Pomegranate Music Now on XM Satellite Radio

I just got a call from my friend Pat Redgate who told me that at around 6:30ET he heard Gor Mkhitarian's "Godfather Tom" being played on XM Satellite Radio's World Zone channel, number 100 on the XM dial. I spoke to World Zone's Washington, DC based DJ Nikki Strong a month or two ago and made arrangements to have our Pomegranate Music catalog available for them to use and play as music partly representative of Armenia (the extreme fringes). The other Armenian stuff they play is pretty much duduk music from Jivan Gasparian. So, it was time to change that. Aside from requests, now our artists are being played in regular rotation apparently on World Zone. Gor, Bambir, Hover, Iakovos, and the Karabagh choirs.

If you have XM Radio, the station is 100. You can request our tunes amongst all the other global music played. Shoot Nikki an email at worldzone@xmradio.com. Or go to www.xmradio.com and go to the world music section under World Zone. There is a request section.

I also sent off Pomegranate's entry into the 2006 Grammy Award nomination process. The albums eligible were Iakovos Kolanian's, "Shoror: Armenian Folk Songs for Guitar" and our Tufenkian Karabagh CD entitled "Fortress City: Armenian Songs from Nagorno Karabagh". Each album could either be considered in the World Music section (section 73, I think) or the classical area. Both albums will are both unlikely to make it to the final 5 or 6 nominated for Grammy's in each category. In fact, it would be like winning the lottery. But, you have to play to win. If you know of any Grammy voters, pass on the news and tell them to vote for us. Unfortunately, I can't vote for my own products. It is a pretty exciting process, nevertheless. www.grammy.com for more info on our organziation.

See some of you in Yerevan next week. Bring those demos! I will be in talent search mode looking to sign one artists/act/band.