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The Playboy Jazz Festival Presents Jazz-fusion Keyboardist Jeff Lorber In Free Concert At Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Sunday, May 27th
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94.7’S THE WAVE RADIO PERSONALITY PAT PRESCOTT TO EMCEE Renowned jazz fusion keyboard trailblazer and recording artist Jeff Lorber brings his melodic funk and dynamic array of vibes to Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for a free community concert, Sunday, May 27th. Presented by the Playboy Jazz Festival and Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, the show will take place from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Outdoor Promenade at the shopping center, located at 3650 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. ...
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Jambalaya Brass Band To Perform For Crawfish For Cancer’s 4th Annual Crawfish Broil
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Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
New York, NY: Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live at the Crawfish for Cancer’s 4th Annual Crawfish Broil for the benefit of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) at the 79th St. Boat Basin Café in NYC on Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. At the Crawfish Broil benefit, along with tunes from their successful CD It’s a Jungle Out There, Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing other original and traditional favorites. The band’s foundation will ...
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Grammy Award-winning Composer Terence Blanchard And Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Michael Cristofer To Premiere New Opera At Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
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Muse Media
Five-Time Grammy Award-Winning Composer Terence Blanchard and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Michael Cristofer to Premiere New Opera at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis “Champion,” a co-commission with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Jazz St. Louis, will receive world premiere June 15-30, 2013 St. Louis, MO: Continuing their individual traditions of commissioning music that showcases the talents of the world’s best contemporary composers, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Jazz St. Louis have joined forces in the development of a new ...
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Tribute To Delaney & Bonnie And Their Famous Friends Set For 6/8 At Highline In NYC
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Seth Cohen PR
A Tribute to Delaney & Bonnie and Their Famous Friends is Set for June 8th at The HighLine Ballroom in NYC One-of-a-kind Event, to Benefit Theatre Within, to be Presented by Hudson Thames Partners and Hi-Fidelity Music; Will feature the music of Delaney & Bonnie, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Derek & The Dominos, George Harrison, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Little Richard, and more, performed by a NYC all-star band – See Line-Up, Below! Honoring the influence of Delaney ...
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Coventry Lions Club Announces 3rd Annual Chester County Blues Barbecue
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Just Roots PR
The Coventry Lions Club is proud to announce that the 2012 Chester County Blues Barbecue will be held at Wyndsor Farm on June 9th. This year’s event offers the blues enthusiast an opportunity to hear both national and local blues acts in an idyllic, family oriented setting. This year’s event is being held in conjunction with the Thorncroft Equestrian Center and will benefit both Thorncroft’s therapeutic equestrian programs and Lions Club programs to assist disadvantaged and visually impaired in the ...
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Jambalaya Brass Band To Perform In Annual Second Line Parade To Welcome Spring
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Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
New York, NY: Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live in the Annual Second Line Parade to Welcome Spring on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The parade will assemble at 35th St., just East of 10th Ave., where Jambalaya Brass Band will lead volunteers (with wheelbarrows and flowers to plant) East across 35th to 9th Ave., and then North up 9th Ave. to 40th St. At the Annual Welcome Spring event, along with tunes from ...
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Benjamin Cawthra, Author of Book on Jazz and Photography, to Speak Sunday, June 3 at the Missouri History Museum
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Author, jazz historian and former St. Louisan Benjamin Cawthra is coming back to his old hometown for an event promoting his book Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz. Cawthra will speak and sign copies of the book (pictured) starting at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, June 3 in the Des Lee Auditorium at the Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell. The event is free and open to the public. He'll discuss “the development of jazz photography from the swing era ...
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Freddy Cole Performs Two Concerts On May 31 In Phoenix, AZ
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Patricia Myers
The Freddy Cole Quartet will perform two shows on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at The Nash, the new Jazz in AZ education and performance venue in Phoenix, AZ. The concerts, fundraisers to benefit the programs of The Nash, are at 5:45 p.m. for wine-hors d’oeuvres preceding 6:30 concert is $75; the 8:30 p.m. concert is $30. The Nash is at 110 E. Roosevelt St., Phoenix. Tickets, a seating chart and details on sponsorships are online at jazzinaz.org or phone 602-279-9402. ...
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