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Jazz River Cruise on October 3 to Benefit Siu-E Friends of Music Scholarships

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 4, 2010

The Friends of Music at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville are sponsoring a jazz cruise on the Mississippi on Sunday, October 3 to raise money for music scholarships at SIUE. Cruisers will board on the riverboat in downtown St. Louis at 5:30 p.m., and cruise from 6:00 p.m. until 8:30, enjoying dinner and live music from SIUE jazz faculty members and students. Tickets are $75 per person, or $30 for children 12 and under. The ticket price includes a $20 gift to ...

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Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival in Progress on the Dutch Island

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
September 4, 2010

North Sea Jazz Festival, the world's largest indoor jazz festival, has for 35 years brought the biggest, broadest range of artists to The Netherlands. The offshoot Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival is in progress on the hospitable and vibrant Dutch island. Headlining the festival debut are multiple Grammy award winning performers Simply Red, George Benson, Natalie Cole, and Lionel Ritchie. In settings traditional to its progenitor, the Curacao festival is set for its major indoor and outdoor venues employing a ...

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Bluesrock 2010 Blazes into Tegelen, Netherlands

Source: Phillip Woolever
September 4, 2010

As the 27th annual edition of Bluesrock descended upon a stirring Saturday evening it was clear this year's lineup was one of the strongest in recent memory. Bluesrock, at the friendly suburban confines of the Openluchttheater de Doolhof in Tegelen, alongside the border town of Venlo has consistently earned a reputation as one of the finest single day music festivals to be found in Europe. This year's informal theme could be cranked-up heavy metal blues behind the smoking guitars of ...

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Tanglewood Jazz Festival Complete 2010 Lineup

Source: Dawn Singh Publicity
September 4, 2010

Boston Symphony Orchestra Presents the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 4-5 in Lenox, Massachusetts Featured Artists to Include Kurt Elling, John Pizzarelli, Donal Fox, Maya Beiser, Jane Monheit, Eddie Daniels, Bob James, Peter Erskine, the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Julian Lage, Jessica Molaskey, Laurence Hobgood, Noah Baerman, Audrey Silver, Kelley Johnson, and Brandon Wright The annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival will take place September 4-5 at the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Massachusetts. Jazz ...

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Other Places: Mulgrew Miller in Detroit

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 3, 2010

The Detroit Jazz Festival runs through the Labor Day weekend, with an impressive array of musicians including Roy Haynes, Maria Schneider, Terence Blanchard and Branford Marsalis. The festival's artist-in-residence, Mulgrew Miller, received advance attention from Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker....the brightest spotlight falls on the Mississippi-born Miller, who makes four major appearances. He leads his sextet called Wingspan, plays duets with fellow pianist Kenny Barron, joins bassist Robert Hurst's quartet and appears opening night with the neo-gospel vocal ...

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6th Annual Riverside Blues Festival in Windsor

Source: Just Roots PR
September 1, 2010

For the 6th straight year, the Canada South Blues Society and The Riverside Sportsmen's Club are presenting the RIVERSIDE BLUES FESTIVAL on Friday, September 10th and Saturday September 11th Details of the event are as follows: Friday, September 10, 2010 8:30pm Riverside Sportsmen's Club 108357 Riverside Dr. East Windsor, ON Admission—$5 Saturday, September 11, 2010 5pm Riverside Sportsmen's Club 108357 ...

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Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival Announces 2010 Entertainment Line Up

Source: Mark McLaughlin
September 1, 2010

Event Tickets Now Available MILWAUKEE, WI—The West Bend Sunrise Rotary Foundation, Inc., producers of the annual Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival (KMJF), announced that the line up for the 2010 event, to be held Fri., Sept. 10—Sat., Sept. 11, would once again feature an internationally diverse collection of musicians and vocalists. The event, which will take place along the banks of the upper Milwaukee River at Riverside Park in West Bend, Wis., will showcase seven play slots, three on Sept. 10, ...

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Initial CMJ Artist Line-up Announced, Early Registration Discounts End Today

Source: HypeBot
September 1, 2010

Early bird registration discounts for the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2010 end at midnight tonight August 31st. You can register here. And while more bands will be announced in the coming weeks, here's the initial lineup of showcases: DeVotchKa Surfer Blood Two Door Cinema Club School of Seven Bells Bad Books (feat. Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra) Four Tet The Drums Ghostface Killah Greg Dulli Helmet Lissie Foreign Exchange Katzenjammer Kristen Schall & Friends Dean & Britta Bayside ...

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