Festival News

Please Touch Museum Presents 15th Annual Junior Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2007

Small heads will be boppin' and tiny feet will be stompin' this February as Please Touch Museum celebrates the 15th Annual Junior Jazz Festival, the only area event to introduce young children to the wonderful world of jazz through live music, dance and theater performances. The Atrium will adopt a groovy jazz club atmosphere for a month's worth of concerts and special activities that focus on musical expression and the history of jazz. Children can dress up and pretend to ...

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2nd Annual NEFJA Jazz Festival in Palm Coast, FL

Source: Phred, Inc.
February 6, 2007

PALM COAST, FL --- The North East Florida Jazz Association (NEFJA) and the City of Palm Coast are pleased to announce that the Dave Valentin Quintet will head the lineup for the 2nd Annual NEFJA Jazz Festival, which is set for March 23 - 25 in Palm Coast, Florida. The venue for the multi-stage event will be Matanzas High School. “For two decades, the NEFJA's goal has been to bring first-class, live jazz to northeast Florida," says NEFJA President Muriel ...

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Bands at Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival 2007 Include Viva the Band from Sydney

Source: All About Jazz
February 5, 2007

The 20th annual Kiama Jazz & Blues Festival features something for everyone, it will be celebrated on the 9,10,11th March 2007. Artists featured will be the world famous multi Instrumentalist, James Morrison. Other artists include: Ash Grunwald, The Idea of North, Jim Conways Big Wheel, The King Brothers, Ray Beadle, Marie Wilson, Adrian Cunningham, Short & Horny, Charlie Harper & the Mudsliders, Blowhole Boogie, GapProject, The Pilferers, Down South Jazz Trio, The Wollongong Conservatorium Jazz Orchestra and Viva the Band. ...

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The University of the Arts in Philadelphia 18th Annual Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

UArts is proud to announce the 18th Annual University of the Arts Jazz Festival, which will run for three days on its campus in downtown Philadelphia on the Avenue of the Arts. The schedule is as follows:

Vocal Jazz Ensembles: Thursday, April 26 High School Jazz Bands and celebrity concert: Friday, April 27 (12 noon to 8:00pm) College Jazz Bands: Saturday, April 28 For more information contact Matt ...

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PAETEC Jazz Festival to Premiere in Baltimore August 9-11, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2007

Baltimore-born Entrepreneur to Bring the Music Home! Rochester, NY--January 31, 2007--Get ready Baltimore! The nation's newest major jazz festival, PAETEC Jazz, is coming your way, promising to heat up the music scene this summer for three music-packed days August 9-11. Festival officials announced the new event at a news conference this morning at Baltimore's City Hall hosted by newly elected Mayor Sheila Dixon. “Considering the enduring history that jazz has in Baltimore, this is indeed a great day for the ...

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Rochester Intl Jazz Festival Producers to Announce New Festival

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2007

Rochester International Jazz Festival Producers and Baltimore Mayor to Announce Major New Jazz Festival at Press Conference in Baltimore Wednesday Rochester Companies to Play Key Role WHAT Announcement of a Jazz Festival in the Inner Harbor and areas of downtown Baltimore in August 2007. WHEN Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 9:30 A.M. Mayor Sheila Dixon will unveil the Festival's official name and logo, introduce the event's two producers and corporate sponsor. The festival's producers, ...

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Robert Glasper Trio to Perform at Gordon Theater February 24th

Source: Graziella PR
January 29, 2007

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO TO PERFORM AT FIRST ANNUAL GORDON THEATER JAZZ FESTIVAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007 8 pm

Camden, NJ--Robert Glasper, award-winning Blue Note recording artist and pianist will perform on Saturday, February 24th at 8 pm at the First Annual Gordon Theater Jazz Festival at Rutgers- Camden Center for the Arts' Gordon Theater, 3rd & Pearl Street, Camden New Jersey.

Robert Glasper will perform original compositions from his upcoming Blue Note CD “In ...

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Barbados Jazz Festival 2007 - January 8-14

Source: All About Jazz
January 22, 2007

By Bill King From my eyes to the distant horizon a mountainous blanket of clouds some as tall as a one hundred story building rise imperious above a coruscating sea below. I've seen this picture many times before but this particular moment it reads almost surreal as if the last details of an unfinished painting are being considered. The closer we descend towards Barbados I spot the contrasting colors ranging from aquamarine to cobalt blue profiling the circumference of the ...

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