Festival News

Moe. to Play Farm Aid

Source: JamBase
August 28, 2008

moe. Postpone Hiatus to Play Farm Aid in September

moe. moe. has announced that they will postpone their planned hiatus to participate in this year's Farm Aid Concert at Mansfield, MA's Comcast Center (Great Woods) on September 20. moe. will join Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp and others. Severe weather and extreme conditions have made this year particularly challenging for our country's independent farmers and moe. looks forward to contributing to this cause.

moe. guitarist/vocalist Al Schnier ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival's Family Day

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
August 27, 2008

Monterey Jazz Festival's Family Day Includes Instrument Petting Zoo, Interactive Games, Jazzy Jumper, Percussion Playshop, Art Projects, The Country's Best Student Musicians, Interactive Family Entertainment By Zun Zun, And More! Macy's, Yamaha, Best Buy Team Up To Host Family Day On Sunday, September 21 At Monterey Fairgrounds Additional Grounds Artists Include Kurt Elling, Christian McBride Quintet, Kyle Eastwood, Trio M, Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band, Jamie Davis Big Band, La Tuque Bleue, Brass Menaeri, Hammond B3 Blowout With Brian ...

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31st Delaware Water Gap Cota Jazz & Arts Festival

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2008

Headlined by world-renowned jazz legends Phil Woods, David Liebman, Bob Dorough, and Urbie Green, the 31st Annual Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) packs 18 sets of ensemble jazz performances, plus theater and arts, into a three-day festival in the scenic Borough of Delaware Water Gap, from Friday, September 5, through Sunday, September 7. The festival opens Friday evening with a reception for COTA's Music Motif Show, a juried mixed-media art show, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at ...

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Fest Opens with Tale of 2 Schools

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2008

If the rest of Chicago Jazz Festival Week proves as dynamically creative as Monday night's opener in Millennium Park, there will be remarkable listening ahead. Conceived by one of Chicago's most promising young musicians, the evening merged two generations of instrumentalists to often stunning effect. At the core of the music-making was Chicago drummer Mike Reed's innovative People, Places and Things band. Each of its players thrives at the razor's edge of the Chicago jazz avant-garde, and each commands a ...

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51st Monterey Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
August 26, 2008

51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon September 19 - 21, 2008 Features Groundbreaking And Legendary Artists On 9 Stages For 3 Days Of Nonstop Jazz Entertainment

The Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon, launches its second half-century of legendary live jazz presentation, reflecting the artistic excellence that has made MJF the longest running jazz festival in the world. The world-renowned event takes place September 19-21, 2008 on the familiar oak-studded and beautiful grounds of the Monterey Fairgrounds, the ...

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Jazz Fest to Honor Motown Superstar Marvin Gaye

Source: All About Jazz
August 26, 2008

Somewhere, Marvin Gaye is smiling. The singer was known as “the Prince of Motown" and became one of that fabled label's most commercially successful artists on the strength of hits like “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine." He turned musical revolutionary with “What's Going On," his 1971 masterpiece, following it with “Let's Get It On," a nearly equal masterpiece of carnal desire. By the time of Gaye's tragic death in ...

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Jazz Classical Music in Sedona and Beyond

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2008

The cream-colored cliffs and vermilion spires of Sedona will reverberate with classical music and jazz as the Red Rocks Music Festival opens Saturday and continues through Aug. 31. Typically, summer music festivals are staged in a beautiful area with cooler weather. Sedona is so unique and beautiful, even if it isn't quite as cool as other places, it's still the perfect location. They aren't always distinct styles of music. Sometimes the elements of one can influence or be ingrained into ...

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Moroccoan Music Festivals Liberate Feet, Minds

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2008

Casablanca, Morocco -- This is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, but you wouldn't know it from the music festivals.

The Casablanca festival turns the commercial capital into an urban Woodstock, with masses of young people clogging the mosque-filled streets and partying to the pulse of hip-hop, rock, pop and Arabic music. An estimated 2 million people attend free concerts at a dozen venues each year, many snapping up the action on their cell phones. Casablanca is only one of ...

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