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Hundreds Gathered For New Jersey Performing Arts Center's International Jazz Day Event Including Newark Mayor Baraka
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AMT Public Relations
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) hosted a free musical celebration in honor of International Jazz Day 4/30 featuring performances by 100+ young New Jersey musicians with special guest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Co-produced by NJPAC, City Verses, and Jazz House Kids, this popular concert unites youth musicians from NJPAC's City Verses jazz and poetry initiative, NJPAC's Jazz for Teens ensembles featuring James Moody Jazz Orchestra and The George Wein Scholars Ensemble, Jazz House Big Band, and local high ...
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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Celebrates International Jazz Day With Free Performances By 100+ Student Musicians, Mayor Baraka, And More
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AMT Public Relations
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka WBGO Radio Host Sheila Anderson NJPAC’s City Verses Jazz and Poetry Ensemble NJPAC’s Wells Fargo Jazz for Teens Ensembles JAZZ HOUSE Big Band Science Park High Big Band Arts High Afro-Latin Big Band The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced a free musical celebration in honor of International Jazz Day April 30 featuring performances by 100+ young New Jersey musicians with special guest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Co-produced ...
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London Mayor Takes On Social Media At SXSW
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HypeBot
In the late 1990s, consumers across the globe began using a resource in the comfort of their own homes that was destined to revolutionize information consumption – the internet. Twenty years later, computer advancement and faster connections have altered virtually every aspect of daily life and have, for better or worse, begun to enter the realm of politics. Mayor Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim and ethnic minority mayor, gave a keynote speech Monday with a question-and-answer session at South by ...
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Bill Frisell Offers Special Download To Benefit Houston’s Mayor, Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund
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John Kelman
Worldwide release date: September 18, 2017 American guitarist, Bill Frisell, one of the most sought after voices in contemporary music is offering a special download to benefit Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey relief fund. 100% of the profits will go to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund which was created by Turner, as a direct response to individuals and corporations asking how they could help the city. On Monday, August 28th, three days after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Turner who ...
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London Mayor Launches Plan To Save Music Venues
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HypeBot
As an alarmingly increasing number of live music venues are closing owing to financial challenges and it becomes harder for artists to find venues to play, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is establishing a task force to keep the city's music scene alive. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Live music everywhere is facing a crisis, as venues continue to close left and right. In some cases, the real estate is too expensive to sustain a club or ...
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Philadelphia's Mayor Nutter Launches Jazz Appreciation Month With City's Award To Benny Golson
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All About Jazz
In Philadelphia, and across the country, April is celebrated as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). To honor jazz as an original American art form, JAM was created in 2002 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History. Philadelphia has been one of the cities celebrating JAM for several years now, with the blessing and support of the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy as well as local jazz organizations and venues, notably ...
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Michael A. Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia, to Give Keynote Address at the Jazz Connect Conference at APAP|NYC 2013
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All About Jazz
Conference on January 10-11, 2013 to address important issues and trends in the jazz community The Jazz Connect Conference at APAP|NYC 2013, organized by JazzTimes in conjunction with the Jazz Forward Coalition, announced today that the Honorable Michael A. Nutter, the Mayor of Philadelphia and President of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), will give the keynote address on Thursday, January 10 at 12 noon EST. In June 2012, Mayor Nutter became President of the USCM, which is the ...
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Stephanie Jordan to Perform for Mayor-Elect Mitch Landrieus Inauguration
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Sylvain Music Notes
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is one of the featured performers for the May 3, 2010 Inauguration of New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu. Jordan is scheduled to perform at 1:45 P.M. during the Celebrate New Orleans Festival which will be held at Lafayette Square across the street from Gallier Hall. Jordan says that she honored to be a part of the festivities. In tribute of those being sworn in, I will sing an up-tempo version of ...
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Boston Mayor Menino Proclaims Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC Week
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
The proclamation honors the 40th Anniversary of New England Conservatory's first-in-the-nation Jazz Studies program, founded by visionary Conservatory President Gunther Schuller in 1969.
The Mayor lauds the Conservatory: The world-class faculty of New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies Program has been recognized with 5 MacArthur Genius Grant awards and has included 4 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters. recognizing the many contributions the New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies Program has made over four decades to support, nurture and ...
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MODA Entertainment Announces Mayor Bloomberg to Declare April 29th Duke Ellington Day in NYC
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All About Jazz
NEW YORK, NY--MODA Entertainment is proud to announce that New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will declare April 29th, 2009 “Duke Ellington Day" in honor of the 110th anniversary of the jazz legend's birth. The proclamation will be presented to Duke Ellington's grandson, Paul Ellington. Paul is the executor of the Duke Ellington Estate and musical director/ leader of the world famous Duke Ellington Orchestra. The Duke Ellington Estate is represented by New York based MODA Entertainment for marketing, ...
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