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Berklee's High School Jazz Festival Kicks Off in Boston on March 5

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 4, 2011

The 43rd High School Jazz Festival hosted by Berklee College of Music is taking place on March 5, 2011 in Boston. The event showcases over 3,000 students and 200 big bands, combos, and vocal ensembles from California to New England competing for $175,000 in scholarships to Berklee's summer programs. The festival includes clinics and concerts by the acclaimed a cappella group Pitch Slapped; faculty drummer Kenwood Dennard; Berklee's Concert Jazz Orchestra; the Global Jazz Institute, City Music, Salsa, and P-Funk ...

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Demiero Jazz Festival This Weekend

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 4, 2011

Weekend in Edmonds at the DeMiero Jazz Festival John Pizzarelli returns for the fourth consecutive year with his quartet to lend artistic direction to this annual Edmonds event. Festival attendees can catch Pizzarelli and quartet each night, along with Friday and Saturday headliners Freddy Cole Quartet and Karrin Allyson. The festival also features performances by more than 50 elementary, middle, and high school jazz choirs and jazz bands and adult choirs from throughout the Pacific Northwest. The festival is made ...

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Sould out Music Fest: Lauryn Hill, Mos Def, Ice Cube

Source: JamBase
March 4, 2011

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, BLACK JOE LEWIS, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS, RUSKO, HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION, MOTET Portland, OR-based Soul'd Out Productions proudly announces the 2011 edition of the Soul'd Out Music Festival, set for April 7-17 at the best venues in Portland, OR. This year's headliner is none other than the multi-Grammy winning Lauryn Hill, making her first ever appearance in Portland at the prestigious Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, as part of an exclusive Northwest engagement. Other notables include ...

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Beale Street Music Fest: Lips, Wilco, Avett, Mumford, MGMT

Source: JamBase
March 4, 2011

GREGG ALLMAN, MELLENCAMP, MRAZ, MARLEY, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, & MORE Memphis in May is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2011 Beale Street Music Festival. The thirty-fifth annual three day music festival will be held April 29—May 1 in Tom Lee Park along the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. A full list of artists follows and totals 65 acts performing on 4 stages and the SoCo Blues Shack over ...

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Bear Creek Music Fest Adds Soulive, Zach Deputy, NMS

Source: JamBase
March 4, 2011

ANDERS OSBORNE, BEATS ANTIQUE, BREAK SCIENCE, DR. LONNIE SMITH, MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO, ERIC KRASO & CHAPTER 2, JENNIFER HARTSWICK ALSO ADDED The Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival is thrilled to add a slew of new artists to the 2011 lineup. New to the lineup are Soulive, The New Mastersounds, Anders Osborne Trio, The Coup featuring Boots Riley, Zach Deputy, Break Science, Marco Benevento Trio, Eric Krasno & Chapter 2, Spam All-Stars, Jennifer Hartswick Band, Snarky Puppy, Nigel Hall, The ...

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2011 Brubeck Festival to Focus on Creativity

Source: Patrick Giblin
March 3, 2011

Features Ground-Breaking Performances by Grammy-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra and a new Clint Eastwood Film With the central theme of “Creativity," the 2011 Brubeck festival will feature new works by several ground-breaking performers from March 31 through April 3, including the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the first music group to win a Grammy for an album that was sold exclusively on the Internet. The celebration will close with a screening of the new Clint Eastwood documentary film about Dave Brubeck called “Dave ...

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George Benson to Headline 2011 Seabreeze Jazz Festival in Panama City Beach, FL April 13-17th

Source: Mark Carter
March 3, 2011

Smooth Jazz returns to the sugar-white beaches of Northwest Florida this spring as the 2011 Seabreeze Jazz Festival offers a full weekend of smooth contemporary jazz entertainment. Set for April 13-17th at Pier Park in Panama City Beach, FL, the event has been named “Top 10 Jazz Festival in the USA" by JAZZIZ Magazine and continues to attract smooth jazz fans from all over the USA as well as Canada, Europe, and 13 other countries. Set in the new exciting ...

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High Sierra 2011: MMJ, Ween, Warren Haynes, Ymsb, Dr Dog

Source: JamBase
March 1, 2011

The 21st Annual High Sierra Music Festival has announced their inital lineup. The festival will take place June 30th—July 3rd at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds in Quincy, CA My Morning Jacket Ween Neko Case Warren Haynes Band Yonder Mountain String Band Rebelution Maceo Parker Dr. Dog ALO Beats Antique Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk Ernest Ranglin Bill Frisell's ...

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