Festival News

9th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC is pleased to announce a successful 9th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival and begin working towards its 10th anniversary festival in 2009 (April 1st thru 30th). Nearly 4,000 jazz fans and educators attended performances, panel presentations, a film screening, the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame Gala and a tribute to jazz icon Max Roach. “BROOKLYN - in The JAZZ Tradition" workshops were held at local colleges and help to bolster the jazz study programs in our ...

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Art of Jazz Celebration in Toronto: June 4-8, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

Art of Jazz Celebration June 4-8, 2008 Distillery Historic District Toronto, Canada The Art of Jazz Celebration transforms the Distillery Historic District into a hotbed of rhythm, improvisation, harmony and sophistication. It is five days of concerts, themed programs, workshops and jam sessions. Clinics held by Steve Kuhn, Sheila Jordan, Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti form the educational side of the festival and the list of live concerts includes a tribute to jazz icon, ...

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Bonnaroo Makes TV Debut

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

FUSE BECOMES EXCLUSIVE TV PARTNER OF 2008 BONNAROO MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL Three-Year Partnership Brings Premier Music Festival On-Air For First Time

Bonnaroo 2007 by Josh Miller Fuse, the national music television network, has signed a three-year agreement with the Bonnaroo Music Festival, to become the exclusive television partner of the Festival, which takes place on a 700 acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, June 12-15. The deal marks the first time in its seven-year history that Bonnaroo has ever aired ...

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Reno-Tahoe Blues Fest Tickets Now on Sale

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2008

RENO, NV -- Named “Festival of the Year" by the Bay Area Blues Society in 2005, the Reno-Tahoe Blues Fest continues to earn the title by bringing in some of the biggest names in the business including 2008 headliners Gladys Knight, The Whispers and Jonny Lang to celebrate the history, culture and spirit of the blues. Tickets are available online at www.RenoTahoeBluesFest.com for the 4th annual festival scheduled for Aug. 16-17, 2008 at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno, Nev. ...

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Flow08 Lineup Released

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2008

The fifth edition finds the festival adding volume to its line up and the festival site.

Flow Festival, organized as part of the Helsinki Festival in Helsinki's Suvilahti on 15-17 August, brings together a wide array of internationally acclaimed artists. In addition, the event now presents an area three times larger as that of previous year's. The number of stages also grows from three to four.

During its four years of existence Flow Festival, organized by the Nuspirit Helsinki collective, ...

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Women in Jazz Festival, Second Night

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2008

Correspondent John Birchard patrols the jazz precincts of the US capital city for Rifftides.

13th Annual Women In Jazz Festival Kennedy Center, Washington, DC Second Night May 16, 2008 Review by John Birchard

Pianist Helen Sung, who won last year's Kennedy Center Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz competition, led off the Friday night event. Heading a quartet that included saxophonist Steve Wilson, bassist Richie Goods and drummer Donald Edwards, ...

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The Mighty Boosh Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2008

Indie behemoths, The Charlatans, Gary Numan, the 'Godfather of electronic music', hotly tipped dirt rock trio White Denim and abstract jazz-sters, Polar Bear have been confirmed as the first four music acts to perform at the much-anticipated Mighty Boosh Festival, which takes place at the Hop Farm in Kent on the 5th July. Needing no introduction are one of England's most esteemed bands, The Charlatans, who are back in the hot seat with their tenth studio album, 'You Cross My ...

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Women in Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2008

Rifftides Washington, DC correspondent John Birchard is attending one of the city's major music festivals. Here is his report on the first night.

13th ANNUAL THE KENNEDY CENTER MARY LOU WILLIAMS WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL

May 15, 2008

Review by John Birchard

They tried to find a longer name for the festival. The above is the best they could come up with. But that's the Kennedy Center... big, bulky and institutional. Still, once you get inside that huge ...

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