Category: Event
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Ron Carter Added to DC Jazz Festival
Jazz legend Ron Carter has been signed to perform at this summer’s DC Jazz Festival in Washington. His set will be featured during the Sept. 3-4 Labour Day weekend at The Wharf. Also added to the festival, The Mambo Legends Orchestra (featuring former members of the Tito Puente Orchestra), Chien Chien Lu and Larnell Lewis. […]
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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp to Close Music Gallery Season
Switzerland’s 14-person Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp will headline the final instalment of The Music Gallery’s 2021-22 season on June 26. Montreal oud performer Sam Shalabi is opening the evening. The group’s veneration of Duchamp combines “free jazz, minimalist krautrock, symphonic mixtures, post punk within the big band format,” according to a press release. Shalabi […]
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New York Guitar Festival Opens Jun. 14
Bill Frisell, Vieux Farka Touré and Laraaji are among the headliners at the New York Guitar Festival’s first post-pandemic in-person festival. The event runs Jun. 14-17 at The Greene Space, a multimedia venue in Soho run by radio station WNYC. Here’s the four-night schedule: Jun. 14: Glenn Jones, Vieux Farka Touré Jun. 15: Fyan Riley, […]
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Bronx River Sounds Runs in June
Quartets led by Ron Granger and Michael Sarian are among the acts scheduled at this month’s Bronx River Sounds Performing Arts Festival. The 19th annual event – dubbed Healing, Harmony and Rejuvenation – takes place at the Bronx River Art Center. The full lineup: June 4: Ron Granger Quartet and Michael Sarian Quartet. June 11: […]
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Tresor Announces Two-Month Long Festival
Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit will feature more than 150 acts in July and August. Attendees can choose from a packed schedule featuring 20 club nights, eight concerts and an exhibition on “the past three decades of musical evolution, social change and development of not only Berlin but the international music scene.” Berlin’s […]
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The Music Gallery announces M. Joakim Show
Lighting and projection designer Melissa Joakim will present “a synthesis of electronic sound and light” at The Music Gallery in Toronto on June 11. She is putting together a show featuring hardware-generated electronic music, designed to trigger the light show. Joakim is a member of the post-punk band Processor and ambient act No Colour Blue. […]
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16th Annual Nordic Jazz Festival goes June 17-22 in Washington
The DC Jazz Festival Artist in Residence Orrin Evans is planning a tribute to Sweden’s E.S.T. trio and the late Esbjorn Svensson. It’ll be featured at next month’s 16th Annual Nordic Jazz Festival in Washington. The event is a presentation of The DC Jazz Festival and the Nordic Embassies to the United States. Three concerts […]
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Ephemera Festival Goes June 16-19 in Warsaw
The Makers of Unsound have announced details of its third Ephemera Festival. The event runs June 16-19 in Warsaw. “Ephemera aims to connect different Warsaw communities through radical experiments in music, sound, performance and interdisciplinary projects,” say directors Małgorzata Płysa and Mat Schulz in a media release. “The first two years of the festival took […]
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Elischa Kaminer and An Laurence Announce May 28 Toronto Performance
The Music Gallery in Toronto will host Elischa Kaminer and An Laurence on May 28, for a performance of Chants D’Amour. This is part of a series entitled You In Mind. The guitar and electronics work is “a collection of songs about what happened that one night, by the river, past the tunnel,” according to […]
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Heroines of Sound Festival Runs July 7-9
Berlin’s Heroines of Sound Festival opens July 7. The all-female program features 30 artists from 20 countries. Attendees can expect “10 world premieres, unfolding past and present contemporary sound art and advanced pop, sound and film bars, workshops, panels and radio and video contributions” according to a press release. The lineup includes Norma Beecroft, Marcelle […]
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