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Festival

NJPAC & WBGO Announce James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 12, 2012

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and WBGO Jazz 88.3FM announced today that they will inaugurate The James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival, a weeklong celebration of jazz and the musical legacy of longtime Newarker and beloved jazz musician James Moody. Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer Christian McBride serves as Artistic Adviser to the Festival, which will take place October 15-21, 2012 at the Arts Center and various community-based venues. The first in a series of major new programming ...

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Performance / Tour

Bang on a Can Celebrates 25 Years with Triple Bill Concert at Lincoln Center

Source: Jensen Artists
April 12, 2012

Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra, and MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert (on Mother’s Day in 1987 in a SoHo art gallery) to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range ...

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Event

Spanish Group Black Gandhi Live At Alphabet Lounge In The East Village

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
April 12, 2012

New York, NY: Using Reggae as a launching point, in large part due to its uplifting message and the infectious rhythms that are fundamental characteristics of the genre and its essence, Black Gandhi is a Barcelona, Spain based group of philosophically like-minded musical stylists who play a contemporary and joyous blend of Reggae, Ska, Soul, Rock, Folk and Blues for the 21st century. In support of their latest CD, Into Light, Black Gandhi will be performing live, in English, at ...

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Education

Artist As An Entrepreneur Institute Returns To South Florida

Source: James Shermer
April 12, 2012

A series of full-day sessions to be offered on four Saturdays, starting June 2, 2012 at ArtServe Inc., 1350 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale Broward Cultural Division, The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC), and ArtServe, Inc. announce The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute (AEI) for South Florida artists to be presented on four Saturdays in June 2012, at ArtServe, Inc., 1350 East Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. The AEI is a course of study designed to assist individual ...

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Website

All About Jazz Improves Musician Profile

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2012

All About Jazz improved its musician profile submission form by grouping information in a new tabbed interface for easier access. If you're a musician, you can access your profile from the musician center or by simply entering your permalink URL (http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/yourfullname). If you're a musician and do not have a musician profile, you can create one here. Registered musicians can take advantage of the following promotional opportunities. About the All About Jazz Musician Profile An All About Jazz musician profile ...

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Performance / Tour

Kinky Friedman Goes Bipolar

Source: conqueroo
April 11, 2012

Kinky's BiPolar Tour invades the Northeast in June. AUSTIN, Texas — Everyone's favorite former Texas gubernatorial candidate, political commentator and self-proclaimed “author, columnist, musician and beautician" Kinky Friedman is going bipolar, as in Kinky Friedman's BiPolar Tour, which starts in New England on June 6 and continues through to July 1. As he has done on his recent “sojourns through America," Kinky will be performing solo, dispensing the wisdom of the Jewish troubadour, and signing books. The Kinkster, whose solo ...

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Event

Daisy Jopling Band Performs At Paramount Center For The Arts

Source: cindy beer-fouhy
April 11, 2012

Daisy Jopling, The Pied Fiddler of Peekskill, Returns to the Paramount Center for the Arts May 19th at 8:00pm Peekskill NY: For over two decades, Internationally Acclaimed Classical/ Rock Violinist Daisy Jopling has been wowing audiences and transforming the music palates of people of all ages with her high energy fusion of classical music with world music and rock. Last year, her concert at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill received a full house standing ovation. On Saturday, ...

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Recording

VIX Records To Release "2012?" From Renowned Drummer J. D. Blair

Source: Michelle Roche Media Relations
April 11, 2012

VIX Records released the fourth solo effort from renowned drummer J. D. Blair, AKA “The Groove Regulator,” entitled 2012? as a digital download on February 13, 2012. The CD version will be released in late May 2012 to coincide with the Victor Wooten tour. In his 30 plus year career, J. D. Blair has developed a résumé that has found him reaching across the lines of musical genres as a performer, session player and touring drummer. Whether it is jazz, ...

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