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Help Us Strike A Blow For Artistic Expression And Recreate Michigan's Economy

Source: Just Roots PR
July 15, 2012

The Michigan film industry is a real and viable alternative to the demise of Michigan's industrial base. It is a positive path to recreate Michigan's economy and help redefine who we are as a state. Help us create a film/music festival here in south-central Michigan and help support Michigan's film and music industries. Back Story In 2008 departing Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm left Michigan with one of the country's most generous film incentives. Within three years, Michigan was pushed into ...

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T.S. Monk To Headline 29th Annual New Haven Jazz Festival, August 11

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 12, 2012

T.S. Monk Headlines the 29th Annual New Haven Jazz Festival Saturday, August 11, 4:30 – 9:00 pm, at New Haven Green Festival Is Highlight of Jazz Week, A Series of Live Performances at New Haven Bars and Restaurants, August 8-12 NEW HAVEN, CT: – Jazz Haven, in cooperation with the City of New Haven's Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism, has expanded the annual celebration of jazz in New Haven to present Jazz Week, a five-day series of live performances ...

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TRANSART Celebrates The 12th Annual Jazz In The Valley, August 18-19

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 10, 2012

TRANSART & Cultural Services, Inc. Celebrates the 12th Annual Jazz in the Valley Festival August 18 – 19 at Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie featuring The Cookers , We Four, Lou Donaldson, Luther Francois, Roy Ayers, Swiss Movement Revisited, Helen Sung Trio and Zon Del Barrio Poughkeepsie, NY: TRANSART and Cultural Services celebrates the 12th Annual Jazz in the Valley at its new home on the waterfront of Waryas Park on the scenic banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY ...

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Music Festivals Profit from Cultural Shifts to Quality Topped off with Luxury

Source: HypeBot
July 4, 2012

The Researchist, a market research blog, recently took a look at luxury offerings at three music festivals, Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. Since I don't follow the luxury market and haven't gone to any of these festivals I had not realized the kind of amenities afforded those with money to burn. However, their brief report is somewhat of a mixed bag, presenting both true luxury items alongside offerings that are more upscale than fast food and a soda but are as ...

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Caramoor International Music Festival Presents The 2012 Jazz Festival, June 28-29

Source: Fiona Zwieb
July 3, 2012

Caramoor International Music Festival’s annual weekend-long Jazz Festival has become a premiere destination for jazz music for artists and fans alike. The 2012 Jazz Festival – July 28 and 29 – welcomes some of the industry’s brightest talents and celebrated chart-toppers, demonstrating the breadth and diversity of the state of jazz. On Saturday, the festival kicks off with Hard Bop icons Billy Harper and The Cookers and continues with a solo set of lyrical jazz by pianist Kenny Barron, followed ...

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Jazzhouse Presents 21st Century Jazz During Copenhagen Jazz Festival

Source: Rasmus Steffensen
July 3, 2012

Copenhagen Jazz Festival will kick off on Friday, July 6th, to fill all of Denmark’s capital with jazz music for 10 days. The newly reopened Jazzhouse located in the heart of the city, in Niels Hemmingsens Gade, will obviously also play a crucial part in the festival. Here you will find a full programme of international acts under the theme ”21st Century Jazz”. “21st Century Jazz” invites you to experience the sound of the international jazz scene here and now ...

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Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Wraps Up 11th Edition With 9 Days Of Exceptional Music And Another Attendance Record

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
July 2, 2012

Rochester NY: The record number of fast headliner sell-outs and an earlier than ever sell-out of the Club Pass, were the first signs that the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival 11th Edition (XRIJF) was headed toward another amazing musical journey. The nine-day Festival, held June 22-30, presented more than 300 concerts at 18 venues, and drew more than 187,000 people from 30-plus states and 15 countries. Jazz Street was a sea of smiles as people made it their destination night ...

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All That Tap XXI Scheduled for Saturday, July 28 at the Touhill

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 28, 2012

The connections between jazz music and tap dancing will be on display once again during All That Tap XXI, the grand finale of the week-long St. Louis Tap Festival that will take place at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 28 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Pianist Carolbeth True's trio (pictured) will provide the music for a cast of dancers including Bob Scheerer, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Logan Miller, Denise Caston, Martin 'Tre' Dumas III, Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, Robin Reed, Evan Ruggiero. and ...

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