It’s Awards Season in Los Angeles, time for road closures and searchlights scanning the sky, viewing parties and taking bets on which underdog or old favorite will rule the stage. In a city full of dreamers, we love to watch and applaud when those dreams come true.
At Out of the Box, one of our favorite award shows is the Grammy. Why? The music. Nothing brings people together the way music does, and we’re all about togetherness. When we listen to music together, we can feel the same beat, we can sing the same words. And when we find an artist whose music touches us, those people and those songs infuse our daily lives — they’re what pull us onto the dance floor at a party or make us tear up at a memory. Who doesn’t love to be surprised by the right song coming on our iPods or radio or even over the speaker at the grocery store?
The Grammy Go Seek Hunt is all about this experience — the musicians who have affected us, the songs they’ve recorded, and music history as a whole. Our clues take you on a tour through museum highlights, helping you and your team work together for a common goal as you learn about music history. A favorite location for our private hunts, the museum houses artifacts from the greatest Grammy musicians. The Out of the Box hunt will give a special spin to your tour, transforming installations into puzzles and information into a trivia competition. And we can customize the hunt for your group’s needs. Pick your genre, focus on artists from your home country or choose any theme you can imagine!
Join us Feb. 12 at 2 p.m., at the Grammy Museum. Tickets are $29, including admission to the museum. No prior music knowledge in necessary, and teams can be up to six people in size.
Grammy and Music Trivia:
- The Grammy Award was originally called the Gramophone Award, named after the first device for recording and replaying sound.
- The gramophone was also known as a phonograph. Different manufacturers used different names to identify the same recording device.
- What’s the first song ever recorded? For years, it was commonly believed that the first song ever recorded was Thomas Edison singing “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” which could be replayed on one of his phonographs. But the first song ever recorded was actually sung into a phonoautograph — an earlier device that recorded sound visually on paper. In 2008, scientists at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratories invented a device to replay the marks left by the phonoautograph, revealing the first recorded song to be a short clip of phonoautogram inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville singing French folk song “Au Clair de Lune.”
- The five top-selling rock artists of all time are, in descending order: The Beatles, Evlis Presley, Michael Jackson, ABBA and Led Zeppelin. Which sounds like an awesome start to an iPod mix, don’t you think?