Performance / Tour News

Bruce Springsteen Announces Working on a Dream Tour

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2009

With his new, five-star album Working on a Dream hitting stores right now, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band decided today would be the best time to reveal their upcoming U.S. tour.

The trek will kick off on April Fools Day in San Jose, California, and work its way east, culminating in a pair of shows at East Rutherfords Izod Center in Bruces home state of New Jersey on May 21st and 23rd. From there, the band jets off ...

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Thriller is Bound for Broadway

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2009

Michael Jacksons Thriller is set to make the jump to Broadway. Playbill reports that Broadway bigwigs the Nederlander Organization have acquired the rights to make a new musical based on Jacksons famous werewolves-and-zombies video.

Broadway has already turned the music of the Four Seasons and the Whos Tommy into musical productions and somehow recruited U2 to record music for a Spider-Man show so the prospect of Jackson on the Great White Way isnt that far-fetched, especially as producers scramble for ...

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Vicki Burns Sings at North Square in New York on February 8th

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2009

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Strange Design: Highway to Hampton Tour

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2009

Strange Design Embarks on “Highway to Hampton Tour" in Celebration of Phish Reunion

Strange Design With less than two months until the legendary jam band Phish returns to the stage after calling it quits over four years ago, Phish “phever" has never been hotter. The Vermont rockers will perform three nights in March at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, one of the group's favorite venues and a site on which some of their most memorable performances took place.

But with ...

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Langerado Daily Schedule

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2009

Langerado Daily Schedule

Set to go down March 6-8 at Bicentennial Park on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Langerado has announced the daily schedule.

Snoop Dogg Friday, March 6 Snoop Dogg - Flogging Molly - Broken Social Scene - The Faint - Chromeo - Tricky - Against Me! - Bad Brains - Devotchka - Lotus - Gym Class Heroes - The Aggrolites - Holy F*ck - K'Naan - The Virgins - Tortured Soul - Tiger City

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Classes on St. Louis Jazz History to Begin Thursday, February 12

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 27, 2009

Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach a series of classes on St. Louis jazz history beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, February 12 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd.The course “City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis 1895 - 1973" is based on Owsley's book of the same name, and will cover St. Louis jazz history from the ragtime era through Gaslight Square during three two-hour classes on consecutive ...

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Brock Butler/Will Bradford | 12.20 | Asheville

Source: JamBase
January 27, 2009

By: Chris Gaspar

Brock Butler/Will Bradford :: 12.20.08 :: Hookah Joe's :: Asheville, NC

Asheville

Butler & McDonald :: 12.20 by Joel Hudson Lack of jobs, cost of living and vagrancy are only a few of the frustrating elements facing the mountainous sanctuary of Asheville, North Carolina. However, if you are an A&E aficionado you can easily rebuff those negatives and marvel at the abundance of talent funneled into this little mountain city. The ...

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Alyssa Graham Performs at the Tin Angel on January 30th

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2009

Alyssa Graham returns to Philadelphia to perform from her new album Echo on Sunnyside Records.

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

Alyssa will perform from her new album this Friday at the Tin Angel.

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