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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Preview- Twelfth Annual Nightlife Awards, January 27th, 2014, The Town Hall, New York City

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The 2014 Nightlife Awards, January 27^th, 2014

The Town Hall, New York City

By E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com

The twelfth annual New York Nightlife Awards will take place on January 27^th, 2014 at The Town Hall, N.Y.C. This is a unique awards ceremony where the award winners perform and the audience gets a chance to experience their talents. Awards are given to N.Y.C. comedy, jazz and cabaret artists who have been nominated and voted upon by a group of distinguished, local New York City entertainment critics.

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz Vocalist, Dee Dee Bridgewater, will be presented with the Nightlife Legend Award. She has won three Grammy Awards, a Tony Award and is the host of National Public Radio's Jazz Set. She recently appeared in Lady Day, The Billie Holiday Musical, on Broadway.

The other 2014 winners are:

Ben Allison and Darcy James Argue, in a tie, for Outstanding Jazz Band; Gretchen Parlato, for Outstanding Female Jazz Vocalist and William Blake, for Outstanding Male Jazz Vocalist; Laura Benanti, for Outstanding Major Cabaret Vocalist; Stacy Sullivan, for Outstanding Female Cabaret Vocalist and Liam Forde, for Outstanding Male Cabaret Vocalist; Gina Brillon, Outstanding Female Standup Comedian and Jimmy Failla, Outstanding Male Standup Comedian.

The evening will be hosted by three- time Emmy Award Winner, funny man, Bruce Vilanch. Guest star performers and/or presenters will include Jason Robert Brown, Bill Irwin, Nellie McKay, Carole J. Bufford, Maxine Linehan and more.

Visit www.siegelpresents.com for more detailed information.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Preview- GlobalFEST 2014, January 12th, 2014, Webster Hall, N.Y.C.

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GlobalFEST 2014, N.Y.C., January 12^th, 2014, Webster Hall

www.globalfest-ny.com

by E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com

Each year, since 2003, in mid-January, GlobalFEST introduces twelve international world music acts to New York City audiences in one intense evening, on three stages at Webster Hall.

The eclectic variety of musical styles is perfect for open-minded music lovers, who have a curiosity about traditional music from other cultures, much of which, in this case, hybridized with influences from contemporary popular music forms.

This year’s line up includes:

Congolese Afro rumba rapper, Baloji

The Bombay Royale (US debut), eleven piece Bollywood/Surfer pop music big band from Melbourne, Australia

Jamaican singer/one-string guitarist, Brushy One String (NY debut)

Acappella gospel trio, Como Mamas

Ukrainian punk folk group, DahkaBrakah, which looks to be one of the most intriguing groups of the evening
(please see their video, which I have included below)

Fanfare Ciocarlia, Balkan Gypsybrass band, with over twelve members

Ghanawan tribal trance master, vocalist/bassist, Hassan Hakmoun, from Morocco

KiT (Kuenta i Tambu), Dutch/Antillean global bass dance beats quartet

Noura Mint Seymali, Mauritanian desert soul vocalist

Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, twelve-piece band from Tucson, Arizona, which blends Mexican mambo with indie-cumbia

The Wu-Force, featuring Abigail Washburn, Kai Welch and Wu Fei (N.Y. debut), Appalachian-Chinese avant –folk

Yasmine Hamdan, Lebanese vocalist, performing post-modern Parisian pop via Beirut underground

DakhaBrakha (Ukraine)

Subversive Ukrainian punk-folk

Monday, December 30, 2013

Preview- Winter Jazzfest 2014, New York City, January 7th-11th, 2014. Winter Jazzfest Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary With Over 90 Performances

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Celebrating its Tenth Anniversary -

Winter Jazzfest 2014, New York City, January 7-11, 2014,

www.winterjazzfest.com

Preview and photo credits/copyrights:

E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com

All photos are of last year’s Winter Jazzfest 2013.

Winter Jazzfest is celebrating its tenth anniversary with five nights of dynamic jazz in New York City.

Le Poisson Rouge will feature a kickoff concert by Bobby Previte’s group, Terminals, with Nels Cline, John Medeski, So Percussion, and Helado Negro as the opening act, on January 7^th.

Blue Note Records 75^th Anniversary Concert will take place on January 8th at The Town Hall, featuring Robert Glasper and Jason Moran, with special guests, Ravi Coltrane, Bilal, Eric Harland and Alan Hampton.

Blue Note Records will continue its 75^th anniversary celebration on January 9^th at Le Poisson Rouge, featuring the Revive Big Band, with special guests Bilal and Dr. Lonnie Smith, plus the Wallace Roney Orchestra playing Wayne Shorter’s compositions, Universe, Twin Dragons and Legend, never released music written for Miles Davis, conducted by David Weiss.

There will be a two-night music marathon in eight Greenwich Village venues, featuring over ninety, yes, ninety jazz groups, on January 10^th and 11^th. Venues are Le Poisson Rouge, The Bitter End, The Blue Note, Judson Church, Subculture, Bowery Electric, Zinc Bar and the NYU Lounge.

The two-night music marathon features a phenomenally stellar line up of jazz groups, of incredible, intriguing musical variety and looks to be two remarkable evenings for jazz lovers, not to be missed. This is an ambitious lineup and the most impressive over all to date for Winter Jazzfest. Just a handful of the remarkable performers are: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society; Henry Threadgill’s “Ensemble Double-Up” In Remembrance of Lawrence Butch Morris, Elliott Sharp’s Orchestra Carbon, Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba; Slavic Soul Party! Plays Ellington: The Far East Suite; Roy Hargrove Quintet; Rene Marie; Don Byron’s Six Musician Group; Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; Matthew Shipp Trio; Tim Berne Snakeoil; No BS! Brass; ABRAXAS- John Zorn’s Book of Angels by Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, and so many more fabulous musicians.

Video of the No BS! Brass Band below.

For complete information visit www.winterjazzfest.com