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Diana Ross to Make Her First San Francisco Appearance Since 1969

Diana Ross to Make Her First San Francisco Appearance Since 1969

Eagerly Anticipated Return of One of America’s Most Enduring Music Legends

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2011
/PRNewswire/ — The City by the Bay is eagerly anticipating the
triumphant return of one of the American music industry’s most enduring
and beloved artists.  Diana Ross is set to appear Friday, September 16, 2011 at 8 PM at the Golden Gate Theatre in downtown San Francisco.  This will be the recording superstar’s first performance in San Francisco since 1969, when she performed with the Supremes at the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Room. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Fest With Esteemed Miles Davis Award on June 26

Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Festival With Esteemed Miles Davis Award June 26

Stanley Clarke will be the 18th
recipient of the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival June
26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier venue. The Miles Davis Award was
created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the
entire body of his or her work and for that musician’s influence in
regenerating the jazz idiom.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2011


Stanley Clarke will be the 18th recipient of the Miles Davis Award at
the Montreal Jazz Festival June 26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier
venue. The award will be presented before his festival performance with
Return To Forever. The Miles Davis Award was created in 1994 to honor a
great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her
work and for that musician’s influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. To continue, please click “MORE”!

New Return To Forever Lineup Launches Ticket & VIP Package Sales for Tour

New Return to Forever Lineup Launches Ticket & VIP Package Sales for 32-City U.S. Tour

VIP Fan Experience Packages Now Available Through PAID

BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – Jun 7, 2011) – Return to Forever
is returning to the U.S. as Return to Forever IV (RTF IV) with an
incredible new lineup for a 32-city Summer Tour that begins in
Pittsburgh on August 7. With core band members Chick Corea, Stanley
Clarke and Lenny White alongside Mahavishnu Orchestra alum and violin
virtuoso Jean-Luc Ponty and guitarist extraordinaire Frank Gambale
forming the fresh incarnation of the unmatchable jazz-rock quintet, fans
are in for an incredible treat made even more spectacular with VIP Fan
Experience packages managed by PAID Inc. (OTCBB: PAYD). VIP ticket packages are on sale now via http://return2forever.com/tour/. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Hezekiah Walker to be Featured at 2011 McDonalds Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour

2011 McDonald’s® Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour to Feature the Soul-Stirring Sounds of Gospel Great Hezekiah Walker

 

 

Multi-Grammy Award Winning Gospel Artist Set to Uplift and Inspire Consumers Across America

OAK BROOK, Ill., May 23, 2011/PRNewswire/ — McDonald‘s®
will kick off its fifth annual Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour
featuring Grammy Award-winning gospel recording artist Hezekiah Walker.
The McDonald‘s Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour is part of McDonald‘s
everyday commitment to celebrating the culture of the African-American
community and will make stops at churches in six U.S. cities including Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Atlanta. The tour will also play at the Jackson Convention Complex in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as, summer festivals in Newark, NJ, and Washington, DC. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Quincy Jones to Lead Historic Concert to Promote Peace During Morocco’s Annual Mawazine Music Festival

Multi-Grammy Winning Producer, Composer
and Humanitarian Quincy Jones to Lead Historic Concert of Global Stars
to Promote Peace, Hope, Unity and a Better Tomorrow During Morocco’s
Annual Mawazine Music Festival


LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Multi-Grammy winning producer, composer and humanitarian Quincy Jones,
in association with his Global Gumbo Group and the Maroc Cultures
Association, will lead a historic collaboration of Western, Middle
Eastern and North African musicians on May 25th during a concert at the annual Mawazine Music Festival in Rabat, Morocco to promote the principles of peace, hope, unity and a better tomorrow for the youth of the region. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Kickoff of The New SFJAZZ Center on May 6th, 2011 | To Pay Homge to Stevie Wonder

Dawn of the SFJAZZ Center—First Stand-Alone Venue for Jazz in America—Comes a Century After the Birth of Jazz

Gala 2011: Groundbreaking! Celebrates
The Past, Present and Future Of Jazz with Legendary Vocalist Mary
Stallings and The SFJAZZ Collective Paying Homage to Stevie Wonder


San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 05, 2011


In a fitting tribute, nearly 100 years after the birth of the African
American music tradition known as “jazz” – a West Coast slang term first
used to refer to music in Chicago – SFJAZZ will build the nation’s
first free-standing center solely dedicated to the presentation,
education and preservation of the art form. On May 6, 2011, SFJAZZ, the
largest nonprofit presenter of jazz and world music in America, kicks
off the construction of the new SFJAZZ Center with a ceremonial
groundbreaking event in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. The SFJAZZ Board
of Trustees, donors, musicians and jazz fans alike have already raised
over $46 million of the $60 million budgeted to create this
state-of-the-art cultural center. Scheduled for completion in 2012 The
SFJAZZ Center, designed by renowned architect Mark Cavagnero of Mark
Cavagnero Associates, will be a transparent, 35,000-square-foot,
freestanding LEED®-compliant structure that will provide artistic and
education programs for the community. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Prince Announces Welcome 2 America Live – “21 Nite Stand” in Los Angeles

Prince Announces Welcome 2 America Live “21 Nite Stand” in Los Angeles

 
 


Tour Includes $25 “All In” Tickets


LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2011
/PRNewswire/ — Prince, one of the most prolific and groundbreaking
artists of our time whose recorded music, live performances and powerful
artistry have affected music and pop culture like no other, has
declared a string of purple days in Los Angeles. He will bring his extraordinary Welcome 2 America Live tour back to the West Coast with the announcement of a “21 nite stand” in Los Angeles. The Live Nation produced tour arrives on April 14th, 21st and 22nd at the world famous Los Angeles Forum. Tickets for this once in a lifetime event go on sale Tuesday, April 12th at 10am PT at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. Additional dates to be announced soon. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Janet Jackson’s ‘Number Ones Tour’ Has Been Extended Till Fall

SUCCESS OF JANET JACKSON’S ‘NUMBER ONES TOUR’ PROMPTS EXTENSION OF U.S. AND EUROPEAN LEGS UNTIL FALL


 

LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As a result of massive sellouts for performances in Asia and North America,
the JANET JACKSON ‘Number Ones: Up Close & Personal Tour’ is being
expanded.  JANET’s largest ever world tour will now be vastly extended
to even more global cities in addition to the currently scheduled
performances in London, Paris and Monte Carlo.
  The North American leg of the tour, which is currently underway, will
be continued in the fall after a scheduled spring and summer in Europe.

Originally
slated as a world tour of 35 cities to match the 35 number one singles
from her double-disc album, NUMBER ONES, JANET will now greatly exceed
her planned dates. The high demand from key venues on several continents
will bring JANET around the world and back again.  Several of the
concerts on the initial schedule were sold-out in the first ten minutes
of availability. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Ambrose Akinmusire Announces Spring Tour; Reveals Cover Artwork For His Blue Note Debut

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE ANNOUNCES SPRING TOUR IN U.S. & EUROPE;

REVEALS COVER ARTWORK FOR HIS BLUE NOTE DEBUT

WHEN THE HEART EMERGES GLISTENING


 

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire has announced Spring tour dates with his quintet in the U.S. and Europe in support of his forthcoming Blue Note Records debut When The Heart Emerges Glistening. Akinmusire has also revealed the cover artwork for the album, which will be released on April 5.

 

The tour will kick off April 14 with a four-night engagement at the Jazz Standard in New York City, and includes a 12-date run in Europe, as well as a homecoming performance at SFJAZZ in San Francisco on May 22 and an appearance at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles on June 11. Akinmusire.’ touring quintet will feature tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown. Additional Summer tour dates in the U.S. and Europe will be announced shortly. For dates and times, please click “MORE”!!

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