Festival News

Harare Jazz Fest on the Ivory Coast Zimbabwe

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Jazz Festival Comes to Harare

HARARE,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 ...

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World Music Festival Highlights Art, Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

ON A RECENT hot July afternoon, artist Joseph Tiberino sat with friends at a table in the courtyard adjoining the several homes that make up the West Philly museum named for his late wife, Ellen Powell Tiberino. The old friends drank Argentinian cabernet out of water glasses, chatted about everything from recent art acquisitions to the first rock 'n' roll record, and casually planned a film shoot for later that evening. That blend of communal spirit and artistic endeavor is ...

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Good Beer... and All That Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

Some of you might be in a sentimental mood this week, as popular jazz tunes will be reunited with some of the best real ales for the 21st annual Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival. But unlike the song, it won't be Stella by Starlight as all the jars are real ale from small breweries. A huge marquee will be erected in Christchurch Meadow - just a few minutes walk from Reading's train station - to accommodate the live music ...

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Carnegie Hall Announces 'Just Jazz' Concert Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

Carnegie Hall has announced a new three-concert jazz series in Zankel Hall for its 2008-2009 season. Entitled Just Jazz: The Joyce Wein Series.

The Just Jazz series features performances by artists like Michel Camilo Trio and Andr Previn Jazz Trio, along with a special concert by George Wein and an all-star ensemble of friends in a program dedicated to Wein's late wife, Joyce, called To Joyce with Love.

“The Jazz of Ellington, Basie, Lunceford, Goodman, Holiday, and so many others ...

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Newark OH Jazz & Ribs Festival Sticks to Basics

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

NEWARK OH Jazz & Ribs Festival Every year at 8 a.m. on the day of the Jazz & Ribs Festival, Jack “Elmo" Kashner stakes out the same spot under a tree on the north side of the courthouse, facing the gazebo.

Jazz & Ribs is sponsored by the Newark parks and recreation department and is rooted in a tradition that carries on today: love of food and music. “It's a perfect family event. This is the one thing ...

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Newport Festivals Team with OurStage to Select Acts

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with OurStage to Select Performing Artists. Six top-ranked OurStage bands selected to play.

OurStage a music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for up-and-coming talent, has partnered with Festival Network's Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport to help identify best emerging artists for the 2008 line-ups. Six top-ranked artists from OurStage.com have been selected to play opening slots at the nationally acclaimed festivals. We were really impressed with the ...

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Aperitivo in Concert Series Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

Aperitivo in Concerto 2008-2009 Teatro Manzoni via Manzoni, 42 Milan, Italy Monday, 15th September 2008, 9.00 PM Goran Bregovic Wedding and Funeral Band Absolute Ensemble

Forgive Me, Is This the Way to the Future? Three Letters to Three Prophets

Goran Bregovic, voice and guitar Alen Ademovic, voice and percussion Gypsy Brass Band Bokan Stankovic, trumpet Stojan Dimov, sax, ...

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Winona MN Dixieland Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

The 21st annual Dixieland Jazz Festival brought standard jazz songs to the Winona area Saturday at Goodview Pavilion.

Eric Meyer, 17, plays during the Dixieland Jazz Festival at the Goodview Pavilion Saturday. Meyer has participated in the jazz clinic, put on by the Winona State University music department, for the past four years. For the fourth year, high school students got the chance to play the festival through a Dixieland workshop hosted by Winona State University's music department. The two-day ...

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