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"Originally created as a pure EDM (electronic dance music) festival in 1999, Ultra has grown through the years to present not only the world’s hottest, biggest and best headline EDM artists (The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Tiesto, Underworld, MOBY, Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo, Deadmau5 and Paul Oakenfold, to name a few), but also crossover headline bands that incorporate EDM elements in their music and have a history, or new beginning in the EDM community and culture (The Cure, The Killers, The Black Eyed Peas, Bloc Party, The Bravery). UMF expanded to a two-day festival in 2007 and now boasts 16 stages set over both days featuring more than 250 bands, DJs, artists, and producers. Every EDM genre and sub genre is represented at Ultra (house, trance, electro, indie-rock, dance rock, techno, drum & bass, breakbeat, alternative, minimal, big beat, jamtronica and more)." UMF Miami 2009 set a new record with more than 85,000 party people in attendance over two days, coming to Ultra from 56 countries and all 50 states.—Description by festival
"Called by the Chicago Reader 'perhaps the most important jazz festival in Chicago,' the Umbrella Music Festival features cutting-edge jazz and improvised music from around the world, with a particular focus on artists from the diverse, cooperative, and thriving local scene." —Description by festival
"On June 12-13, 2010 boomBOOM Presents and Search & Restore unleash the Undead Jazz Festival on New York City. Hot off the success of Winter Jazzfest, these like-minded, ambitious concert presenters have revived the same two-day, many-artist, multi-venue formula. For two Summer nights, one ticket will give jazz fans access to Le Poisson Rouge, Kenny’s Castaways, and Sullivan Hall—three clubs with distinctly different aesthetics, reputations and histories, and all uniting to celebrate the many identities of jazz being created today in New York City. As founders/producers of Undead, Brice Rosenbloom and Adam Schatz are on a mission to shake the tired image of jazz as a music of the past, a historical footnote, and worst of all, expensive. Jazz is a music of the people, and hinged on the exciting force of improvisation. The music can take on so many vibrant forms, each bringing a listener to a new place of enjoyment, euphoria and overall sonic stimulation. All of the 30+ groups participating in this festival bring improvisational personality, compositional agenda and unique ideas to the table. They have been consciously united for these two nights to centralize the jazz adventures that occur on a nightly basis in New York, and bring it all to a climax at three Greenwich Village clubs within one block of each other. Undead is as much a festival for the fans of jazz’s developing history, as it is for those who have always wanted to know more about the music but do not know where to start. Whether or not you’ve heard of all or none of the 150+ musicians performing in the Undead Jazz Festival, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’re there to let the music speed your pulse and blow your mind."—Description by festival
"Come celebrate the world of song every Friday, February 12 through March 26, 7pm at the American Fork Historic City Hall in American Fork UT. Admissionis free but donations are accepted.
Feb 12 Valentine's Concert: If Music be the Food of Love
Feb 19 American Voices: Folk and Art Songs of the US People
Feb 26 Renaissance Faire: Songs of the Renaissance & Early Baroque
Mar 5 Opera Gala: O Mio Babbino Caro and other Favorite Arias
Mar 12 Double Feature: Songs from Broadway and Movie Musicals
Mar 19 Brit Lit: Folk and Art Songs from the British Isles
Mar 26 Easter Celebration: Sacred Songs"—Description by festival