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The Scientist Meets Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub Kickstarter Project Underway
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Michael Ricci
Chicago Jazz Drummer Ted Sirota hooks up with Dub Reggae Legend “"The Scientist" for an exciting new collaboration and a Kickstarter campaign. Chicago, IL: Ted Sirota, veteran Chicago drummer for Sabertooth and Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls, presents a new band that reflects his lifelong passion for Reggae music. Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub is the culmination of more than thirty years of Sirota’s examination of Jamaican music, especially Dub Reggae. Although Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls performed and recorded Jamaican inspired jazz ...
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Thomas Chapin Film Success At Kickstarter.com Nets $51,552 In 45-day Campaign
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Stephanie J. Castillo
The Thomas Chapin Film Project will begin shooting this summer; filmmaker will complete her research and scripting, and lining up her film crew. EMMY-winning Filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is celebrating a successful finish at Kickstarter.com, an online fundraising site, that will now allow her to begin planning her shoot this summer for NIGHT BIRD SONG, her documentary film about the late jazz master Thomas Chapin. 224 backers, pledging an average of $232, put Stephanie beyond her $50,000 goal. When the ...
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Thomas Chapin: New Jazz Film Goes to Kickstarter.com for Global Fundraising Campaign - Final Days!
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All About Jazz
FINAL DAYS OF KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN New jazz film is using kickstarter.com to raise money to shoot a music biography/ documentary in the NYC area, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Europe EMMY-winning filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is running a 45-day global fundraising campaign at kickstarter.com to raise $50,000 to begin shooting her feature-length documentary film, NIGHT BIRD SONG: THE THOMAS CHAPIN STORY this summer. The shoot locations will include the New York City area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Europe. The ...
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Support the Jazz Orchestra Of Philadelphia at indiegogo.com
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Deena Adler
The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, with Terell Stafford as Artistic Director, will be launched at City Hall Courtyard at noon on April 30th for International Jazz Day with an announcement followed by a performance. Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, comprised of 16 excellent, Philadelphia based musicians, has an artistic vision that will honor, preserve and continue the rich jazz legacy of Philadelphia while adding vibrancy to the City's jazz scene. After a few local performances, there will be a Grand Gala ...
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Lindy Hop St. Louis Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Cherokee St. Jazz Crawl
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Lindy Hop St. Louis has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund some additional public programming for this year's Nevermore Jazz Ball & St. Louis Swing Dance Festival Scheduled for Thursday, November 1 through Sunday, November 4, the Nevermore Jazz Ball will include music and swing dancing events held over four days at several different local venues. The Kickstarter campaign is raising money specifically to pay musicians for the Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl, a new addition to this year's Ball ...
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Support the JazzBridge Kickstarter Campaign "Jazz in the Neighborhood"
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Michael Ricci
From Suzanne Cloud, Executive Director and Co-Founder Jazz Bridge Project: I'm happy to announce that Jazz Bridge has an angel who will back our Kickstarter Project ("Jazz in the Neighborhood") to the tune of $1,500 if our total reaches $4,500. Right now we're at $3,310! It would be absolutely wonderful if you could contribute $5, $10, or $25 to buy some tickets to our long-running Neighborhood Concerts series this season through Kickstarter. We only have three days left. If ...
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Track Kickstarter Campaign Progress with Kicktraq
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HypeBot
Though Kickstarter does provide a variety of stats and analytics for both the public and for project creators, tools for people wanting to track specific campaigns or to research and compare campaigns are relatively limited. Kicktraq is a useful campaign analytics tool that allows you to follow the progress of specific campaigns, including projections while a campaign is live, and to research finished campaigns. Kicktraq is the creation of Adam Clark who described himself in a Twitter exchange as “just ...
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Support Edward Simon's "Live in New York" Kickstarter Campaign
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Edward Simon
Award winning pianist/composer Edward Simon is on a quest to put produce a new live album featuring his trio! Help him achieve his goal by supporting his Kickstarter campaign! The album, which features an all-star line up with John Patitucci on bass and Brian Blade on drums, is a much awaited follow up to the trio's two previous studio recordings, Unicity (CAM Jazz, 2006) and Poesia (CAM Jazz, 2009). Live in New York, scheduled for release in the spring of ...
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