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Chicago Guitar Festival Full Schedule Announced

September 15, 2010

Dot-to-Dot Management, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Serbian Cultural Arts Center of Chicago Present The Chicago Guitar Festival Thursday, October 7th-Thursday, October 14th Chicago, IL: Dot-to-Dot Management, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Serbian Cultural Arts Center of Chicago will present the groundbreaking Chicago Guitar Festival, a weeklong event ...

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Jazz This Week: Michael Franks, Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival, and More

September 15, 2010

This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis is considerably less crowded than last week's, but there are still several notable events happening around the metro area. Let's go to the highlights: The best-known touring performer in town this week is singer/songwriter Michael Franks, who will play on Thursday at the Ameristar Casino ...

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"Concert for Kids" Kicks Off 53rd Monterey Jazz Festival Weekend,

September 15, 2010

The “Concert for Kids" is a twenty-year tradition at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The Festival invites children from Monterey County middle and high schools to attend the free event every year, with an estimated 500 students attending. The concert is part of an outreach effort on the part of the educational programs of the Monterey Jazz ...

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Giving Credit Where It is Due - And then Some...

September 14, 2010

When you've made an indelible imprint on an art form—people take notice. Particularly when that effort has helped fuel their own successes. Such is the case with George Wein, the producer of the first jazz festival as we know it today back in 1954 in Newport RI. In June 2009, as part of the Montreal International ...

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Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary, September 15-25, 2010

September 14, 2010

The 10th annual Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival kicks off this Wednesday, September 15 and runs to Saturday, September 25, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. The annual festival is hosted by the Berklee College of Music, the world's foremost jazz university. This year's festival pays tribute to the music and culture of New Orleans, and features artists from ...

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An Extra Treat at the Somerville Jazz Festival

September 13, 2010

Made it to Somerville in time to catch all of Louis Hayes' set—the set list included some Monk, some Coltrane, some Adderley... Hubbard and Shorter tunes. Terrific! I took a Bloggie, hoping to capture at least one performance but forgot to change the settings—after getting about 2 minutes of the opening tune, the memory card was ...

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Voodoo Experience Daily Sched

September 12, 2010

START MAKING YOUR PLANS FOR HALLOWEEN WEEKEND, KIDS While exact set times haven't been announced, this year's Voodoo Experience, taking place October 29-31 in New Orleans, has released a day-by-day breakdown of who's playing. Check it out here. Here's Wolfmother at last year's Voodoo Fest, and you can see many more clips from the 2009 installment ...

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North Coast Music Festival | Review | Pics

September 10, 2010

Words by: Amy Ravit Korin | Images by: Chad Smith & Dave Vann North Coast Music Festival :: 09.03.10-09.05.10 :: Union Park :: Chicago, IL To see Dave Vann's massive gallery pop over here. Hippies, hipsters and hip-hop fans united in Chicago's aptly named Union Park to celebrate Summer's Last Stand over Labor Day weekend, making ...

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A Central Jersey Jazz Weekend

September 11, 2010

This weekend offers local jazz fans a feast and a festival ... Princeton's Jazz Feast on Saturday, and Sunday's Somerville Jazz Festival. Both have great lineups—can you make both? Princeton's feast opens with the Princeton University Jazz Ensemble—a top notch group—and follows with the New Legacy Jazz Band. Bucky Pizzarelli returns at 2:30 to help accompany ...

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Uprise Festival Given the Green Light

September 10, 2010

Following 18 months of grassroots campaigning, organisers of UpRise Festival, legacy of Europe's largest anti-racism festival, Rise, have been granted permission by Haringey Council to hold the event in London's Finsbury Park on 3 October 2010. April 2009 saw the abrupt withdrawal of funding for Rise Festival by the incumbent Mayor, which kick-started the UpRise campaign ...