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Newport Festivals Foundation Announces 2012 Dates for Folk & Jazz Festivals
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWPORT, RI: George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce the dates of the 2012 Folk and Jazz festivals in Newport, RI. The Newport Folk Festival will be held July 28th and the Newport Jazz Festival is set for August 3rd. Additional information will be announced in the coming months. “Following a sold-out 2011 Folk Festival and a very successful Jazz Festival, we want to make sure that music fans throughout the area and around ...
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Boston Pops to Play W.Levon, Brandi Carlile at Life is Good Fest
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JamBase
BAREFOOT TRUTH SELECTED TO OPEN THE FESTIVAL; LIFE IS GOOD SET FOR SEPT 24-25 AT PROWSE FARM IN CANTON, MA Life is good is excited to announce that musicians from the Boston Pops have signed on to play at the 2011 Life is good Festival. World-class musicians from the Pops' string and brass sections led by guest conductor Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) will join Brandi Carlile and The Levon Helm Band for portions of their individual sets on Sunday, September ...
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The Earshot Jazz Festival -- "Seattle's Most Important Annual Jazz Event" -- Runs October 14 to November 6, 2011
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Earshot Jazz
Seattle's annual Earshot Jazz Festival presents more than 50 one-of-a-kind events in concert halls, clubs, and venues all around the city beginning October 14th and continuing through November 6th. Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming" and praised as “one of the best festivals in America" the Earshot Jazz Festival brings jazz greats from around the world into creative collaboration with area artists and audiences. Earshot also celebrates Seattle's place in the world of jazz, from our award-winning high-school jazz programs to ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Free Live Webcast
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Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Free Live Webcast from the Night Club, Wi-Fi on Fairgrounds, September 16-18, 2011 Festival's Greening Efforts in 2011 Include U.S. Pure Water Stations, Food Waste Collection Program, Free Bicycle Valet Parking Festival Parking Arrangements Courtesy of Monterey Peninsula College, Shuttles for Patrons Provided by Monterey-Salinas Transit Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that nightly concerts from one of the Festival's eight venues, the Night Club's Bill Berry Stage, will be available through ...
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The Second Annual "Remembering Bud" Festival in New York, September 2011
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Seton Hawkins
On September 26-28, 2011, the Bar on Fifth at the Setai Hotel will host the Second Annual “Remembering Bud" Festival, presented by Earl John Powell to honor the musical legacy of his father, Bud Powell. This year, featured performers include Rick Germanson, Alex Hoffman, and Luke Celenza. “This year's lineup promises to be a fitting tribute to my father's musical legacy," notes Mr. Powell, the festival's artistic director. “Bud was one of the architects of the bebop idiom, a style ...
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Not Heat, Rain, Wind or Presidents! Nothing Really Stops Jazz in Detroit
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Yes. The Detroit Jazz Festival came to a thunderous halt on its second night, thanks to a torrential downpour and ferocious winds that forced cancellation of the final two rounds of music. And yes. This marked the first time in the festival's 32-year history that Mother Nature pre-empted the schedule of North America's largest free jazz festival. But it was a temporary setback. Kenny Werner and Toots Thielmans had to cut short their elegant duo as the Waterfront Stage became ...
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The Love It Live Mantra Has Made Jazz Cruises into One of the Worlds Top Jazz Concert Promoters on Land and Sea
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
St. Louis, Missouri: Three weeks of sold-out Caribbean cruises showcasing dozens of the biggest stars in contemporary and straight-ahead jazz established Jazz Cruises as the preeminent jazz promoter on water, but a full slate of concert sponsorships on land in 2011 has made the St. Louis-based company one of the worlds top jazz promoters on land and sea. This year, Jazz Cruises, the largest private music ship charter company in the world, quietly adopted the Love It Live manta, a ...
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Manly International Jazz Festival and Viva the band 2011
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Peter Rappolt
Manly Council on the Northern Beaches of Sydney will be conducting their 34th Manly International Jazz Festival over the October long weekend on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd of October 2011. With a vibrant family atmosphere and a breathtaking ocean beachfront backdrop, the festival location is considered to be the best for a Jazz Festival in Australia and is reputed as Sydney's premier Jazz event. The usual patronage for this festival is in excess of 45,000 visitors per day and there ...
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