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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces $6.5 Million to Support 65 Artists and Organizations
Philadelphia, PA: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded over $6.5 million in support of Philadelphia's dynamic cultural community. This year’s grants will support 52 upcoming projects by local cultural organizations. Recipients range in size and stature from small collectives to established institutions, from creative newcomers to community strongholds. Their projects will bring major ...
Angela Davis: The Art of The Melody
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophonist and All About Jazz contributor Angela Davis has made it official, releasing her debut recording, The Art of The Melody. Davis joins a growing legion of female reeds players that includes Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Virginia Mayhew, Claire Daly, and Mercedes Figueras, who are flexing their respective chops in the ravenous particles of digital music.
Free Summer Jazz Concerts 3rd Thursdays In South Philly!
Jazz Bridge is partnering with the Friends of Hawthorne Park to present Jazz at Hawthorne Park, a FREE summer concert series at 12th and Catharine Streets (in South Philadelphia) on the third Thursday of every month this summer. Bring a chair and prepare to groove with the Mike Boone/John Swana Project on June 20th, the Renaissance ...
The Jost Project Plays The Music From The '60s - Support it at Kickstarter!
Support The Jost Project - “Can't Find My Way Home" Kickstarter Campaign We’re a band devoted to jazz and hope to reach a generation of rock fans in a style that will introduce them and pull them into our world. What’s our goal? To create a whole new connection between the music of the Beatles, Jimi ...
Elio Villafranca & Minas Play Jazz Bridge Fundraising Concert @ Chris' Cafe In Phila. Friday, June 14th!
Latin jazz piano sensation Elio Villafranca and Orlando and Patricia Haddad of Minas will be headlining the annual fundraiser for Jazz Bridge—the Philadelphia nonprofit devoted to assisting Jazz and blues musicians in need—to be held at Chris’ Jazz Café’ on Friday, June 14th. Chris’ is located at 1421 Sansom Street in Center City Philadelphia. Sets begin ...
Expanded 40th Street Summer Series Kicks Off Memorial Day Weekend
UCD, The Rotunda and Penn to present five free extraordinary outdoor concerts: Man Man side project Spaceship Aloha, big band performances featuring the music of Sly & The Family Stone and Pakistani Legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the whimsical Philadelphia Ukulele Orchestra, and much more. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, University City District (UCD), and The ...
ExCITe Center to Host Philadelphia's First Music Hack Day
PHILADELPHIA, PA: More than 100 technology and music enthusiasts will join forces with coders, designers and industry representatives to create new music-related technology during the first Music Hack Day in Philadelphia. A 24-hour marathon of conceptualizing, hacking and coding with the goal of designing the future of music technology will bring artists, engineers, musicians, programmers and ...
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vernon Reid, G. Calvin Weston Free Form Funky Freqs Cd Release Concert At World Cafe Live
Free Form Funky Freqs present their latest release Bon Vivant and Jamaaladeen Tacuma honors his mentors at WXPN's World Cafe Live Philadelphia (Upstairs) Saturday June 8th 2013, Doors 8pm FREE FORM FUNKY FREQS The Bon Vivant Jamaaladeen Tacuma: Bass Vernon Reid: Guitars G. Calvin Weston: Drums The birth of the ...
Woodmere Art Museum Caps Season of Music with Poignant Tribute to Jazz Icon Dexter Gordon on June 21
PHILADELPHIA, PA – After an exciting month of concerts inspired by the music of 1947, Woodmere Art Museum continues bringing audiences to their feet with sounds that reflect the global journey of jazz. Taking concertgoers through the months of May and June, Friday Night Jazz pays homage to the Great American Songbook, gypsy jazz, Stevie Wonder ...
Keith Brand retires from WXPN
Keith Brand, the Sunday morning host of WXPN's Sleepy Hollow, is retiring after 27 years at the mic. A letter was sent out to 'XPN members with Brand's fond farewell: Dear Sleepy Hollow listeners, It is with both sadness and anticipation that I announce that I will be retiring from Sleepy Hollow after 27 years. ...
