Performance / Tour News

"This Our Music" with Knucklebean, James Carney, and the Inbetweens!

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

Friends of SOUND! Please join us this Wednesday, July 9 in New York City for an evening of joyful noise! RUCMA presents... “This Is Our Music" Wednesday, July 9 @ Clemente Soto Velez 107 Suffolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Doors at 7:30PM, Show at 8PM, $10/$7 for students and seniors 8PM - James Carney Group: James Carney (electric piano, compositions), John Hebert (bass), Ches Smith (drums) 9PM - Knucklebean: Ben Syversen (trumpet), Kevin Moehringer (trombone), Matt Thomas (saxophones), Matt ...

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Universal Musical Appeal - Live Performances by Theo Croker

Source: Mosnar Communications, Inc
July 8, 2008

Theo Croker is home and performing live in New York - at least for the moment. Don't miss out on the opportunity to see him perform live at the Rubin Museum of Art's Harlem in the Himalayas series. He recently returned from a live performance tour in Shanghai, China with stops in London and Egypt on the way back. Theo's sensational jazz style is becoming a hot demand for both jazz and hip hop fans. Brenda Bradley of Exalt Entertainment ...

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Thievery Corporation | 06.26.08 | NYC

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

Thievery Corporation :: 06.26.08 :: Central Park Summerstage :: New York, NY

Central Park Summerstage :: New York, NY Labeling Thievery Corporation's music isn't easy. The two artists who comprise the group's core, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, have labeled it “Outernational." It's reggae with Middle Eastern influences, dance electronica with the rhythmic complexities of West African music and their lyrics are sung in French, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese and English. Perhaps that's why this ...

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Algerian Singer Mixes Rock and Rai

Source: Michael Ricci
July 7, 2008

An old-school rock star headlined SummerStage in Central Park on Saturday afternoon.

Grinning and unshaven, he strutted around the stage, sang in a knowing growl and cued his band for extended, hard-grooving versions of songs using fuzz-toned guitar riffs over a dance beat.

Rachid Taha, the Algerian rock star, with his band at Central Park SummerStage on Saturday wore a leather fedora, then switched to a red cowboy hat. He dumped a bottle of water onto audience members -- redundant, ...

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Mike Clark's Prescription Renewal Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

On Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Drummer, Mike Clark will be bringing his group Prescription Renewal to the Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver, Colorado. Mike will have his legendary rhythm partner Paul Jackson on Bass and the amazing Donald Harrison on saxophone.

“He's a great jazz drummer--and he hasn't lost any of the stuff that he brought from Oakland. So now he's totally free to do both, and he does. The solo he played on the album Thrust, on the song ...

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Jake la Botz's "Most Depressing Album Ever" and Tattoo Parlor Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

Sing This to Yourself and Other Suggestions for a Personal Apocalypse is new solo album from singer-songwriter/actor

Jake La Botz has fared well professionally this year, with a significant acting role as a “singing redneck mercenary" in Sylvester Stallone's recent blockbuster Rambo film. But some personal struggles led him to record what he deems “the most depressing album ever," titled Sing This to Yourself and Other Suggestions for a Personal Apocalypse. The album, which he describes as “11 sordid tales ...

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Feeling Neighborly on Bluegrass

Source: Michael Ricci
July 7, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. YANKEES aren't supposed to know country music from a hole in the ground. But on Tuesday nights, not a mile from Harvard, the grass grows blue at the Cantab Lounge.

This dive bar in Central Square is the home for local and traveling bluegrass pickers alike. But it draws mostly non-musicians who flirt, chatter, hoot and holler under the glow of a scratch-ticket lottery machine and a net of Christmas lights. “It's a classic Cambridge atmosphere where you ...

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Kevin Frenette 5, Featuring Tatsuya Nakatani - Sat July 12th at The Outpost, Cambridge, MA

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

WHO: The Kevin Frenette 5 (featuring Tatsuya Nakatani) Kevin Frenette - guitar Tatsuya Nakatani - percussion James Rohr - fender rhodes Joe Moffett - trumpet Ryan McGuire - bass

WHEN: Saturday July 12, 2008 8:00PM

WHERE: OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music ...

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