Festival News

2009 St. Louis International Film Festival to Screen Chops and Icons Among Us, Plus More Music-Related Movies

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 2, 2009

The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival, which begins Thursday, November 12 and continues through Sunday, November 22, once again will feature the St. Louis premieres of several recent music-related movies, including two that should be of particular interest to jazz fans.The first of those two films is Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense, which is based on the Documentary Channel's four-part series of the same name and will be shown at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, ...

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Globalfest 2010 Announces Line up at NYC's Webster Hall January, 2010

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
November 2, 2009

A Springboard of World Music Revelations: globalFEST 2010 Announces Line Up at NYC's Webster Hall January 10, 2010

For seven years globalFEST has been the springboard festival for world music artists on the brink of North American national mainstage success, performers known in one community but ready to cross into others, and the marquee stars of tomorrow. globalFEST 2010 showcases French Gypsy jazz with breakbeats, cumbia-fied downtempo Argentine club sounds, soul-stirring Afro-Colombian roots, new generation Louisiana fiddling, Africa unplugged, Irish ...

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Open World Concert Series

Source: Michael Ricci
November 2, 2009

Fifth Annual Open World Jazz Concert to be held on the Miracle Mile

The fifth annual Open World Jazz Concert--an evening of jazz with Brubeck Institute musicians and visiting jazz musicians from Russia--will be held at the Empire Theater on the Miracle Mile this year. The concert starts at 8pm November 13, and will feature the renowned jazz trumpeter Nicholas Payton with the Open World Jazz Quintet (OWJQ) and the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (BIJQ).

There also will be other ...

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Ballard Jazz Walk Tickets on Sale

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
November 1, 2009

Jazz will take over Ballard Avenue again on Friday, November 20, with 18 groups in 12 venues. A single ticket will grant access into all venues. Tickets for the Ballard Jazz Walk are $25 but if you buy your ticket before Monday they are only $17. Also available is a group of 5 tickets for $70 (a 44% discount). Artists scheduled to appear this fall include: Pete Christlieb, Hadley Caliman, John McLean, Greta Matassa, Andrew Olivers Kora Band, Don Mock ...

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Win Pollock Art at Festival 8 Recycle Your Cell Phone Too

Source: JamBase
October 29, 2009

HeadCount to stage “Reality Check" Game Show at Phish's Festival 8 Fans Compete for Grand Prize of One-of-a-Kind Jim Pollock Artwork in Trivia Contest Rock The Earth To Recycle Cell Phones at Festival

Phish If you fancy yourself an “a-Phish-ionado," or an expert on current events, you'll have a chance to prove it at Festival 8. HeadCount, fresh off announcing superb statistical results from last year's voter registration campaign, will host the “Reality Check" music and ...

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Vista Del Mar's First Annual Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
October 28, 2009

Nearly 800 music lovers and supporters of troubled children turned out for Vista Del Mar Child and Family Service's first annual jazz festival. The Oct. 18 fundraiser for Vista Del Mar - one of the nation's most comprehensive care facilities for youngsters experiencing mental health, behavioral, emotional, or social problems - was held at Vista's West Los Angeles campus and was headlined by Grammy-nominated percussionist and singer Sheila E. and co-chaired by Sheila, Lynn Mabry, Janis Black and Douglas Warner. ...

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Womex: The World Music Expo

Source: Michael Ricci
October 23, 2009

"The most important international professional market of world music of every kind.This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers." --UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity

“WOMEX, the biggest world music trade fair on the planet" --The Australian

“World music fans and professionals must etch one event ...

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32nd Cape May Jazz Festival: A Tribute to the Count

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
October 23, 2009

The 32nd Cape May Jazz Festival November 6-8, 2009 A Tribute to the Count. Swing with the timeless, priceless and still genuine Count Basie Orchestra at the Cape.

May Jazz Festival presented by New Jersey Department of Travel and Tourism and Bank of America November 6th for one big thrill 8pm-9:30pm in the Theatre at Lower Regional High School.

The Count Basie Orchestra of today is nineteen performers committed to upholding the Basie tradition with a keyboard set in motion, ...

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