Festival News

Tampa Jazz Notes: Child of the Sun Jazz Festival Returns; Don Capone Tribute; Jazz Cellar Underground Orchestra to Play

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
April 21, 2010

The Child of the Sun Jazz Festival, a first-class Lakeland event begun in 1988 with major input from late great cornetist Nat Adderley but shuttered after a great 20-year run, will be revived next spring.

That's the word from Larry Burke, longtime music professor at Florida Southern College, original home to the event. The revived fest, to be sponsored by the Lakeland Rotary Club, will be held April 15-16 downtown at ...

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Fifth Annual Miles Davis Festival Set for Saturday, August 14 at Lewis and Clark Community College

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 21, 2010

The fifth annual Miles Davis Festival will be held starting at 12:00 p.m. Saturday, August 14, at the Commons at Lewis & Clark Community College, 5800 Godfrey Road in Godfrey, IL.Saxophonist Michael Anthony Fitzgerald and guitarist Brian White return from last year's festival lineup to headline the 2010 event. Drummer Howard Neal and his band also will perform, doing a tribute to the music of the late R&B singer and longtime Southern Illinois resident Luther Ingram.The ...

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Jazz Fest 2010 Survival Guide

Source: JamBase
April 20, 2010

The 41st annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - set to run April 23 through May 2 - is about much more than just music. Notice that the official name of the event includes the word “Heritage," this is a true celebration of culture, history, food, art and music that could only have sprouted from the fertile soil of New Orleans. And while the music programming shines a giant light on jazz, no genre is left untouched with headliners ...

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International Superstars Headline the 2010 Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2010

The first ever Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival will take place Friday, September 3-4, 2010 at the World Trade Center (WTC) on Piscadera Bay in Curacao. Throughout the Festival, international artists with some of the biggest names in the jazz, funk, soul, Latin, and R&B worlds, will perform in and around the WTC. Headliners include John Legend, Lionel Richie, Sergio Medes, Luis Enrique, La India, George Benson, Simply Red, Raul Midn, Natalie Cole, Grupo Fantasma, Mulato, Randal Corsen, Roy Hargrove, ...

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11th Bray Jazz Festival, Ireland, April 30 - May 2

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2010

Bray Jazz Festival makes a welcome return for its 11th year on the upcoming May Bank Holiday weekend.

Now the largest and longest established jazz festival weekend in the Greater Dublin area, this years event will host shows by some of the leading players in contemporary Irish jazz, together with an impressive roster of international performers - from the United States, UK, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg.

And the events popular global music strand will be on show also, ...

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Ballard Jazz Festival Starts Wednesday

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2010

The last few years of tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman's career have been among his most productive, after decades spent off the radar in prison, in recovery both the result of his past drug addiction and quietly teaching music while living in the Columbia River town of Cathlamet. Caliman, who will perform Saturday at the annual Ballard Jazz Festival, is awaiting the release of his third album in two years (a yet unnamed recording with longtime friend Pete Christlieb), which follows ...

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Africa's New Voice Sets to Electrify St. Lucia Jazz Festival

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
April 20, 2010

Dobet Gnahor, Africa's new voice, dancer and percussionist, from Ivory Coast, who is compared to genre legends and cultural ambassadors like Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masakela, is set to electrify St. Lucia Jazz Festival with two performances, May 2 and 9th.She's a rarity, on stage Dobet exudes an inner strength and commanding presence, she is mesmerising even before she opens her mouth to sing. With a voice filled with emotion and range she moves through a range of ...

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Hear the Sounds of New Orleans: 24th Annual Long Beach Bayou & Mardi Gras Festival, June 26 & 27th

Source: Teresa Conboy PR
April 20, 2010

Featuring Cajun, Zydeco & Blues with Tito Jackson, Zac Harmon, Laurie Morvan, Geno Delafose, Lisa Haley, Mark St. Mary & Many More Hear the sounds of New Orleans at the 24th Annual Long Beach Bayou & Mardi Gras Festival, Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27th at Rainbow Lagoon Park, 11:30 a.m. 8:00 p.m. Throughout the weekend New Orleans and Louisiana comes alive with: Cajun, Zydeco and Blues music on two stages. This years Bayou Stage features Geno Delafose, T-Broussard, ...

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