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All About Jazz to Broadcast Live From Our Living Rooms: An Online Music Festival and Fundraiser
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Michael Ricci
Thanks, in part, to our own fund drive, All About Jazz & Jazz Near You have pivoted to support livestream jazz events. The transformation, which started ten days ago, has a singular purpose: to raise awareness of livestream jazz events worldwide and help boost ticket sales or tip jar donations. We also built on the broadcasting work we started with last year's NEA Jazz Masters celebration concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This rapid development made it possible ...
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Identify your venue or festival as a livestreamer at Jazz Near You
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Michael Ricci
As part of All About Jazz’s commitment to support livestream events, we wanted to identify the venues that present them—that includes clubs, festivals, home concert presenters, schools and studios. We began the process by seeding the directory here. This page is also accessible from the Jazz Near You venue directory and by clicking VENUES on the Jazz Near You navigation bar. If your venue livestreams, please update your Jazz Near You page. If you are your page's administrator, simply click ...
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Project Livestream Jazz: An Update—Plus All About Jazz's Binge-Worthy Content
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Michael Ricci
With club closures, shelter in place and an uncertain future, we've pivoted our platform to collect, promote and broadcast livestream concerts to support our jazz musician friends. We've also revamped the weekly Jazz Near You newsletter to highlight livestream events as well as All About Jazz content you may have missed. To sign up for your free weekly newsletter, simply update the “Jazz Near You Subscription Settings" section on your member settings page. Project Livestream Jazz: An Update The Jazz ...
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WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia To Feature Artists Who Upload their Livestream events to Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You's effort to promote livestream jazz events has received an added boost thanks to a collaboration with WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia. In addition to accessing livestream events from the Jazz Near You website, the weekly Jazz Near You newsletter, the Jazz Near You app, and from external websites & blogs that embed the Jazz Near You livestream calendar widget and feed, WRTI will use the Jazz Near You's livestream calendar to promote the events that are uploaded ...
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Attention Jazz Fans: Support Jazz Musicians—Buy Their Music Direct!
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Michael Ricci
Now, More Than Ever, Musicians Need Your Support. These are extraordinary times yet one thing is certain… music connects communities. Due to this pandemic, understandably, all live performances have been cancelled until further notice. Yet, it's these very performances that provide the musicians income. Currently, most governments have not offered much in the form of financial support to their respective self-employed arts sector. You can help! While on lockdown we ask you to consider that instead of the jazz concert ...
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Place a Livestream Jazz Calendar On Your Website Or Blog and help promote livestream jazz events
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Michael Ricci
You can help spread the word about livestream jazz concerts by placing the Jazz Near You livestream widget or feed on your website or blog. Simply go here, click the “By Livestream" down arrow, set the two parameters (number of columns and number of events), then click the GENERATE CODE button. From there, copy and paste the code onto your website or blog page. If you use Wordpress, you may need to install the Wordpress plug-in Code Embed. We also ...
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Jazz Near You supports & promotes livestream events. Upload them today.
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Michael Ricci
COVID-19 and its impact represents an extraordinary and unprecedented time for us all. It has affected every person and every organization in jazz, disrupted our livelihoods, and we're all greatly concerned about the health and well-being of our community. Personally, I'm accustomed to working from home and have been doing so since 1995—but our network and touchpoints extend far beyond AAJ HQ. As a central source for all things jazz, we are in constant communication with individuals representing all facets ...
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Second Live Broadcast A Success: All About Jazz Livestream Support Continues
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Michael Ricci
Building on the technology that made it possible to broadcast the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Concert at the Kennedy Center last April, All About Jazz presented its second live broadcast on Saturday, March 21 at the Candlelight Lounge in Trenton, NJ. Unlike the NEA event which was presented sitewide, the Candlelight livestream was limited to the Trenton, Philadelphia and Bethlehem Jazz Near You websites. In collaboration with Front Row Seat Productions and powered by Streaming Video Provider, ...
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