Festival News

13th Annual Jazz on the Green October 18 & 19, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

The 13th Annual Jazz on the Green is pleased to present our 2008 lineup which includes two full days of live entertainment on October 18th and 19th at Estero Community Park. Attendees can spread out under the sun and stars with picnic baskets and more to relax, dance and groove at Southwest Florida's Premier Jazz Event! This year we're spicing it up a bit with a hint of Latin & R&B sounds, featuring Grammy Award winning Latin Jazz artist Arturo ...

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Mile High Music Fest | 07.19 and 07.20 | CO

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

Words by: Tim Dwenger | Images by: Pamela Martinez, Jay Scherer & Tony Stack

Mile High Music Festival :: 07.19.08 & 07.20.08 :: Dick's Sporting Good Park :: Commerce City, CO

Mile High Music Festival 2008 by P. Martinez The Denver Metro area is lucky to have two of the best venues in the U.S. but, until recently, the area has been sorely lacking a high profile music festival. Now, in the last year, two have sprouted up. First ...

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Performers Announced for the 19th Annual Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 29, 2008

SAN JOSE, CA - San Jose Jazz announced today the performing artists for the 19th Annual Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival, presented by Southwest Airlines. The festival is scheduled for Aug. 8-10 and will feature over one hundred bands comprising over 1,000 musicians on 10 stages in downtown San Jose. Headlining performers include David Sanborn, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Summit and Zakir Hussain, the Bill Holman Orchestra, James Hunter, and John Densmore, former drummer of The Doors. This festival brings ...

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New Zealand Iconic Jazz Festival Appoints New Director

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

For 46 years Tauranga has been the stage for the National Jazz Festival delivered to thousands of Jazz fans from around the country. What only a few people realize is that this iconic event has been organized by volunteers all this time. “But we can only take this Festival so far." says Tauranga Jazz Society President, musician and past Festival organizer Liam Ryan. “The Festival has outgrown its present structure and it was time for us to appoint a paid ...

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Bay Area Prodigies at Stanford Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

The Bay Area prodigies are coming back, and the Stanford Jazz Festival's got 'em. It's an old story, really. Aspiring jazz artists, so the script goes, won't hit the big time unless they move to New York to make it in the jazz capital of the world. In recent decades the Bay Area has said bye-bye to worthies like guitarist Charlie Hunter, trombonist Steve Turre, pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum, to name a few. Now meet four of ...

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Minimalist Man Tries Organizing a Concert Series

Source: Michael Ricci
July 27, 2008

The scheduled performers include Margaret Leng Tan.

IF Foster Reed had named New Albion, the record company he founded in 1983, after the unknown spot on the Pacific Coast where the English explorer Francis Drake landed in 1579, the notion of braving long odds to chart new territory would certainly resonate. Actually Mr. Reed named his label after a now defunct Sonoma, Calif., beer said by some to have been America's first microbrew. A comparison could be made with his ...

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Musefest: Hookah, Seepeoples

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

9th Annual Musefest announces initial Lineup featuring 2 nights of ekoostik hookah and SeepeopleS

ekoostik hookah The 9th Annual Musefest will be held August 22-24 2008, outside of Ithaca, NY. Nine years running, Musefest has always strived to build a community based on love, mutual respect and freedom, as well as displaying the best regional acts in the area, as well as great National Acts, highlighting and promoting the very best music, regardless of genre. This year's lineup ...

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Mofro: Blackwater Sol Review

Source: All About Jazz
July 26, 2008

FLORIDA FAVORITES JJ GREY & MOFRO HOST SECOND ANNUAL BLACKWATER SOL REVUE AT THE SAINT AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 FEATURING TOOTS & THE MAYTALS, HILL COUNTRY REVUE, THE LEE BOYS AND NERVOUS TURKEY JJ GREY & MOFRO's NEW ALBUM, ORANGE BLOSSOMS, TO HIT STREETS ON AUGUST 26

JJ Grey & MOFRO Hailing from North Florida and known for their raw and swampy funk rock, JJ Grey & MOFRO announce their second annual ...

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