Festival News

Jazz This Week: Michael Franks, Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 15, 2010

This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis is considerably less crowded than last week's, but there are still several notable events happening around the metro area. Let's go to the highlights: The best-known touring performer in town this week is singer/songwriter Michael Franks, who will play on Thursday at the Ameristar Casino St. Charles' Bottleneck Blues Bar. For more about Franks and some video clips of him performing, see this post. Also on Thursday, the Jazz ...

Continue Reading...

Chicago Guitar Festival Full Schedule Announced

Source: Buzzword PR
September 15, 2010

Dot-to-Dot Management, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Serbian Cultural Arts Center of Chicago Present The Chicago Guitar Festival Thursday, October 7th-Thursday, October 14th

Chicago, IL: Dot-to-Dot Management, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Serbian Cultural Arts Center of Chicago will present the groundbreaking Chicago Guitar Festival, a weeklong event bringing renowned classical and jazz guitarists from around the world to venues across Chicago, from Thursday October 7th through Thursday, October 14h. Featuring performances ...

Continue Reading...

Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary, September 15-25, 2010

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
September 14, 2010

The 10th annual Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival kicks off this Wednesday, September 15 and runs to Saturday, September 25, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. The annual festival is hosted by the Berklee College of Music, the world's foremost jazz university. This year's festival pays tribute to the music and culture of New Orleans, and features artists from the Crescent City like Terence Blanchard, Jon Baptiste and the Wild Magnolias. For a full schedule of activities, click here. Over 30 performances are ...

Continue Reading...

Giving Credit Where It is Due - And then Some...

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
September 14, 2010

When you've made an indelible imprint on an art form—people take notice. Particularly when that effort has helped fuel their own successes. Such is the case with George Wein, the producer of the first jazz festival as we know it today back in 1954 in Newport RI. In June 2009, as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival's 30th anniversary, founders Alain Simard and Andre Menard honored Wein (right) as the “father of all jazz festivals" at a news conference ...

Continue Reading...

An Extra Treat at the Somerville Jazz Festival

Source: The Augmented Ear by John Patten
September 13, 2010

Made it to Somerville in time to catch all of Louis Hayes' set—the set list included some Monk, some Coltrane, some Adderley... Hubbard and Shorter tunes. Terrific! I took a Bloggie, hoping to capture at least one performance but forgot to change the settings—after getting about 2 minutes of the opening tune, the memory card was full and the camera jammed up ... but I did get this video of the mayor of Somerville, Brian Gallagher, declaring Sept. 12 as ...

Continue Reading...

Voodoo Experience Daily Sched

Source: JamBase
September 12, 2010

Continue Reading...

Jazz Fests in Monterey, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Source: AAJ Staff
September 11, 2010

SUMMER has long been the high season for jazz festivals in New York—there were three, running almost simultaneously, in June—but the fall just might belong to California. Consider that the venerable Monterey Jazz Festival takes place next weekend, from Sept. 17 to 19. Or that the San Francisco Jazz Festival, up the coast, begins the following week, with concerts running through November. Then toss in a promising newcomer this year: the Angel City Jazz Fest, in Los Angeles the first ...

Continue Reading...

Uprise Festival Given the Green Light

Source: AAJ Staff
September 10, 2010

Following 18 months of grassroots campaigning, organisers of UpRise Festival, legacy of Europe's largest anti-racism festival, Rise, have been granted permission by Haringey Council to hold the event in London's Finsbury Park on 3 October 2010. April 2009 saw the abrupt withdrawal of funding for Rise Festival by the incumbent Mayor, which kick-started the UpRise campaign by two Haringey residents, Mike Barnard and Freya van Lessen. Despite an unsuccessful petition calling on Mayor Johnson to reinstate the festival with its ...

Continue Reading...