Festival News

Java Jazz Festival 2012: Where Jazz Finds a Home

Source: Widyasena Sumadio
February 7, 2012

Born and bred in the US, jazz has expanded its wings all over the world. Nonetheless, the notion that a city in Southeast Asia, located thousands of miles from the birthland of jazz, would develop to become a venue for one of the world's largest and finest jazz festivals, seemed inconceivable. Since 2005, Jakarta has become the host of a jazz festival featurinng more than 1,000 musicians and attended by more than 100,000 visitors in a three-day span. Jakarta International ...

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Bonnaroo's First Decade Nets $5 Million to Charities

Source: HypeBot
February 7, 2012

Promoters of the Bonnaroo festival announced that after the first 10 years of the festival, they have donated more than $5 million to local, regional and national charities and organizations. Festival partner Rick Farman explained that as they prepare for the 2012 festival, organizers have challenged themselves to surpass that over the next 10 years with new programs and upgrades to existing charitable outreach and philanthropic support through the Bonnaroo Works Fund (BWF), the festival's official charitable arm. Farman says ...

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Earl Klugh's Weekend Of Jazz Returns To The Broadmoor For Its Ninth Season

Source: Audrey Birnbaum
February 2, 2012

WEEKEND OF JAZZ RETURNS TO THE BROADMOOR FOR ITS NINTH SEASON Grammy Award-Winning Artist Earl Klugh Is Back This April! Colorado Springs, CO—It wouldn't be spring at The BROADMOOR without our exceptional group of guests, musicians and friends that gather each year to share their passion for jazz. GRAMMY® award-winning guitarist EARL KLUGH annually invites these jazz and music enthusiasts to experience a unique, luxurious getaway weekend for Klugh's Ninth Annual Weekend of Jazz, April 12-14, 2012. Join breakout New ...

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Chick Corea and Gary Burton to Appear at Tanglewood in 2012

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 2, 2012

Tickets for the entire 2012 Tanglewood season, June 22-September 2, 2012, went on sale Sunday, January 29, at 10 a.m. online at tanglewood.org, by phone at 888-266-1200, or at the Symphony Hall box office in Boston, MA. Celebrating its 75th anniversary season this year, Tanglewood is one of the world's most beloved music festivals and the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and is located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.

Tanglewood's 75th anniversary season will ...

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The 23nd Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, February 21-24, 2012

Source: Eyal Hareuveni
January 30, 2012

The Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, in its 23rd year, is one of the most prominent and important jazz events in Israel. It has gained a reputation in Israel and abroad for attracting both Israeli and international jazz personalities, and is also well known for its special music projects. However, its main appeal is the exciting annual experience it offers to lovers of the genre. Once again, this year's festival will host famous jazz musicians from abroad who will join Israeli ...

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NOLA Jazz Fest: Full Lineup, Schedule, Tix

Source: JamBase
January 25, 2012

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND EDDIE VEDDER ADDED TO LINEUP The 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival daily schedule is out now. Click here to check it out. Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder have been added to the already stacked lineup. Below is a list of the complete lineup for the festival, which takes place April 27-May 6 at New Orleans Fairgrounds in New Orleans, Louisiana. Click here for all ticketing information. NOLA Jazz Fest 2012

Bruce Springsteen & the E ...

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The Center City Jazz Festival: A Jazz Project In Philadelphia By Ernest Stuart

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2012

Help Fund Philadelphia's Center City Jazz Festival at Kickstarter.com The Idea: On April 28, the Center City Jazz Festival is set to showcase great new jazz in an exciting, youthful, energetic environment, and introduce a new crop of the Philadelphia area's best up-and-coming artists to both jazz aficionados and the jazz curious. We're going to take jazz out of concert halls and put it into a number of Center City's best restaurants/bars and music venues clustered around Broad Street, all ...

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The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Presents Its Approach to Sustainable Development

Source: AAJ Staff
January 18, 2012

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is proud to present its approach to sustainable development, now available in a new section of the Festival's website dedicated to its green endeavors (About the Festival section). Since the very first editions of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in the early 1980s, organizers have shown a deep respect for social and environmental values. In that era, the concept of sustainable development had neither been named nor defined, and large-scale recycling ...

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