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All-Star Tribute To Clyde Criner at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance on June 14, 2025
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Joseph Gold
An “All-Star" group of legendary musicians will join with other artists in a festive “Tribute to Clyde Criner," an Albany native and noted music performer, composer, and educator, who passed at 39 in 1991. The performance will be on Saturday, June 14, from 1:00-2:30pm at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance in Williamstown MA, as part of the program for the 50th Reunion of Criner's Class of 1975. It is free and open to all. Leading the All-Stars quartet ...
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April 29: Visionaries And Eccentrics: Ives’ Problem Children Explores Charles Ives’ Musical Legacy In Multiple Musical Genres
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
With his concept of musical transcendentalism, Charles Ives paved the way for a century of experimentation in multiple modes of musical expression. In Visionaries and Eccentrics: Ives’ Problem Children, Contemporary Musical Arts students explore the worlds of collage, postmodernism, and other genres of multi-layered music, including rock, jazz, funk, noise, and other contemporary genres, drawing on the music of Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart, Parliament Funkadelic, Connie Converse, Polly Bradfield, and others. This special concert, produced by Anthony Coleman and Lautaro ...
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The Sound Of Connection: Made In New York Jazz Gala Begins A New Chapter
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Michael Brovkine
After years of successful performances, the Made In New York Jazz Gala returns in 2025 with a bold new chapter—taking the stage for the first time at the prestigious Neidorff-Karpati Hall at Manhattan School of Music on Friday, May 31 at 7:30 PM. This year’s Gala continues its tradition of bringing jazz legends and international rising stars together for a one-of-a-kind celebration of creativity, collaboration, and global connection. The Gala is a signature event of the Made In New York ...
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Symphony Space Presents Stephane Wrembel's 'Django á Gogo' Concert on May 9
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Kristin Cook
SYMPHONY SPACE PRESENTS STEPHANE WREMBEL'S DJANGO Á GOGO, A CONCERT CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF DJANGO REINHARDT, MAY 9 Evening Features Two Sets of Music: One Focused on Reinhardt’s Guitar Style, with Guitarists from the U.S., the Netherlands, and France, Including Django’s Great-Grandson Simba Baumgartner; and One Blending the Sounds of “Gypsy Jazz” and New Orleans Jazz Concert Is the Latest Chapter in Symphony Space’s Longtime Collaboration with Wrembel, and Anchors His Week-Long Django á Gogo Music Festival, Perhaps the Foremost ...
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Sortiesjazznights.com 22nd Birthday Bash, Community Jazz Jam on May 2nd
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Sortiesjazznights.com PR
sortiesjazznights.com is celebrating it’s 22nd birthday with the greater jazz community Friday May 2nd at La Sala Rossa! This is our 3rd yearly party and jam session and is the largest meeting of the Québec greater jazz community. The 2024 party was at the Patro Vys with a full house of friends, musicians, collaborators and partners and lovers of good music and the QC jazz community. And to top it off, a trio of some of the best Quebec jazz ...
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Next Generation Of Jazz Performs Free Concert At New Jersey Performing Arts Center, April 26
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AMT Public Relations
Featuring Young Local Artists from NJPAC’s TD Jazz for Teens, Jazz House Kids, Riverdale Country School (Bronx) and Susan E. Wagner High School (Staten Island) Hosted by WBGO Radio’s Sheila Anderson Sat. April 26, 25 at 4:30 p.m. Free. To register, visit njpac.org. Reservations are strongly encouraged. NJPAC One Center Street Newark, NJ 07102 The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the state’s anchor cultural institution, celebrates International Jazz Day on Saturday, April 26, 2025, with a ...
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Grammy Award-Winner Catherine Russell To Host Celebration21 - Jazz Power Initiative's Annual Fundraiser
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SM Communication Solutions
Celebration21, the Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) annual fundraising event, will take place on May 21 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space (250 West 95th Street, Manhattan), from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The event will pay homage to the long and rich, pioneering history of Jazz and the transformative power of jazz arts/music education. By using the foundational traditions of jazz music and its improvisational roots, JPI has been helping generations of young people to develop ...
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BackRhoades Productions Presents: The Altadena Aftermath Benefit Concert—A Night of Music for a Cause on Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Michael Ricci
This live and in-person event will be hosted at the Gardena Cinema Theater, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd., Gardena, CA 90249. Showtime is from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM Admission $30. The livestream is $10. BackRhoades Productions | EventBrite The Eaton Canyon fire disaster has left many Altadena families in dire need of assistance. In response, BackRhoades Productions has organized a benefit concert to help provide much-needed support to these affected families. The Pasadena Community Foundation has been chosen to manage ...
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