Festival News

2nd Street Festival + More This Weekend

Source: RVAjazz
October 1, 2008

This weekend, Richmond's annual 2nd Street Festival returns to Jackson Ward to celebrate the past and present of arts and culture in the city. If Venture Richmond's schedule of performers intimidates you, check out the RVAjazz schedule grids below. They will give a view of everything that is going on at a particular point in time (click to see full size):Friday & Saturday:Sunday:The festival grounds are several blocks in Jackson Ward adjacent ...

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PDX Festival Redux

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 1, 2008

The Portland Jazz Festival reports that it is not dead after all. Nearly a month ago, the festival announced that a lack of major sponsorship and funding caused it to be canceled. Earlier this year, the telephone company Qwest dropped out as the event's primary sponsor. With the economy limping, fuel costs high and revenues pinched, airlines are not thriving, but Alaska Air Lines is flying to the festival's rescue, aided by a coalition of former and new sponsors. Alaska ...

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23rd Annual Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2008

Each October, thousands from throughout the world flock to historic downtown Helena as the music takes over - giving visitors a three-day, down-home, soul-baring musical history lesson. The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival (formerly known as the King Biscuit Blues Festival) has become one of the largest blues festivals in the world. Not bad for an event that began on a makeshift stage with less than 500 attendees. Blues Music This year's event will be held Oct. 9-11 and marks ...

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Cheers for Partnership That Returns Jazz to Fond Du Lac

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2008

Marian University and Fond du Lac Jazz Festival Inc. have formed a new partnership that promises to bring more live jazz to the community. The Fond du Lac Jazz Festival, which for nearly 25 years has been bringing big-name jazz concerts to Fond du Lac, will be hosted as a fall event by Marian. Marian, which this fall launched its new jazz studies program, will present a jazz concert on November 21-22 on the campus to showcase student jazz talent ...

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The 22nd Annual Catalina Island Jazztrax Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The 22nd Annual Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival kicks off the weekend of Friday October 3rd and runs three days each over three consecutive weekends, October 3, 4, 5, October 10, 11, 12, and October 17, 18, 19. The JazzTrax line-up includes over 30 illustrious smooth-groove practitioners creating an exclusive retreat for jazz lovers. Those interested in a weekend of great jazz and laid-back island grooves can book tickets online by visiting www.jazztrax.com where interactive table and seating plans allow visitors ...

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The Jazz is Happening: Nine Acts to Perform at Annual Mesilla Jazz and Wine Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The days of jazz and wine and mellow times on the Mesilla Plaza have become a classic autumn tradition for the Mesilla Jazz Happening. Now celebrating its seventh year, the MJH will again offer live jazz and a wine garden showcasing vintages from New Mexico wineries next weekend on the Mesilla Plaza from noon to 9 pm Saturday and noon to 7 pm Sunday. The MJH musical lineup is being coordinated by the Mesilla Valley Jazz and Blues Society and ...

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San Francisco Jazz Festival Becomes a Global Village

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

Jazz is as American as baseball. One thing the two share in common, however, is that Americans are no longer the only ones playing the game. The South Koreans won the gold medal in baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics (the United States finished with the bronze). Likewise, the battle for supremacy in the jazz world is getting hot and heavy. The Americans are still in the lead, but the race is getting tighter all the time. What we are ...

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Jazz Aspen CO

Source: JamBase
September 27, 2008

Jazz Aspen Snowmass :: 08.29.08 & 08.30.08 :: Snowmass Village :: Snowmass, CO

Catching only Friday and Saturday of the monster five-day weekend festival, just two nights offered plenty to be blown away by.

Friday, August 29

Jimmy Herring - WSP :: Jazz Aspen 2008 With only one major stage and three artists per day at Jazz Aspen Snowmass, each set was highly anticipated and packed with energy. The British funk of The New Mastersounds opened Friday to a ...

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