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Mystic Seaport to host Annual Sea Music Festival
Connectcut Plus
... 20 individuals and groups will perform at the Festival. New for 2012 are a storytelling stage co-sponsored by the Connecticut Storytelling Center and an evening sea music “contra dance,” a style of partnered folk dancing traditional to New England.

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Geeks of Doom
Famous NYC Club CBGB To Rise Again With Festival, Film, Possible New Venue
Geeks of Doom
The organizers modeled this new festival after Austin's SXSW annual gathering. There's also talk among new investors of reopening a new version of CBGB (which stands for Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) in a new location in Lower Manhattan.

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Embrace sounds of June
Austin 360
Last year, New York indie rock band Here We Go Magic, who blend elements of art rock, new wave and psychedelic music, were approached by Radiohead producer Nigel Goodrich after they performed at England's Glastonbury Festival. Goodrich ended up working ...


 
NOLA.com
A different kind of music festival
NOLA.com
“A young musician, Jenna Sherry, a New Orleanian who has been working in England, had the idea of starting a chamber music festival based on the kind of collaborative model like the ones in Cornwall (England) and the Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont),” ...
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NOLA.com
Birdfoot Music Festival takes flight
NOLA.com
with Jenna since Tracey called me a year ago with news that she and Jenna were founding a new chamber music festival in New Orleans. I thought back to 1974, when I, like Jenna, was in my 20s and living in London. My brother Don, involved in all things ...

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A Day in the Country music festival has been roping in fans for 27 years
The Augusta Chronicle
By Don Rhodes Thousands of die-hard country music fans will be heading to the Augusta Riverfront Marina for the 27th annual A Day in the Country outdoor music festival. Gates open at 11 am Sunday, May 6, with the music starting at noon.


 
New York Times
Summer Festivals for Classical Music and Opera
New York Times
CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista, July 28-Aug. 12. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, organizes this new-music festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with six ...

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