Performance / Tour News

Tony Bennett Performing in Cohasset and Hyannis on August 14-15

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
August 14, 2010

Jazz legend Tony Bennett is performing two shows in Massachusetts this weekend: at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset on Saturday, August 14, and at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis on Sunday, August 14. Both shows start at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available online at the Music Circus and the Melody Tent or can be purchased at the gate the night of the concert. A fifteen-time Grammy Award winner, Bennett's voice has helped define the American songbook ...

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Oreka TX: Once Endangered, Now on Tour

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 13, 2010

Oreka TX, North American Tour It can be a game, a friendly duel. It's a dialogue, where it's just as important to listen modestly as to make a bold statement. It can be made of wood, ice, stone. The answer to this riddle: a Basque percussion instrument, the txalaparta, wooden planks laid over trestles and struck with sticks held vertically. It resonates in the hands of Oreka Tx, an ensemble whose album, Nömadak Tx (on World Village), finds them exploring ...

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Pianist / Vocalist Marcia Ball to Perform in Camden

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 13, 2010

"A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist...where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet."—USA TODAY

Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball, touring in support of her Grammy-nominated CD Peace, Love & BBQ, will perform at the Camden Waterfront Backyard BBQ in Camden on Sunday, September 5, 2010. 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 all over the world. Her music mixes equal parts simmering soul fervor and rollicking ...

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Jazz Singer Patti Austin Performs at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, August 13-14

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
August 13, 2010

Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Patti Austin is performing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on the weekend of August 13-14, 2010. Performances are at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. each night. Tickets are $40 and can be ordered online. With 17 solo albums and countless collaborations with singing stars like Paul Simon, Robert Flack and Diana Ross, Austin has enjoyed a sterling career as a singer, songwriter, and interpreter of the American songbook. She also created her own one-woman show and ...

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Lollapalooza | 08.06-08.08 | Chicago

Source: JamBase
August 13, 2010

By : Cal Roach Lollapalooza :: 08.06.10-08.08.10 :: Grant Park :: Chicago, IL Official Lollapalooza 2010 Photo Gallery Lollapalooza 2010 Video Clips Lollapalooza 2010 Setlists Perry Farrell and the organizers of Lollapalooza get a D+ this year. They stretched the grounds out by several blocks, presumably allowing them to sell lots more tickets, but since the masses still clog the same main stages it's a net loss for fans. Sound problems plagued the main stage on the north end for ...

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Playing for Change U.S. Tour

Source: JamBase
August 13, 2010

ONE DOLLAR OF EVERY TICKET PURCHASED GOES TO THE PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION On the heels of their recently completed summer run, the Playing For Change band returns to North America this fall for a national tour which kicks off October 13, at McEwan Hall in Calgary. The fall tour encompasses over 25 shows in major cities nationwide. The group will donate $1.00 of every ticket purchased to the Playing For Change Foundation. Their 2010 fall tour is highlighted by ...

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Rebirth Brass Band to Play October 7 at the Gramophone

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 13, 2010

This just in: New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band (pictured), recently featured in several episodes of the HBO TV series Treme, is coming to St. Louis to perform on Thursday, October 7 at the Gramophone. Former in 1983 by Keith Frazier, Philip Frazier and Kermit Ruffins, the Rebirth Brass Band (along with their New Orleans cohorts the Dirty Dozen Brass Band) helped spark renewed attention for the city's brass band tradition back in the 1980s, and has continued to perform, tour ...

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University Singers Ends UK Five-City Tour in Reading and London

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
August 13, 2010

Jamaica's highly acclaimed University Singers, under the direction of Noel Dexter, approaches the end of its five-city UK tour with a penultimate performance in Reading on Saturday, August 14. The tour began in London on July 23 and travelled to Berlin, Germany August 1-3 before returning to the UK. Conducted under the theme, Connecting with Diaspora: Building Bridges Through Music, the “Singer" 2010 tour forms part of the group's continuing mission as ambassadors of the University of the West Indies ...

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