Performance / Tour News

Steve Miller Band Tour

Source: JamBase
May 25, 2010

THE GANGSTER OF LOVE HITS THE ROAD AGAIN

Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band kicked off their North American tour on May 21 in Las Vegas in a new show designed by acclaimed Broadway director Rob Roth. The tour will support Miller's new album BINGO!, which lands in stores June 15 on Miller's Space Cowboy Records in partnership with Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records

While the tour will feature beloved FM radio staples like “Fly Like an Eagle," “The Joker," “Take ...

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Jazz Singer Suzy Williams' Big Band Plays the Venice Talking Stick

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2010

Spend a Memorial Day Weekend evening of cool jazz with Suzy Williams and her big band, 'Suzy and her Solid Senders.'

Suzy's SOLID SENDERS Band include Brad Kay on piano, Kahlil Sabbagh on drums and vibes, Charles Burns on sax, Dave Jones on bass, Dan Weinstein on trombone, Corey Gemm on trumpet and more TBA.

Williams' energy must be seen to be believed...a natural performer. - Robert Palmer, New York Times.

Williams is an enormously amusing, endearing ...

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Fat Freddy's Drop Bringin' New Zealand Funk Back to the US for Summer Tour

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
May 27, 2010

Fat Freddy's Drop is bringin' their New Zealand funk back to the US for a summer tour!

Fat Freddy's Drop 2010 Tour Details: 06/19/2010, Sat: Boonville, CA: Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Mendocino County Fairgrounds; Tix: $145-3 Day, $55/65 Single Day; Show: 8:00 pm; Ph: 916.777.5550

06/20/2010, Sun: San Luis Obispo, CA: Avila Beach Bowl, 6464 Ana Bay Drive; Show: 6:00 pm (approx.)

06/23/2010, Wed: San Diego, CA: 4th & B, 345 “B" Street; Show: 9:00 pm

06/24/2010, ...

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Crafting a Joke: The Arc of an Act

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2010

Comedy! Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

Yet even after I discovered that repeating memorized Steve Martin routines failed to make me popular at the one junior-high party I was invited to, I kept trying.

In 1999 I took stand-up out of my everyday conversations and started performing it in professional venues. I'm still fascinated by the evolutionary arc of an act.

You know instantly whether something works. You can tweak it on ...

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Radical Paris Was Rich with Song by Yvonne Constant

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Lean and shapely, with silver-blond hair, her face and body lightly dusted with glitter, the Gallic singer Yvonne Constant is the kind of ageless beauty that the French, who worship women of all ages, venerate without having to apply conditional terms like cougar.

Wearing a minidress over a flesh-color body stocking and silver high heels, Ms. Constant, who performed at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening with the pianist Russ Kassoff, has made few concessions to age. (She is in ...

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Willie Nelson Cuts off His Famed Pigtails

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2010

Country singer's long reddish locks have been part of his look for years.

Country music fans have come to expect a little eccentricity from legendary crooner Willie Nelson, but he pulled off a real shocker this time.

He cut his hair.

“Oh Noooooo!," wrote one fan who saw a picture of Nelson's new do on the website of Nashville TV and radio personality Jimmy Carter.

Nelson's waist-deep, reddish pigtails have long been one of the singer-songwriter's signature features. But spokeswoman ...

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Johnny Mathis @ San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2010

American cultural icon Johnny Mathis is a two-time Grammy Hall of Fame honoree, comes to the San Manuel Indian Casino.

Mathis with over 50 years of recording experience of romantic ballads and classic standards that continue to transcend generations, including greatest hits “Chances Are," “Wonderful, Wonderful," and “Misty. Featured on the HBO Comedy Festival and past winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival.

Johnny Mathis with Gary Mule Deer

Thu., June 3, 7:30pm San Manuel Indian ...

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Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Paul Motian, Mat Maneri Live at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Friday June 11th and Saturday June 12th Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street 9:00PM & 10:30PM TWO MILES A DAY Jacob Sacks, piano; Eivind Opsvik, bass; Mat Manieri, viola, violin; Paul Motian, drums

Back in 2005 Jacob Sacks and Eivind Opsvik wrote five songs each and invited Paul Motian and Mat Maneri with them to record 'Two Miles A Day'. ...

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