From: sunofmusic@gmail.com   
      
   The 5th Annual Indie Music Channel Awards - Hollywood has nominated Les   
   Fradkin for Fourteen awards in their annual red carpet event taking place in   
   Los Angeles, April 24th, 2016, at the Clive Davis Theatre inside the legendary   
   Grammy Museum. The    
   nominations are taken from the successful RRO Entertainment album releases,   
   "Mr. Midi Guitar" and "Rehearsals For Retirement" by Les Fradkin.   
      
   Fradkin's categories of nomination are:   
   * Best Rock Song - performance song title, "Sabre Dance"   
   * Best Rock Producer - performance song title, "Lift Off" and "God Bless   
   California (Oooh L.A.)"   
   * Best Instrumental Artist - performance song title, "Sabre Dance"   
   * Best Instrumental Recording - recording title, "Sabre Dance"   
   * Best Instrumental Song - performance song title, "Lift Off"   
   * Best Male Classical Artist - performance song title, "Sabre Dance"   
   * Best Classical Recording - recording title, "Ode To Joy"   
   * Best Classical Producer - performance song title(s) "Lift Off", "Ode To Joy"   
   and "Sabre Dance"   
   * Best Classical Video Under $5K - performance song title   
   "Canon In D"   
   * Best Special Videos Under $5K - performance song title   
   "Canon In D"   
   * Album Of The Year - "Mr. Midi Guitar"   
      
   This is Fradkin's fourth time being nominated by the Indie Music Channel   
   Awards. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Fradkin received several nominations for in   
   the Classical Genre, taking home the Best Classical Recording accolade in 2014   
   for "Canon In D".   
      
   Les Fradkin is a 21st Century "New Media" Artist and Composer / Innovator/   
   Guitarist. An Original Cast member of   
   "Beatlemania", Virtuoso Guitarist and a Pioneer of MIDI Guitar.   
      
   Les is a successful songwriter/composer from the 1970's, lead guitarist, and   
   one of the original members of the hit Broadway show "Beatlemania". He was a   
   Guitar Synthesizer and Tapeless Recording pioneer of the 1980's, a   
   neoclassical guitar trendsetter    
   in the 1990's and is now a 21st Century innovator as a virtuoso MIDI Guitarist   
   with the Starr Labs Ztar. A classically trained musician as well as being a   
   rock guitarist, he has found success as a recording artist, composer and   
   producer with MGM    
   Sunflower, ESP-Disk, Bell, Arista, RCA, and Laurie Records. Les has written   
   the well known hit "La Chansons Des Souvenirs" ("Song Of A Thousand Voices")   
   for the famous French songstress Mireille Mathieu on the Philips label and   
   this tune has also been    
   recorded in a hit version on RCA Victor (now Sony/BMG) by the Latin Pop icon   
   Roberto Jordan ("Donde"). He was originally discovered and signed by John   
   Hammond Sr. at Columbia back in 1969.   
      
   He has played Mellotron, 12 and 6-string Guitar, Bass and Piano on dozens of   
   Top 40 hit records throughout the early 1970's , and 1980's, scoring many US   
   and UK chart placings throughout his career. His current instrumental music,   
   is a mixture of various    
   influences and signposts from Classic Rock,, Baroque and Progressive music.   
   Current release: "Mr. Midi Guitar".   
      
   Website: http://www.lesfradkin.com   
   Music: http://www.reverbnation.com/lesfradkin   
      
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