Festival News

2009 Montreal Jazz Festival Line-Up

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

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Maryland's Capital Jazz Fest 2009

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

17th annual Capital Jazz Fest, featuring live contemporary jazz and soul music on two big stages. This year's Fest will be held June 5-7, 2009 at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Since its inception in 1993, the Capital Jazz Fest which guitarist Chuck Loeb once referred to as the “Woodstock of jazz festivals" has continually showcased the biggest names in contemporary jazz. Past performers on the Pavilion Jazz Stage include Herbie Hancock, Kenny G, The Jazzmasters, Kem, Grover Washington, Jr., Anita Baker, ...

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Seattle Times: Newport's Ariel Pocock Could Be Next Ellington-Tapped Star

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
May 10, 2009

The Seattle Times' reporter Hugo Kugiya is covering the Essentially Ellington competition in New York City. NEW YORK CITY -- Newport High School sophomore Ariel Pocock was just one of about 400 student jazz musicians who filled the Frederick P. Rose Hall Friday afternoon for the official start of the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. As a way of saying welcome, Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, took questions from two lines ...

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Virgin Music Fest Expands to Five Canadian Cities

Source: Billboard Magazine
May 9, 2009

The Virgin Music Festival will hit five Canadian cities this summer, including Montreal, the event’s organizers announced today. The festival, which launched in 2006, is sponsored by Virgin Mobile Canada, which was fully acquired by Canadian telecommunications giant Bell Canada today. Event organizers didn’t disclose which cities the festival would be hitting, naming only Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia. Host locations will be announced at a later date. Last year, the festival went ahead in Toronto and Calgary, ...

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Maceo Parker, Zappa, STS9 Anchor Jam Cruise Lineup

Source: Billboard Magazine
May 8, 2009

Now in its eighth year, the popular Jam Cruise will embark January 3, 2010 with a host of funk, techno, and roots-rock related acts on board. STS9, Maceo Parker, Zappa Plays Zappa, and the John Medeski/Robert Randolph/North Mississippi Allstars vehicle The Word are some of the top acts scheduled to play. The five night concert voyage leaves from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and makes stops in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Other acts scheduled include the new-funk groups Galactic and Karl ...

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Sierra Nevada World Music Fest

Source: JamBase
May 8, 2009

SIERRA NEVADA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL BRINGS BRINGS REGGAE, WORLD MUSIC & EXPANDED DANCEHALL HOURS TO MENDO

Femi Kuti Sierra Nevada World Music Festival (SNWMF) is still going strong after sixteen years as the region's premier World and roots Reggae music festival. Held annually during the summer solstice weekend, this year's event takes place June 19-21, 2009. The festival celebrates peace and cultural diversity presenting music, foods, dance, and crafts from around the globe. Now in its fourth year ...

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Midnite Disturbers: A Jazz Fest Supergroup

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, some of the best music happens miles from the Fairgrounds, hours after the crowds have gone and the last of the crawfish bread has been consumed. It happens with the arrival of Midnite. At 1:18 a.m., Bonerama -- a brass-funk rock band lead by three trombones -- has just finished a 90-minute set that started with a soulful, passionate original tune written by bandleader Mark Mullins, and ...

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Jazz Fest | 04.30-05.03 | New Orleans, LA

Source: JamBase
May 8, 2009

Words by: Amanda Anderson | Images by: Adam McCullough & Tamara Grayson

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival :: 04.30.09 - 05.03.09 :: Fair Grounds Race Course :: New Orleans, LA

Jazz Fest 2009 by McCullough After four straight days of live music in the Louisiana sunshine, sweating among crowds of thousands, swallowing Cajun delights, wandering through booths of cutting-edge visual arts and dancing in the dirt at Weekend Two of the 40th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...

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