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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2018: Part 1
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 22018 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Various Venues, Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2018 Every return to Montréal for the city's annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is much-anticipated. Closing off six square blocks in the downtown core is rare enough; but, over the past 39 years since the festival's first edition in 1980, the program has grown to the point where it's a serious challenge to ...
read moreBela Fleck: Rocket Science
by Doug Collette
The musicianship on Béla Fleck and The Flecktones' Rocket Science radiates a sense of play that was missing from the group's last recorded work The Hidden Land (Columbia, 2006). There's also a sense of adventure here that hasn't really been in evidence since Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Warner Bros, 1993), the first album recorded after the departure of original Flecktone Howard Levy. After an eighteen-year absence, Levy is back in the fold on this record and ...
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South African Ensemble Soweto Gospel Choir and Banjo Master Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Perform Their Own Twist on Holiday Classics at the Kimmel Center This December
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Soweto Gospel Choir Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 8pm Verizon Hall Price: $29-61 Dressed in a sunburst of colors, they danced, clapped, drummed and even whistled through a fast-paced program, building song after song to heart-stopping pitches of intensity." --Washington Post
Rich harmonies, earthy rhythms and vibrant garb evoke holiday spirit as the internationally-acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir performs seasonal favorites on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 8pm in Verizon Hall. ...
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