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The Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2014

Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival October 16-18, 2014 Mulberry Mountain, Ozark, Arkansas Autumn has come to the Arkansas River Valley and the Ozark Mountains and the Eighth Annual Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival (AKA: The Yonder Mountain String Bands Harvest Music Festival) is fully slated with its final lineup and stage schedule. Since 2006, the MMHMF has brought the best and most progressive acoustic Americana/Folk acts to the Arkansas Ozarks, giving round competition to the long-lived ...

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David Sanborn And Van Morrison Headline Limerick Jazz Festival September 25-28

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2014

The Limerick Jazz Festival returns for another eagerly anticipated edition between September 25th and 28th. For its third edition the LJF has upped the stakes by bringing in some big names, not the least of which are Belfast’s legendary Van Morrison, American saxophonist David Sanborn and English saxophonist Julian Siegel. The festival opens at 8pm on Thursday 25th with the sold out concert of Van the Man at the University College Hall. There’s nothing to say that hasn’t already been ...

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Kansas City's 18th & Vine Jazz And Blues Festival Talent Line Up Announced

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
September 19, 2014

Saturday, October 11 presents the 2014 edition of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz and Blues Festival. The initial American Jazz Museum Press Conference held on July 23 presented the Official Festival Poster designed by David Terrill; and, announced Headliner Talent featuring Lucky Peterson (Blues), Meshell Ndegeocello (Neo-Soul), Roy Hargrove (Jazz), Midnight Star (R&B Party Band). Announced this week, the festival also features a host of outstanding regional and local talent on a variety of great stages: Main Stage, Gem Theater ...

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Jazz This Week: Joe McPhee and Survival Unit III, Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival, Snarky Puppy, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 19, 2014

It should be another good weekend to get out and hear some live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with several free shows featuring local performers, plus a couple of noteworthy touring acts coming to town. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, there are a couple of free concerts, as guitarist Vincent Varvel plays for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, and trumpeter/singer Dawn Weber performs as part of the “Not So Quiet" concert series at the ...

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Angel City Jazz Festival Kicks Off 2 Weeks Of Music

Source: Chuck Koton
September 16, 2014

This weekend the 7th Annual Angel City Jazz Festival opens in Los Angeles. Rocco Somazzi founded the festival in order to present non-commercial jazz to an LA audience which had scant exposure to music from the more adventurous end of the jazz spectrum. Back in 2008, 13 different bands, highlighted by the inimitable alto saxophonist, Arthur Blythe, performed on 2 stages, all in one day. The following year, Jeff Gauthier, founder of Cryptogramophone Records, violinist extraordinaire and leader of his ...

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Jazz with Dominican accents and flavours: A reality in South Florida

Source: Michael Ricci
September 15, 2014

The third version of the South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest is anxiously awaited in Miami In October 2012, Landestoy Enterprises presented a completely new and exiting concept from the Dominican Republic: The South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest. A multicultural event that brought to Florida the best Jazz currently being made by musicians in the Dominican Republic as well as Dominicans living in the United States. Last October (2013) the second version of the successful festival was held and Miami is ...

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Jazz This Week: Thumbscrew, U City Jazz Festival, Funeral Bonsai Wedding, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 12, 2014

There's lots going on this week with jazz and creative music in St. Louis, as two concert series offer their first shows of the season; a free fall festival returns; and other stages around town will be filled with even more improvised music influenced by everything from funk to flamenco. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University begins the fall semester with a free concert reuniting the jazz-fusion trio Tracer, with pianist Ptah ...

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Jazz in the Catskills

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
September 11, 2014

As a native son of Woodstock NY, best known to many over the past five decades as the namesake of a rock music festival that was held 60 miles away as the crows fly, an announcement this week came as welcome news. A Woodstock Jazz Festival is scheduled the evening of October 4 at the Bearsville Theater. It’s an appropriate, but long overdue, re-addition to the cultural fabric of this Catskill Mountains town, an idyllic home for all sorts of ...

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