Performance / Tour News

Nu-Art Series Announces Spring Concerts

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 1, 2011

The Nu-Art Series has announced a schedule of spring Saturday matinee concerts beginning on April 2 and continuing until May 14 at the Metropolitan Gallery, 2936 Locust St. in downtown St. Louis. The concerts, put together by Nu-Art's George Sams, will feature a mix of St. Louis musicians and returning expats, plus a couple of Sams' musical colleagues from when he lived in the San Francisco area. As with last year's spring series, the theme is “Re- Arrangements and Nu-Compositions," ...

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SFJAZZ Announces Innovative Artistic Director Program to Debut with the New SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco

Source: Keely Garibaldi
March 31, 2011

SFJAZZ ANNOUNCES INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PROGRAM TO DEBUT WITH THE NEW SFJAZZ CENTER IN SAN FRANCISCO SFJAZZ Partners With Five Award-Winning Jazz Legends to Oversee Programming and Performances Beginning Fall 2012 at its Permanent New Home in San Francisco Inaugural SFJAZZ Artistic Directors: Regina Carter, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, John Santos and Miguel Zenón San Francisco—When the SFJAZZ Center makes its debut in October 2012, SFJAZZ will also debut a first-of-its kind artistic director program designed to be as innovative ...

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Jazz Violinist Ada Pasternak Performing at Bond Lounge in Boston on Wednesday, March 30

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 31, 2011

Violinist Ada Pasternak is performing on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at BOND Lounge at the Langham Boston Hotel from 7:00-10:00 p.m. Born in Moscow, Russia, Pasternak moved to the United States and studied with her aunt, Aysa Meshberg in New York. She received a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she studied performance. Located at the Langham Boston Hotel, the BOND Restaurant & Lounge is open seven days a week, offering gourmet sandwiches for lunch, afternoon tea, and ...

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Scott Amendola, Nels Cline & Trevor Dunn in World Premiere with Oakland East Bay Symphony

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 31, 2011

OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY PRESENTS THE HEIGHT OF ROMANTICISM, FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE BY BANDLEADER, COMPOSER AND DRUMMER SCOTT AMENDOLA FEATURING NELS CLINE OF WILCO PLUS TCHAIKOVSKY'S 4th SYMPHONY AND BERNARD HERRMANN'S SUITE FROM ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FILM VERTIGO The Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS) presents an evening of intensity and drama with its concert The Height of Romanticism, held at 8 pm on Friday, April 15th at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Venturing through two different eras and regions, OEBS will explore ...

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Kaufman Center Hosts Jazz Concert Featuring Roni Ben-Hur, Santi Debriano & More

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 31, 2011

Festi-Jazz NYC: Saturday April 9, 2011, 8 pm at Merkin Concert Hall: FREE

Jazz Musicians from NYC and the South of France Celebrate International Musical Connections

Featuring Renowned Jazz Performers Roni Ben-Hur, Santi Debriano, Amy London & Steve Williams with Ensembles from the Jazz Program at Kaufman Center's Lucy Moses School

This spring a free concert in Merkin Concert Hall reunites NYC jazz musicians with fellow performers from the annual Festi-Jazz Saint Cézaire summer festival in Provence, France. On April ...

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Buffalo Springfield: Reunion Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
March 31, 2011

TOUR KICKS OFF IN JUNE WITH SIX CALIFORNIA DATES Buffalo Springfield will launch a reunion tour this June with six dates in California and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee. Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Richie Furay form the triumvirate of singer-songwriter-guitarists that made Buffalo Springfield one of the most influential bands in rock and roll. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. The itinerary kicks off with two dates at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA ...

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Cuneiform Artists on Tour - April 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
March 31, 2011

AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21—Music Hall of Williamsburg—Brooklyn, NY (record release show—opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26—Hungry Brain—Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28—Museum of Contemporary Art—Chicago, IL November 18—The Stone㬌 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street)—NYC, NY 10009

BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6—Democracy Center㬩 Mt. Auburn St.—Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA—$8.00 June 17—Zumix𤻜 Sumner St.—East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777׮:00 pm November 26—The ...

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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats to Perform in Edgely, PA, Sunday 17 April

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 30, 2011

Blues harmonica master /singer/songwriter Rick Estrin and his band The Nightcats will perform at the Terchon V.F.W. in Edgely on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Estrin and The Nightcats will be performing songs from their Alligator Records debut, Twisted. For more than 30 years and nine albums, Estrin fronted the jumping, swinging Little Charlie & The Nightcats, featuring guitarist Little Charlie Baty. With Baty's recent retirement from touring, Estrin—along with the Nightcats' longtime rhythm section of J. Hansen and Lorenzo Farrell ...

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