As KaraokeFest 2006 approaches, we are nearing the time for the "Karaoke Golden Achievement Award" voting. These awards are so important because they provide a way to honor those in the Karaoke community whose contributions should be recognized. These awards are rewards for those people and venues that rise above the norm and make a ...

  The big news is…KaraokeFest 2006 will be held at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona on Sunday, September 17th! And what a venue! Attendance at the "Fair" is estimated to be in the tens of thousands (somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000+). It should be quite a day for Karaoke and all of the attending ...

  At 2:31pm on October 23rd the record for the longest Karaoke group session (100 hours) was broken at Palos Verdes Bowl in Torrance, CA. The new record stands at 108 hours! All of this, of course, is pending verification and certification from the Guinness Book of Records and we all hope there won’t be any ...

The last time that we published a Karaoke Cares issue was immediately after 9-11 when a great tragedy occurred and some of our fellow Americans desperately needed help. Well, there has been another set of tragedies which has resulted in the biggest natural disaster this country has ever seen, the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. Accordingly, Karaoke ...

Our cover for this issue illustrates a very serious problem that has been taking place in the Karaoke disc (software) manufacturing industry. Some music publishers are attempting to charge Karaoke disc manufacturers huge and unprecedented amounts of money for the syncopation ("sync") rights for songs in their catalogues. This is creating a crisis that could ...

KaraokeFest 2005 is now "in the books" and what a day is was! The thousands in attendance at Knott's Berry Farm got to participate in all of the "Fest" events; the 7 Karaoke stages located throughout the park, the Karaoke Expo and, of course, the main show in the Charles Schulz Theater. First of all, we ...