TEC Foundation reports:

Guitar virtuoso, composer and producer STEVE VAI will be presented with the prestigious Les Paul Award at the 27th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, to be held Friday, January 20th, in the Pacific Ballroom of the Hilton Anaheim during the 2012 NAMM Show.

Co-presented by the TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio and NAMM, the TEC Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in professional audio production and product design. The Les Paul Award was established in 1991 to honor musical artists who have had distinguished careers as innovators in the creative application of audio technology.

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According to a recent update from Vai, he will perform with JOE SATRIANI and STEVE LUKATHER at The Byron Bay Blues Festival on April 6th, 2012 in Byron Bay, Australia (north of Sydney). They will be performing as G3: 2012. More details will be available soon. In the meantime, go to this location for event information.

Other artists confirmed for The Byron Bay Blues Festival include ROGER DALTREY, YES, THE POGUES, GREAT BIG SEA, KENNY WAYNE SHEPPARD and many more.

As previously reported, Jammit is the first music software solution that eliminates the annoying “stop, play, rewind” method of learning your favorite songs. Jammit is more than just a cool app that separates the instruments that you want to hear from within the mix of your favorite songs, it’s also the source of the most accurate transcriptions in the world. Jammit unlocks the secrets that are hidden in the mix so you can learn to play exactly what was recorded with unique offerings for guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and vocals.

This month’s featured tracks come from Steve Vai and legendary progressive masterminds RUSH, with their epic 2112 masterpiece in its entirety.

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