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Education

Jazz Empowers Hosts Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival

Jazz Empowers Hosts Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival

Source: Andrew Johnston

Jazz Empowers, a national nonprofit organization that supports jazz programs in underserved schools, is celebrating Mardi Gras with a Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival. The jazz festival will include an exclusive performance from Jazz Empowers instructor Ricky Sebastian and his Carnival Time Band featuring Derek Douget on Tenor Saxophone, Ashlin Parker on trumpet, Don Vappie on guitar/vocals, and Richard Moten on bass. The festival will also include performances and testimonials from Jazz Empowers students, and a short live auction with ...

Performance / Tour

Jazz this week: Keyon Harrold, a tribute to Michael Jackson, Mardi Gras, and more

Jazz this week: Keyon Harrold, a tribute to Michael Jackson, Mardi Gras, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes the return of a favorite local son, a tribute to the late “King of Pop," various Mardi Gras festivities, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 7 Trumpeter Keyon Harrold returns home to perform for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro Harrold currently is riding high thanks to the critical and commercial success of The Mugician, his second album as a leader, ...

Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration

Source: Don Mopsick

Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band teams up with New Orleans natives Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris to celebrate the roots of New Orleans Jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. They ...

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Event

Jambalaya Brass Band to Perform for Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Party at B.B. King Blues Club

Jambalaya Brass Band to Perform for Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Party at B.B. King Blues Club

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment

New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band, NYC's ultimate New Orleans party band, will be performing four sets at the Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Party at Lucille's in the world famous B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on Tuesday, February 21, 2012, starting at 7:00 PM. At Lucille's, along with tunes from their successful CD It's a Jungle Out There, Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing other original and traditional favorites. The band's foundation will be provided by Ron Caswell on Tuba, ...

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Music Industry

Mardi Gras Ball: Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama, Marco Benevento

Mardi Gras Ball: Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama, Marco Benevento

Source: JamBase

6TH ANNUAL MARDI GRAS BALL EXPANDS TO TWO NIGHTS For the 6th year in a row, CEG Presents / NolaFunk.com—the New York-based event promoter that honors the musicians and spirit of New Orleans—will be bringing its annual Mardi Gras Ball to New York City, and for the first time, it will be a two-night event. On February 18 & 19, New Orleans royalty Kermit Ruffins and his band the BBQ Swingers will make a rare appearance at the Hiro Ballroom ...

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Recording

New Orleans Spirit Captured on Rounder's 'Meet Me at Mardi Gras'

New Orleans Spirit Captured on Rounder's 'Meet Me at Mardi Gras'

Source: conqueroo

Album, just in time for February festivities, features Al “Carnival Time" Johnson, Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, Larry Williams, Joe Liggins, Marcia Ball, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys and more LOS ANGELES, Calif.—There's a chill in the air, and the sounds of the season are everywhere. Christmas, you ask? No, you're in New Orleans, and it's Carnival time—Meet Me at Mardi Gras. From every radio, bandstand, bar and coffee shop, the songs associated with Mardi Gras (especially perennial favorites ...

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Performance / Tour

Jambalaya Brass Band Live At The Riverhead Mardi Gras Festival

Jambalaya Brass Band Live At The Riverhead Mardi Gras Festival

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment

New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live at the Riverhead Mardi Gras Festival in Riverhead, NY, presented by the Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association, on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Jambalaya Brass Band will be marching and performing in the parade at 12:00 PM, followed by a performance on the main stage of the festival in downtown Riverhead at 3:00 PM. The Mardi Gras parade will start at the Suffolk County Historical Society at 300 West Main St. ...

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Performance / Tour

Boston Pops Presents a Mardi Gras Celebration with Dukes of Dixieland, May 17-18

Boston Pops Presents a Mardi Gras Celebration with Dukes of Dixieland, May 17-18

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts

The Boston Pops, led by conductor Keith Lockhart, is bringing New Orleans to Boston this week with a special Mardi Gras festival featuring the Dukes of Dixieland, taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at Boston Symphony Hall. Tickets to the concert are $70-$91 and can be purchased online. The legendary Dukes of Dixieland have been ambassadors for jazz over the past four decades, traveling the world with their distinct sound of New Orleans jazz in ...

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Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Mardi Gras Time with Glen David Andrews

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Mardi Gras Time with Glen David Andrews

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

It's parade Saturday of Mardi Gras week in St. Louis, which makes it a doubly appropriate time to check out some clips of New Orleans trombonist and vocalist Glen David Andrews, who will be in town next Wednesday, March 9 to play The Gramophone. A protege of New Orleans legend Anthony “Tuba Fats" Lacen, cousin of Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews, and brother of Rebirth Brass Band's Derrick Tabb, Andrews draws on jazz, gospel, ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Chris Potter Underground, Craig Hultgren, Jazz St. Louis' Benefit Gala, Mardi Gras Music, and More

Jazz This Week: Chris Potter Underground, Craig Hultgren, Jazz St. Louis' Benefit Gala, Mardi Gras Music, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

It's Mardi Gras week, and here in St. Louis there's a variety of jazz and creative music coming up on local stages (though not at the city's official Mardi Gras celebration; a bit more about that later.) Let's go the highlights... The most highly anticipated performer of the week likely is saxophonist Chris Potter (pictured), who brings his electric group Underground to Jazz at the Bistro for the first time beginning tonight and continuing through Saturday. The 40-year-old Potter has ...

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