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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â The stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center will soon be filled with entertainment and fans again as the 2021 Freihofer s® Saratoga Jazz Festival begins next month.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Absolutely Live Entertainment announce the return of the 2021 Freihofer s® Saratoga Jazz Festival, marking the first live performances on SPAC s stage since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered arts venues last spring.
The festival will be headlined by Dianne Reeves, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Christian McBride s New Jawn, Al Di Meola, Joey Alexander and Artemis, presented by Skidmore Jazz Institute, and will also feature acclaimed local musicians including Garland Nelson leading Joyful Noise and Hot Club of Saratoga, presented by Caffè Lena.
This, many believe, is because of Drea Young s connection with top international artistes and influence on the international market. She got her first Grammy Award credit after co-producing songs on Esperanza Spalding album which got her to win the “Best New Act.” Grammy-winning producer Drea Young jams to Ghanaian act Skeleton Wan’s song Pulse Ghana
“When Esperanza Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist, I was basically the second engineer on the album that got her the award. I was assisting the engineer but we worked pretty evenly on the project. He did all the mixing and recording but I did most of the technical work, cleaning up all the pops and clicks and stuff”; Drea Young told the Philadelphia website, EPGN.
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Dr. Bill Banfield has been named professor emeritus of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Banfield was hired in 2005 as director of the college s Africana Studies initiative and as a professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Department. He also led the development of curricula and programming for Africana Studies beginning in 2006.
Throughout Banfield’s time at the college, he created and taught a variety of courses, including the Sociology of Black Music in American Culture and the Theology of American Popular Music. In 2010, Berklee opened the Africana Studies Center, which included a meeting room, dedicated research area, and space to house artifacts, recordings, journals, books, and exhibits.
1988 (Maybe)
Courtney Love meets Kurt Cobain for the first time at Old Town punk club Satyricon, kicking off one of rockâs most tumultuous and significant pairings. In a 2012 interview with
Fuse, Love says she met Cobain at the club after reading spoken-word poetry with garage rockers Dharma Bums in 1988. Other accounts push the date to 1989 or 1990, when the two wrestled over control of the jukebox after a Nirvana gig.
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1990s
DIY hits its stride, and Portland is a damp, divine epicenter. Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith enters the scene in 1991, and by 1998, is performing at the Academy Awards. Riot grrrl (and post-riot grrrl) heavy hitters like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney bounce back and forth between Portland and the Puget Sound. Everclear flees the Bay Area for the Rose City in 1993; the Dandy Warhols pick up their guitars in â94. Seattle-based label Sub Popâestablished in â88âis actively snapping up Portland talent. The dream of t