Performance / Tour News

Grammy Award-Winning Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Arden

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 25, 2011

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."—The New York Times

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at Gild Hall in Arden on Sunday, September 18, 2011. Their latest release (and Alligator Records debut) is the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your ...

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Jazz Singer Samantha Farrell Performing at Bond Lounge in Boston on Wednesday, August 24

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
August 24, 2011

Rising star Samantha Farrell has a return engagement at BOND Lounge at Boston Langham Hotel on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. The singer/songwriter, originally from Boston and now living in Los Angeles, has been described by Ben Evans of the Huffington Post as possessing “a liquor-honey voice, deft guitar work and slightly melancholic tones that meld to form an arching and elegant aural tapestry." Samantha's show is part of the new BOND Jazz Experiment that features upcoming and ...

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Project/Object with Ike Willis to Play Wednesday, October 19 at Old Rock House

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 24, 2011

Attention, St. Louis area Zappaphiles: If the appearance by Zappa Plays Zappa this Thursday opening for Return to Forever at the Fox Theatre isn't enough to sate your appetite for Frank Zappa's music, there's more on the way in a couple of months, as the Old Rock House today announced that the Zappa tribute band Project/Object will perform there at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19. Formed in the early 1990s and based in New York, Project/Object is one of ...

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Jazz in Pink to Headline Benefit Show on Sunday, October 16 at the Sheldon

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 24, 2011

The Los Angeles-based, all-female group Jazz in Pink will be the featured musical entertainment for Community Women Against Hardship's annual benefit gala, which this year will be held at 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 16 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Jazz in Pink is fronted by pianist Gail Jhonson (pictured), who is music director for guitarist Norman Brown; violinist Karen Briggs, who played for 13 years with new age/easy listening composer Yanni; and flutist Althea Rene. Other members of the group ...

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Sten Hostfalt Solo Standards at Symphony Space NYC August 25 2011

Source: Sten Hostfalt
August 23, 2011

Sten Hostfalt Standards Solo @ Symphony Space's Thalia Cafe' NYC August 25 2011 (at 7pm / no cover) presenting music by a genuinely innovative musician, reflecting the 80's spent in creative improvised music, the 90's as an apprentice in noted traditional jazz orchestras on tour in Europe, South America and USA and the recent decade as a celebrated solo performer and bandleader developing an original musical expression, through the legacy of mentors legendary Icons of American Music and Jazz Jimmy ...

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From Playtime to Prime Time: Miguel Hurtado

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
August 23, 2011

I think he was about 14 when I first heard Miguel Hurtado play the drums with a quartet of young teens. They were on the MacPhail Youth Stage at the Hot Summer Jazz Festival. Maybe 2003? 2004? The group was known as the Eggz, headed by a young saxophonist named Owen Nelson. The Eggz played around town off and on for a few more years; Miguel moved among the Eggz and a few other teen jazz bands, as well as ...

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Baaba Maal: Speaking Tour

Source: JamBase
August 23, 2011

BAABA MAAL BRINGS TALES FROM THE SAHEL TO THE U.S. THIS OCTOBER; SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS ON ISSUES FACING AFRICA AND BEYOND This October, Baaba Maal will be coming to the US to headline a series of speaking dates moderated by renowned music journalist and author Chris Salewicz (The Sunday Times, the Independent, Bob Marley: The Untold Story). Baaba will discuss his personal experiences growing up in Africa and traveling the world, his views on issues facing Africa and the African diaspora, ...

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String Cheese Incident Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
August 23, 2011

THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT HIT THE ROAD IN NOVEMBER FOR “Roots Run Deep 2011" FALL TOUR String Cheese Incident The String Cheese Incident have announced their return to the road this fall. “After several years away from life on the road, we are really excited to finally get back on the bus and bring an Incident to a town near you. It's been really amazing to step back into the many great events we have had a chance to be ...

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