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Montreux Jazz Festival to Feature 100 Performers
The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland will start its 43rd annual round of show on Friday, featuring 100 artists from various genres, including rock, pop, soul, blues and of course jazz. British hip hop singer Lily Allen will do a gig, as will the rambunctious Jamaican vocalist Grace Jones. Jazz great Herbie Hancock and the virtuoso ...
Attendance for Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Tops Last Year
With a strong artist lineup that included performances by Patti LaBelle, George Benson and Bettye LaVette, SPAC's 2009 Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival had higher attendance than last year. The two-day festival attracted 12, 027 guests, a one percent increase over last year. The northeast's premier jazz festival, the Freihofer's event features more than 20 performances by ...
The Great Taste of July in Edmonton
This July, there's something to suit everyone's taste on the Edmonton events calendar. For those who dig jazz, whether it's cool, slow and blue or red hot and hoppin', there's the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, which runs through Sunday, July 5th. Acts at the festival so far have included John Abercrombie Organ Trio and Branford Marsalis ...
Montreal International Jazz Festival by the Numbers
6 - major award winners in 2009. (Bruce Lundvall, Stevie Wonder, John Pizzarelli, Ornette Coleman, Susie Arioli, Toots & The Maytalls)13 - The number of days of the festival this year not counting several preview concert events.30 - When this 30th annual festival began in 1980, a ticket to see opening headliner ...
MIJF 2009 Opens Wonder-Fully
What a way to kick off the Montreal International Jazz Festival's 30th edition, a 13-day programming marvel that opened June 30 and runs through July 12. Montreal pianist Oliver Jones opened the festival's newest venue, MIJF's year-round cabaret-style jazz club L'Astral, located in the festival's new multiple-purpose Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan (House of the ...
Worldwide Beat Goes On in Montreal
The International Festival de Jazz de Montreal continued Thursday, July 2, with a slate of fine performances featuring artists from around the globe. Japanese saxophonist/flutist Sadao Watanabe put on a particularly memorable show in his festival debut at Montreal’s Theatre Jean-Duceppe, backed by a five-piece band that traveled with him all the way from the Land ...
Jazzelation at Greenbelt Festival
Jazzelation will be performing at the 2009 Greenbelt Festival. The band will play the Performance Stage on Monday 31st August at 5pm. The festival is a celebration of “ love, creativity and justice in the arts and contemporary culture..." It's a kind of mainstream Christianity-inspired caper. The festival takes place at Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire, England, 28 ...
Montreal's Amazing Block Party
One of these years, I am truly tempted to go to the Montreal International Jazz Festival strictly for its free, outdoor concerts. The great variety of talent for the paid, indoor concerts in 10 or more venues each night makes it difficult.But the outdoor stages transform downtown Montreal's Place des Arts (soon to be ...
Bruce Lundvall Rewarded for His Contributions to the Music Industry
In keeping with a tradition dating back to the 10th edition and repeated every fifth year with the addition of a new prize, the Festival International de Jazz de Montral marks its 30th anniversary with the creation of the Bruce Lundvall Award, to be presented annually to a non-musician who has left a mark on the ...
Celebrating the Sounds of Appalachian Strings
At the Ole Time Fiddler’s and Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C., jam sessions seem to be natural phenomena. “First contest, first first-place,” said Brennen Ernst, a 15-year-old banjo player from Leesburg, Va., minutes after picking up a blue ribbon at the 85th annual Ole Time Fiddler’s and Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C. It was ...
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