Performance / Tour News

Dylan, Mellencamp and Nelson Line up 2009 Ballpark Tour

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2009

Previously speculated, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson are teaming up for the 2009 Ballpark Tour. The jaunt kicks off July 2nd in Sauget, Illinois, with the trio playing minor league baseball stadiums across the country until August 15th.

Tickets for the tour, which are all general admission and $67.50, begin to go on sale May 2nd. In addition to peanuts and Cracker Jacks, the tour will also allow free admission for children 14 and younger.

Dylan has long ...

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Denise Donatelli Sings at Spazio's May 1

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2009

Please join me for a special performance with Otmaro Ruiz, Hamilton Price, and Steve Hass. Denise Donatelli

Friday, May 1

Two Sets 9:00pm and 10:30pm

Denise Donatelli with Otmaro Ruiz, piano;Hamilton Price, bass; Steve Hass, drums

Spazio Jazz Club and Restaurant 14755 Ventura Blvd., #D Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Reservations: 818-728-8400 $10 Cover

She possesses a silky smooth quality that enables her to sing anything, is ...

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Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, Rough, Side by Side with Smooth

Source: Michael Ricci
April 24, 2009

Standing shoulder to shoulder on the stage of Birdland on Wednesday evening, Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, two luminaries of Brazilian bossa nova, engaged in an intimate musical dialogue between the smooth and the rough.

Smoothness was embodied by Mr. Santiago, nicknamed the Nat King Cole of Brazil, who has recorded since the mid-1970s and was making his debut at the club. Because his voice is richer and deeper than Coles, the comparison applies only to the extent that both ...

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Spinal Tap Break out Classics on Unwigged & Unplugged Tour

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2009

The men of Spinal Tap went costume-free last night at Southern Californias Grove of Anaheim, but Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer had no trouble getting into character.

Singing Tap classics as well as material from A Mighty Wind and Waiting for Guffman, the trio offered pitch-perfect parodies of arena-rock excess and folk-revival earnestness on the fifth date of its Unwigged & Unplugged tour, which wraps up May 31st in Milwaukee (shortly before the release this summer of a ...

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Carnegie Hall Offers Recordings of Recently Commissioned Works Online

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2009

“Encore" Hearings Now Available Here Works for Download or Streaming Include Bright Sheng's Sweet May Again, Kayhan Kalhor's The Silent City, David Bruce's Piosenki, Evan Ziporyn's Sulvasutra, and Gabriela Lena Frank's Ritmos Anchinos

Carnegie Hall today announced that audio recordings of select new works, recently commissioned by Carnegie Hall, have been made available for free download or streaming at carnegiehall.org/commissions. This new online resource is intended to extend the reach of Carnegie Hall's commissioning program, reflecting the Hall's aspiration to ...

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Greyboy and KDTU Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
April 23, 2009

The Greyboy Allstars & KDTU - Jazz Fest & New Dates

Greyboy Allstars The Greyboy Allstars will be returning to Jazz Fest for their annual sunrise show at Tipitina's on Friday May 1. On May 2 GBA will co-bill with friends Galactic and Rebirth Brass Band at Howlin' Wolf for a final Jazz Fest performance. The band then heads back to their hometown for a performance at the San Diego Healing Arts Festival with Ozomatli on May 3 at Balboa ...

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Music Camp Fest: Dirty Dozen Donna the Buff, Duhks, Boombox

Source: JamBase
April 23, 2009

5TH ANNUAL MUSIC CAMP FEATURING DDBB, THE DUHKS & DONNA THE BUFFALO COMING IN JUNE TO PACOLET RIVER BANKS, NORTH OF SPARTANBURG, S.C. Early-Bird Tickets Now Available for 2-Day Event

Dirty Dozen Brass Band The 5th Annual Music Camp festival will be held Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20, this year and will feature a variety of acts from across the continent.

The annual festival, which has evolved and grown over the past four years, ...

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Eugene Chadbourne to Perform Wednesday, June 4 at the Tap Room

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 23, 2009

This just in: Eugene Chadbourne (pictured) is coming to St. Louis to perform on Wednesday, June 4 at the Schlafly St. Louis Brewery and Tap Room.The email sent by the Tap Room's Brett Underwood says, “We don't have all the particulars set yet, but I do know that Eugene Chadbourne will perform two sets (the first one probably starting around 7:30 p.m.) on Wednesday, June 4th in the Club Room at the Schlafly Tap Room. It will either ...

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