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Missing Barcelona

Source: Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
December 4, 2010

Chucho Valdés and The Afro-Cuban Messengers, at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona (photo: Lorenzo di Nozzi) By Larry Blumenfeld (Arts Journal) I've been back from Barcelona for more than a week, but it seems like yesterday. If Barcelona is one of the world's most alluring cities—and it is—its Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival must be counted as one of the world's most distinctive and complete jazz events. The audacious architectural achievements of Gaudí, the searching experimentalism of early ...

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Old Settler's Festival 2011 Avetts, Emmitt-Nershi, Sam Bush

Source: JamBase
December 4, 2010

ANOTHER HOT TIME DOWN IN TEXAS The 24th Old Settler's Music Festival will be held Thursday, April 14 through Sunday, April 17, 2011, Salt Lick Pavilion and Camp Ben McCulloch, south of Austin, Texas. More than 30 acts will perform, including: The Avett Brothers; Sam Bush; Tim O'Brien; Jake Shimabukuro; Green Mountain Grass; Elliott Brood; Emmitt-Nershi Band. Ticketless early-bird wristbands went on-sale November 15. Festivalgoers that purchase the ticketless early-bird wristbands will enjoy as much as a 25 percent savings ...

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Bluesfest 2011: Dylan, ZZ Top, Costello, B.B., Harper, Toots

Source: JamBase
December 3, 2010

APRIL 21-APRIL 25 2011 IN BYRON BAY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Bluesfest from Byron Bay, Australia's favourite counter-culture, family-orientated, artistically diverse music festival, today unveiled its second artist announcement. Tickets are on sale now here. The festival dates next year over Easter are from Thursday April 21 through to Monday April 25, 2011. The second Bluesfest announcement for 2011 includes: Jethro Tull ZZ Top John Legend Gurrumul (Bluesfest exclusive) Toots & the Maytals

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Floydfest 2011 Lineup

Source: JamBase
November 30, 2010

TAJ MAHAL, DEL MCCOURY BAND, DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET, HOT TUNA, TOUBAB KREWE, REVEREND PEYTON, PIMPS OF JOYTIME & MORE FloydFest, the annual music and arts festival described by one on-line reviewer as a “unicorn in a horse pasture of music festivals" celebrates it's 10 year anniversary this July 28-31, 2011. Held in the non-commercial National Park environs of the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway, the event site features beautiful wooded camping, as well as hiking and bike trails. Spanning four full ...

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De Concierto Con Jaques Morelenbaum

Source: Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
November 29, 2010

El violonchelista y arreglista Jaques Morelenbaum está desde el pasado jueves en Barcelona, tras una semana de ensayos en Hamburgo con la NDR Big Band y el cuarteto de Omar Sosa. Músico apasionado por la música (parece un truismo, pero no lo es), Morelenbaum asistió el pasado viernes en el Palau a la exhibición de Jamie Cullum y ayer sábado al concierto doble en el Teatre Joventut de l'Hospitalet de Iván Melón Lewis y Horacio El Negro Hernández Italuba. Dada ...

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Wein's Perseverance Will Keep Newport Fest Strong

Source: RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
November 27, 2010

Newport Jazz Fest Seeks Sponsorship Somewhat sad news of late that CareFusion, a health care outfit that works to improve hospital patient safety and care, has pulled its sponsorship from George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival after just two years. The group also helped fund the return of Wein's jazz festival in New York City last June. The company stepped in at a time when Wein was breathing life back into the oldest, most famous, jazz festival that he created in ...

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Discount Tix for Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Nov 26, 27 & 28

Source: Lwm
November 23, 2010

Up to 60% Off Admission to the Jazzwerkstatt Festival at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene From November 26-28. Choose From Two Options. Click here (12 discount hours left!) What: 3 day mini-festival/Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-New York When: November 26, 27, 28 (various times 8pm/4pm) Where: Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY (2/3/4/5/ to Atlantic, C train to Lafayette Info: irondale.org Brooklyn, NY: Jazzwerkstatt, a wide-ranging European record label, will present an eclectic, exciting 3 day ...

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These Funky Things (Remind Me of Sco)

Source: The Ring Modulator by Adrian Stevenson
November 22, 2010

John Scofield Trio + Scottish National Jazz Orchestra—London Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London. 15th November 2010 Hurray! I finally managed to get to see John Scofield last week. Through some bad luck with timings and being based in Manchester, somehow it's taken me this long. Technically I did see him many years ago at the Jazz Café, but illness on my part meant an early exit after a few tracks. Although I've got time for most styles of ...

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