Performance / Tour News

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers: 2012 Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
January 20, 2012

STEVE MARTIN AND THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS ANNOUNCE 2012 TOUR DATES Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers have announced tour dates in support of their #1 bluegrass album, Rare Bird Alert (Rounder Records), which recently received a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers will make stops at several venues and festivals including a performance at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, CA, as well as multiple nights with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in ...

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Roger Waters Adds Yankee Stadium Date

Source: JamBase
January 20, 2012

FEEL THE WARM THRILL OF CONFUSION, THAT SPACE CADET GLOW IN YANKEE STADIUM Roger Waters will be playing New York's Yankee Stadium on July 6, 2012. Pre-sale tickets will be available January 23. The general onsale will be January 30. Roger Waters “The Wall" 2012 U.S. Tour

05/01/12 Tue Toyota Center Houston, TX 05/03/12 Thu Frank Erwin Center Austin, TX 05/05/12 Sat BOK Center Tulsa, OK 05/07/12 Mon Pepsi Center Denver, CO 05/11/12 Fri AT&T Park San Francisco, CA 05/13/12 ...

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February West Coast Tour for Bobby Broom's Deep Blue Organ Trio

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 19, 2012

Chicago's acclaimed Deep Blue Organ Trio—guitarist Bobby Broom, B-3 organist Chris Foreman, and drummer Greg Rockingham—are heading west next month for the first West Coast tour in the group's 12-year history. The six-city tour begins at Yoshi's San Francisco 2/4 (10pm), then proceeds to Kuumbwa Jazz, Santa Cruz 2/6; Jazz Alley, Seattle 2/7-8; Jimmy Mak's, Portland 2/9; Dazzle, Denver 2/10; and the Rhythm Room, Phoenix 2/11. Fresh from a successful year-end week of performances at the Umbria Winter Jazz Festival ...

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Nu Civilisation Orchestra - Firebird: A Stravinsky-Parker Sound Clash

Source: Adam Sieff
January 19, 2012

Saturday 3 March: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London Saturday 28 April: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton Firebird is an engaging programme of new work exploring musical paths that converge at the crossroads of jazz and classical music. It's an exciting place where two musical revolutionaries—Igor Stravinsky and Charlie Parker—meet and cross swords utilising their distinctive armouries of rhythmic ingenuity and harmonic invention. Firebird features a remodelled version of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto (originally commissioned by jazz clarinetist, Woody Herman in 1946); ...

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Concert Locator Concertcrowd Adds Streaming Audio

Source: HypeBot
January 19, 2012

Social and location-based live concert locator, ConcertCrowd, has added the ability for users to stream audio from artists coming to town through an exclusive partnership with Rdio. As Hypebot reported previously, ConcertCrowd is a Facebook application that connects with a user's Facebook page to help discover upcoming shows of their favorite artists (artists they currently “like"), as well as provides recommendations based on how many of a user's friends like a particular artist. Under a complete redesign from when we ...

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Pianist / Vocalist Marcia Ball to Perform in Wilmington

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 19, 2012

Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball, touring in support of her Grammy-nominated Alligator Records CD, Roadside Attractions, will perform live on Friday, February 17, 2012 at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington. Ball's groove-laden New Orleans R&B, heart-wrenching ballads and driving Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite of music fans everywhere. Her music mixes equal parts simmering soul fervor and rollicking Crescent City piano. Over the course of her career, Ball's infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional songs have ...

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Jazz This Week: Ravi Coltrane, Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo, a New Big Band Debuts, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 19, 2012

The tenor sax plays a major role in this week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with two of the instrument's most prominent current exponents in town, plus several other noteworthy shows including the debut of a new big band as well. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (pictured) opens a four-night engagement continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Coltrane, the son of legendary saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane, last ...

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Jazz Around Town: I Get on My Sopa Box (No That's Not a Typo) and then Some Jazz Around Rochester ....

Source: Jazz@Rochester
January 19, 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2011 Jazz & Wine Happy Hour with The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:00 pm Anthony Gianavola @ Lemoncello, 6:00 pm The John Palocy Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Nate Rawls Group @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Duo @ Portobello, 1369 Pittsford-Mendon Rd., 7:30 pm Uptown Groove @ Strathallan Hotel, 8:30 pm

Friday, January 20, 2011 Johnny ...

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