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Asheville Percussion Festival Announces 2014 Schedule Of Events
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Mason Jar Media
The third annual Asheville Percussion Festival returns to Western North Carolina on June 20-22, 2014. Hosted by renowned multi-percussionist River Guerguerian and Jazz recording artist Lizz Wright, the three-day percussive arts festival will feature workshops, panels and performances led by acclaimed musicians from a variety of drumming concentrations. The event takes place in the scenic mountain town of Asheville, NC – a city noted for creativity, art, and collaboration. The Asheville Percussion Festival invites percussionists of all levels and traditions ...
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Vision Festival 19: Honoring Amiri Baraka The Legacy Thru Panels & Poetry
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Chris Rich
Since the first Vision Festival, in 1996, Amiri Baraka has been an important presence at Vision. But way before the Vision Festival he was a champion of the music, with his seminal books on Jazz, ‘Blues People’ and ‘Black Music’. For many of the other artists and audiences who have participated each year, Baraka has been an inspiration. For the last five years Baraka helped organize the panel discussions that deepened the context and impact for the art that is ...
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Vision Festival 19 Celebrates Jeff Schlanger musicWitness Lifetime Of Achievement
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Chris Rich
Celebrating Jeff Schlanger musicWitness Lifetime Of Achievement on June 12th. Music as color, inked on paper shaped by the sounds blown across the page, Jeff Schlanger is the musicWitness, present where the music is. He is the visual improviser, transforming music into painting for decades, a witness to great music – Now we gladly acknowledge his lifetime of achievement. A New York City native, a graduate of Music & Art and student of potter Maija Grotell at Cranbrook, he has ...
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Vision Festival 19 Celebrates Charles Gayle with Lifetime of Achievement
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Chris Rich
Celebrating Charles Gayle Lifetime Of Achievement on June 11 At this, the nineteenth Vision Festival, Arts For Art is proud to acknowledge Charles Gayle for his Lifetime of Achievement. A gentle and humble artist, he is clearly one of the greatest saxophone players. Born and raised in Buffalo, he was much influenced by the church, where he grew up singing and playing music, but also deeply affected by the racially charged environment that was part of his formative years. Christianity ...
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Playboy Jazz Festival Soars June 14th And 15th At The Hollywood Bowl
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Muse Media
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS 36TH ANNUAL PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL JUNE 14-15, 2014 PERFORMERS INCLUDE CELEBRATED ICONS OF THE GENRE, EMERGING ARTISTS AND A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY GEORGE DUKE Headliners include: Dianne Reeves, George Benson with special guest Earl Klugh, Jamie Cullum, Fantasia, Al Jarreau and Stanley Clarke celebrating George Duke George Lopez to host for the second year in a row Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles Philharmonic is pleased to announce that the ...
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Down With Jazz Den Of Vice Returns To Haunt Catholic Church
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All About Jazz
Down With Jazz, the festival that reels back the decades to the anti-jazz movement of the 1930’s, is back for a third edition; this time over the June Bank Holiday weekend. Who knows what class of devilment Dublin's citizens will get up if the sun comes out, with hip swiveling music and decadent improvising from the country’s finest jazz musicians, and the trading of oysters and porter to boot? If that weren’t enough, the festival coincides with the premiere of ...
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Jazz This Week: Rich McDonnell Memorial Concert, Glendale Jazz Festival, Bluesweek, Adam Larson, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Memorial Day is traditionally a time of remembrance, so it seems fitting somehow that this weekend in St. Louis marks the final shows at the current version of Jazz at the Bistro, including a tribute to the late Richard “Rich" McDonnell. Before that, though, there's lots of other jazz and creative music on tap all weekend around town, so let's go to the highlights... Tonight, guitarist Tom Byrne plays solo at Evangeline's, and trumpeter Jim Manley returns for his weekly ...
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First Spring Exit 0 Intl Jazz Festival In Historic Oceanside Village Of Cape May, NJ: May 30 - June 1
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Claudia Artzer
The 3rd Exit 0 International Jazz Festival May 30-June 1, 2014, in Historic Cape May, NJ, Launches Spring Version with An Outdoor Stage Featuring New Jersey Winemakers and Jazz on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry Crossing from Delaware Features Grammy Winners Dee Dee Bridgewater & Roy Hargrove; Dirty Dozen Brass Band & Kermit Ruffins of New Orleans; Fest Party Faves Red Baraat & Matuto; HBO's Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks; Gerald Clayton, Tia Fuller, KellyLee Evans, Daisy Castro + More The charming ...
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