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JC Hopkins' New Release, "It's A Sad And Beautiful World," Which Features Garth Hudson And Levon Helm, Will Finally See The Light Of Day Ten Years After It Was Recorded
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GoMedia PR
The album, which will be released on July 12, also features an impressive array of jazz greats and notable singer-songwriters There are some musicians who defy genre limitations, whose work spans a such wide spectrum that it simply does not allow them to be labelled or categorized. Multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer JC Hopkins is just such an artist. He’s produced albums for Victoria Williams, Ben Fields and John Lithgow (whose Sunny Side of the Street earned a Grammy as Best ...
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Debut CD By Pianist, Composer & Bandleader Levon Mikaelian’s World Jazz Fusion Band United Shades Of Artistry Set For Release April 07, 2015
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MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
jny: Baltimore and Washington, D.C. are not cities that immediately come to mind when imagining fertile grounds for the birth of World Jazz bands. Yet these metropolitan areas boast as diverse a multi-cultural population as any region of the U.S. and generations of musicians have been nurtured at both jam sessions within the Capitol Beltway as well as up I-95 within the hallowed halls of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. United Shades Of Artistry, the self-titled debut recording ...
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Levon Helm: 1940-2012
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C. Michael Bailey
By C. Michael Bailey The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. —William Faulkner It might be a hard sell to claim that Levon Helm was the voice of The Band, considering he was part of a trio of the most distinctive voices in rock music during what some call ...
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Steely Dan's Donald Fagen to Sit in for Levon Helm at Midnight Rambles in February
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Something Else!
With Levon Helm sidelined by an undisclosed medical procedure, his web site has announced that Donald Fagen of Steely Dan will be a special guest at previously scheduled Midnight Rambles on February 11, 18 and 25. Helm, the Grammy-winning co-founding member of the Band, is expected to be out at least a month. He suffered through a bout with throat cancer in the late 1990s, though it remains unclear if this new procedure is because of a related issue. Helm ...
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Levon Helm to Ramble for Richard Manuel and Rick Danko
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JamBase
A MUSICAL NOD TO RICHARD AND RICKY Levon Helm has confirmed a new set of Midnight Rambles in 2012. Special Guests on these dates include Dar Williams, Spirit Family Reunion, and on January 21, a special tribute to fallen bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. The night is being billed as "A Musical Nod to Richard and Ricky," and Levon will be joined by band mate Garth Hudson, along with Jimmy Vivino for that performance. Levon will also strike out ...
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Boston Pops to Play W.Levon, Brandi Carlile at Life is Good Fest
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JamBase
BAREFOOT TRUTH SELECTED TO OPEN THE FESTIVAL; LIFE IS GOOD SET FOR SEPT 24-25 AT PROWSE FARM IN CANTON, MA Life is good is excited to announce that musicians from the Boston Pops have signed on to play at the 2011 Life is good Festival. World-class musicians from the Pops' string and brass sections led by guest conductor Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) will join Brandi Carlile and The Levon Helm Band for portions of their individual sets on Sunday, September ...
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Life is Good Festival: Avett Bros, Ray Lamontagne, Levon, Spearhead
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JamBase
FULL ARTIST SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER BENEFIT FEST Life is good has announced the lineup for the 2011 Life is good Festival. Set to take place September 24-25 in Canton, MA, a suburb of Boston, the multi-faceted fundraiser combines world-class headliners and nationally known musical talent on three stages, including several of today's most popular children's performers. This one-of-a-kind festival aims to raise $1 million to benefit the Life is good Playmakers, the action arm of The Life is good ...
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Levon Helm Does Well by Doing Good
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HypeBot
Supporting good causes is one way for musicians to show that they are making a positive contribution to society while making it clear that their success is about being part of a community rather than simply profiting from a community's interest. Though one may understandably feel that one's music is the main contribution an artist can make, leveraging one's own success to help others at whatever level of achievement has been attained is key to being a good community member. ...
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Levon Helm - Ramble at the Ryman (2011)
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Something Else!
We're reminded again on Ramble at the Ryman, a record both timeless and new, that Levon Helm was the loamy voiced, rail-jumping rhythmic center point of the Band, the yearning storyteller and gritty soul. Their records were drawn from continuity, bringing in dizzyingly diverse, age-old influences and performed in a chorus as if by brothers. That has always made a treasure hunt out of selecting any individual triumph. Not here. Recorded in the period just after Helm's acclaimed 2007 return ...
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David Bromberg: New Album with Levon, Dr. John, WSP and More
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JamBase
USE ME TAPS DR. JOHN, LEVON HELM, LINDA RONSTADT, JOHN HIATT, KEB' MO,' WIDESPREAD PANIC, LOS LOBOS AND OTHERS TO HELP David Bromberg returned to recording after a 17-year hiatus with his solo, acoustic, traditional folk-blues album Try Me One More Time (Appleseed, 2007). For his follow-up album, Use Me, Bromberg chose a different approach: Why not ask some of his favorite singer-songwriters and musicians to write (or choose), produce, and perform on songs tailored to his versatile but distinctive ...
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