ACADEMY TO HONOR LESLIE ANN JONES

Seven-time Grammy winner Leslie Ann Jones will be honored at the first Celebration of Craft event, a joint project of the Recording Academy’s Producers & Engineers and Songwriters & Composers wings.

The Grammy Week event will be held 1/31 at the Grammy Museum.

The event will also salute the year-round work of the Producers & Engineers and Songwriters & Composers wings and shine a light on the people working behind the scenes to create the year’s best musical works, including this year’s Songwriter of the Year nominees.

“Both wings are a critical part of our mission at the Recording Academy to create spaces for music creators to thrive, and I look forward to joining with music people from both of these communities to kick off our Grammy Week celebrations,” said Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. Jones, the first woman chair of the Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees (1999-2001), has spent more than 40 years in the industry as a recording and mixing engineer and record producer.

“From her decades-spanning recording career to her work as former chair of the Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees, a co-chair of the P&E Wing, and much more, Leslie Ann Jones has always been committed to the music community and to excellence in recording,” said Maureen Droney, VP of the Producers & Engineers Wing.

“It’s a privilege to convene our national network of creatives and technicians to salute her at A Celebration of Craft with the Songwriters & Composers Wing, an essential collaborator in our effort to recognize the people behind the music.”