Performance / Tour News

Metheny's Starry Homecoming

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
May 23, 2010

Two nights before concluding phase one of his Orchestrion tour, Pat Metheny stopped by Boston to provide a glimpse of his project to make ambitious, multi-layered music in which he is responsible for every note.There's Metheny and a few of his custom guitars and an Orpheum Theatre stage filled with four levels of instruments triggered either by pneumatics or electronic solenoids that are controlled by a MIDI system. Metheny keys it all with foot pedals, guitar knobs and ...

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Del McCoury to Perform October 23 at Family Arena

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 23, 2010

What happens when New Orleans jazz meets bluegrass? The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and singer/guitarist Del McCoury (pictured) and his band are exploring the possibilities of combining the two forms of American roots music on a joint tour this year that includes a just-announced concert at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, October 23 at the Family Arena in St. Charles.The PHJB should need no introduction to StLJN readers, as the venerable traditional jazz repertory ensemble has made it to St. ...

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Gov't Mule: Summer Tour

Source: JamBase
May 22, 2010

MULE HITS RALEIGH, BOSTON, BUFFALO AND MORE

Gov't Mule Gov't Mule has announced ten new “By A Thread" Summer Tour dates. They will kick off their U.S. Summer Tour on July 16 at The Raleigh Boutique Amphitheatre before heading to Charlotte, NC (7/18), Birmingham, AL (7/22), Cocoa, FL (8/01), Mrytle Beach, SC (8/03), Glen Allen, VA (8/04), Boston, MA (8/06), Buffalo, NY (8/07) and Philadelphia, PA (8/14).

Jackie Greene will be opening up for Gov't Mule on all of these ...

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Jazz This Week: Jazz Education Network Conference, Jeff Hall, Monika Herzig, Legacy Jazz Quintet, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 23, 2010

The big jazz and creative music event this week in St. Louis is the first-ever Jazz Education Network conference at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a three-day extravaganza with hundreds of attendees from around the country that will be highlighted by a series of public concerts Thursday through Saturday evenings at the Touhill Performing Arts CenterThursday's concert includes the Brubeck Institute Quintet; the Caswell Sisters; the JEN All-Stars, hosted by bassist John Clayton; and the Army Blues “Pershing's ...

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Daren Burns' Onibaba at Asto Museum

Source: Michael Ricci
May 23, 2010

Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bass player, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how to make new systems for developing improvisation in new ways. In the last few years he has also become interested in Indian rhythmic and melodic systems.

Onibaba, exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal ...

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The October Trio to Tour Throughout Eastern Canada and the US

Source: GoMedia PR
May 23, 2010

Award Winning Canadian Jazz Trio Will Perform for the First Time Ever in New York and Boston

This June, internationally acclaimed jazz group The October Trio will set out to promote their latest CD, Looks Like it's Going to Snow (Songlines), with the (no more snow) Tour 2010.

The band's third release, Looks Like it's Going to Snow once again features the classic sounds of the bass-drums-saxophone combo, this time expanded to include one of Canada's most honored jazz musicians, ...

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Cheap Trick Perform the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper in Vegas

Source: JamBase
May 22, 2010

BILLY SHEARS PROBABLY DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING!

Cheap Trick by Michael Graham Cheap Trick is bringing their “Sgt. Pepper Live" show to the Paris Las Vegas Theatre in June and July, beginning June 11. Full dates and ticket links can be found here.

A celebration of The Beatles' influential album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the show features an orchestra and modern stage production as Cheap Trick perform the entire album live as well as select Cheap Trick songs ...

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Paul McCartney San Francisco/Salt Lake Shows

Source: JamBase
May 23, 2010

BACK IN THE U.S.A. FOR ANOTHER ROUND

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Paul McCartney has announced two new performance dates, the first at San Francisco's AT&T Park on Saturday, July 10, and then at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, July 13, as part of his 'Up and Coming' 2010 tour. Keeping with his headline-making special concerts over the last few years, the tour will see the iconic star and his band play unique venues, places and locations; new cities ...

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