ACHOF BREAKING NEWS UPDATE for February 5, 2023 – posted by Mike Goldstein
The 2023 Grammy show – the 65th annual show, just 10 months after the COVID-delayed 2022 Award Show and taking into account music/packages that were released between the first of October, 2021 and the last day September, 2022 – took place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, February 5th, 2023.The Grammy Award Winners in the Packaging Categories were announced earlier today during the web-cast Grammy Awards “Premiere Ceremony”, and I’m now pleased to share the info on who the winners were below:
In the “Best Recording Package” category, the nominees were:
Beginningless Beginning – Chun-Tien Hsia & Qing-Yang Xiao, art directors (Tamsui-Kavalan Chinese Orchestra)
Divers – William Stichter, art director (Soporus)
Everything Was Beautiful – Mark Farrow, art director (Spiritualized)
Telos – Ming Liu, art director (Fann)
Voyeurist – Tnsn Dvsn, art director (Underoath)
and the winner was Beginningless Beginning – Qing-Yang Xiao and his daughter Chun-Tien Hsia, art directors (Tamsui-Kavalan Chinese Orchestra)
In the “Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package” category, the nominees were:
Artists Inspired By Music: Interscope Reimagined – Josh Abraham, Steve Berman, Jimmy Iovine, John Janick & Jason Sangerman, art directors (Various Artists)
Big Mess – Berit Gwendolyn Gilma, art director (Danny Elfman)
Black Pumas (Collector’s Edition Box Set) – Jenna Krackenberger, Anna McCaleb & Preacher, art directors (Black Pumas)
Book – Paul Sahre, art director (They Might Be Giants)
In And Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81 ’82 ’83 – Lisa Glines, Doran Tyson & Dave Van Patten, art directors (The Grateful Dead)
and this year’s Grammy was awarded to In And Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81 ’82 ’83 – Lisa Glines, Doran Tyson & Dave Van Patten, art directors (The Grateful Dead)
And, while we still don’t “officially” cover this category, here are the nominees in the “Best Album Notes” category:
The American Clavé Recordings – Fernando González, album notes writer (Astor Piazzolla)
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Gareth Murphy, album notes writer (Andy Irvine & Paul Brady)
Harry Partch, 1942 – John Schneider, album notes writer (Harry Partch)
Life’s Work: A Retrospective – Ted Olson, album notes writer (Doc Watson)
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) – Bob Mehr, album notes writer (Wilco)
with Bob Mehr being awarded a shiny new Grammy Award for Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards were announced during a live streaming event that took place this past November 15th (which you can re-watch on the Grammy Awards site – https://live.grammy.com/).
Congratulations to all of the winners (and nominees). Of course, I’m going to work hard to follow up with each one of the winners to see if I can bring you their stories and, when I do, you’ll get the story right here on the ACHOF Breaking News site. More pictures from the ceremony will be added as soon as I can edit them!
To see the list of all of this year’s Grammy winners, please visit the Grammy.com site – https://www.grammy.com/
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