Festival News

Modern Drummer 2008 Festival Weekend Line up and Ticket Information Announced

Source: Two for the Show Media
July 17, 2008

Modern Drummer Magazine Announces All-Star Line-Up and New Location for 2008 Modern Drummer Festival Weekend. Modern Drummer Publications is proud to announce an unprecedented lineup of world- class drum artists, along with a new location just north of New York City, for the eighteenth edition of Modern Drummer Festival Weekend--the most prestigious, longest- running, and largest live drumming event in the world. The event, which features established drumming legends as well as rising stars from a wide variety of popular ...

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Lesh Headlines Slow Food on 8/31

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

PHIL LESH AND FRIENDS TO HEADLINE SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 AT SLOW FOOD ROCKS MUSIC FESTIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO ADDITIONAL ARTISTS INCLUDE GNARLS BARKLEY, OZOMATLI, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, MMW AND OTHERS

Phil Lesh Festival Network is proud to announce that the legendary Phil Lesh & Friends will headline Sunday, August 31, at the Slow Food Rocks music festival, which will be held during Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, taking place in ...

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Farm Aid at Great Woods 9/20

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

Farm Aid at Great Woods on 9/20

Young & Nelson - Farm Aid 07 by: Adam McCullough Farm Aid makes it New England debut this year on September 20 at Great Woods (technically now called Comcast Center) in Mansfield, MA. As they do every year, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews are all scheduled to perform with additional artists to be added soon.

Working to keep family farmers on their land, Farm Aid brings together family farmers ...

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Mellencamp Annouces Farm Aid

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Mellencamp, Young and Matthews Bring Farm Aid to New England

John Mellencamp has revealed the details of this year's Farm Aid concert, to be held September 20th at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Mellencamp will be joined by co-headliners Neil Young, Dave Matthews and Willie Nelson, with more top artists to be announced soon. This year also marks the first time in the event's history that the concert will take place in the New England area. New England was ...

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Rothbury Festival Proceeds Blocked by Federal Judge

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

A federal judge has ordered the temporary seizure of all proceeds from the Rothbury music festival that would have gone to the Double JJ Ranch.

The ranch near Muskegon was the site of last weekend's event that featured performances by the Dave Matthews Band and Snoop Dogg. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney in Kalamazoo issued the order Wednesday in response to a lawsuit filed a day earlier by a Minneapolis bank seeking to foreclose on the resort. BankFirst is seeking ...

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Syracuse Jazz in the City

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Jazz in the City returns to Syracuse this summer.

Presented by the Pomco Group, the annual event which started back in 2001 will feature the finest in local talent, local students and great guest artists. The city will again be partnering with the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation to bring the cultural event to different neighborhoods throughout the city on four Thursdays in July and august. Tuesday, officials announced the different musicians and sounds that will make up ...

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Jazz Festival Comes to Harare, Zimbabwe

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

The popular annual Winter Jazz Festival will start in the capital on Wednesday, Radio VOP can reveal. The annual bash had been postponed due to the presidential run-off between President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, which was finally held last month on June 27. The Winter Jazz Festival will begin in Harare on Wednesday and end on Saturday at various venues in the capital city. It will be officially opened on Friday at the Harare International Conference Centre ...

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Marlborough Jazz Festival UK is OK

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Marlborough Jazz Festival: Paw Pawson's Artesian hall stompers. Anyone can appreciate smooth, mellow jazz.

A WARM Saturday afternoon - by 2008 standards anyway - and supping a pint while listening to a mellow jazz band that just about sums up the best thing about the Marlborough Jazz festival. Founder Dan Dawson has passed away but his old band kept his spirit alive on Saturday enthralling an audience that packed into every odd corner of one of Marlborough's oldest coaching inns, ...

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