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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Holiday Jingle All the Way Tour

Source: JamBase
September 17, 2010

HOLIDAY TOUR IN SUPPORT OF JINGLE ALL THE WAY Coming off a hugely successful tour highlighting the music from his Grammy winning album, Throw Down Your Heart (Rounder), Bela Fleck joins up with The Flecktones for another holiday tour in support of their 2008 Grammy winning Jingle All The Way (Rounder). All dates below will feature the internationally acclaimed Tuvan throat singers, Alash. “Guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of even the biggest Scrooge. Jingle All the Way ...

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Cyro Baptista Fall Tours

Source: JamBase
September 17, 2010

TOUR BASED ON HIS DEBUT SOLO CD FROM 1997 Cyro Baptista is proud to announce his newest adventure and its upcoming shows, Villa-Lobos/Vira-Loucos. This adventure is in fact his oldest and first project: it is based on his debut solo CD , recorded in 1997, where he interprets the music of Brazil's greatest classical composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The first concert will be on October 13, at New York City's Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall. At Carnegie Hall, the band will be ...

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Thanksgiving "Stuffing": Manchester Orch, Dead Confed

Source: JamBase
September 16, 2010

TEN ARTISTS IN THREE VENUES ON ONE NIGHT Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, the Atlanta-based record label founded and run by Manchester Orchestra, is proud to announce its 1st annual “The Stuffing," taking place Wednesday night November 24 throughout the CW Midtown Complex. All three venues, which includes Center Stage, Vinyl, and The Loft, will host 10 artists from the Favorite Gentlemen Community of bands and friends during the evening. Headlining the night will be Manchester Orchestra, performing their final hometown show ...

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Ben Folds: New Album and Tour

Source: JamBase
September 16, 2010

THIRTEEN DATE TOUR STARTS NOVEMBER 5 IN CHICAGO Ben Folds is set to tour the U.S. throughout November in support of Lonely Avenue, a collaboration between him and bestselling English novelist Nick Hornby, due September 28 on Nonesuch Records. Folds' 13 tour dates feature performances at a number of beloved venues including Chicago's Riviera and Atlanta's Tabernacle. The tour concludes with a Thanksgiving weekend homecoming performance at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center to benefit the Nashville Symphony. Members of the ...

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Andy Schumm and His Bixologists at Whitley Bay (July 10, 2010)

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
September 15, 2010

Andy Schumm is a generous person and musician, and when given a block of time, congenial musical friends, and a receptive audience, he doesn't spare himself. What follows is the first set of a Bix Beiderbecke-themed morning concert at the 2010 Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival, recorded on July 10, 2010. Andy played cornet and piano; his colleagues were Paul Munnery, trombone; Norman Field, reeds and persiflage; Paul Asaro, piano; Jacob Ullberger, banjo and guitar; Frans Sjostrom, bass saxophone; Josh ...

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The Road to Euphoria 2010: The Song Project Tour

Source: Mark Rapp
September 16, 2010

GREENVILLE—Jazz trumpeter, composer, producer and band leader Mark Rapp along with renowned guitarist/vocalist and composer Derek Lee Bronston celebrate the release of their brand new cd The Song Project—Art of the Song, vol . 1 September, 2010 with a tour of the East Coast. The first leg of the “The Song Project" tour will take them around South and North Carolina (Greenville, SC; Charleston, SC; Columbia,SC; Boone, NC; Rock Hill, SC) and culminate in a performance at the Euphoria Jazz ...

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Sony Holland "Sanssouci" CD Release Party at First & Hope on October 7

Source: Sony Holland
September 16, 2010

Sony Holland: vocals Jerry Holland: guitar Kenny Dennis: drums Thursday, October 7 @ 7:30pm 1 Show Only First & Hope 710 W 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-617-8555 Vocalist Sony Holland will perform songs from her CD Sanssouci at First & Hope in downtown Los Angeles. Ms. Holland has toured extensively in Asia and headlined at top venues in the U.S. including the Blue Note, the Catalina, ...

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Zappa Plays Zappa Returning to the Pageant on Wednesday, December 8

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 15, 2010

Zappa Plays Zappa, the Frank Zappa repertory band led by the late guitarist and composer's son Dweezil (pictured), is returning to St. Louis to perform on Wednesday, December 8 at The Pageant. ZPZ previously played at The Pageant in 2006 (reviewed by StLJN here) and again in 2008. This time around, they'll perform Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe in “its unmitigated entirety." ZPZ have released two albums of their own, a self-titled CD/DVD in 2008 and a live album, Return ...

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