Festival News

The Yardbirds Headline ZepFest, Memorial Day Weekend, May 27, 28, 29

Source: Anne Leighton
April 9, 2011

The Yardbirds will be headlining the first annual ZepFest, playing all three nights May 27, 28, and 29-Memorial Day Weekend, at the National Harbor, on the Potomac River, at Waterfront Street and St. George Blvd., in Prince George's County, MD. There are a variety of tickets and pricing plans available for the Fest, including one-day events and VIP get-togethers. The full Fest is $325.00, and tickets are available at missiontix.com. The ZepFest features over 50 bands on five stages. There'll ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Next Generation Jazz Festival Results

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 7, 2011

The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce the results of the annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National High School Jazz Competition. A full list of top groups, scholarship and award winners can be found on the Festival's Web site. Major funding for the 2011 Next Generation Jazz Festival was provided by The Hearst Foundations and AT&T Foundation. This program is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the ...

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Big up Fest Adds Tipper and RAQ

Source: JamBase
April 6, 2011

LINEUP AT LATE JULY FEST EXPANDS The Big Up Music & Arts Festival announced the addition of Tipper and RAQ to its 2011 festival lineup. They join headliners EOTO (featuring Michael Travis and Jason Hann of the String Cheese Incident), Big Gigantic, Digital Tape Machine (featuring Joel Cummins and Kris Myers of Umphrey's McGee) and Marco Benevento Trio at this year's The Big Up Music & Arts Festival held on July 28, 29 and 30, 2011, at the legendary Sunnyview ...

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Jazz at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell

Source: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell
April 6, 2011

Sonny Rollins, Kenny G, Ahmad Jamal, Fourplay, Mingus Big Band, Plus New Orleans' Own Pete Fountain, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Irvin Mayfield, Hundreds More To Put the “Jazz" in the 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest New Orleans, LA—Jazz Superstar Sonny Rollins returns to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, as does celebrated pianist-composer Ahmad Jamal, plus Kenny G, Fourplay, Mingus Big Band and The Golden Striker Trio featuring Ron Carter, Mulgrew Miller, ...

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Santiago, Dominican Republic, Becomes the Jazz Capital of the Americas for Three Days

Source: John Kelman
April 4, 2011

The Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic, the Institute of Caribbean Studies (INEC) and Centro León, will host the Fourth International Conference Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean (MIC). The conference will be 15, 16 and April 17, 2011, in the facilities of Centro León in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The theme for this conference is ¨Jazz from a Caribbean Perspective,¨ and as such, will make it an event of considerable cultural dimension. This fourth MIC conference will be ...

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12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 2, 2011

12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival—It's All Jazz, April 1- 30, 2011 presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC at venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

This celebration is New York City's longest continually running grass roots festival dedicated to Jazz. The presentation offers more than 30 events on 23 days with over 100 artists performing in clubs, community organizations, colleges, faith based, and cultural institutions throughout the borough. Featuring international known and community artists: Carlos Garnett, Candido ...

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B.B. King, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Cyndi Lauper and Jan Garbarek, stars of the Heineken Jazzaldia (San Sebastian, Spain)

Source: San Sebastian Jazz Festival (Jazzaldia)
April 1, 2011

B.B. King will be opening a massive open-air free-entrance show in the Green Stage at the Zurriola beach on July 21. Heineken Jazzaldia (San Sebastian Jazz Festival) is due July 21-25. The Festival will have a new venue (the San Telmo Museum) along with the Kursaal Auditorium, the Zurriola beach and the Plaza de la Trinidad (Trinity Square). Other confirmed names are: Abdullah Ibrahim, Mavis Staples, Dave Douglas, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Scofield, Hiromi, Charlie Haden, Cassandra Wilson, Toots ...

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NOLA Jazz Fest Daily Schedule

Source: JamBase
April 1, 2011

STAGE-BY-STAGE MUSIC SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE The 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has released their daily schedule. Click here to check it out. A brief look reveals several conflicts on each day of the festival. This year's festival will feature performances by Arcade Fire, Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, Kid Rock, John Mellencamp, Wilco, Willie Nelson, The Strokes, Robert Plant, Lauryn Hill, Tom Jones, Jeff Beck, Sonny Rollins, John Legend & The Roots, The Avett Brothers, Cyndi Lauper, Wyclef ...

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