Performance / Tour News

Steve Martin: 2010 Banjo Tour

Source: JamBase
April 15, 2010

LESS YUCKS, MORE PLUCKS FROM LEGENDARY COMEDIAN

Steve Martin :: Hardly Strictly '09 :: by Dave Vann Following his successful tour last year in support of his Grammy award-winning album The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, Steve Martin, once again joined by the award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers, will embark on a 2010 music tour beginning on April 19th in Detroit, which includes stops at Jazz Fest and Bonnaroo, and is expected to continue into October.

“I am very ...

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Lubriphonic/Mastersounds Dates

Source: JamBase
April 15, 2010

LUBRIPHONIC NAIL DOWN OPENING SLOT FOR TOUR WITH THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS CO-BILL PAIRS GREAT BRITISH FUNK PATRIOTS WITH CHICAGO'S FUNKIEST IN 'MONSTERS OF FUNK' LUBRIPHONIC OFFERS FREE SHOW DOWNLOADS FROM ITS WEBSITE

Lubriphonic has announced it will hop aboard an April tour with The New Mastersounds for their Southeast run, culminating in a House of Blues performance during the peak of the epic New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. In celebration the group has offered a ...

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The Mother Hips/Dusty Rhodes | 04.11 | CA

Source: JamBase
April 15, 2010

By: Kevin Flinn

The Mother Hips/Dusty Rhodes & The River Band/Blue James Band 04.11.10 :: briXton :: Redondo Beach, CA

The Mother Hips by Andrew Quist Redondo Beach's briXton played host to three very stylistically different yet thematically linked bands. As passe as the “hippie" moniker may be in the Age of the iPad and Obama and Whatever We're Calling This Decade (Tens? Teens?), a communal sense of purpose and spirit was alive and well in the ...

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Galactic Podcast Offers Tour of New Orleans

Source: Michael Ricci
April 15, 2010

Band Discusses Favorite Spots In Anticipation Of Festival Performance and Appearance On HOB's “Treme" GALACTIC's latest album Ya-Ka-May offers an exciting and exotic musical journey into a modern day New Orleans as experienced by those who live there. In anticipation of the band's upcoming appearance at the storied New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, GALACTIC are giving friends and fans a personal off the beaten path guide to their beloved hometown of New Orleans. This forty minute long intimate and ...

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Nicole Mitchell Intergalactic Beings: Xenogenesis II

Source: Michael Ricci
April 15, 2010

Inspired by the seminal Afrofuturist science-fiction writer Octavia Butler, flutist and composer Nicole Mitchell evokes a journey into the unknown in the second chapter of her Xenogenesis Suite, “Intergalactic Beings." Mitchell composed “Intergalactic Beings" for her Black Earth Ensemble, an improvising chamber orchestra, and taps into the emotional and surreal qualities of Butler's alien abduction tale of survival. The MCA Stage, Chicago, presents the premiere of the full-length musical piece on Friday, April 30, 2010 “Intergalactic Beings" is an affecting ...

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Bill Frisell Trio at Largo at the Coronet

Source: Michael Ricci
April 15, 2010

Not many words were said from the Largo at the Coronet stage Tuesday night. Armed with a new trio featuring frequent collaborator Kenny Wollesen on drums and celebrated New York pianist Jason Moran, guitarist Bill Frisell was mostly mum apart from some humorously incredulous comments regarding Hank Williams being awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize (taking issue with the timing, not the honor). Of course, given what was transpiring, there really wasn't much that needed to be said. Though celebrating the ...

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Peter Brotzmann/Hamid Drake Duo - April Tour Dates

Source: Michael Ricci
April 14, 2010

The legendary duo of Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake reconvene for first US Duo Tour in over five years beginning this week!!!

Friday, April 16 Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street Philadelphia, PA Presented by Ars Nova Workshop arsnovaworkshop.org $12 cover 8pm

Saturday, April 17 Hall's Walls Contemporary Arts Center 341 DELAWARE AVE. BUFFALO, NY 14202

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Laws, Sutton and Koonse in Concert

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
April 14, 2010

Music for voice, flute and guitar is rare in any idiom. In jazz, it is singular. When flutist Hubert Laws, singer Tierney Sutton and guitarist Larry Koonse performed together at a fund-raising event last fall in Los Angeles, the creative spark that materialized pleased and intrigued them. They made room in their busy musical lives for further collaboration. The three artists' individual prominence alone would make this cooperative group worth notice. But last weekend in one of their rare concerts, ...

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