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Jazz En Dominicana - 20 Years Of Opening Windows Into The Jazz Scene In The Dominican Republic
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Fernando Rodriguez De Mondesert
Jazz en Dominicana was born on October 23rd of 2006. It was originally a blog whose intention was to inform about the Jazz that was presented in the Dominican Republic (by local and international musicians), as well as about what dominican jazz musicians were doing in other beaches. Before completing its first year (September 2007), the first weekly live jazz venue was born—Jazz Dominicana at Casa de Teatro. This October they will celebrate 20 years of having begun the mission ...
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Eliane Elias Trio: Czech Republic, 2008
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 2008, pianist-singer Eliane Elias was on tour with her trio in Brno, the Czech Republic. Her performance was billed as a “Tribute to Bill Evans" in support of her album Something for You. As with all of Elaine's concerts, this one demonstrates yet again what an exceptional and powerful jazz pianist she is. By powerful, I mean sensitive, driven and strong. Having held her hands in mine, I can tell you she has enormous strength. Go make yourself some ...
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Fernando Rodríguez De Mondesert Releases New Book: 'Women In Jazz... In The Dominican Republic'
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All About Jazz
In February of 2020, after being recognized as one of the winners of the Global Blog Awards 2019, Fernando Rodríguez de Mondesert released his first book Jazz en Dominicana: The Interviews 2019 as part of the awards received from Ukyoto Publishing Co. During the year 2020, Ukiyoto Publishing continued to monitor Rodríguez De Mondesert, and seeing that his publications on the Jazz en Dominicana blog met the criteria of content, creativity, uniqueness, originality and focus, they invited him to submit ...
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Washington D.C.'s Premiere All-Woman Jazz Orchestra Shannon Gunn And The Bullettes To Perform At Republic Restoratives As Part Of The 2017 Washington Women In Jazz Festival
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Jazz Beyond Borders
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes, the premiere all-women jazz orchestra in the Washington, D.C., area will perform for the 2017 Washington Women in Jazz Festival at Republic Restoratives Distillery and Craft Cocktail Bar on Thursday, March 2 from 7:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. Republic Restoratives is the largest female-owned crowd-funded distillery in the world, and the March 2 concert in Ivy City marks the first time a big band will make use of the beautiful industrial distillery space in the back room. ...
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Dominican Republic Singing Sensation Sonia Alfonso At Subrosa On September 22 And 24!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TOURISM BOARD PRESENTS SINGING SENSATION SONIA ALFONSO SUBROSA- NYC- SEPTEMBER 22 & 24 8:00PM & 10:00PM Sonia Alfonso was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and since she was young, she knew that she would become an artist. Sonia began singing professionally at the age 18 and was only 19 when she represented her country in Mexico during the OTI Festival in 1984 obtaining 5th place out of the 21 countries that participated. After ...
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Indiegogo and Island Records Partner for A&R and Music Crowdfunding at Fan Republic
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HypeBot
Indiegogo's having a big 2014. They announced $40 million in funding last month and now they're partnering with Island Records for a new music crowdfunding site called Fan Republic. While it's said to be the first it may not be the last given that it's powered by Indiegogo's new Outpost feature that allows crowdfunders to embed Indiegogo campaigns on other sites. But it does offer the unique opportunity to be seen and evaluated by Island Records A&R. Island Records and ...
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Erik Truffaz & Amina Agossi Jazz Up The Lao People's Democratic Republic
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All About Jazz
Jazz gigs are nothing like buses in Lao, as two buses never come along at the same time in the capital city, Vientiane. Nevertheless, jazz fans can look forward to the dizzying prospect of two jazz gigs on consecutive nights in the Lao National Culture Hall on the 26th and 27th of November. Swiss-French trumpeter Erik Truffaz on Wednesday 26th and French-Beninoise singer Mina Agossi on Thursday 27th will give audiences two very different takes on modern jazz. Truffaz has ...
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15th Annual Dominican Republic Jazz Festival
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D. O. Christian Rieger
The 15th Annual Dominican Republic Jazz Festival, Nov 9th Thru Nov 12th, 2011 Cabarete, Dominican Republic For 14 years, jazz aficionados from around the world have come to the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival to hear top-of-the-line Latin jazz musicians from the Caribbean, and Central and South America in the tropical towns of Cabarete and Sosua on the north shore of the Dominican Republic. This year's event is from November 9th through November 12th. Part of what makes this festival different ...
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Richard Bona Performing in The Dominican Republic
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John Kelman
For the first time in the Dominican Republic, Richard Bona, for one concert only! By Fernando Rodriguez Richard Bona, the well-known bassist and vocalist from Cameroon will perform a single concert on his first visit to the Dominican Republic on Wednesday October 12, 2011, at 8:00 PM at the Teatro La Fiesta of the Jaragua Hotel. Latin Jazz Kafé DD, presided by David Drumeaux, will be the producer of the encounter that Bona and his band will have for the ...
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Hypebot Interviews Kevin Lee: CEO of SOL Republic
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HypeBot
Former Monster VP of Marketing and Product Development, Kevin Lee, is the visionary mind behind SOL Republic, a new audio company that seeks to bring high-quality sound to the masses by innovating in sound, style, and durability while keeping their product affordable to consumers. Hypebot's Hisham Dahud caught up with Lee in San Francisco, where the CEO shared some insight on his decision to start his own company, and the mission behind his new brand: Dahud: “Your father [Noel Lee, ...
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