Festival News

Gutsy Sacred Music Festival Features 9 World Premieres, Dave Brubeck Work, Intercultural Concert

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2006

Gutsy Sacred Music Festival Features 9 World Premieres, Dave Brubeck Work, Intercultural Concert

NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2006 - A gutsy music festival featuring premieres of nine bold works from Eastern and Western religious traditions, a rarely performed spiritual composition by legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck and a transformative intercultural concert that weaves sacred music from earliest biblical times to the “golden age" of medieval Spain, when Islamic, Christian and Jewish faiths enjoyed an unrivaled harmony, will be held at ...

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7th Annual Django Reinhardt NY Festival - Nov 7 - 12 at Birdland NYC

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 27, 2006

Stolichnaya Russian Vodka Presents 7th Annual DJANGO REINHARDT NY FESTIVAL at its home, BIRDLAND - November 7 - 12

Starring:

The Schmitts. Dorado, Samson and Tchavalo--father, son and cousin-- return. Three true-blue gypsy guitar greats with large personalities from the Strasbourg region in France near Germany. Dorado actually lives on Rue Stephane Grappelli. They perform in the Manouche tradition, each with his own style, all virtuosos of the music of Django--hot, romantic, and joyous. ...

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49th Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Breaks Attendance Records

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2006

September 22, 2006, Monterey, CA; The 49th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon was a resounding success in all aspects. With the attendance up 18% from last year, picture-perfect weather all weekend, and inspired and emotional sets from all the artists, this year's Festival will be remembered for years to come. 43,000 jazz fans were treated to historic performances and specially commissioned works throughout the spectacular three-day event, breaking the attendance record held since 2002. The feeling of electricity ...

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Lineup Announced For 1st Annual Slought Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2006

The First Annual Slought Jazz Fest, a four-day festival running October 26th through the 29th, is the second event in 'The Philadelphia Series' at Slought Foundation. Since 2002, Slought Foundation has presented a series of time-based performance practices featuring artists at the forefront of new music, language arts, film, and new media. 'The Philadelphia Series' curated by pianist Jeff Baumeister, is a new series of concerts featuring Philadelphia's rich and diverse jazz community.

Schedule - 7:30 start each night

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Gustavo Santaolalla talks with Jon Lee Anderson: A Conversation with Music at the 2006 New Yorker Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2006

Gustavo Santaolalla talks with Jon Lee Anderson: A Conversation with Music Cultural fusion.

October 7, 2006

Cedar Lake Dance Studios 547 W 26th Street New York, NY 10001

Gustavo Santaolalla is an Argentinean musician and producer who was one of the pioneers of “rock en Espaol," a fusion of Latin rhythms and American rock and roll. Now based in Los Angeles, he has composed scores for a number of films, including “21 Grams," “The Motorcycle Diaries," ...

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Dubai International Jazz Festival 2007 Expands

Source: Eric Kahi / Chillout Productions
September 20, 2006

Nine consecutive nights of “More Than Jazz"

Chillout Productions, winner of the Award for the Best Festival in the UAE, has announced the dates for the 5th edition of the Dubai International Jazz Festival 2007, which will run for nine days instead of three. The festival will take place between March 1, and 9 at Dubai Media City and at Madinat Jumeirah Outdoor Amphitheater.

“Due to the overwhelming and maintained growth of audiences by 20 percent each year since the ...

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Festival of New Trumpet Music Continues Tonight at the Jazz Standard

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2006

"I felt so well after we stopped playing last night that it was like singing for joy out loud, and I just want to thank you for your participation along with me in the Don Cherry music. He seemed to be there making us all happy in our responses to each other and to the audience. It was spectacular"--Henry Grimes on the Festival of New Trumpet Music “Symphony For Improvisers" concert that took place at Merkin Concert Hall this past ...

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Jimmy Cliff & Lee Scratch Perry Headline Boss Sounds Reggae Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2006

This year's biggest Reggae music festival, The Boss Sounds Reggae Festival will take place in NewcastleGateshead at the University of Northumbria from November 18 - 19th.

The festival will include the biggest names in Reggae music - Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Lee “Scratch" Perry, Horace Andy, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Janet Kay, Dennis Bovell's Dub Band Trojan Sound System, Pama International + DJ Don Letts.

Boss Sounds is promoted by the Jumpin' Hot Club in association with Trojan Records and forms ...

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