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Annual Festivals
The Vision Festival
www.visionfestival.orgTHE WILLIAMSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL
September
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.wjazzfestival.com or
http://www.fullcircledrumming.com/wjazzfestival/
Headliners include: Eric Reed, Chris Potter, Ray Vega, Joy Askew
Featuring the best of Classic Jazz, Electro Jazz, Latin Jazz and Polish
JazzGreat Women In Music presents:
Blues and Jazz ain’t nothin’ but Soul
www.greatwomeninmusic.com
In October of each year Great Women In Music presents a month long music festival featuring the sounds of Blues and Jazz.Litchfield Jazz Festival -- August
Litchfield, CT also Litchfield Jazz Camp
Litchfield Jazz Festival, named among the Top 100 Events in North America for 2006 (ABA) was founded in 1996 and is now held the first weekend of August each summer at the Goshen Fairgrounds in North West Connecticut. It has presented stars like Ray Charles, Tito Puente, Dave Brubeck and newcomers like Brad Mehldau and Diana Krall (1996- her first US festival). One festivalgoer called it a most mellow and tasty event. The festival also runs the Litchfield Jazz Camp for four weeks in July. Music Director, Don Braden, brings together a stellar faculty to teach students 13 to adult. All student combos perform on a dedicated second stage at the Festival.Jazz at Bard
http://wwwbard.edu/news_events/events/jazzatbard
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,
(845) 876-7666
The Jazz at Bard series and the Bard Music Festival present the program "Re-imagining Mahler," with the Uri Caine Ensemble on Saturday, September 14 . The concert begins at 8:00 p.m., in Olin Hall , and admission is $20; $15 for senior citizens, students, faculty, and staff; and free for Bard students. Caine will also offer a free lecture demonstration about his work reinterpreting Mahler's music, beginning at 4:00 p.m. in Bard HallVerizon Music Festival
The Verizon Music Festival will bring diverse and unique performances to New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Tampa Bay. Each festival will be customized to emphasize the individual city's musical interest. The festivals will be comprised of emerging talent and established artists from a multitude of genres including R&B, Jazz, Latin, Soul and World music. Produced by legendary Jazz promoter George Wein and his Festival Productions, Inc. Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, India, Al Jarreau, Bela Fleck, Fourplay, Joe Sample, Wayne Shorter, Regina Carter and many others.Jazzatlincolncenter.org
(212) 258-9999J&R Downtown SummerFest
New York, NY
annual live jazz festival at City Hall Park in ManhattanSyracuse Jazz Fest
Syracuse, NY
Phone: 315-422-8284JVC Jazz Festival
New York, NYFreihofer's Jazz Festival
Saratoga Springs, NY
516-922-006152nd Street Association Jazz Festival
New York, NY
Info Phone: 212 809-4900Montreal International Jazz Festival
(Festival International de Jazz de Montreal)
Montreal, QC, CanadaDick Hyman's Jazz in July
Explore jazz as a New York City phenomenon
from the 1920s up to the present with Dick Hyman and guests.Jazzin' the Catskills
Stamford, NYHarlem Week
Harlem Jazz and Music Festival
Harlem, USACaramoor Jazz Festival
Katonah, NYLake Placid Institute Jazz Seminar
Lake Placid, NYCharlie Parker Jazz Fest
New York, NYTanglewood Jazz Festival
Lenox, MA,
Summer home of the Boston Symphony.
617 266-1492Jersey Jazz By The Lake
Cranford, NJOne Pulse Festival and Drum Circle
Annual Worlds largest drum circle.
Battery Park, NYC / 12-6pmAll Night Soul at St. Peter's Church
New York, NY 212-935-2200
- JAZZ MOBILE July and August weekdays. The Jazz Mobile brings the best musicians right to your neighborhood after work for free.
- Lincoln Center Mid-Summer Night Swing
From swing to salsa, dance instructors are on hand to teach a few smooth moves, while many people come by just to listen to the infectious beats.
- Lincoln Center Presents Out of Doors
Each summer during the month of August, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors presents FREE music, dance, special events, and family fun on the plazas of Lincoln Center. If you would like to be added to the Out of Doors mailing list, please call 212.875.5108.
- Dancing on the Plaza
The Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Inside the Park at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues
Thursday evenings in August, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
The first four Thursday evenings in August the Plaza of the Dana Discovery Center will be turned into an outdoor ballroom. Each week a professional dance instructor will teach the latest and greatest dance steps in swing, salsa, ballroom and classic disco from 6:00pm-6:45pm. From 7:00pm - 8:30pm participants can practice these new skills while dancing to live music.
- SummerStage
Rumsey Playfield, East 72nd Street off Fifth Avenue
For the complete schedule of SummerStage performances, please click on the SummerStage schedule. Admission to all free performances (not benefit concerts) is on a first come, first-served basis, no tickets required. Depending on the show, chairs may or may not be placed on the field and bleacher seating may or may not be available. For more information, click on http://www.summerstage.com
- Central Park Listings
- Battery Park City Summer Schedule
- Celebrate Brooklyn
24 years of summer outdoor music, dance, word and film from around the globe and just around the corner!
- friends of the arts - Summer Schedule, Oyster Bay, long Island
Bronx
Bronx Council on the Arts
kicks off its
BX1: Bronx Artist Festival
with Jazz at Hostos and
The Bronx Museum on June 1st(May 20, 2005 – Bronx) The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) kicks off
its first-ever BX1: Bronx Artist Festival, an event geared to honor BCA’s
past and present BRIO winners, with jazz performances that include
Bronx artists Ray Vega, Desmar Guevara, Alma Micic and Roy Campbell. The
BX1: Bronx Artist Festival 2005 will take place in a number of locations
over a four-day period and culminate in a special awards presentation
hon-oring former and current BRIO winners who have moved on to
noteworthy careers.
Two venues will feature jazz on June 1st. At 6:00pm, Hostos Community
College’s Center for Arts & Culture presents An Evening of Words and
Music featuring the Latin Jazz Sounds of Ray Vega and continuing with the
poetry/theater ensemble Universes featuring Steve Sapp and Mildred Ruiz
and Hip Hop performer and Spo-ken Word artist Baruch Israel. Hostos
Community College is located at 450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street in the
Bronx. For directions, call 718-518-4455 or visit
http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts/directions.html. Ad-mission is
free.
Jazz Con BRIO will heat up the Bronx Museum of the Arts with
performances by Desmar Guevara and his ensemble, jazz vocalist Alma Micic and
jazz instrumentalist Roy Campbell. Jazz Con BRIO performances begin at
6:15pm. The Bronx Museum is located at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th
Street in the Bronx. For directions, call 718-681-6000 or visit
http://www.bronxmuseum.org/info.htm. Admission is free.
Roy Campbell, Jr., a two-time BRIO winner, was born in Los Angeles but
bred in New York. At 20 he led his own band and was in great demand as
a side man and studio musician. Roy’s achievements outside the US
included leading the Thelonius New World Orchestra in Rotterdam and being
commissioned to compose music for brass ensembles in the Eindhoven and
Groningen Festivals. He has written and arranged music for documentaries
and off-Broadway productions, and he and his contemporary bands play
constantly in concerts, on tour, and in festivals all over the world.
Alma Micic was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. She started
performing with a local quartet in Belgrade at a time when jazz was making a
comeback. At 17, she started performing and touring regularly with the
Radio Big Band. In 1995 she was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College
of Music. In 2000, Alma relocated to New York City where she met the
current members of her quartet. “Introducing Alma” is her first solo
effort, de-scribed by Bob Young of the Boston Herald as “music that nods
to the past and looks to the future.” Alma is a 2003 BRIO winner for
Vocal Performance.
Desmar Guevara Santiago, a 2003 BRIO BRIO winner for Music Composition,
grew up in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. He is a multi-instrumentalist,
music educator, musical director and founder of the genre-busting jazz
en-semble Taller Sicá. In 1987 he attended Berklee College of Music
where he studied Jazz Composition and Ar-rangement, as well as studying
privately with Grammy Nominee and world-renowned pianist Danilo Perez. He
has performed and toured extensively throughout Europe and Latin
America as lead pianist with legendary art-ists Pleneros De la 21, Song by
Four, Celia Cruz, Tito Nieves, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez, Louie Ramirez,
and many more.
Ray Vega, a native of the South Bronx, is a veteran of the bands of
Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Mongo San-tamaria, Mario Bauza, Luis "Perico"
Ortiz, Hector LaVoe, Johnny Pacheco, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez and Louie
Ramirez to name a few. Ray has now established himself as one of the
innovators of the New York Jazz trumpet scene. A multi-talented
trumpeter, percussionist, composer, and arranger, he presents jazz from a
re-freshingly original and contemporary perspective. His two recordings on
the Concord Picante label, his self-titled debut "Ray Vega", and
"Boperation", along with his first release on the Palmetto label "Pa'lante"
have been well received by critics, audiences and musicians alike. Vega's
second Palmetto CD "Squeeze, Squeeze" was re-leased in February 2004
and also received critical acclaim including Four Stars in Down Beat
Magazine. Ray is a four-time BRIO winner for Music Composition.
BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own), BCA’s prestigious 16-year old award,
pays tribute each year to 22 Bronx artists who excel in their chosen
artistic disciplines. The BX1: Bronx Artist Festival will feature a number
of events and performances by previous BRIO winners at each event
location.
BX1: Bronx Artist Festival 2005 provides a snapshot of the South Bronx
as the Cultural Corridor to arts and cul-ture in the borough. The jazz
component of the festival is one of the many segments of June 1st’s
Bronx Culture Trolley will transport guests to an array of presentations
and performances by former and current BRIO winners at the theater at
Hostos Center for Arts and Culture, the Bronx Museum, Pregones Theater,
and the Downtown Bronx Bar & Café.
For complete information on all the events and activities taking place
during BX1’s four-day Bronx Artist Festival, visit BCA’s website at
www.bronxarts.org.
BX1 will continue as a biennial tradition and target different
neighborhoods in the Bronx in an effort to highlight the important of the arts
throughout the borough. For further information, please contact Bill
Aguado at 718-931-9500 x17 / aguado@bronxarts.org or Phil Cardone at
718-931-9500 x33 / phil@bronxarts.org.
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