Festival News

Mile High: WSP, Tool, Mule, Keys

Source: JamBase
March 27, 2009

WIDESPREAD PANIC, TOOL AND THE FRAY TO HEADLINE SECOND ANNUAL MILE HIGH MUSIC FESTIVAL JULY 18 AND 19 Other Performers Include Incubus, Ben Harper and Relentless7, G.Love & Special Sauce Gov't Mule, Buddy Guy, 3OH!3, Ani DiFranco, Paolo Nutini, The Black Keys, John Butler Gomez, The Wailers, India Arie and Many Others

Mile High Music Festival 2008 by P. Martinez Colorado's Mile High Music Festival returns to the Fields at Dick's Sporting ...

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The Jazz Days 2009 in Hamburg

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2009

The Jazz Days Festival in Hamburg Germany 2009

March 21 09 at 22:05 on NDR Info - 92.3 FM: “Brasiliana" - Peter Fessler & Danny Gottlieb

April 04 09 at 22:05: Markus Stockhausen Electric Treasures

April 11 09 at 22:20: Jonas Burg angle Source Direct April 25 09 at 22:05: Leon Gurvitch Klezmer Jazz Project feat. Frank London

Festivals 2009

June 27 and 28 2009: Jazz Open Hamburg Planten un Blomen

October 1st to 3rd 2009: Hamburg Jazz ...

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Massive Woodstock May Not Come in 2009

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2009

As Woodstocks 40th anniversary approaches rumors are flying that another anniversary concert is in the works.

While original producer Michael Lang has been talking about plans for one concert in New York City and another in Berlin, Joel Rosenman, Langs business partner of 40 years, says the show is very far away from being booked and may not even happen this year.

It may not be the year for Woodstock. We dont know. Were not going to let some technical ...

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Jazz Boston's Jazz Week '09, Set for Apr. 25-May 3, Will Feature More Than 200 Events in 75 Locations

Source: Mary Curtin Productions
March 26, 2009

JazzBoston’s Jazz Week '09 Celebrates Boston Scene’s Staggering Stylistic Diversity.

Nine Days of Music Answer Question Posed by 2009 Theme: What's Your Jazz? Mayors Thomas M. Menino of Boston,E. Denise Simmons of Cambridge Officially Proclaim April 25 - May 3 Jazz Week.

Whats your jazz? Music lovers all across the Greater Boston area will get help answering that question during the third annual celebration of Jazz Week, which will feature more than 200 events of all styles in over 75 ...

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Stephanie Jordan Tribute to Lena Horne at N.O. Jazz Fest

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
March 25, 2009

The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell (April 24-26 & April 30-May 3) will celebrate 40 years of musical and cultural history at this year's star-studded event.

The Stephanie Jordan Large Band will perform during the first weekend of Jazz Fest on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 3:45 p.m. in a special Tribute to Lena Horne. in the WWOZ Jazz Tent.

Jordan will fill the WWOZ Jazz Tent with a Big Band sound as she continues ...

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Creative Nation Music to Celebrate 5th Anniversary with Two-Day Festival March 28-29th

Source: Improvised Communications
March 25, 2009

On Saturday, March 28th and Sunday, March 29th, Boston's Creative Nation Music will present the first Creative Nation Music Festival at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The official local celebration of the label's fifth anniversary, and the culmination of its four-state package tour of New England, the festival will feature seven bands over the course of two nights.

Creative Nation Music Festival schedule:

Saturday, March 28th at 7:00 p.m. Ronald Reagan Scurvy

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Clash of Jazz Impresarios in New York and Newport

Source: Michael Ricci
March 25, 2009

Will New York have a major jazz festival this summer?

It depends on whom you ask. Festival Network, which has presented the JVC Jazz Festival for the past two years, says it will. But concert promoters, booking agents and others in the jazz world say that because of the economy and a rift between Festival Network and the impresario George Wein, it is possible that New York will lack a big festival for the first time in 37 years.

In ...

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Litchfield Jazz Fest Line-up Announced: July 31-August 2, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2009

A Quick Look at the Litchfield Jazz Festival

July 31-August 2, 2009 Grounds of Kent School, Kent, CT

The Litchfield Jazz Festival, now in its fourteenth summer, is thrilled to announce the 2009 line-up and its move to the gorgeous campus of Kent School in Kent, Connecticut. This summers festival, named a Top 100 Festival for the second time, will be held July 31 August 2. Kent is known as the cultural heart of the Litchfield Hills with ...

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