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Duke Ellington Jazz Festival Continues to Hit High Note with DC Residents, Tourists
Tourist season has peaked in Washington, DC, but as the leaves began falling and temperatures started to drop, some visitors decided to stay and enjoy the peace and quiet of autumn in the Nation's Capital. As VOA's Doug Levine reports, those who weren't in a hurry to leave were treated to an annual event that continues ...
Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Fest
INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS DEFY GENRES AND STRIKE A CHORD FOR CHARITY WITH THE INAUGURAL CHICAGO BLUEGRASS & BLUES FESTIVAL The Avett Brothers The Congress Theater, in conjunction with newly-formed KingTello Presents, is proud to announce the inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival (cbgbfestival.com). While rooted in the foot-stomping influences of bluegrass and blues, the Festival ...
2008 Taichung Jazz Festival to Challenge Guinness Record
The 2008 Taichung Jazz Festival is scheduled to open in the central city next Saturday, with 20 to 30 well-known saxophonists and saxophone ensembles from home and abroad performing, an official said Tuesday. The nine-day festival, which is held annually, is in its sixth year. At the opening of the festival sponsored by the city's Cultural ...
Roland Held First Ever V-Accordian Festival
In conjunction with the second International Roland V-Accordion Festival, Roland Corporation U.S. held the first ever U.S. V-Accordion Festival in Los Angeles on September 20, 2008. Contestants hailed from all over the country, and played in styles ranging from Jazz to Celtic. Each contestant was given an FR-7 V-Accordion to play during their five-minute performance. A ...
Sights from the 2nd Street Festival
The Jackson Ward community came alive this weekend with the 18th annual 2nd Street Festival. The festival kicked off on Friday night with a dance party featuring Johnny Houston & The Legends, but it wasn't until Saturday that all four performance stages would show some of Richmond's best musicians.From 2nd Street FestivalI ...
Big Festival in a Small Town
The Yakima Herald-Republic asked me to write about the musicians who will appear in The Seasons Fall Festival October 10-18. The piece ran in On Magazine, the paper's weekly arts and entertainment supplement. Here is the lead paragraph: A weeklong festival of this quality would make a splash in any major city, including New ...
Jazz Fans Can Start Bopping Again
Just three weeks ago, it looked like the end of the road for the Portland Jazz Festival. As the event’s organizers explained, a major sponsor had pulled out, leaving them with no choice but to pull the plug on the five-year-old event, which had attracted so much favorable attention — not to mention tourist dollars — ...
Chandler Home of Growing Jazz Scene
Already one of the largest cities in the state, Chandler is growing more sophisticated as well. One of the premier events on the downtown social calendar is the yearly jazz festival. The ninth annual Chandler Jazz Festival this spring drew an estimated 20,000 people over three days, besting the previous high of 8,000. It included free ...
Portland Festival Performers to be Named
The Portland Jazz Festival's news conference yesterday yielded no information about performers for the revived festival. A pledge of major support from Alaska Airlines on Tuesday brought the festival back from the dead. The demise of the event was announced in early September, but Alaska Air came zooming in “out of the blue," as artistic director ...
Alaska Airlines Rescues Portland Jazz Festival
The 2009 Portland Jazz Festival will go on after all, organizers announced Wednesday, after Alaska Airlines donated $100,000 over two years to save the festival. Money was tight. Organizers had already canceled the Portland Jazz Festival, and now staffers were ready to cut off the office phone when “The Call" came. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines was on ...
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