Festival News

Blues for Food Fest 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
August 15, 2009

Blues For Food Fest 2009

Groove to local blues legends and shake your moneymaker for one last summertime blast at the third annual BLUES FOR FOOD FEST, Saturday, Sept 5, 2009 at Magnuson Park Amphitheatre & P-Patch

Proceeds support P-Patch Trust

What: A picture-perfect day at one of the most beautiful gardens in Seattle. Blues For Food Fest is an allages event featuring some of the finest blues bands in the Northwest. P-Patch Pie Queens will tempt your taste buds ...

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Woodstock: How Does It Sound 40 Years Later?

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2009

Jimi Hendrix played his guitar during his set at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on Aug. 18, 1969

Lots of people never made it to Woodstock, in part because the 400,000 who did caused the most famous traffic jam in New York history.

But for those of us who missed it because of the inconvenience of having not yet been born, the concert's 40th anniversary is instinctively less a cause for celebration than an excuse to plug our ears. ...

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Arena Tickets Available for 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 18 - 20, 2009

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
August 14, 2009

Rare Opportunity For Heirloom Purchase Guaranteeing Seats For Years Three-Day Arena Package Includes Exclusive Access To 5 Shows Of World-Class Music On The Legendary Jimmy Lyons Stage Plus Access To 8 Other Grounds Venues Great Seats Available For Exclusive Arena Performances Including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke And Lenny White Trio; Dave Brubeck Quartet, John Scofield And The Piety Street Band, Pete Seeger, Susan Tedeschi, Hank Jones And Joe Lovano Quartet, George Duke Monterey, CA--Offering a rare opportunity for fans to ...

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The First Annual la Vida Music Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
August 14, 2009

The First Annual LA VIDA MUSIC FESTIVAL featuring the spicy, vibrant variety of L.A's Latin Music scene, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (October), also benefiting the local L.A. community and a great philanthropic cause. The First Annual LA VIDA MUSIC FESTIVAL featuring the legendary Hubert Laws, Pete Escovedo & Louie Cruz Beltran will take place under the stars on Sunday, October 4th at 7:00 PM at the intimate FORD Amphitheater - Hollywood; with special guests Chris Bennett saluting the ...

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Inaugural Let It Roll Festival: Featuring Marco Benevento

Source: JamBase
August 13, 2009

Marco Benevento Trio to headline inaugural Let It Roll Festival

Marco Benevento Pawnshop Roses and Numberline Productions are proud to announce the inaugural Let It Roll Festival. Set to go down September 18-20, join the fun for a two-day end-of-summer extravaganza featuring music, camping, and much more!

Let It Roll will take place at beautiful Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, NY (conveniently located 45 min south of Albany and 2 hrs north of NYC). Confirmed artists include Marco Benevento Trio, Pawnshop ...

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Lollapalooza 2009: Sunday Wrap-Up

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2009

Lollapalooza 2009 is a wrap, with 11 more hours of music Sunday. As usual, the hour-by-hour report is courtesy of yours truly and my comrades Bob Gendron (BG) and Andy Downing (AD). Thanks, guys.

11:14 a.m. Theres not a cloud in the sky, and the official air temperature at OHare is already a balmy 87 degrees. A dank smell emits from the damp field. As the early birds arrive, carts carrying dozens of bags of ice race to their destinations. ...

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Listen and Learn: Rashied Ali, Charles Gayle and William Parker

Source: Michael Ricci
August 13, 2009

The free-jazz group By Any Means brings its chemistry and history to the Newport festival Newport’s jazz festival - which this year has been christened George Wein’s CareFusion Jazz Festival 55--once again will bring some of the music’s biggest and most popular practitioners to Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island. But buried within this weekend’s schedule, and relegated to a smaller stage, is a trio making a once-in-a-lifetime appearance in our neck of the woods: a free-jazz group called ...

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OSPAC Jazz Festival 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
August 13, 2009

A wealth of top jazz artists will perform at the Seventh Annual Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center Jazz Festival, Sept. 12 and 13. Among those appearing at the OSPAC amphitheater, 4 Boland Drive (off Prospect Avenue near Route 280) in West Orange, are the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars with bassist John Lee and trumpeter Claudio Roditi and the New York Voices, which includes Darmon Meader and Kim Nazarian. Show times are 12:30 to 7 p.m. On Saturday, catch the Gillespie ...

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