Performance / Tour News

Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance to Welcome Nnenna Freelon

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2008

Shakori Hills to Feature Two Local Treasures: The Carolina Chocolate Drops and Nnenna Freelon play a home stage this fall Pittsboro, NC - The Fall Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance, taking place October 9-12, 2008 will be welcoming two very different, yet fascinating acts who call the Triangle area home. They will both be taking the stage on Saturday. A fairly new band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops have toured enough in the past two years to make ...

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Jazz Museum to Have Fundraising "House Parties"

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2008

The American Jazz Museum begins this week a series of “house parties” intended to help raise funds for operations and educational programs. Greg Carroll, executive director, said a large gala had been scrapped in place of the smaller gatherings. The 10th anniversary celebration last September lost at least $30,000 rather than raising the expected $150,000, The Star reported last year. Carroll said that the smaller gatherings would allow board members to be more involved in the fundraising efforts. Museum board ...

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Karl Jenkins: Musical Tourist Comes Home

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2008

He’s spent a lifetime mixing musical styles but, as he prepares for his latest Welsh premiere, composer – and self-proclaimed “musical tourist” – Karl Jenkins tells Gavin Allen that he’s finally arrived at his musical destination THE journey to become the UK’s best-selling modern classical composer has taken Karl Jenkins on some jazzy detours, but classical music has always been his point of departure and arrival. As he prepares for the Welsh premiere of Stabat Mater, Jenkins says he is ...

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Live Music Nation Aims to Wake up World

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2008

Creating a stage for live music seven days a week, Live Music Nation is aiming to make Jamaica the world's capital for live-music entertainment. In recent years, live music in Jamaica has often taken a back seat to recorded dancehall and reggae, blasted over sound systems. Cries of a lack of venues, funding and attention to live music have been shouted near and far for years. Now, through the efforts of Griot Music, Live Music Nation hopes to create a ...

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Sten Hostfalt/Blaise Siwula @ Stain NYC

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2008

LIVE in CONCERT at STAIN BAR NYC SEPTEMBER 18 2008 @ 9 pm/no cover Sten Hostfalt - guitar, mandolin Blaise Siwula - tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet “Blaise Siwula is a mainstay of the NY free improv scene. We're impressed with Sten Hostfalt's fast fingers and intense focus." -- TIME OUT NEW YORK ( 2008 ) Also Appearing (at 8 pm) : ...

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Modern Drummer Festival Weekend 2008 - Next Week! Limited Tickets Available!

Source: Two for the Show Media
September 13, 2008

Modern Drummer Publications is proud to announce an unprecedented lineup of world- class drum artists, along with a new location just north of New York City, for the eighteenth edition of Modern Drummer Festival Weekend--the most prestigious, longest- running, and largest live drumming event in the world. The event, which features established drumming legends as well as rising stars from a wide variety of popular musical styles, will take place on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21, 2008 in ...

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Gov't Mule Nye in NYC

Source: JamBase
September 13, 2008

Gov't Mule To Celebrate NYE in New York City

Gov't Mule For the seventh consecutive year, Gov't Mule will celebrate New Year's in New York City. Due to the on-going renovations at the Beacon Theatre, the band will be relocating, and for the first ever during its New Year's Run, play four-shows and do so in two different venues. On December 27 & 28, Gov't Mule will play acoustically in the magnificent Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts on The ...

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Umph Nye Run in Chitown

Source: JamBase
September 13, 2008

Umphrey's McGee Announces 2008 New Year's Run

Umphrey's McGee For the past eight years, Umphrey's McGee has celebrated the final days of December in their hometown of Chicago, ringing in the New Year with a run of concerts at some of the city's finest venues.

The tradition continues in 2008 as they band play host for three nights to celebrate the end of yet another year, ushering in the next. The band will perform December 29, 30, and 31 at ...

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