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Oct 28, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Photos from the 2009 Litchfield Jazz Festival are coming to litchfieldjazzfest.com soon. Want to see some now? More »
Aug 24, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
August 13, 2009: Review by Marcia Hillman. For two and a half days this past weekend, jazz invaded Connecticut with the arrival of the 14th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. This year, in a new home on the Kent School grounds in Kent, Connecticut, this major musical event, hosted by WBGO broadcaster and jazz journalist Michael Bourne, presented what seemed to be "a cast of thousands" of jazz artists geared up to play their best for an audience eager to hear them....Kudos to Vita West Muir (founder and executive artistic director), her staff and the devoted crew of volunteers for organizing and pulling off one of the best straight-ahead jazz festivals on the map.
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Aug 4, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
NBC Connecticut's Anjuli Porter interviews Festival PR & Marketing Director, Lindsey Turner and Litchfield Jazz Camp students perform in the new NBC studios in West Hartford on Friday, July 31st. Read more to watch the interview and hear the camp students. More »
Aug 1, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Due to inclement weather this week, the Litchfield Jazz Festival's main stage performances will be held indoors in the hockey rink on the Kent School Campus all weekend. Read more for details. More »
Jul 30, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
WNPR's award winning program, Where We Live, is hosted by News Director, John Dankosky. This morning, Thursday, July 30th, he came to Kent with his producers and they aired Where We Live live at the Fife 'n Drum Restaurant in Kent. Click to listen to the podcast of the program. More »
Jul 30, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
July 30, 2009; Owen McNally for the Hartford Courant. Jane Monheit, 31 And Post-Baby, Is Enjoying The Maturing Of Her Career, Image.
Vocalist Jane Monheit's robust, irreverent sense of humor — especially crisp and candid when mocking sexual stereotypes in the music biz — might surprise enraptured fans who envision her solely as a gorgeous, dulcet-toned diva, a divine sex symbol who also happens to sing like an angel.
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Jul 23, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
KENT-City dwellers have long recognized the pastoral charms of the Litchfield Hills, where patchwork fields of green and glorious blues skies invoke an atmosphere of a simpler life. While the region has changed under this influx of visitors and the landscape remains rural, the lifestyle has become more cosmopolitan, providing a richly textured array of cultural recreation. More »
Jul 23, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
"Houston Person At Litchfield Jazz Festival August 2" by Owen McNally, Riffs: Jazz Notes,
July 23, 2009. Houston Person hasn't merely practiced and memorized the now-canonized Great American Songbook material that has become so popular.
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Jul 20, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
It’s easy, relaxing and affordable to get to Kent on the Metro North train from Grand Central Station in New York City. Take the Harlem Line Train to the TenMile River stop in Amenia, NY, just 10 miles from Kent. From there you'll meet our shuttle bus (read more for details and shuttle schedule).
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Jul 19, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Litchfield Jazz featured in the New York Times (Sunday, July 19, 2009). WHEN people tell Vita West Muir that they don’t know anything about jazz, she tells them, “There isn’t anything to know — you just have to listen.”
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Jul 16, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Jazz Around Kent Presented by the Litchfield Jazz Festival. 22 Free Concerts from July 6 – 29. Three nights a week at 7:15 PM Jazz Camp faculty perform at Kent School and three times a week Jazz Camp students perform in Kent. More »
Jul 15, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
The Litchfield Jazz Festival announces a celebrity host and MC for the 2009 Litchfield Jazz Festival, WBGO’s Michael Bourne. Michael is a long-time jazz journalist and broadcaster: 40 years as a senior contributor to DownBeat Magazine, 37 years as a jazz jock, including 25 years with WBGO Jazz88 in Newark, NJ. More »
Jul 14, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Marshall Miles of WHDD interviewed Lindsey Turner, PR & Marketing Director, about the 2009 Litchfield Jazz Festival's move to Kent and line-up details. Get the inside scoop; listen to the interview on-line. Bonus interviews with Paulette from Doc's, Peter from Starbuck Inn and Elissa from the Fife. More to come with Jazz Camp faculty; stay tuned. More »
Jul 3, 2009
Category: Festival
Posted by: lturner
July, 2009: Now in his “third career,” the California-based vocalist [Bill Henderson] looks forward to coming east to perform at the 2009 Litchfield Jazz Festival. More »
Jun 10, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: lturner
Hartford Advocate, June 10, 2009. Bring A Blanket; Round-up of summer festivals. Litchfield Jazz Festival, July 31-August 2, Kent, CT. Connecticut’s most significant jazz event...
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Apr 24, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: asirastudio
Civic Duty: Jazz fests, local economies work hand in hand - by Eric Fine. "The Litchfield Jazz Festival's new digs mean a new beginning." More »
Apr 23, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: asirastudio
The Litchfield Jazz Festival is thrilled to announce the 2009 line-up and its move to the gorgeous campus of Kent School in Kent, CT. The line-up includes Jane Monheit, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Poncho Sanchez and many more. More »
Jan 23, 2009
Category: Festival Landing Page
Posted by: asirastudio
The Litchfield Jazz Festival and Litchfield Jazz Camp are thrilled to announce their move to a new home, The Kent School in Kent, CT. More »
Dec 5, 2008
Litchfield Jazz Festival Named a “Top 100” Event for 2009
The Litchfield Jazz Festival was named one of the "Top 100 Events and Festivals" in the US and Canada by the America Bus Association in 2006 and again in 2009! Save the date now for this summer -- Friday, July 31 - Sunday, August 2, 2009. See Line-up here.