Frontera was the official wine of this year’s Latin Grammy Awards, and it’s continuing that relationship after the awards this year through an auction on CharityBuzz supporting the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation.
The theme of this year’s telecast was “Rediscovering Life Through Music.” To celebrate, Frontera partnered with Houston-based acrylic and mixed media artists Edgar Medina.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 15: Edgar Medina attends the Gift Lounge during the 22nd Annual Latin … [+] GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on November 15, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy)
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The Mexican-American abstract painter set up beside Frontera’s bar in the artist’s gift lounge at the event, and as each of the artists came through the lounge they contributed something to the collective piece of art that’s now being auctioned off.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 15: Yotuel (R) attends the Gift Lounge during the 22nd Annual Latin … [+] GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on November 15, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy)
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“The connection between wine, music and the arts is core to our brand’s DNA,” says Wayland Boyd, Senior Brand Manager for Frontera in the U.S. “Championing the fantastic community at the center of our consumer engagement is a natural expansion of our partnerships within this space.”
The brand has collaborated with music streaming service Spotify® since 2019, pairing genre-specific playlists with each of four different wine styles in the Frontera portfolio. The brand also launched #FronteraMusicStage in January 2020, awarding $500 gift cards to forty winners, totaling $20,000 in prizes for use at live music venues. The program is set to run again in January 2022.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 17: Edgar Medina and Javier Aguirre attend the Gift Lounge during the … [+] 22nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on November 15, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy)
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The painting has contributions from Alan Tacher, Paco Candela, Banda el Recodo, Omar Castro, Oscar Otanez, Boza, Calibre 50 – Eden Munoz, Armando Ramos, Alejandro Gaxiola, Erick Garcia, Camilo, Evaluna, Carlinhos Brown, Cristina Bernal, Danna Paola, David Sturek, Descemer Bueno, DJ Nelson, Domino Saints, Édgar Barrera, Eladio Carrion Emmanuel, Emilio Estefan, Flor de Toloache, Gente de Zona – Alexander Delgado, Randy Malcom, Javier Aguirre, Juanes, Kimberly Dos Ramos, La Hungara – Sonia Maria Barbara, Laercio da Costa, Lex Borrero, Lizza Morales, Los Dos Carnales , Luis Barrera Jr, Maná, Maria Toledo, Marie Monti, Matteo Bocelli, Milly Quezada, Nathy Peluso, Nella, Omar Apollo, Paloma Mami, Paula Arenas, Ricardo Laguna, Sofia Reyes, Tony Dandrades, and Yotuel.
“Bidding on Edgar Medina’s 22nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards inspired, one-of-a kind, art piece is a statement and declaration to our theme “Rediscover Life Through Music,” says Tanya Ramos Puig, President of the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. “The proceeds will make an impact in the life of a future artist by not only providing access to education but preserving Latin music’s cultural heritage.”
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 17: Eladio Carrion attends the Gift Lounge during the 22nd Annual Latin … [+] GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on November 17, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy)
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
