From Thursday, February 14, 2013 till Saturday, February 16, 2013 Full Sail University will be celebrating it's 2013 Hall of Fame inductee ceremony Full Sail’s 4th Annual Hall of Fame Week is sponsored by Sony Electronics’ Professional Solutions of America, with additional sponsors Adobe, Avid, CDW, ESPN, Murphy Lighting, Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, and WWE. The inductee ceremony will be on Friday, February 15, 2013. Among those schedule to appear at the ceremony and participate in the week' activities include;
- GRAMMY® award-winning audio engineer and music producer Bruce Swedien
- Academy Award-winning visual effects artist and producer Ed Jones
- ESPN’s Senior Vice President, Content and Information Technology Kevin Stolworthy
- ESPN’s Vice President of Emerging Technology Anthony Bailey
- Former NARAS President and music attorney Al Schlesinger
- Live Nation’s Senior Vice President of Global Operations Craig Evans
- Actor and television personality John O’Hurley
- Founding member of the GRAMMY®- nominated multi-platinum selling group 98 Degrees Jeff Timmons
- Former NFL Super Bowl winning running back Ricky Watters
- GRAMMY®-nominated multi-platinum hip-hop group the Nappy Roots
- Senior Vice President of Special Events at WWE John Saboor
- Meyer Sound’s Live Audio and Education Specialist Buford Jones (who has mixed on tour for Eric Clapton, Prince and Pink Floyd)
- Google’s Cherie Hannouche
- People Magazine writer and New York Times best-selling author Steve Helling
- Co-hosts of the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz, Charles Divins, Lisa Spooner, Lance Smith and Jessica Reyes
- Co-hosts of the nationally syndicated lifestyle show Life Love Shopping, Andrea Jackson & Michelle Yarn
- Wilspro Management’s Debbie Wilson and Doug Shaw
- Orlando Predators Defensive End R-Kal Truluck.
Along with the inductee ceremony the week will also include two free concerts. Both concerts will take place at the Full Sail Live Studio and admission is on a first come, first serve bases.
On Valentine's Day a special concert will be held at 8p featuring singer/songwriter Marc Broussard. On Saturday, February 15 at 8p a second concert will include Mat Kearney.
In other exciting Full Sail news the 2013 Grammy's featured 18 graduates from the university. This year continues the long tradition of Full Sail University being involved in Grammy winning projects. The school has grads that have been involved with 17 of the last 22 Album of the Year Grammy awards.
