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Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival - July 2011
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Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Now in its 33rd year, the UK's longest running jazz festival runs from 22-31 July and offers a diverse and exciting range of jazz and blues with over 90 shows in concert halls, clubs, bars, churches, streets and glamorous tents! With a range of special offers, free events and tickets from only £5, there's something for everyone to enjoy, whether you're a jazz aficionado or experiencing jazz or blues for the first time. Creating a real buzz around Scotland's beautiful ...
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A "Jazz Passenger" on the XRIJF Tour: Where We'll Be on June 12 of the Rochester International Jazz Festival
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Jazz@Rochester
We go from the Ohio and NYC of Joe Henderson (a celebrated by Henderson's former collaborator, Canadian-born New Yorker Jon Ballantyne) to the Denmark of Nikolaj Hess, to London's Soho, and back here to the States for a reunited Jazz Passengers. Although I've been on wider flung trips around the world in a single night at prior Rochester jazz festivals, it really shows the diversity.This will be a night where I will be living the statement of XRIJF Music Director ...
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DMB Chicago Caravan Adds Moe. Umph, YMSB, Cornmeal
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JamBase
SINGLE DAY AND 3-DAY GA TICKETS AND VIP PACKAGES AVAILABLE NOW The second Dave Matthews Band Caravan in Chicago has added moe., Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Cornmeal to the three-day lineup set for Chicago's Lakeside on July 8-10. Located on Chicago's south shore of Lake Michigan, just a short distance from downtown, the Chicago stop will feature a full set by headliner Dave Matthews Band each night along with a diverse line-up of artists on three different ...
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The Miles Davis Festival to Debut This Year in St. Louis
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AAJ Staff
The estate of the late jazz trumpeter Miles Davis will team up this summer and fall with several St. Louis area organizations and venues to present the Miles Davis Festival, a series of concerts, exhibits and celebrations of Davis' musical legacy that organizers hope will become an annual event. In a news conference held on Thursday—the 85th anniversary of Davis' birth—at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups, producer Deborah Granger of the Miles Davis Festival and Miles Davis Properties LLC outlined ...
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Newport Folk & Jazz Festival Ticket Office Opening at Alex and Ani on Friday
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. Announces New Ticket and Information Location at Alex and Ani, One Bowen's Wharf, Beginning Friday, May 27, at Noon NEWPORT, RI—The Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management will open a new Ticket and Information Center at the Alex and Ani store at One Bowen's Wharf in Newport, beginning Friday, May 27, at noon, it was announced by the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., the recently-formed 501(c) (3) organization that produces ...
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Tribeca New Music Festival: May 31 and June 5
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Michael Ricci
The TRIBECA NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL invades Brooklyn at the Galapagos Art Space as the TRIBECA MONSTERS! tackle some of the hottest avant-pop pieces on the planet. Monster violinist Mary Rowell (ETHEL), keyboardist Geoffrey Burleson, with cellist Wendy Law and percussionist John Ferrari (May 31). They are joined by such talents as Jacob TV on solo cello and boombox; 2011 Young Composer Competition winner Dylan Mattingly and Ed Harsh on piano, Michael Gandolfi on piano, cello and percussion; Daniel Bernard Roumain ...
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Novara Jazz 2011 is coming up!
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Marco Scotti
The festival Novara Jazz has just reached its eighth edition and comes back from 26th May to 5th June with two weeks devoted to jazz and contaminations. Also this year unpublished projects and large previews from the Italian and International jazz scene will be presented on the stands of Piazza della Repubblica and Auditorium Cantelli in the heart of Novara; then dj set, jazz brunch and sunset jazz in the most evocative locations of the province, a large photo exhibition, ...
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Wandering Visions: The 2011 Vision Festival
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Chris Rich
By Steve Dalachinsky “a paradise of flowers where peace might build her nest." —Percy Shelly For 16 years the Vision Festival has led a nomadic existence. Wandering from one venue to another, this brave band of Visionaries,which I am proud to be a part of, with the ever present, stalwart & persistent Patricia Nicholson Parker at the helm & a sometimes shifting cast of characters amongst the faithful, has plodded thru the institutionalized, gentrified, money-hungry waters of the lower east ...
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