Jazz Café at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival
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Don't miss your LAST CHANCE to submit to the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which is expecting to reel in close to 15,000 attendees, and will showcase a variety of emerging artists in the popular Jazz Café before each mainstage performance. Four Sonicbids artists are guaranteed to perform at the café and will each receive $1,000 USD for travel and accommodations. Headliners for 2010 include: Kurt Elling, the Laurence Hobgood Trio, Bob James, the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra and more. Grab all the details at sonicbids.com/JazzCafeattheTanglewoodJazzFestival2010 and be sure to submit by/n/nThe Tanglewood Jazz Festival, expecting to reel in close to 15,000 attendees, is held every year on Labor Day Weekend at the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The event will showcase a variety of emerging artists in the popular Jazz Café before each Main Stage performance.
Four Sonicbids artists are guaranteed to perform at the café, with an emphasis on vocalists. The selected artists will receive $1,000 USD for travel and accommodations. The festival will also provide artists with international promotional opportunities through press releases, the jazz festival website, radio and print interviews by festival staff and possibly the selected artists themselves.
Submitting artists must provide a link to a video of themselves performing. Selections are made by the Jazz Café Judging Panel, which includes James Gavin, author of Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne; Lois Gilbert, owner of , one of the top premier destinations for jazz on the Internet; Christopher Loudon, jazz vocalist writer for Jazz Times magazine; Jane Monheit, one of the world's premiere vocal interpreters; Steve Schwartz, host and producer, Jazz on WGBH with Steve Schwartz, WGBH Boston; Dawn Singh, Manager of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival; and Sachal Vasandani, jazz vocalist and veteran of the Tanglewood Jazz Cafe.
Headliners for 2010 include: Kurt Elling, the Laurence Hobgood Trio, the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Eddie Daniels, Bob James, Donal Fox, John Pizzarelli, Julian Lage and special guests to be announced in the near future.
Past Jazz Café performers included: Esperanza, Sachal Vasandani, Grace Kelly, Aaron Parks, Mina Agossi, Rachael Price, Kat Edmonson, Michael Kaeshammer, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Spencer Day, Warren Wolf, Benny Reid and others.
The Jazz Café is a sophisticated, elegant outdoor venue, serving food and beverage in a cabaret-style setting. Capacity within the tent is about 200 and there is additional seating just outside the tent of approximately 100. Twenty artists perform at the event, each set lasting approximately 50 minutes.
Performance slots are as follows:
- Saturday, Sept 4th at 12:30 pm
- Saturday, Sept 4th at 6:30 pm
- Sunday, Sept 5th at 12:30 pm
- Sunday, Sept 5th at 6:30 pm
The Tanglewood Jazz Festival is produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The festival is located in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, approximately 2-1/4 hours west of Boston or 2 hours from New York.
Media partners of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival are jazzcorner.com and Jazz Times Magazine.
ADDITIONAL INFO YOU MAY BE WONDERING ABOUT
- Travel to Tanglewood - The easiest way to get to Tanglewood is by car. Please note: There is no public transportation to Tanglewood. There are buses from Boston and New York that go to Springfield, MA, about 45 minutes from the grounds. You would need to make arrangements to get from Springfield to Tanglewood which is two miles outside of Lenox, MA. The closest airports are Springfield, MA, and Albany, NY.
- Accommodations - There are many hotels/motels and B & B's in the area. The Berkshire Visitors Bureau should be of help.
- Backline - The BSO will provide all routine backline instruments (including pianos) and may have more unusual pieces depending on the summer music schedule and what we have on hand. If selected, just ask and we can usually work it out.
- Extra tickets - We normally allow one extra lawn ticket per musician.
- Day of Performance - Once the performers are selected, our Production Department will be in touch regarding backline, parking permits, sound check times, etc.
- Merch/CD Sales - Performing artists may sell their CDs at the Jazz Shop tent. Our Merchandising Department will be in touch with selected artists to make those arrangements.
