Festival News

Trinumeral Festival 9/9-13 PL, Glitch Mob, Pnuma, Toubab

Source: JamBase
August 5, 2009

Trinumeral Music And Arts Festival 2009

The Glitch Mob The 9th annual Trinumeral Music and Arts Festival will take place September 9 through 13 at Deerfields Retreat & Music Park in Mills River, NC. The event kicks off with The Official Trinumeral Launch Party at the Orange Peel on September 9 in Downtown Asheville. The rest of the weekend will be staged at the majestic Deerfields Music Park, just twenty minutes south of Asheville. Trinumeral is the only major music ...

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Plans for Woodstock 40th Anniversary Concert Nixed

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2009

Woodstock promoter Michael Lang has dropped plans for a 40th anniversary concert. Asked why he abandoned the pursuit for a third anniversary concert celebrating the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Lang simply told Rolling Stone, Money. No sponsors.

Lang, one of the four partners to stage Woodstock in 1969, had wanted to hold a free concert in Brooklyns Prospect Park to coincide with the anniversary in mid-August. Those plans were postponed after he failed to find sponsors to cover the ...

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Carefusion Jazz Festival 55 Saturday August 8

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2009

With the support of scores of jazz artists and supporters of jazz throughout the world, fifty under-served Providence area children will attend the Carefusion Jazz Festival 55 on Saturday, August 8th.

The project, entitled Birds: Kids to Newport, has been made possible because of the generosity of George Wein, Jamie Aebersold, private supporters and the Jazz is a Rainbow organization, a project based upon the fact the jazz audiences are graying, jazz institutions such as the IAJE are disappearing and ...

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Seeger, Baez Celebrate 50 Years of Newport Folk

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2009

Newport Folk Festival Turns 50 With Sets From Seeger, Baez, Decemberists and More. “Pete Seeger", vaunted promoter George Wein said on Saturday, “is the Newport Folk Festival."

Its hard to argue the point. Fifty years ago, Seeger co-founded the legendary event with Wein while headlining a bill featuring artists like Odetta, Memphis Slim and the Stanley Brothers. Saturday, the 90-year-old Seeger was back onstage leading a 50th anniversary sing-along that included the Decemberists, Gillian Welch, Fleet Foxes and his grandson, ...

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Cruise the Potomac: Online Tickets End This Friday (August 7th)

Source: Michael Ricci
August 3, 2009

This is your final week to get tickets online! Cruise the Potomac has: 3 hour Riverboat Cruise Live Jazz by Marcus Johnson Premium open bar all night included with your tickets Food Louisiana style Casino Games with prizes for the high rollers DJ & Dancing Open Air Lounge on top deck with 360 degree views Door Prizes Here's More... Cruise the Potomac is a special one ...

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Folk with a Touch of Jazz

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
August 3, 2009

Jazz festival fans can rejoice with something tangible in Newport. The 50th anniversary edition of the folk festival - George Wein's Folk Festival 50 - opened without a hitch today, under brilliant sunshine. It means Wein's revised jazz festival is less than a week away.You've doubtless read elsewhere, or in postings below, of the financial saga that forced Wein to regain control of festival-producing in Newport and begin work on yet another phase of production in the city ...

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No Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival This Year

Source: Michael Ricci
August 1, 2009

By Patricia Myers Financial problems cited, 'angel' or sponsor sought

There will be no Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival this year, said Bettye Wilson, president of the board of directors, citing the one-two punch of the economy and less income from last year's weeklong presentation. “The decision was based on whether the current economy would sustain the festival, which would have been our 28th."

Wilson said she has been encouraged by reaction from the jazz musicians' community. “We've had ...

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Zbigniew Seifert in Memoriam Festival

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2009

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