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Performance / Tour

FringeArts Presents "The Beautiful Noise," An Interdisciplinary Homage To Jazz Legend Sun Ra

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
April 30, 2014

PHILADELPHIA — Bringing together an intergalactic performance as only FringeArts can, “The Beautiful Noise: A Special Tribute to Sun Ra" will be presented as an unrehearsed, one-time-only event on Friday, June 6. Curated by composer King Britt and artist Kate Watson Wallace, electronic-based musicians, body-based performers and videos artists will improvise a never before, never again collision of artistic synergy in tribute to their music hero, jazz surrealist Sun Ra. The Beautiful Noise pairs local and international artists who are ...

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Event

Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month includes Month-Long Celebration and Honors Benny Golson

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
March 20, 2014

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter will officially proclaim April 2014 Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month and launch the month-long celebration during an April 3 press conference at City Hall. The event will honor Philadelphia-born jazz legend Benny Golson and include a live performance by the Francois Zayas Trio. Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month (Philly JAM) shines a spotlight on the city’s special place in the history of jazz, and encourages people of all ages to experience, appreciate and participate in ...

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Award / Grant

Best Ideas For The Philadelphia Arts Receive $2.76 Million In Funding

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
April 26, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Thirty-five ideas for the arts in Philadelphia will receive $2.76 million as winners of the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge. Now in its second year, the community-wide challenge funds the best ideas for engaging and enriching Philadelphia through the arts. Emerging from more than 1,260 submissions, the 2012 winners represent a wide range of Philadelphia’s creative thinkers, including artists Erica Hawthorne and Sean Stoops, small organizations like the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and the Little Berlin collective, and established institutions ...

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Festival

Icons Of Philadelphia Jazz And Rising Stars Of Classical Music Featured In Spring Music Series At Woodmere Art Museum

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
April 21, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Woodmere Art Museum continues to attract exceptional musical talents in historic Chestnut Hill with their popular, on-going Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays series. Each weekend in April, May and June, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy rotating exhibitions while listening to the music of Philadelphia jazz legends and discovering the work of a new class of rising stars in the classical music scene. This season Music at Woodmere, which launched last spring, will introduce audiences to ...

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Event

Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Iconic Artists and Composers in Weekly Jazz and Classical Music Series

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
January 31, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Audiences are invited to experience music and art together at Woodmere Art Museum in historic Chestnut Hill. Woodmere's popular Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays series return every weekend for two months beginning February 10. Performed in the Museum's grand Kuch Gallery, visitors can tour FORCE OF NATURE—Elaine Kurtz: A Retrospective and Elemental: Nature as Language in the Works of Philadelphia Artists—two new exhibitions inspired by the natural world—while enjoying music and light refreshments. The celebrated works of ...

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Composer Dave Burrell’s Civilians During War Time Premieres at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Jan. 18 & 21

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
January 12, 2012

World-renowned jazz pianist performs new compositions inspired by Civil War research Wednesday, Jan. 18, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2:00-3:30 p.m. and 7:00-8:30 p.m. Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia Free with museum admission, but RSVP is required. To RSVP, call (215) 732-1600, ext. 123 or email [email protected]. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for children under five. For more information visit rosenbach.org. The Rosenbach Museum & Library welcomes ...

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Woodmere Art Museum presents Friday Night Jazz weekly October through December

Source: Rosaria Mineo
November 2, 2011

PHILADELPHIA: Woodmere Art Museum in historic Chestnut Hill is expanding its music series after a successful series of jazz performances this past Spring. Music offerings at Woodmere now include Classic Sundays in addition to the popular Friday Night Jazz series, offered weekly beginning October 9. Visitors are invited to enjoy music and art together while touring Woodmere's galleries. The Friday Night Jazz series celebrates a succession of themes in this influential American music genre, featuring weekly performances by vocalists and ...

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