Performance / Tour News

Rob Mullins June-July Performance Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2008

JUNE 28 The Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater Albuquerque, NM

JUNE 29 The Jazz Bakery Culver City, CA

JULY 04 Pasadena Jazz Institute - Paseo Colorado Pasadena, CA

JULY 20 Quail Botanical Gardens San Diego, CA

About Rob Mullins Rob Mullins has built his musical reputation in the world with a solid string of releases in the contemporary jazz field over the ...

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Gilberto Gil, Devendra Banhart to Share the Stage

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2008

The tenth anniversary season of KCRW's World Festival at the Hollywood Bowl continues on Sunday, June 29, at 7pm, with a compelling and rare double bill featuring Gilberto Gil and Devendra Banhart, who share the stage for the very first time. The Album Leaf featuring Mike Heron from The Incredible String Band opens the show. KCRW DJ Anne Litt hosts. The inspiration for this pairing began with Banhart, a Texas-born, Venezuela-raised world-folk epicurean who exploded on the international music scene ...

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Michel Benebig July Tour in Melbourne, Australia

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2008

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Stevie Wonder Talks Touring and Obama

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2008

Singer says he hit the road 'to say thank you to the fans' Stevie Wonder is fidgeting with his camera phone, embarrassed because he can't get it to work right. But wait, it's not what you think.

Wonder is trying to show a reporter how the device helps him “see" written documents; moments later, the blind superstar reveals how the camera takes photos of text, converts it to audio and reads the words aloud, and instantly has wowed his audience ...

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Widespread Panic Day in Denver

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2008

MAYOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER PROCLAIMS “WIDESPREAD PANIC DAY" IN DENVER

At the end of Widespread Panic's sold-out run this weekend, the band will have played 32 Sold Out shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre - more than any other band in the venue's history. Red Rocks officials will honor the band with a special award presentation, and a mayoral proclamation calling Friday, June 27 “Widespread Panic Day" in the City and County of Denver.

Read more at Rocky Mountain News.

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Rebirth Brass Band | 06.13 | SF

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2008

Words by: Anni M. Svilar | Images by: Jon Snyder

Rebirth Brass Band & Mama's Cookin' :: 06.13.08 :: The Independent :: San Francisco, CA

The fact that colossal bands have been born and bred in New Orleans is no secret, but those that have stayed after Hurricane Katrina aren't as common. It's a city built under sea level with streets full of charm, gravesites above ground and “Fishwater" dumping through sloshing gutters. But, it is also a city ...

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Donna Greene and the Roadhouse Daddies

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2008

WHAT: Live music on the patio. Featuring new music from CD A Girl's Gotta Have a Little Pleasure.

WHEN: Saturday, June 28, 2 p.m.

WHAT: Borders Books & Music State, 900 State St. Phone: 805-899-3668 Santa Barbara

COST: FREE

“Donna Greene is a dangerous woman. She makes you fall in love with her without ever having met her... there's so much emotion ...

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Irvin Mayfield and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Headlines Stanford's Pre-Independence Day Celebration

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2008

In what has become a favorite summertime tradition for more than a decade, Stanford Lively Arts presents its annual pre-Independence Day concert and picnic on Thursday, July 3. Following their 2006-07 Lively Arts performance, the 16-member New Orleans Jazz Orchestra--led by Grammy-nominated composer and trumpet virtuoso Irvin Mayfield--returns to bring the rich musical legacy of the Crescent City to Stanford's beautiful Frost Amphitheater. Due to nearby construction on campus, there will be no post-concert fireworks this year. Gates open at ...

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