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Queenstown Jazz Festival
Queenstown swings into spring this October with some exciting changes to its 31st annual jazz festival. A carnival atmosphere will take over the town as the ASB Queenstown JazzFest brings music to the masses in a 10-day live music celebration from 17 to 26 October. A sensational line-up of more than 50 bands and 200 Kiwi ...
Magnoliafest: 10.22-25 in FL
MagnoliaFest Set For Another Music Celebration Thousands Expected For North Florida's Fall Americana Music Gathering Peter Rowan The 13th Annual MagnoliaFest will be taking place October 22-25 at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL. Magfest is expected to attracted around 7,000 music lovers from across the nation for four ...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass | 10.02-10.04 | S.F.
Words by: Sam Martin | Images by: Dave Vann Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival :: 10.02 - 10.04 :: Golden Gate Park :: San Francisco, CA Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2009 Golden Gate Park played host to the 9th Annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, and the lineup, crowds and camaraderie did not disappoint. There was a sixth ...
Legendary Downbeat Magazine Devotes a 16-Page Insert to the "Best of the Fests"
Montreal - In its October 2009 edition, bearing the signatures of influential jazz journalists and critics Ed Enright, Michael Bourne, Joshua Jackson and Michael Jackson, highly respected DownBeat magazine paid the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal a very special tribute, describing it as the jazz festival par excellence: “Bigger! Better! Best, actually..." A 16-page insert ...
A Real Boy, Seven Decades Later: Dick Jones, the Voice
Next year marks the 70th anniversary of “Pinocchio," my favorite Disney film, and Dick Jones, the actor who gave voice to the beloved title character, will be a special guest at the Lone Pine Film Festival next weekend (Oct. 9-11). If you're not familiar with that festival, it's got a wagon-wheel ethos with its emphasis on ...
Eclectic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Unites Emmylou Harris, Richie Havens in San Francisco
Warren Hellman is the kind of billionaire investment banker who makes it hard to hate billionaire investment bankers. Every year, Hellman a successful venture capitalist and an amateur banjo player organizes something called the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, a three-day celebration of picking and strumming in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park. Opened to all and 100 ...
13th Annual Edgefest 2009: Reeds of Change in SE Michigan
The 13th annual Edgefest (October 14-17, 2009) will feature an international roster with a focus on reed instruments as it presents some of the most celebrated and creative multi-instrumentalists on the scene today. In the tradition of Edgefest, the roster also includes performers and ensembles that live in our home community of SE Michigan. This year, ...
40,000 Fans Attend 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Wraps Up Emotional Weekend. 40,000 Fans Celebrate The Joy Of Jazz, September 18 - 20, 2009. Four-time Grammy-Winning Vocalist Dianne Reeves Named As MJF/53 Artist-In-Residence Once again, the festival organizers have brought together fantastic music and a warm community atmosphere for an experience that will be remembered for ...
Line-up Announced for 39th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert
International jazz greats will convene at the University of Pittsburgh Nov. 3 through Nov. 7 for the 39th annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert-the longest-running event of its kind in the country. Legendary musicians taking part this year include George Cables, piano; Terri Lyne Carrington, drums; Leon Lee Dorsey, Pitt assistant professor of jazz studies and ...
Jazz at Seattle Weekly Reverb Festival
Saturday, October 3 Volterra Restaurant festival website 5:00 p.m. ~ WMS Jazz Quartet and String Ensemble Every year, Seattle Weekly donates five percent of the proceeds from REVERB to a music-related nonprofit. This year, it’s Friends of Washington Music, which helps fund the music program at South Seattle’s Washington Middle ...
