By Kara Patterson • Post-Crescent staff writer • August 31, 2010
Homegrown heart and soul fuels this weekend’s Fox Jazz Fest, which features headliners with Wisconsin ties who have achieved widespread recognition in their fields.
Pianist Geoffrey Keezer, a California-based Eau Claire native whose 2009 album “Aurea” received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album, headlines Saturday, the first day of the two-day free and public event. Vocalist Janet Planet of Oshkosh performs Sunday and will feature selections from three professional projects.
The Jazz Corner Society, the event’s umbrella organization, offers the 17th annual festival to the community as a free gift of jazz celebration, education, enjoyment and appreciation, said John Harmon, a pianist and composer from Winneconne who is the festival’s artistic director and emcee.
“Geoffrey Keezer, he was an absolute prodigy,” Harmon said. “He has virtuoso talent and sometimes displays it, but often he can be very simple and quite elegant. I think that’s part of his maturity as an artist. I think probably Janet (Planet) is probably one of the top five jazz singers in the country, personally. … She is probably the most articulate singer, it’s so clear. Plus, she’s so evocative. She can make you cry, and she can make you laugh.”
The event, themed “Home Cookin’,” takes place from noon to 8 p.m. each day at Jefferson Park in Menasha.
Keezer brings to the fest music from his CD “Wildcrafted” and also from the newer “Aurea,” which he says is not typical Latin jazz.
“It’s Afro-Peruvian and Argentine folk music mixed with jazz,” he said. “I went to Peru in 2004 for a jazz festival there and met several Peruvian musicians. It was really inspiring so I decided to start a project and play some of that music. What happened in Peru is … they had a slave trade so there are a lot of African Peruvians living there. They developed a kind of music that’s really interesting. It’s kind of a hybrid of Caribbean music and West African rhythms and the Spanish flamenco mixed in with it and then the native Andean Indian music.”
Planet said her audiences can expect to hear material from “Of Thee I Sing,” a 2009 concept album that she calls “a musical love letter to our country”; “Janet Planet Sings the Bob Dylan Songbook,” an homage to Dylan’s songs of the 1960s; and “Love Letters from Cary Bluff,” a CD in production that is a tribute to the late musician Chris Swansen.
“There are songs that just groove and really pay tribute to the words, which is kind of my thing,” Planet said. “Then there are the sensitivities as well as the kind of fun, spunky, bluesy types.”
“Janet Planet Sings the Bob Dylan Songbook” is scheduled for nationwide release Sept. 15, Planet said, but she plans to sell pre-release copies at Fox Jazz Fest.
Harmon said the festival is reaching out to youth, for they are the next generation of jazz listeners and musicians.
The fest’s third annual Jazz Improvisation Competition, sponsored in part by Heid Music, selected two high school students from a seven-county application pool to solo Saturday with a professional ensemble.
First-place winner Mike Darling, a Hortonville High School sophomore who plays the drums, piano, vibes and guitar, will showcase his skills on three of the four instruments. Ana M. Nelson, a saxophonist and clarinetist from Berlin High School, also will take the stage.
“I really love just playing blues guitar and really soulful stuff so I picked ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.’ You can have the space you need for the guitar just to speak,” Mike Darling, 15, said. “And then for my vibes piece I picked ‘Mr. P.C.’ because it’s faster. For ‘Donna Lee,’ which is the other soloist’s choice, I’m taking the drum solo.”
For members of the Neenah High School Jazz Ensemble, one of several student ensembles that perform during the fest, there is excitement in seeing how far they’ve come and also what possibilities may lie ahead for them.
“It makes the students part of this genre, this language,” said conductor David Dunning, who encourages students to take in as much of the event as possible. “Two Neenah grads (John Schwerbel and Patrick Kelly) are out in California in school, and they just finished freshman year … they’re going to be playing a duo on Sunday afternoon. They’re slotted in just like some of the regular professionals. The students are excited that somebody they know from being in school with is now playing like that.”
The festival, which takes about $40,000 to run, relies on grants, donations and sponsorships to return each year, said Harmon, who said attendance last year amounted to about 3,500 listeners on Saturday and at least 2,000 on Sunday.
Planet said jazz is powerful, and she has noticed over the years how people have been affected by its honesty and heart.
“What it truly boils down to is hoping you bring love and compassion and hope to the listeners,” she said.
Source: Post Crescent News
King of the dancehall Beenie Man said he is working on his new album to release this November called “King In Control.â€
We ask the doc about the feud between himself and LA Lewis the doc said, “LA who mi no know a who dat man, a who name so dread.â€
Source: Urban Islandz
Mr-Vegas-promo-photo
Vegas has also released Boy Shorts, Sweet Jamaica, Can’t Even Walk and Cutie.
Boy Shorts was produced by Billboard chart-topping producer Rohan ‘Sno Cone’ Fuller.
Sweet Jamaica, a faithful ode to the country of his birth, was produced by Vegas himself. The accompanying music video was recently completed under the direction of ace music video director Jason ‘Jay Will’ Williams. The track is already getting rotation on the radio in Jamaica and is gaining momentum stateside and in parts of Europe.
Collaborations
Can’t Even Walk, which was recorded in tribute to O’Neil Edwards, the late Voicemail member, was jointly produced by Mr Vegas and veteran producer Mikey Bennett. The song also features Ghost, Alaine and the two remaining members of Voicemail. A video for Can’t Even Walk was recently released.
It was producer Jeremy Harding (2 Hard Recordings) who gave Mr Vegas his first big hit with Nike Air in 1997. Both have teamed up for the song Cutie, which is featured on Harding’s latest rhythm Project Circus.
Mr Vegas’ current tour has already snaked its way into Canada, the artiste having made a stop at the Montreal Reggae Festival on August 8.
He is currently in Europe for scheduled performances in Italy, Belgium, and Sweden. He will return to the United States where he will perform in various states between September and October. Among them is the Hot 97 On Da Reggae Tip show.
Vegas is being managed by Rodney Hill of RHH Music Corp Hill, who has had years of experience working with artistes including singer Cezar, Andrew Mac, Super Cat and Bob Sinclair, among others, and is a former consultant for Columbia and Uptown Records.
Source: Gleaner
For the last seven years, Island Dreamz Radio has been webcasting tropical music in the style of Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown, with a strong focus on independent music artists.
Island Dreamz broadcasts several live concerts and music festivals over the internet each year from locations as far north as Manistee Michigan and as far south as Key West Florida. The station has worked with several members of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band including Greg “Fingers” Taylor, Amy Lee, Doyle Grisham, T.C. Mitchell, and Mac McAnally, CMA Musician of the Year for 2008 and 2009.
Radio JimmyDreamz was founded by friends Edward Meyer (Big Ed) and James Gay (Captain Jim) and began broadcasting in 2004. Shortly after, our first ever live broadcast took place in Manistee, MI, and included music from the artists Tim Krause, Jack Mosley and Caribbean Blue. Earlier this year, the station over went several changes and improvements, including improved sound quality, additional staff members, and the new name, “Island Dreamz Radioâ€.
Listening to Island Dreamz Radio (islanddreamzradio.com) is free and only requires registration with Live365. Listeners interested in supporting independent music and Island Dreamz Radio are invited to become a Live365 VIP. VIPs enjoy higher quality access, will not be locked out when the station is “fullâ€, and no commercial interruptions. Visit islanddreamzradio.com/how-to-listen for more info on how to listen to Island Dreamz Radio.
The 10th Anniversary staging of the New Jersey International Reggae Fest was a wonderful celebration of G City Enterprise’s decade-long
commitment to bringing the biggest and the best of Caribbean music and culture to the Garden State. Despite inclement weather, over a thousand patrons gathered at the Edison Park Complex at the Prudential Center in Newark to listen to the drum and bass sounds of Reggae and Dancehall, and celebrate with some of the genres’ greatest artists. G City Enterprise issues the following statement:
We, at G City Enterprise, would like to personally thank all of our loyal patrons and Reggae music fans that stood out in the rain for hours to celebrate our milestone 10th Anniversary New Jersey International Reggae Festival with us. The fact that there were approximately 1,500 people that endured heavy down-pours and unseasonably cool temperatures is a testament to how much our annual festival means to the people of New Jersey.
We apologize to our patrons for production delays and changes in performance line-up, due to inclement weather. Yesterday’s thunderstorms were unpredicted and unexpected, and despite doing our best to deal with the weather conditions, we recognize that certain production aspects did not go as planned, and we extend our deepest apologies.
We thank Tarrus Riley, Frankie Paul, Freddie McGregor, Stephen McGregor, Chino, Laden, Romain Virgo, Gramps Morgan, Anthony Malvo, Assassin, and all of the local artists for giving absolutely amazing performances.
We give a great deal of thanks to Gyptian, Marcia Griffiths, and Cham who were in attendance, but unfortunately did not get the opportunity to perform due to the weather-related production delays.
We thank LIME, RoadBlockRadio, and Jeawin Entertainment for their valuable partnership in putting together this milestone festival.
We thank all of the vendors that kept patrons well-fed, sheltered, and entertained during the down-pours, and inevitable delays.
We thank all of the media houses and media personnel that attended in record numbers. Despite the rain, they were out there with their cameras and equipment doing their best to provide full coverage of the event.
Lastly, we would like to thank our production staff, and the RoadBlockRadio team who worked miracles to put together a terrific and enjoyable event, and our security staff who provided a safe environment for all of the patrons, media, and artists.
Looking forward to seeing you all again at New Jersey Reggae Fest 2011.
Actively involved in supporting and promoting local music, I sat down with Roger Collins & Rags Narine, co-founders of Foundation Radio at their music night in Gastown to find out what goes in to trying to fix the machine.
KK: What was the impetus behind Foundation Radio
RN: A lack of a music scene in Vancouver. Rather, not that there isn’t one, but it is very separated between the different neighbourhoods, and there is no process by which local artists can get air time in their own city so we wanted to bring it together and put some support behind it.
RC: I was driving to Abbotsford and looking for something to listen to on the way there. I went through literally every FM station trying to find something to listen to and couldn’t find anything I liked. This was about 3 years ago. I went home and started researching how to start a radio station. Regulations and lack of significant funding put me on to the openness of online radio. No one can tell you you can’t play a speech by the Dalai Lama or Martin Luther King, Jr.
KK: Or have swearing.
RC: Or have swearing.
KK: So you local artists on rotation?
RN: Yes, we play a lot of all types of music – reggae, hip hop, jazz…but are always happy to get demos from local artists. Right now we’re playing tracks by Little T feat. David Morin, Chin Injeti, The Airtights and a couple others.
KK: And then you created the music nights at Nyala? How did that originate?
RN: We started that night 20 months ago to give local artists a voice and a sense of community, and the first few weeks were great. Then it went kind of flat, but we were very passionate about what we were trying to do and we perservered. One day, we just had a feeling something big was going to happen. We went in to set up the equipment, and there were people sitting on the floor it was so packed. It’s been like that ever since.
KK: And then a month ago you moved to your new location in Gastown, to Calabash (the restaurant of which Roger is a part owner). Do you feel like that has changed the dynamic of the night?
RC: Yes, we still have our loyal regulars, but at Nyala, it was definitely the same crew every week. Here, we get a whole new audience and new players. We don’t want to force our tastes on anyone, so we’re happy if you come down and check it out. If it’s your kind of thing, great, if not, we’re happy you came by.
KK: Your host Whizdumb opens every night with a spoken word piece. He isn’t alone in bringing poetry to the stage. What do you think the draw is for the spoken word artists to your nights?
RN: We wanted to include poetry as part of the open night because in my opinion, poetry is central to music. How did people remember stories back before you could write them down? They put them into poems and they sung them. Poetry is at the heart of all music and Back to The Source really respects it as an art form. Sometimes it takes a while for an audience to accept the idea of hearing poetry at a restaurant, or even live music at a restaurant, but the more we put out there, the more people respond to it so the interest exists.
KK: What do you think plagues artists in Vancouver? Why are we being overlooked by the rest of the country, or even our own city?
RC: Regulations…the CRTC places radio in a box. We couldn’t see a way of supporting the scene in Vancouver from inside that box. Also, licensing to have live music, outdoors, indoors…it’s a real challenge to be allowed to do what we do.
RN: In Toronto, every night of the week you can find live music somewhere – country, hip hop, jazz – and every genre has a scene and followers. Vancouver is the no-fun city because everything is so tightly regulated.
KK: How did you come to live in Vancouver?
RC: I was working in the Caribbean and couldn’t face going straight back to the Toronto winter so I went to Vancouver first.
RN: Roger moved there, and then called me and asked me to move every week for like, two years.
KK: Do you think the Olympics helped change that no-fun mentality at all?
RC: Yes, definitely. I think it showed the city that it can handle outside influences, and other cultures. We are multicultural, but in Toronto I had people in my class from all over the world. You see that in all the other aspects of the city. Vancouver is getting there though. Hopefully we are helping bring some of our influences to an area of the city that is meant to have a music scene.
KK: What do you think of CDC Radio 3?
RC: I love it. I think it’s a great idea.
KK: Would you say that West Coast sound is being accurately represented in Canada right now?
RN: No, not at all. West Coast sound is so much more diverse than what makes it to mainstream. The local talent pool is very deep, and from all over the world.
KK: Do you still have nights where you are blown away by what happens on stage here.
RN: Oh yeah. Some nights I have been close to tears by the power of some of the performances. It’s really rewarding.
KK: How do you fund Foundation Radio and your presence at events like Car Free Day?
RN: Self-funded. We are very sure of what we are doing, and believe in it enough to put our own money behind it.
KK: So what direction are you hoping to take Foundation Radio?
RC: In a few weeks we will start streaming live music straight from the stage at Calabash. DJ sets, the open mic, it will all be available online, so that if you are at home, you can listen in and decide to come down or if you miss a night, you can dowload the podcast. Ideally, at the end of the night, anyone who plays will walk about from the stage with a CD of his or her set. We are also planning on doing a mix-tape of some of the friends of Back to the Source.
KK: What goes in to this, commitment-wise?
RC: Well I have my jazz feature on the radio show. But to make a restaurant work, you have to be here all the time, so this is where I put most of my work in now.
RN: Every day promoting it, getting the word out. Social networking helps, but we mostly rely on word of mouth.
KK: If you could do it all again, would you change anything so far?
RC: You learn as you go, trail and error, but I think we are where we want to be. Designing a restaurant wasn’t something I had experience with, so it was a great project. I worked with a guy who had designed and built restaurants before, but ultimately made some decisions he disagreed with and am happy with the results.
RN: We aren’t going to open for lunch anymore, and instead we’re going to have live music here 7 nights a week.
KK: What do you do when you aren’t working away at the station or the restaurant?
RN: I cook. Music and food are my two passions. I’m working with pastry right now.
KK: Pastry can be tricky.
And on that note, the conversation lapsed into discussing houseboating on the Shu and how long it takes a Red Stripe to get warm.
Back to the Source can be seen every second Tuesday (next: Aug 17th), and the stage at Calabash Bistro will soon be streaming live to a url near you.
Source: BC Local
Source photo: Caribbean 360
An arrest warrant is out for Barbados’ newly crowned calypso monarch after he allegedly beat a media personality who was openly critical of his victory.
TV and radio host of the popular Festival Stage programme, hosted every Crop Over season, Anthony ‘Admiral’ Nelson, has alleged that Anthony ‘Mighty Gabby’ Carter attacked him, unprovoked, at last night’s Cohobblopot show, destroying the shirt he was wearing at the time.
And he has vowed that there will be no mercy for the calypsonian, insisting that “no man has a right to hit another man for speakingâ€.
“There is an arrest warrant out for Gabby. I will take it to court and I don’t want any apologies. I am going for the highest judgment I can get out of this,†he said in an interview following the incident.
And Admiral is not only expecting to get something out of taking Mighty Gabby to court.
He said the incident would provide good material for his show later this week.
“This is going to make the best Festival Stage in Barbados Wednesday morning,†he said. “The police took the shirt from me. I wanted the shirt to show on TV as evidence but I have pictures of it and I will show it.â€
After a two-year break from the competition, Mighty Gabby returned this year to secure his ninth calypso crown on Friday night.
But he faced boos from the audience and criticism from many, including Admiral, who believed that one of his songs, the Latin-flavoured ‘Ole Ashe’, was not a true calypso and that Mighty Gabby was not deserving of the win.
Source: Caribbean 360
By BEN SISARIO
Published: July 30, 2010
There was plenty of room for the barkers in sandwich boards to make their way through the crowd at Lilith Fair’s tour stop this week at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, N.J.
“Last call for $10 Maroon 5 tickets!†one shouted as he crossed the amphitheater’s sparsely populated lawn, his sign advertising deep discounts for a forthcoming show; regular-price tickets cost up to $65. But the fans at Lilith — a revival of Sarah McLachlan’s woman-centric package tour from the 1990s — weren’t buying.
For the concert business it has been a summer of hard sells and empty seats. Despite sellouts for Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and some other hot acts, overall sales have been suffering, with prominent tours like the Eagles and “American Idols Live!†canceling dates.
Live Nation Entertainment, the leading promoter, has been trying to fill seats with fire-sale prices, and in a recent presentation to analysts its executives promised that grosses in 2011 — when stars like U2 and Christina Aguilera are scheduled to make up shows they postponed this year — would improve.
But while superstar acts draw headlines, the fortunes of the wider business are just as reliant on the steady drawing power of a much longer list of midlevel performers. And interviews with fans at two summer concerts at New Jersey amphitheaters this week — Lilith, in Camden, and the Goo Goo Dolls, at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel — revealed some of the industry’s fundamental problems, including the basic head-scratcher of $10 tickets and $13 beers.
As with many of its shows this summer, Live Nation offered a range of discounts for the Goo Goo Dolls. In June it waived most (but not all) of the surcharges for its amphitheater seats. When large numbers of tickets were still left unsold, it began offering $10 tickets for shows on some Wednesdays. Those promotions are expected to continue, but some in the business question whether the pattern of high initial ticket prices falling to loss-leader levels in the days before a show is training some consumers to avoid full-price tickets altogether.
“How are we going to get people to buy tickets ahead of time next year when there’s so much deep discounting going on right now?†said Kevin Lyman, promoter of the Vans Warped Tour. “At the venues they’re hawking $10, $20 tickets, and you see the kids saying, ‘Wait, I paid $40 for that ticket.’ They’ve lost the trust of the fan.â€
For big tours, most of the money earned through the base price of a ticket — before surcharges — goes to the artist. So Live Nation can afford to discount its tickets because it makes far more money through parking, food and other concessions, and through those fees. At the Goo Goo Dolls show, beers were $11 and $13.
In a survey of a few dozen fans, most were unaware of the ticket discounts. But Jay Milos, a corrections officer from Randolph, N.J., said he had made sure to wait for the right day to avoid paying a $12.50 fee on his $43.25 ticket.
“It’s a scam, the service charges and the fees,†Mr. Milos said. “It would be smarter for them if they always sold them without those fees and then supplemented their income with advertising on the site.â€
Not everyone in the concert industry is seeing doom. Dennis Arfa, a veteran agent whose clients include Billy Joel, said that while there had been some problematic tours, plenty have been doing well. (Mr. Joel’s most recent tour with Elton John, for example, grossed $108 million for 42 concerts.)
“Yes, there are some tours not doing well; yes, there are bands that don’t belong out there,†Mr. Arfa said. “But as a whole, this happens every summer. Things aren’t as bleak and dismal as they appear to be, but the media falls in love with a story — everybody wants to shoot Goliath.â€
Pollstar, an industry trade magazine that reports ticket grosses from promoters, said sales for the Top 100 tours were down by about 17 percent so far this year from the same period last year.
Attendance at the Goo Goo Dolls show was about 75 percent of the 16,000-person capacity. But at Lilith Fair, which has canceled 10 of its originally scheduled dates, the turnout appeared to be far lower, with about half of the inner theater’s seats and much of the lawn unoccupied (capacity is 25,000); Live Nation has not yet disclosed grosses or attendance figures for those shows.
The weak economy is widely cited as a likely cause of poor ticket sales; base ticket prices as high as $200 don’t help. But many agents, managers and promoters, as well as Wall Street analysts, also worry that an overcrowding of talent in the marketplace and extreme changes in pricing can alienate consumers in the long run.
For lawn tickets to the next Lilith Fair stop, at PNC Bank Arts Center on Saturday, for example, the regular price is $37.75. Live Nation was also offering a special deal of a pack of four lawn tickets for $75; with service charges they cost a total of $112.20. But on Wednesday, when the company’s latest sale took effect, those same four lawn tickets were $40 flat.
With record sales down by more than half over the last 10 years, artists have increasingly turned to touring for their income, leading many to tour too often, some say. That wasn’t the problem with the Goo Goo Dolls, who are on their first wide tour in three years, or with Lilith. But it is the case with many artists this summer. The band Creed, for example, is returning to many of the same amphitheaters where last summer it played to crowds as low as 27 percent capacity.
“The problem is that artists have been incentivized to tour more often, and they lost that scarcity factor that had been supporting ticket price increases,†said David C. Joyce, a media analyst with the firm Miller Tabak.
For Lilith Fair the problems may have more to do with a simple lack of demand. The lineup, which includes, at various points in the tour, the Indigo Girls, Cat Power, Suzanne Vega and Mary J. Blige, has been criticized as being too conservative. Kelly Clarkson, a major draw for younger fans, dropped out of the tour to work on a new album.
At the Susquehanna Bank Center, on a hill by the Delaware River that overlooks the skyline of Philadelphia, the lineup was particularly impoverished: besides Ms. McLachlan, the only other major headliner was the Court Yard Hounds, a Dixie Chicks side project.
Stacey Vey, who owns a bar in Philadelphia, looked over the light crowd at dusk.
“This is supposed to be one of those things you do this summer if you’re a lesbian in Philly,†she said. “You go to a Phillies game, you go to Lady Gaga, you go to Lilith Fair.â€
Next to her, a friend, Elizabeth Pellerin, a homemaker in Medford, N.J., said the Lilith Fair tours in the ’90s were packed. She added: “You could say it’s the weather. However, it’s nice.â€
Source: NY TIMES
July 29, 2010
Sources have confirmed that Beenie Man aka “King of Dancehall and his wife D’Angel aka as the “first Lady” have been reunited. Beenie and D’Angel were seen together at Sum Fest. I guess Beenie took a look at D’Angel’s new video and realized that she is quite a catch she is and she possesses the swagger of a goddess. Beenie was quoted as saying “No gal caan step inna di first lady house,†sang D’Angel, adding, “You stuck inna mi life and dem caan get you out.â€
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