Best Music of 2023, Pt. 1: Local Spins writers’ picks for albums and concerts of the year December 20, 2023 Music of every ilk burst out of the gates in early 2023 and never stopped turning heads. Today, the first round of Local Spins writers reveal picks for the best albums and con...
The 19th Annual DC JazzFest will take place in September 2023 with 20+ concerts, interviews and exclusive events featuring international superstars and homegrown talent. The festival's signature event, DC JazzFest at The Wharf takes place September 2-3, over Labor Day Weekend. This blockbuster w...
“But when I am in a situation like tonight, it forces me to hear things that I would not think about hearing.” The Generations Series Continues The “Generations Series” continues with three concerts. Receive a 25% discount by using the code COF25. Oct. 19: Saxophonists Bobby Watson ...
DC Then you should visit the Amazon. When I was living in Brazil I spent some nights in the Amazon rainforest and in fact the title of my first album ‘Suite Tres Rios’ is inspired by the meeting of two great rivers in the Amazon. These rivers meet but keep their different colours. ...
a gala concert and an open forum with the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, exploring jazz music in education. The Tottori Jazz Festival in Japan hosts a five-day series of concerts in addition to an art exhibit, jam sessions and workshops. The Botswana Society for Jazz Education ki...
in this set would remain concert favorites until the end of his life. The performance also has a folky atmosphere, filled with acoustic guitars, fiddle, banjo and piano. The Isle of Wight performance shows little of the polished sophisticated sheen that Cohen’s later concerts would adopt. Put...
Actually, college was kicks. Oh, I was homesick, couldn’t drag myself to a 9 a.m. calculus class and didn’t understand what I was doing in school. But there were parties nearly every night in my dorm, lots of funny, smart people to meet and, of course, rock concerts to help ...
Pinsonneault, Julie
I turned 49 on Feb. 11, and – while this is not visible on the surface yet – the rough plan is to spend the next stage of my career in my 50s and in the far future less as a trio pianist and more as a formal composer. Eventually, in retrospect, those concerts may mark the ...
The station is notable for its broadcast of the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama. Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of...