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Jazz for Syria 2015 in The Hague
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All About Jazz
By Phillip Woolever After completing dynamic, multi-national concerts in the Global Week for Syria series, the entertainment focus shifts completely onto jazz for a climactic, gala celebration in The Hague, Netherlands on International Jazz Day, Thursday April 30th. The project has indeed been an ongoing international affair, with fundraising events and concerts during April 18th – 30th. During Global Week, there were shows in Amsterdam, Beirut, Madrid, Paris, Prague and Vienna. A multitude of musicians and speakers gathered to promote ...
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Ambrose Akinmusire Headlines Bray Jazz 2015
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All About Jazz
Bray Jazz returns for its 16th edition this coming Bank Holiday weekend from 1-3 May. The highly popular festival, set in the picturesque seaside town of Bray nestled at the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains, has built a reputation over the years for hosting world class international and local acts. Bray Jazz 2015 is no exception. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire was voted Downbeat Artist of The Year 2011 and is widely considered as one of the most exciting jazz trumpeters on ...
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Fourth Annual Asheville Percussion Festival To Be Held June 19-21, 2015 In Asheville, NC
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Asheville Percussion Festival is being held June 19-21, 2015 in beautiful Asheville, NC. Asheville, NC: Come enjoy a creative environment where percussionists and dancers of all traditions, from around the globe, gather to explore, create and innovate. All workshops on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be held at the Odyssey Community School. The Masters Concert, which will feature collaborative compositions from our world-renowned teaching artists, will be held at the Diana Wortham Theatre on Saturday June 20 at 8pm. Percussionists ...
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Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces 2015 Headliners!
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Connie Shaver LLC
St. Paul, MN — Six-time Grammy winner Dr. John and the Nite Trippers, the Araya Orta Latin Jazz Quartet Featuring Othello Molineaux, Festival Artistic Director Francisco Mela's new Jazz Machine with special guest Nicholas Payton, 2014 Monk Trumpet Competition winner Marquis Hill and an all-star quartet featuring Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Lionel Loueke and Eric Harland will headline the 17th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival, director Steve Heckler announced today. The festival, to be held June 25 - 27 in ...
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2015 Art of Cool Jazz Festival
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Michael Ricci
By K. Shackelford The 2015 Art of Cool Jazz Festival is a journey into the immense vastness of jazz music with a roster of world class musicians. Operating in only its second year, the three day jazz dreamland, offers a superb mix of old and new artists that illuminate the ways that jazz penetrates many forms of American music. The festival will occur in Durham, North Carolina on April 24-26, 2015. The line-up at AOCFEST is a hefty ...
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Jazzmobile & 2015 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4-9 Presented by the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine “Harlem is a dream-place where so much important cultural history has been enacted that as we explore the power of Harlem’s past we also feel its presence. Take the M60- bus along 125th, or emerge from the A-train at 125th ...
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12 Points Returns With Best Of New European Jazz, Dublin, April 15-18
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All About Jazz
12 Points returns to his spiritual home of Dublin at the Project Arts Centre from April 15-18 for 4 days of exciting young jazz acts from across Europe, with daytime ‘Jazz Futures’ seminar and after-hours jam sessions. Festival Pass €50 / Daily Tickets €15/12 “The freshest, hottest sounds in jazz and contemporary experimental music” —The Irish Times 4 days, 12 young cutting-edge acts from 12 different European countries with widely diverse sounds; rebelling and reinterpreting any fixed notions of ‘jazz’. ...
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Neneh Cherry, Larry Graham, Rebecca Ferguson And Lisa Stansfield Added To Line-up For Love Supreme Festival
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Dom Christophers
The Love Supreme Festival, which returns to Glynde Place in East Sussex this July, has announced a second raft of names, which includes a broad selection of superstar international acts and outstanding emerging talent from the worlds of jazz, soul, R&B, pop and beyond. Joining an adventurous line-up, that already features the likes of Chaka Khan, Van Morrison, Candi Staton, Submotion Orchestra, The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman, GoGo Penguin and Ginger Baker, are chart-topping UK soul singer Lisa Stansfield, ...
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