Festival News

4th Annual Lady Got Chops Women's Month Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2006

THE JAZZ (aka JAZZ SPOT CAFE) 179 Marcus Garvey Blvd Brooklyn, NY 11221 THE 4TH ANNUAL LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival is produced by owners of THE JAZZ :Lillithe Meyers, daughter Tiecha Merritt and bassist Kim Clarke.Concerts are the first Friday and all Saturday nights from 9-1AM during MARCH 3/3 cellist AKUA DIXON,pianist AZIZA MILLER & bassist KIM CLARKE 3/4 LAKECIA BENJAMIN GROUP 3/11 SISTERS IN SCAT! - ALLISON CROCKETT, ALVA ANDERSON (vocals and ...

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John Zorn's Acoustic Masada at TD Canada Trust Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2006

A true innovator and leader in avant-garde jazz, saxophonist John Zorn will be playing as part of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at The Music Hall, 147 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, at 7pm.

Drawing inspiration from an eclectic range of sources and using unconventional sounds, Zorn has been breaking, transforming and reshaping the boundaries of jazz for over three decades. Writing and performing music of astonishing breadth, Zorn has explored the gamut of ...

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Seventh Annual Sackets Harbor Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2006

Come to beautiful Sackets Harbor on Lake Ontario on Saturday, August 12th, for our Seventh Annual Sackets Harbor Jazz Festival, featuring the Speakeasy Jazz Babies, the Mambo Kings and the Russ Kassoff trio, with Catherine Dupuis, Vocals, Martin Wind, Bass, Dennis MacKrel, Drums. Special Guest artists, Ted Nash, Alto, and Wycliffe Gordon, Trombone.

It starts at noon with a New Orleans jazz parade down to the Sentinel Bandstand.

Sneak preview Friday evening, August 11th, at 7:00 p.m on the piazza ...

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Sydney Bands at 19th Yalumba Thredbo Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2006

The 19th Yalumba Thredbo Jazz Festival will take place on 5-7 May 2006.

The Yalumba Jazz Festival is a 3-day celebration of jazz music, great food and wine set in picturesque Thredbo in the heart of the spectacular Snowy Mountains, Mt Kosciusko, Australia.

Accordions seem to be making a return to jazz in NSW. Accordionist Marie Rappolt with Viva the band has appeared at jazz festivals at Newcastle, Gold Coast, Thredbo, Morpeth, Illawarra, Kiama, Manly, Darling Harbour and Jazz at ...

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Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 1 - 11

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2006

Eighth Annual “Healdsburg Jazz Festival" Features Awe-Inspiring Line-Up Including Jazz Greats McCoy Tyner and Mark Murphy

Celebration Takes Place June 1 - 11, 2006 HEALDSBURG, CA - From June 1 - 11, the quiet, bucolic town of Healdsburg and its surrounding vineyard appellations will reverberate with the sounds and beats of the world's greatest jazz performers. The 2006 Healdsburg Jazz Festival, one of Northern California's premiere annual cultural events, is pleased to announce that McCoy Tyner and his trio will ...

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12th Annual Irvine Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2006

Irvine, CA - Over 70 high school jazz bands and combos, plus professional musicians will be performing at the 12th Annual Irvine Jazz Festival on Saturday, March 18, 2006 from 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Irvine High School. In addition to the performances, the festival will feature music clinics, food, booths, and more. A noon concert will feature the the CSU, Northridge Jazz Band under the direction of Composer and pianist Matt Harris, and at 6:00 p.m., Composer and ...

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Fifth Annual Ponderosa Stomp, To Be Held In Memphis May 8-9-10, 2006, Takes Rock 'N' Roll History To New Heights

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2006

Three-night roots romp will benefit displaced New Orleans and Gulf Coast musicians via the New Orleans Musicians Clinic and MusiCares

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Now in its fifth year, the Ponderosa Stomp has scored a musical trifecta: The New Orleans-based festival, an offshoot of the Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau (a social club-turned-501.c3 non-profit organization), has found a temporary home at the Gibson Guitar Factory in downtown Memphis, reorganized itself as a fundraiser benefiting the New Orleans Musicians Clinic and ...

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17th Annual Tribute to Bix fest

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2006

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