Festival News

Suoni Per il Popolo Festival Celebrates 8 Years!

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

The Suoni Per Il Popolo is proud to announce our line-up for another year of the best in the worlds of the avant-garde, experimental and free jazz. We've worked long and hard the past year to ensure that this eighth edition of the festival is our most exciting yet, with performances from a range of local, national and international artists in a variety of genres, at our two beautiful venues (Casa del Popolo & Sala Rossa), and our 'Black Ark' ...

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Sunset Strip Music Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

HOLLYWOOD STILL SWINGIN'

Head Lick Juliette Lewis byAmanda Edmondson The first annual Sunset Strip Music Festival - a three-day event set for Thursday, June 26, Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28 in West Hollywood - has announced its initial lineup. The Roxy Theatre, Whisky A Go Go, House of Blues, The Viper Room, The Key Club and the Cat Club are all uniting for the festival, intended to promote, preserve and perpetuate the Sunset Strip Music Experience ...

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Sat Eye Candy: US Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2008

OH, THE HAIRSTYLES WE ONCE ROCKED

Happy 25th US Festival! This Memorial Day weekend, one of the cornerstones of today's festival scene celebrates its silver anniversary. Flush with the first wave of personal computing fortunes, Apple's Steve Wozniak financed and played ringleader at two massive music festivals and technology expositions. The first took place over Labor Day weekend 1982 and included The Police, Gang of Four, The Ramones, The Cars, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and a ...

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Montreal's Suoni Per il Popolo Festival Features Some of the Best in Contemporary Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

SUONI PER IL POPOLO FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 8 YEARS

June 1st - 30th, 2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The Suoni Per Il Popolo is proud to announce our line-up for another year of the best in the worlds of the avant-garde, experimental and free jazz. We've worked long and hard the past year to ensure that this eighth edition of the festival is our most exciting yet, with performances from a range of local, national and international artists in a variety ...

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Improvise Your Summer with the 13th Manchester Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2008

This year - as with every year - Manchester Jazz Festival presents a series of international premieres and special commissions, unique to MJF. Monday 21st July sees an Italian double bill of Egea artists at the RNCM: the UK premiere of clarinetist Gabriele Mirabassi's Trio and pianist Danilo Rea. On Tuesday 22nd, a very special triple bill unites the unpredictable free jazz of the Grew Quartet; electronic soundscapes from Gong violinist Graham Clark with 808 State's Graham Massey; and the ...

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Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival Finds It Easy Being Green

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2008

The Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival's 5th annual event to be held between July 10 and 12, 2008, in Old Town Temecula is getting Greener. This year the Temecula Jazz Festival is taking steps to be “green" thanks to solar powered sound and stage lighting provided by Sustainable Waves. The stage alone will allow us to avoid approximately 1000 pounds of CO2 in one day. The stage itself is a 24-volt system capable of putting out close to 3000 watts ...

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 4 to 13, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2008

From July 4 to 13, Denmark's capital becomes Europe's jazz capital during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Now in its 30th season, the festival fills the air with jazz in all its forms, from bebop to fusion, swing and free jazz, at venues large and small throughout the city. From Tivoli Gardens, to the Royal Theatre, the Operaen opera house, the famed Copenhagen Jazz House and countless small, intimate performance spaces, jazz fans can catch performances by headliners including Ornette Coleman, ...

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Vision Festival 13 Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2008

WHAT: Vision Festival XIII

WHERE: At Clemente Soto Velez 107 Suffolk Street (between Rivington and Delancey) Take F to Delancey or J, M, Z to Essex Street For more info visit the website For advance tickets visit at brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006 To support the Arts for Art $100,000 matching grant visit the Contribution Page

Day 1: Tuesday, June 10th

Main Stage 7:00 p.m. Opening Invocation featuring ...

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