Festival News

Jazzmobile Kicks Off Its 45th Summer Festival

Source: Cheryl Duncan & Company
June 23, 2008

Jazzmobile unveilled its 45th Summer Festival schedule--a free summer mobile jazz concert series of nearly 60 performances across the five boroughs, Mount Vernon and Newark, New Jersey--with a concert Saturday at the Make Music New York Festival. The kick off, which included swing music by the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra with special guests Lou Donaldson, Ghanniyyah Green and Houston Person and introduced the winner of the Fifth Annual Jazzmobile Vocal Competition, took place on the plaza of the Adam Clayton Powell, ...

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Prescott Jazz Summit is Annual Festival in Northern Arizona

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

By Patricia Myers

The annual Prescott Jazz Summit, August 22-24, has the theme “A Jazz Party of the First Order" and will be staged in northern Arizona's cool, pine-studded mountain region. Events will be indoors and on historic Courthouse Square, site of the original state capital, a two-hour drive from the Phoenix airport.

“The festival will feature a mix of California and Arizona jazz musicians, including former Stan Kenton Orchestra members," said coordinator Mike Vax, a trumpeter and Kenton band ...

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Town in India Rocks (No Use to Wonder Why, Babe)

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2008

Worshipers sway to gospel music.Phu Baba, an Indian musician with a liking for Pink Floyd, rocks at the Roots Festival in Shillong.The rocker Lou Majaw salutes Bob Dylan's birthday.

SHILLONG, India -- Lou Majaw wore his signature skin-tight, cutoff short-shorts. His long gray hair hung like dirty threads around his face. Eyes closed in prayer, a guitar cupped in arms, he strummed the chords to “Blowin' in the Wind." Fans danced in Shillong, a town in northeast India known for ...

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Karlheinz Stockhausen Memorial Concert at Holland Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
June 21, 2008

Karlheinz Stockhausen the late German visionary composer is given a rousing tribute.

AMSTERDAM -- The Holland Festival -- a complex array of music, opera and theater along with unclassifiable ultra-hip events that began May 31 and runs through Sunday -- has had several interlocking themes this year. One has been the music of the German visionary composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who had a long association with Dutch music and this 61-year-old event. As part of celebrations planned for Stockhausen's 80th birthday ...

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The Free and Easy Side of the Vancouver Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

It would be hard to find a more devoted convert to the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival than Ramona Boos, or anyone who goes to it for a better reason: she's into it because it's all about social music. Boos, 33, is an administrator for a condominium presale company and works downtown, so she would have been right in the middle of the jazz festival from the very beginning. She first went six years ago and immediately wondered, ...

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Banjo Hall of Fame Annouces New Home

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Board decides not to present the Guthrie Jazz Banjo Festival in 2008

For the past year the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame Museum -currently located in Guthrie, Oklahoma and presenter of the Guthrie Jazz Banjo Festival, has been searching for a new home in which to share its incredible collections with banjo enthusiasts and the general public alike. After a long search with careful consideration being given to all aspects of the Museum's long term success and financial stability, ...

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2008 TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival--Weekend Listings

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Saturday, June 21

1pm: Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards - Toronto Star Stage, Nathan Phillips Square, FREE

3pm: WORKSHOP w/ John Norris (40 years of Sackville, 50 years of Coda) - Friends of Jazz Lounge, Nathan Phillips Square, FREE

4pm: Steve Koven's Project Rex - Primus Stage, Nathan Phillips Square, FREE

6pm: TALKBACK w/ Danny Marks - JAZZ.FM91 Broadcast Centre, Nathan Phillips Square, FREE

8pm: MAINSTAGE CONCERT - The John Hammond Quartet (opening act) / Grand Divas of R&B feat. Ronnie ...

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Litchfield Jazz Festival 2008 Line-Up

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

The 13th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival is set and tickets are now on sale at litchfieldjazzfest.com. The event will be held on August 1, 2, 3, at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Northwest Connecticut. Diana Krall, who made her US festival debut on the first Litchfield Jazz Festival, recently called it “one of the best festivals." Litchfield has a reputation for introducing the next “big thing" while also presenting jazz giants. JazzTimes named it “among the best of the best," and ...

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