Festival News

Music Lover? Note This Festival

Source: DeBlaze & Associates
March 18, 2009

Interaction. Improvisation. Collaboration.

“Now (the U.S. Bank Saint Louis Jazz Festival) has some increasingly serious competition from the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival..." - Terry Perkins, Jazz Times

“Madly creative, Pizzarelli's extraordinary musical talents are matched by a wry humor, a quick wit and easygoing manner." - Los Angeles Times

Presenters: University of Missouri-St. Louis in association with Contemporary Productions What: 2009 Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival Who: John Pizzarelli Quartet, Jon Faddis, Lou Marini, Peter Erskine, UM-St. ...

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Gathering of the Vibes '09 Lineup

Source: JamBase
March 18, 2009

INITIAL MIGHTY TASTY ASSORTMENT ANNOUNCED

This inaugural lineup for this year's Gathering of the Vibes was announced. The four-day music festival takes place July 23-26 at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, CT.

The lineup includes:

moe. -Bob Weir & Ratdog -moe. -Levon Helm Band -State Radio -Buddy Guy -George Clinton & P-Funk -Grace Potter & The Nocturnals -Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll & Sipe -Assembly ...

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36th Telluride Bluegrass Lineup

Source: JamBase
March 18, 2009

36th TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS LINEUP ANNOUNCED INCLUDING DAVID BYRNE, ELVIS COSTELLO, CONOR OBERST

Telluride Bluegrass 2008 by Benko Photographics Planet Bluegrass announces the complete single-day lineup for the 36th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, taking place during the longest days of the year, June 18-21, in southwestern Colorado. In addition to previously announced headliners David Byrne and Elvis Costello, the festival will feature the all-star collaboration of Three Girls & Their Buddy, the L.A. super-group Works Progress Administration, rising jamgrass ...

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Hollywood Bowl Announces Schedule; Changes up Jazz Leadership

Source: Michael Ricci
March 16, 2009

After being first reported last month on our sister blog Culture Monster, the Hollywood Bowl has now dotted the I's and crossed the T's on its 2009 season, which was officially announced this morning.

In addition to highlighting previously unannounced shows with the Beastie Boys (Sept. 24) and John Fogerty as part of the Bowl's annual July 4th Fireworks Spectacular, Herbie Hancock was announced as the L.A. Philharmonic Assn.'s new creative chair for jazz, succeeding bassist Christian McBride.

The announcement ...

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Jazzaar Concerts Aarau 2009

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2009

Jazzaar concerts is a different kind of jazz festival found in Aarau, Switzerland with a heart for learning on the bandstand music education.

Every April the audience is entertained with premiers and brand new productions of musical works; Afro-American, Classical traditions as well as fusions into other genres.

But most uniquely, “jazzaar concerts" is specially known for its remarkable collaborations between professionals of international and national acclaim with selected Swiss youth, that culminate into memorable and grand performances that showcase ...

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Fred's Fest Line Up

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2009

Following is the complete lineup for Fred Anderson's 80th Birthday Tribute Festival. Most events at the Velvet Lounge, 67 E. Cermak Rd. 7 p.m. Sunday: Fred Anderson and the Great Black Music Ensemble $15.

8:30 p.m. Wednesday: Richard Davis and Willie Pickens; Edwin Daugherty, Ari Brown, David “Dawi" Williams and Dushun Mosley, with Douglas Ewart and Henry Grimes. $20.

8:30 p.m. Thursday: Justin Dillard ...

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International Jazz Solo Piano Festival in Germany - March 26-28, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2009

With friendly support of the Steinway houses Munich, Hamburg and Berlin, the organizer Jan Matthies Music Management, presents the first season of the International Jazz Solo Piano Festival in March 2009 with venues in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin.

The virtuosic performing jazz solo pianist can be sure to get the full attention and admiration of the audience, if he as “One-Man-Orchestra”, because of his perfect mastery of the instrument and his improvisational skills, is able to feature the entire sonority ...

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Chicago a Boundary-Breaking Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2009

Music in America tends to be marketed narrowly, by genre, with clubs and festivals targeting specific musical tastes.

But at least one musical event ignores the barriers that separate jazz listeners from their classical counterparts, world-music lovers from devotees of the avant- garde. And the fifth annual edition of Pick-Staiger Concert Hall's Spring Festival, continuing into next month, fearlessly serves up jazz, tango, classical and whatnot.

“One of my main purposes in life has been to help people appreciate that ...

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