisations – whether materials such as print, photos, or audio or video recordings, or simply anecdotes from the venue’s past.
Education
Our view is that the entirety of the archive is, in the broad sense, educational. In late 2010 we hope to launch specific archive-related education activities for the public.
This uniquely evolving archive is supported over five years by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Manchester City Council.
FUNK IT UP
A short course in Pan- Brazilian percussion and dance leaning towards the world of funk grooves and fat beats. This course will lead to final performance and great day out at the Chorley Festival of Afro-Brazilian Drumming and Dance: Big Drum Day!
“GET ON THE GOOD FOOT”
In this course Adriana Rosso will take you on a journey of Brazilian dance styles fusing several different traditions in a melting pot of samba, funk, hip-hop, Reggae, folkloric and Contemporary Brazilian dance styles.
“FUNK INJECTED SAMBA GROOVES”
For percussionists Leon Patel is scheming up some cheeky and flavoursome grooves and breaks for the Bateria that will require a serious respect for all things funky. The arrangements will draw upon influences from Brazilian Folkloric styles, West African percussion, Samba, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Drum and Bass and Jungle.
For Further Info & To Sign Up Click Here Now!!
We've now added an extra date for the incredible Kid Creole and the Coconuts! I
If you want a great party night out in the company of one of the truly great Latin bands of all time see you down at Band on the Wall in July.
The legendary band whose incandescent live shows created millions of new Latin music fans across the world in the 1980s are to play Band on the Wall in this very special concert, as part of this year’s Manchester Jazz Festival.
An exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime chance to see The Kid and his fabulous Coconuts, together with their eight-piece band, perform in the magical atmosphere of Manchester's most iconic club.
With recent re-issues of their old Ze Records waxings – featuring hits such as Annie I’m Not You Daddy and Stool Pigeon – a generation of new hipsters are learning to love that Tropical Gangster sound, where Latin met Disco in Studio 54.
Kid Creole & The Coconuts bring their legendary live show to the equally legendary Band on the Wall, for what promises to be an unforgettable night. Advance booking strongly recommended.
A Band on the Wall fundraiser, this concert will begin at 8.30pm.
A Manchester Jazz Festival Event
£25 Tickets available by clicking below:
