Festival News

Litchfield Jazz Festival Presents 15 Free Concerts in July

Source: All About Jazz
July 4, 2008

The Litchfield Jazz Festival is proud to present a series of 15 free concerts throughout the month of July - “Litchfield Jazz Around Town." Performers will include talented Litchfield Jazz Camp students and teachers from Litchfield Jazz Camp including Jeremy Pelt, Mario Pavone, Mark Whitfield, Winard Harper, Jimmy Greene, Karrin Allyson and more. The series leads seamlessly into the Litchfield Jazz Festival on August 1-3 with Bebe Neuwirth, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Brubeck and John Pizzarelli. The Litchfield Jazz Festival is ...

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Telluride Bluegrass Fest | 06.19 - 06.22 | CO

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2008

Words by: Nick Hutchinson | Images by: Benko Photographics

35th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival :: 06.19.08 - 06.22.08 :: Town Park :: Telluride, CO

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2008 At this point in its illustrious 35-year career, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival can safely be called an institution. The exuberant weeks leading up to the fest, the journey to the idyllic box canyon in the San Juan Range of southwest Colorado and the actual unfolding of the epic four-day musical event ...

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Blues Festival Extends Ticket Sales, Releases Revised Plan and Map

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

The Mississippi Valley Blues Society today announced it is extending advance ticket sales through tomorrow, in hopes of selling more $40 three-day passes to help offset the nonprofit organization's costs of moving the festival from LeClaire Park to the streets of downtown Davenport, due to the Flood of 2008.

“The IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival provides an excellent staycation for local residents and an affordable weekend getaway for our fellow Midwesterners recovering from the Flood of 2008," says Joe Taylor, ...

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Litchfield Jazz Festival "Friends Gala" at Winvian Luxury Resort & Spa

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

Connecticut's Litchfield Jazz Festival opens on Friday, August 1st with the “Friends Gala" at Winvian Luxury Resort. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres with fresh seasonal ingredients and premium wines, Magic Hat microbrews and music by outstanding Litchfield Jazz Camp students. The party is followed by performances at Goshen Fairgrounds by 9-time Grammy Award Winner Paquito D'Rivera and 2-time Tony & Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth, best known as Lilith on Cheers and Frasier. www.litchfieldjazzfest.com. See details below.

The 13th Annual Litchfield Jazz ...

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Atlantic City Jams! "Jazzin' Around Town" Jazz & Blues Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

Date: Wednesday, August 20-21, 2008 Time: 4pm - 2am

Jazz, Blues and Latin music lovers from all over will have plenty of good reason to make their way to Atlantic City now that Atlantic City Jams! JAZZIN' AROUND TOWN Jazz & Blues Festival is being planned just for them! Scheduled for several dates this year from August through December, this “local and live" Jazz, Blues and Latin explosion offers visitors to Atlantic City an unforgettable wining and dining ...

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Caramoor - Jazz Festival

Source: Cohn Dutcher Associates
June 30, 2008

The 2008 Caramoor International Music Festival, hailed by The New York Times as “... the loveliest Festival of them all," presents a weekend of jazz on August 1, 2 and 3. The legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal and his Trio were chosen by Jim Luce, Caramoor's jazz producer, to open Caramoor's fifteenth annual Jazz Festival. Other highlights include performances by Festival headliner Wynton Marsalis, Mulgrew Miller's Wingspan, Jimmy Heath Big Band, and pianists Aaron Diehl and Adam Birnbaum. The Festival's emphasis ...

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North Sea Jazz Cruise Launches with South African Connections

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2008

The North Sea Jazz Festival, one of the highlights on the international jazz event calendar, will launch the inaugural North Sea Jazz Cruise on July 5. Jazz lovers who want to add special edge to the festival experience will board the world-class Holland America ocean liner 'Rotterdam' in Copenhagen with ports of call in Warnemunde / Berlin, Germany; Gotenburg, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; and Hamburg-Elbe River in Germany. The Oslo fjord and the Elbe River are some of the sightseeing highlights. ...

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Jazz Festival: Andy Bey's Still Learning After All These Years

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2008

VANCOUVER - Jazz vocalist-pianist Andy Bey will turn 70 next year and has been playing music professionally since he was five. Yet he still feels he has a lot to learn. “I'm learning all the time and I look forward to creating music every day," Bey says by phone from his home in Manhattan. Bey fronts a trio Saturday, June 28, 8 p.m., at the Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. “There is so much in the world that ...

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