Festival News

Savannah Music Festival Announces New Broadcast and Recording Projects

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The Savannah Music Festival's fiscal year ended on June 30th marking the organization's fourth straight year with a balanced budget. Revised and renamed the Savannah Music Festival (SMF) in 2003, the organization cleared its debt after the 2007 festival and has since remained in the black with a positive cash flow. Ticket sales from the 2008 festival reached a record $876,000 representing 87 percent of available ticket revenue. Many recent concerts were documented and will soon be available via new ...

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Maryland Summer Jazz Festival

Source: The Phillips Agency
July 10, 2008

Jazz lovers are invited to take part in the fourth Maryland Summer Jazz Festival, a workshop, concert and jam session event running Tuesday-July 25 in Rockville and the District.

The festival, sponsored by Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center and other local businesses, will include performances by saxophonist Jeff Coffin, saxophonist and composer Jeff Antoniuk and the Jazz Update band, guitarist Steve Herberman, Spanish bassist Pepe Gonzalez and Latin jazz trumpet player Alex Norris. The festival kicks off with 8 and ...

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Argentina's Orquesta Tipica Imperial Will Open TD Canada Trust Atlantic Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

A blast of jazz Today, more than a century later, the bandoneon reigns as the main voice in the tango, South America's soul music.

22nd Atlantic Jazz Festival opens with Argentina's Orquesta Tipica Imperial will open the TD Canada Trust Atlantic Jazz Festival on Friday night in the Mainstage Tent on Spring Garden Road.

FAMED ARGENTINIAN tango composer Astor Piazzolla called it a diabolical instrument. But it started its life in Buenos Aires as a portable organ imported ...

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Jazz Em Agosto 2008

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

Extensions is the defining concept for Jazz em Agosto 2008. This is the 25th Jazz em Agosto, since the event was launched in 1984, and over the course of two and a half decades it has documented contemporary jazz as it happened and introduced its prime movers. Jazz first came into being with the start of the twentieth century, and now, in the early twenty first, jazz is more than ever questioning its identity, the reality of its enduring validity ...

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3rd Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, Two-Day Jazz Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

Thursday, July 24, 5:30 p.m. and Friday, July 25 noon-5 p.m., FREE 3rd Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, Two-Day Jazz Series: Thursday, July 24, 5:30 p.m., Opening Photography Exhibition and Reception titled “Music Speaks", an annual exhibit showcasing music through an unorthodox medium. The exhibition is curated by Tony Graves featuring photography of contemporary, classic and fusion Jazz Greats Nnenna Freelon, Santana, Jimmy Heath and others by various photographers, the exhibition will run until September 1st. The Opening Reception will ...

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Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival Reveals Line-Up

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

Erie Art Museum Blues and Jazz Festival August 2 & 3, 2008 Frontier Park, Erie, PA Free. Rain or Shine. The 16th annual Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival returns to Frontier Park on Saturday, Aug. 2 & Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. For two days and two nights, Frontier Park comes alive with what has proven itself to be the region's most dynamic musical events; this free community event is held ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Offers Jazz Party of the Year with Private, VIP Hospitality Chalet Packages

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
July 9, 2008

Monterey Jazz Festival Offers Jazz Party Of The Year With Private, VIP Hospitality Chalet Packages Fully Furnished Chalet, Food & Beverage, 8 Stages of Nonstop Jazz Included At 51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 19 - 21, 2008 July 8, 2008; Monterey, CA; Launching its inaugural event in 1958 with a legendary weekend-long celebration, the Monterey Jazz Festival has always been seen as a 3-day jazz party. At this year's MJF, fans can ramp up the celebration significantly in their ...

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Glastonbury Festival 2008 Photo Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

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