S. Florida Woman's Haiti Music Project Gets 2 Grammy Nods
MIAMI (CBS4)- A South Florida woman is heading west to attend Sunday's Grammy Awards after she and her colleagues received two Grammy nominations for their 10-disc box set project.
Kimberly Green, president of the Miami-based Green Family Foundation (GFF), will be heading to Los Angeles to attend the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Her colleagues from the Association for Cultural Equity, Compilation Producers Jeffrey A. Greenberg, David Katznelson and Anna Lomax Wood (daughter of Alan Lomax), and the set's Mastering Engineers Steve Rosenthal & Warren Russell-Smith, also will attend.
"Team Lomax" was nominated for the 10-disc box set collection titled Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936-1937, which has been nominated for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. The Album Notes nod goes to Professor Gage Averill, who wrote the notes.
The full list of nominees in the Best Historical Album category are: Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 (Various Artists), The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings), The Complete Mother's Best Recordings...Plus! (Hank Williams), Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More (Buddy Holly), and Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Various Artists).
The full list of nominees in the Best Album Notes category are: Gage Averill for Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937 (Various Artists), Robert Gordon for Keep An Eye On The Sky (Big Star), Ashley Kahn for Side Steps (John Coltrane), Doug Seroff for There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II And His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916 (Fisk University Jubilee Quartet), and Will Sheff for True Love Cast Out All Evil (Roky Erickson With Okkervil River).
Green and the foundation has been active in Haiti for more than a decade, and her work ranges from community health and development to cultural repatriation and preservation.
The foundation holds a partnership with Columbia University's Earth Institute and the establishing of the Haiti Policy Program, which helps to support the Haiti Policy providing economic policy advice to the president and Government of Haiti.
The latter includes partnering with Fastforward Haiti for the Sinema Anba Zetwal (Cinema Under the Stars) "Food for Souls" tour where Haitians were given a first-hand look and listen to the Alan Lomax films and recordings, which former president Bill Clinton called "an exemplary commitment to action."
Green, who directed and produced the award-winning documentary Once There Was a Country: Revisiting Haiti also oversees the Cultural Committee for the Clinton Global Initiative Haiti Action Network.
In her native Miami, Green and GFF also fund a number of initiatives, among them the Little Haiti-based Youth Expressions program, which addresses everything from HIV/AIDS prevention to gang intervention and has become a harbor for at-risk youth.
Green and the foundation's close association with FIU has resulted in the creation of both the Steven and Dorothea Green Library and the Digital Library of the Caribbean, as well as the establishing of NeighborhoodHELP (Health, Education, Learning, Program), where students of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine work with medically underserved families throughout Miami-Dade County.
