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Navy Northeast Brass Band Performs at Newport Jazz Festival Saturday & Sunday

7/30/2015

 

Newport Jazz Festival Broadens its Range Beyond Fort Adams Stages as Navy Band Northeast Brass Band Performs Early Saturday and Sunday

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NEWPORT, RI, July 29, 2015 ­­– Two of Newport’s most beloved and iconic organizations ­– the Newport Jazz Festival and the U.S. Navy – will unite during the 2015 Jazz Festival to greet Festival goers entering Fort Adams State Park.

On Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, from 9:00 am to 10:15 am, Navy Band Northeast Brass Band, the military’s jazz division, will kick off the days’ concerts with an early-bird musical greeting from the porch of the Fort Adams visitor center building. 



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Rhode Island Foundation Helps Underwrite 3rd Day at Newport Jazz Festival

7/23/2015

 

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™
Receives Second Grant 

from Rhode Island Foundation
to Help Underwrite Friday at Fort Adams
to Showcase Emerging Performers


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NEWPORT, RI, July 23, 2015 – The Newport Festivals Foundation Inc.™ announced today that it has received a $40,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation to help underwrite the third day of music featuring emerging artists and future icons at the historic Newport Jazz Festival® on Friday, July 31, at Fort Adams State Park.

A grant from the Rhode Island Foundation last year helped the Festival stage a third full day of performances for the first time in decades.

“We are grateful that the Rhode Island Foundation has chosen to invest in the Newport Festivals Foundation for the second consecutive year to help us not only bring new and exciting music to the area, but also to encourage more visitors to Newport for a longer duration,” said George Wein, Producer of the Newport Jazz Festival and Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation. “Over the past four years, we have presented 45 young artists that should become known to jazz fans, and we’re pleased that Friday at the Fort continues to be a perfect platform for nurturing the future of jazz.”

This year, the Foundation awarded $35,000 as part of its grantmaking in the arts and $5,000 through the Thomas DePetrillo and Carol Keefe Fund.



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Jon Batiste Plays 4 Concerts in One Week During Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals

7/16/2015

 

Newport Festivals Foundation™ 
Announces a Festival First:
Artist Jon Batiste and Stay Human to Do Quadruple Duty Performing at Fort Adams for 

Both Folk and Jazz 2015 Festivals

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Jon Batiste and Stay Human performing at the 2014 Newport Jazz Festival. (Photo credit: LaNita Adams)
NEWPORT, RI, July 16, 2015 ­– Jon Batiste is on a roll. The phenomenally talented, multi-instrumentalist and future CBS Late Night bandleader will have a huge presence in Newport this summer with four Newport Festivals Foundation concerts in a week. Along the way, he and his band, Stay Human, will make history.

On Sunday, July 26, Batiste and Stay Human (alto saxophonist Eddie Barbash and percussionist Joe Saylor) will grace the Fort Stage at the Newport Folk Festival® at Fort Adams. Come Friday evening, July 31, they’ll open the Newport Jazz Festival® concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino. On Saturday, Batiste and Stay Human head back to Fort Adams for a historic Jazz Festival moment. There, they will become the first group to play at the Fort for both Jazz and Folk Festivals in the same year.  (In 2012, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band played the Fort at the Folk Festival and at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino for Jazz.)


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Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA® to Dizzy's August 12, 7:30/9:30 pm

7/13/2015

 

Vocalist Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA®
to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 

Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 & 9:30 pm

Renowned Broadway and Recording Star to Present Her Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop, Broadway, Latin and International Music

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NEW YORK, July 13, 2015 – The classically-trained powerhouse vocalist/pianist Luba Mason brings her trademarked MIXTURA, a genre-bending ride of different musical styles, to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 60th and Broadway, for one night only on Wednesday, August 12, at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm.

Following a recent performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center with her husband, Rubén Blades, Mason, a renowned Broadway and recording star, makes her debut performance at Dizzy’s with own stellar band featuring Musical Director/Vibraphonist/Percussionist Felipe Fournier, Guitarist Rafael Rosa, Bassist Dan Martinez, Drummer Joel Mateo and Violinist Sara Caswell. 



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Newport Gulls Host Newport Festivals Foundation Folk & Jazz Night

7/8/2015

 

Join Newport Festivals Foundation 
at Folk & Jazz Night
at Gulls Game Friday, July 10, 6:35 pm, 

at Cardines Field

The Evening Celebrates 

the Foundation’s Partnerships
with Boys & Girls Club and Salve Regina University
and Pride in Calling Newport Home for 61 Years

Opportunity to Win Jazz Festival 

and Sold-out Folk Festival Tickets

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NEWPORT, RI, July 9, 2015 – Two of America’s favorite pastimes – music and baseball – come together to celebrate an evening of family fun and local partnerships when the Newport Festivals Foundation hosts Folk and Jazz Night at the Newport Gulls vs. Danbury Westerners game at Cardines Field on Friday, July 10, at 6:35 pm.

“We are proud to be a part of the Newport family for the past 61 years and we’re looking forward to getting together with area baseball fans when we present Folk and Jazz Night at historic Cardines Field,” said George Wein, chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, which produces the Folk and Jazz Festivals. “There are few things more American than baseball combined with jazz and folk music, and we’re excited to celebrate our community partnerships at this special family event.” 


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Newport Jazz Festival Introduces App and Releases Daily Schedules

7/7/2015

 

2015 Newport Jazz Festival Launches New App

Download Your App Today at Apple App Store or Google Play Store

Daily Schedules Also Available at www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules


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NEWPORT, RI, July 7, 2015 – The 2015 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management is introducing a new mobile app in time for the 61st celebration of America’s first annual jazz festival.  The official festival companion app, which goes live today, includes performance schedules, customizable schedule, artist profiles and a festival map.

To download the app to your mobile device, go  to:

Apple App Store: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/newport-jazz/id997809820?mt=8

Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.award.newportjazz&hl=en

To download and print daily schedules with set times and stages, go to: www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules

The Newport Jazz Festival app is designed by Aaron Ward, a systems analyst with New York University and festival application developer.
 

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Vibraphonist Composer JAY HOGGARD @ Jazzmobile Grant's Tomb Park Wednesday, July 15

7/6/2015

 
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