Performance / Tour News

Stephanie Jordan Large Band at New Orleans Jazz Fest

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
April 20, 2009

New Orleans - The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell (April 24-26 & April 30-May 3) will celebrate 40 years of musical and cultural history at this year's star-studded event. The Stephanie Jordan Large Band will perform during the first weekend of Jazz Fest on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 3:45 p.m. in a special 'Tribute to Lena Horne.' in the WWOZ Jazz Tent. Jordan will fill the WWOZ Jazz Tent with her Big Band sound ...

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Femi Kuti: Tour

Source: JamBase
April 20, 2009

EXTENSIVE NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER TOUR BEGINS IN JUNE

Femi Kuti On June 3 in New York City, Afrobeat pioneer Femi Kuti, backed by his band the Positive Force, will begin a 24-date summer tour spanning North America, including several shows opening for the Dave Matthews Band, a headline appearance at the Hollywood Bowl and performances at the Bonnaroo, Montreal Jazz and Rothbury Music festivals. Kuti's performances will feature material from his first studio album of new material in seven years, ...

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Maude Maggart Loving Climb up to the Musical Attic

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2009

Maude Maggart performing at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel on Wednesday night.

As Maude Maggart rummages through several decades of popular music in Parents and Children, her bewitching new show at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, you have the eerie sensation that a precocious young girl is leading you by the hand into an attic where forgotten family secrets are stored.

Unlocking a dust-covered trunk with a tiny golden key, this curious, modern-day American Alice in ...

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Alyssa Graham Performs Two Shows at Lincoln Center Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2009

Alyssa Graham performs from her critically acclaimed new album Echo out now on Sunnyside Records. She will do two shows on Monday, April 27th at Lincoln Center Jazz--Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola as part of the annual “Sing Into Spring" festival.

Echo was named one of the: “Top 10 Vocal Albums of 2008" --iTunes “Critics' Choice 2008" by Jazziz Magazine “Publisher's Top Pick 2008" --All About Jazz “Top 50 Jazz Albums 2008" --Jazz.com

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Lincoln Center Presents Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, June 5-9

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2009

The celebrated Silk Road Ensemble with the incomparable cellist Yo-Yo Ma makes its Lincoln Center debut with three concerts June 5-9.

The Ensemble, featuring virtuoso musicians from 11 different countries, will perform in the new and highly-praised Alice Tully Hall with two multi-cultural programs June 5 and 6 including the New York premiere of Giovanni Sollimas The Taranta Project.

On June 9, in celebration of Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary, the Ensemble with Ma will perform a special FREE concert in ...

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Elliott Murphy & Jann Klose's Memory and Desire Tour, April 22-26

Source: Anne Leighton
April 19, 2009

“Memory and Desire.” That’s what Rock Troubadour Elliott Murphy and multicultural pop singer-songwriter Jann Klose are calling their April 22-26th tour. Elliott borrowed the opening lines of T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” for this tour, which will include shows in Fairfield, CT, Asbury Park, NY, Fall River, MA, Hoboken, NJ and Amagansett, NY. Of course the conclusion is Elliott and Jann’s music encourages the audience to come out of the early spring doldrums that the poet T.S. Eliot writes ...

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New Monsoon | 04.11.09 | S.F.

Source: JamBase
April 19, 2009

Words by: Dennis Cook| Images by: Susan J. Weiand

New Monsoon :: 04.11.09 :: The Independent :: San Francisco, CA

New Monsoon :: 04.11 :: San Francisco There's the saying, “They broke the mold when they made so-and-so," but there are bands that never fit in a mold in the first place. What they do is their own thing from the start and conformity, even the shattered variety, ...

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John Pizzarelli Performing Free Solo Show This Sunday, April 19 at the Apple Store

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 19, 2009

Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, who's in town for this weekend's Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, will be making at least one more stop in town after his concert Saturday night at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Before he leaves the Gateway City, Pizzarelli will give a free solo performance at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, April 19 at the Apple Store, 131 West County Center in Des Peres. He'll be playing seven-string guitar and singing tunes from his latest ...

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