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2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival to be held July 23-28 in Columbia, MO
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Dean Minderman
Columbia, MO: The Mizzou New Music Initiative will present the third annual Mizzou New Music Summer Festival from Monday, July 23, 2012 through Sunday, July 28 on the campus of the University of Missouri. The 2012 Festival will include a series of public concerts featuring music from contemporary composers, as well as workshops, master classes and other events. The Festival's guest composers for 2012 will be Steven Stucky, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for composition and professor at Cornell ...
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12th Anniversary "Save Our Music" Vacaville Jazz Festival Vacaville, CA
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Keith Stout's Alive Music Orchestra
September 16th thru September 18th, Friday thru Sunday (Free Admission) 12th Annual “Save Our Music" Vacaville Jazz Festival held Downtown & Nut Tree at 4 venues. The Vaca Jazz Society (VJS) is a non-profit which supports local school music programs through the “Save Our Music" free camps & clinics, demonstration concerts, and the pursuit of safe quality family entertainment in the community. VJS will celebrate their 12th Anniversary from September 16th thru September 18th. “This is Vacaville's original Performing Arts ...
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Westbeth 5th Annual Music Festival: September 23-25, 2011
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104 Weeks
Friday, September 23, 2011 8-11 pm Brecht Forum 451 West Street (Between Bank And Bethune Street) Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25 12 noon-7 pm Westbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St. (Between Washington And West Street) Westbeth, an artists' community established 41 years ago, presents music by its residents in a three-day festival on Friday, Sept. 23rd in the Brecht Forum, and Saturday, September ...
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The Night the Music Stopped in Detroit
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
This is my fourth consecutive Detroit Jazz Festival and I have always been amazed at the weather—I've only sat through one rainy set and we had some off and on drizzle another afternoon. Until tonight. Fortunately I had taken a break to meet friends for a bite so I was not actually caught by the storm that roared through downtown Detroit early this evening. But it looked like the photos of Hurricane Irene for a good 20 minutes. We splashed ...
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Music Business Institute announces the musical line-up for the nola DOWNTOWN music and arts festival in New Orleans
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Sylvain Music Notes
Sylvain Music Notes—The Music Business Institute (MBI) has released its lineup of musical acts for this month's “nola Downtown Music and Arts Festival" which takes place September 23-24, 2011 in the historic Lafayette Square in New Orleans. The festival is part of this year's 19th Annual Cutting Edge CE (formerly the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference and Roots Music Gathering) conference which runs from September 21-24 at the Pan American Conference and Media Center on Poydras and St. Charles Avenue. ...
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Massachusetts Welcomes Tourists This Labor Day Weekend
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox Officials at the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism are putting out the welcome mat for visitors to enjoy Labor Day weekend in Massachusetts, with a full schedule of fun and inexpensive travel ideas. Executive Director Betsy Wall told The Boston Globe, “The storm has come and gone, but summer is not over. There are still a lot of things to do in Massachusetts." For a complete schedule of Labor Day activities in Massachusetts, click ...
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Stephanie Jordan to headline nola Downtown Music and Arts Festival in New Orleans
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Sylvain Music Notes
Internationally acclaimed New Orleans' jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan and her Big Band will perform at 6:00 pm on Friday, September 23, 2011 in Lafayette Square at the nola Downtown Music and Arts Festival as part of this year's 19th Annual Cutting Edge CE (formerly the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference and Roots Music Gathering) conference in New Orleans. The Stephanie Jordan Big Band will fill Lafayette Square with her big band sound as she continues her signature trademark of singing ...
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Tickets now on sale for Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, Oct. 7-20 Concerts Featuring Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian
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Ed Bride Associates
Free events include annual jazz crawl, new jazz prodigy series PITTSFIELD, Mass.—BerkshiresJazz.org today announced that Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian, Greg Caputo, and the BerkshiresJazz Youth Ensemble will be among the performers at the 2011 Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, October 7-20. Now in its seventh year, the festival comprises some two dozen concerts and events throughout downtown Pittsfield. In addition to headline concerts on Oct. 14-15, the festival, a highlight of the Berkshires' fall foliage season, includes the initiation of ...
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