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Renaissance Man John “SohoJohnny” Pasquale President and Owner of Tribeca Records Prepares for Josie Music Awards in Nashville

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2 years ago

June 20, 2024

As one of the nominees for the prestigious Josie Music Awards “Best Record Label” category, John Pasquale diligently prepares for his trip to Nashville this October. The JMA will be celebrating their 10th annual anniversary on Saturday October 26, 2024 at the CMA Theater inside the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum. This will be followed on Sunday October 27, 2024 by the Awards which will take place in The Grand Ole Opry House, both in Nashville TN.

John Pasquale, known lovingly as SohoJohnny, is excited to be nominated by the most prestigious, respected, revered and influential event in the Indie Music Industry. The Josie Music Awards created and led by TinaMarie Passantino and daughter Josie Passantino-Boone allows artists to realize their dreams in a big way.

Along with the Tribeca Records nomination, many of the signed label’s artists have also been nominated (some in multiple categories) including THE AMERICAN RELICS, Jenny Grace, Randy Edelman, Irene Michaels and more. Composer Randy Edelman who is set release brand new music shortly will be receiving a special award as well as Legendary Artist.

SohoJohnny not only owns one of New York’s most accomplished records labels but also excels as a Real Estate entrepreneur owning Pep Real Estate, the go-to for Pop-Up stores in the Manhattan Soho area, as an actor, an executive film producer, a TV show host for his Soho At Night (a late night interview/entertainment show), and as the creator of the Let Me Help, Inc foundation putting on celebrity events to benefit various causes. He is also a family man, a performer, the executive producer of “Profiles with Mickey Burns” (a 21 year old celebrity television show), and the lover of music, most especially disco.

We would like to wish all of the nominees the best of luck as well as wishing Josie and TinaMarie all the best on their brand new music venue set to be unveiled sometime this summer…..

The official website for Tribeca Records may be found at https://www.tribecarecords.com

The official website for the Josie Music Awards may be found at https://www.josiemusicawards.com

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Art Basel Paris 2026: A $100 Million Modigliani, Two $10 Million Richters, and a Grand Palais at Full Stretch

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1 day ago

October 24, 2026

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Paris in October belongs to art — and this year, the art world showed up determined. The fifth edition of Art Basel Paris opened its public days Friday at the Grand Palais, running October 23–25 under the glass vaults of the great exhibition hall, in the fair’s first edition under new director Karim Crippa.

The scale is serious: 211 galleries from 41 countries and regions — 183 in the main Galeries sector, 16 in Emergence and 12 in Premise — including 64 galleries operating in France and 32 first-time participants. Around the fair, Paris art week hums with satellites including Paris Internationale and Design Miami.Paris, while inside the Grand Palais the fair keeps inventing: the Premise sector moved into a larger Salon Seine space, the Conversations program took over the Grand Palais Auditorium, and Oh La La! — mid-fair booth rehangs art-directed by Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu — rewrote stands on October 23–24. An expanded Public Program carried a first presentation to the Parvis des Droits de l’Homme by Tracey Emin.

And then there is the money. The fair’s biggest ticket hangs at Pace Di Donna Schrader: Modigliani’s 1917 Nu étendu (Lolotte), priced at over $100 million. The sales that have landed are led by Hauser & Wirth, which placed Gerhard Richter’s Rokokotisch (1965) at around $10 million and Georg Baselitz’s Der Hirte (1965) at around $10 million. White Cube sold two Julie Mehretu paintings at $7.85 million each, David Zwirner placed a Richter at $8.5 million, and Pace sold Dubuffet’s La chaise for just over $5 million. The crowd-stopper, meanwhile, is Jeff Koons’ ten-foot bronze Corks (Couple) — the selfie backdrop of the fair.

The context made the turnout its own headline: the fair opened days after a weekend of unrest across France, with barriers and dog patrols around the Grand Palais. Some collectors stayed home — but a great many came anyway, and the Grand Palais at full stretch suggests Paris’s grip on the art calendar is only tightening. Public days run through Sunday, October 25, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.