T-Mobile’s self-described 4G footprint now includes eight new metro areas. By year’s end, it plans to cover 100 metropolitan areas, as Verizon shoots to bring LTE to 38. – America’s quot;largest
4G network quot; just got a little larger. Or so says T-Mobile. On Nov. 23, the
country’s fourth-largest carrier announced that it has expanded its HSPA+
network to eight new metro areas: Detroit;
Grand Junction, Colo.;
Harlingen, Texas;
Lafayette and South
Bend, Ind.;…
NYE IN PORTLAND, OREGON;
WINTER DATES WITH WALLY INGRAM
 Jerry Joseph |
The details for the Jerry Joseph & the
Jackmormons New Year’s Eve Run in Portland, Oregon have been revealed. Single show tickets and a 4
night
package are on sale now. Click here for more information.
Jerry Joseph & Wally Ingram
are going to hit the road again this winter. New tour dates have been announced for December that will take the
duo to Colorado, Utah, Montana & Idaho.
Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons New Year’s Eve Run:
12/29/10 @ Alberta Rose Thtr w/ Blue Skies For Black Hearts
12/30/10 @ Mt Tabor Theater w/ Hillstomp
12/31/10 @ Mt Tabor Theater w/ Richmond Fontaine
1/1/11 @ White Eagle
Jerry Joseph & Wally Ingram November/December 2010 Tour Dates:
11/9/10 * Raleigh, NC * Pour House Music Hall
11/10/10 * Charleston, SC * Pour House
11/11/10 * Athens, GA * Melting Point
11/12/10 * Atlanta, GA * Smith’s Ole Bar
11/13/10 * Birmingham, AL * Zydeco
12/1/10 * Eugene, OR * Sam Bond’s Garage (JERRY SOLO)
12/4/10 * Flagstaff, AZ * Green Room (JERRY SOLO)
12/5/10 * Tempe, AZ * The Sail Inn (JERRY SOLO)
12/08/10 * Vail, CO * Samana Lounge
12/10/10 * Grand Junction, CO * Mesa Theater
12/11/10 * Steamboat, CO * Old Town Pub
12/12/10 * Salt Lake City, UT * The State Room
12/14/10 * Victor, ID * The Knotty Pine
12/15/10 * Butte, MT * Silver Dollar Saloon
12/16/10 * Livingston, MT * The Mint – MT
12/17/10 * Livingston, MT * The Mint – MT
12/18/10 * Missoula, MT * The Palace
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THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS TO RELEASE THINGS THAT FLY APRIL 20
 The Infamous String Busters |
About the most important question a young bluegrass band faces right out of the gate is whether they can play. The Infamous Stringdusters wasted no time in providing their answer — an emphatic yes — winning IBMA Album, Song and Emerging Artist of the Year in 2007, the same year they released their debut, Fork In the Road.
On Things That Fly, their third album, due out April 20 on Sugar Hill, the band ventures into virtually uncharted territory for an acoustic group: a sonically and thematically expansive album that lends itself to absorbed listening from start to finish, much like the great rock albums do.
Holed up in the Charlottesville, VA studio Haunted Hollow, with significant pre-production under their belts and Gary Paczosa (Nickel Creek, Dixie Chicks, Tim O’Brien) on board as engineer and co-producer, the ‘Dusters did things they’d never done before: guitarist Andy Falco put his hidden keyboard talents to use on smoldering organ parts; voices and instruments alike were splashed with reverb; and, though the band has no shortage of quality lead singers in fiddler Jeremy Garrett, dobro player Andy Hall and upright bassist Travis Book, a few fine-singing friends added novel tones, including country standout Dierks Bentley, Americana songwriter-chanteuse Sarah Siskind and Crooked Still frontwoman Aoife O’Donovan.
Factor in that every member of the band — rounded out by de facto tour videographer Chris Pandolfi (banjo) and Jesse Cobb (mandolin) — is a stylish, consummate picker with a hardly strictly bluegrass background, as well as a skilled songwriter, and you see that this band is genuinely built for breadth. “We wanted to make sure everyone had writing input on the record,” Hall relates. “We’d never done that before, and it’s a lot of why we started the band.”
Surprising covers, unusual arrangements and other departures from the expected make Things That Fly something different – namely a sign that they’ve elevated their sound and set their sights higher than ever before.
The Infamous Stringdusters Tour Dates
02/10/10 Wed Railyard Alehouse Billings, MT
02/12/10 Fri Big Sky Resort Big Sky, MT
02/13/10 Sat Big Sky Community Pavilion Big Sky, MT
02/16/10 Tue Ghost Ranch Saloon Steamboat Springs, CO
02/17/10 Wed Ghost Ranch Saloon Steamboat Springs, CO
02/18/10 Thu Mesa Theater Grand Junction, CO
02/19/10 Fri Eccles Conference Center Logan, UT
02/20/10 Sat The State Room Salt Lake City, UT
02/21/10 Sun The Spur Park City, UT
02/25/10 Thu The Shedd Eugene, OR
02/26/10 Fri Wintergrass Bellevue, WA
02/27/10 Sat Wintergrass Bellevue, WA
03/17/10 Wed Black Oak Casino Tuolumne, CA
03/18/10 Thu Crystal Bay Club Casino Crystal Bay, NV
03/19/10 Fri Grass Valley Center For the Arts Grass Valley, CA
03/20/10 Sat Don Quixote’s Felton, CA
03/21/10 Sun Freight & Salvage Coffee House Berkeley, CA
03/22/10 Mon Largo Los Angeles, CA
03/24/10 Wed El Rey Theater Albuquerque, NM
03/25/10 Thu Community Concert Hall Durango, CO
03/26/10 Fri Sheridan Opera House Telluride, CO
03/27/10 Sat Hotel Colorado Glenwood Springs, CO
03/28/10 Sun Swallow Hill – Daniel’s Hall Denver, CO
04/15/10 Thu Old Settlers Music Festival Driftwood, TX
04/16/10 Fri Old Settlers Music Festival Driftwood, TX
06/17/10 Thu Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival Grass Valley, CA
06/18/10 Fri Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival Grass Valley, CA
07/16/10 Fri Summer Music Festival At Roseberry Mccall, ID
07/19/10 Mon RockyGrass Lyons, CO
07/20/10 Tue RockyGrass Lyons, CO
07/21/10 Wed RockyGrass Lyons, CO
07/22/10 Thu RockyGrass Lyons, CO
07/23/10 Fri RockyGrass Lyons, CO
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO RETURNS TO U.S. WITH 2010 TOUR
 Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, “South Africa’s long-running musical treasure” (New York Times), returns to the U.S. in 2010, bringing the nine-man a cappella group’s high energy live show to over 40 cities nationwide, including two dates in New York City. The group will perform songs from their 2009 Grammy Award-winning album Ilembe, in addition to selections from their wide catalog.
“There is an honesty and integrity in their music that illuminates the best parts of humanity,” notes the Associated Press. “Using their majestic voices and nothing else,” adds the San Francisco Chronicle, “[Ladysmith Black Mambazo] produces a full orchestra of sound.”
The group marries the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music, garnering accolades worldwide and solidifying their identity as a cultural force. As Billboard explains, “Ladysmith is proof that music knows no boundaries.”
Over its forty-year career, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has earned three Grammy awards and received over 15 Grammy nominations, in addition to a Tony Award, and even an Oscar nomination. They’ve performed for kings, queens, presidents and popes. They accompanied Nelson Mandela when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and also recorded with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McLachlan, Josh Groban, among many others.
Tour Dates:
01/31/10 Sun Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor, MI
02/03/10 Wed Highline Ballroom New York, NY
02/04/10 Thu B.B. King Blues Club New York, NY
02/05/10 Fri Colonial Theater Bethlehem, NH
02/06/10 Sat Sanders Theater Cambridge, MA
02/07/10 Sun Mahaiwe Theater Great Barrington, MA
02/10/10 Wed Western Illinois University macomb, IL
02/11/10 Thu West Side Theatre Gary, IN
02/12/10 Fri McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage Glen Ellyn, IL
02/13/10 Sat Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago, IL
02/14/10 Sun Sheldon Concert Hall St. Louis, MO
02/16/10 Tue Jesse Auditorium Columbia, MO
02/18/10 Thu Bethel College Newton, KS
02/19/10 Fri Mccain Auditorium Manhattan, KS
02/20/10 Sat Walton Arts Center Fayetteville, AR
02/23/10 Tue Finney Chapel Oberlin, OH
02/24/10 Wed Akron Civic Theater Akron, OH
02/25/10 Thu Goodnight Theater Franklin, KY
02/27/10 Sat Avalon Theatre Easton, MD
02/28/10 Sun Byham Theater Pittsburgh, PA
03/02/10 Tue Mahaffey Theater at the Progress Energy Center for the Arts St. Petersburg, FL
03/04/10 Thu Winston-Salem State University Winston-Salem, NC
03/05/10 Fri Strathmore North Bethesda, MD
03/06/10 Sat Washington PAC Olympia, WA
03/08/10 Mon Benaroya Hall Seattle, WA
03/10/10 Wed Montalvo Arts Center Saratoga, CA
03/11/10 Thu Congregation Sherith Israel San Francisco, CA
03/12/10 Fri Beckman Auditorium Pasadena, CA
03/13/10 Sat Anthology San Diego, CA
03/14/10 Sun Centennial Hall Tucson, AZ
03/16/10 Tue Newman Center for the Performing Arts Denver, CO
03/17/10 Wed Lincoln Center Performance Hall Fort Collins, CO
03/18/10 Thu Popejoy Hall | UNM Albuquerque, NM
03/19/10 Fri Avalon Theatre Grand Junction, CO
03/20/10 Sat Peerys Egyptian Theater Ogden, UT
03/23/10 Tue Emerson Center for the Arts Bozeman, MT
03/24/10 Wed University Theatre Missoula, MT
03/25/10 Thu Bing Crosby Theatre Spokane, WA
03/26/10 Fri Broadway Center for the Arts Tacoma, WA
03/27/10 Sat McIntyre Hall Mount Vernon, WA
03/28/10 Sun Ross Ragland Theater Klamath Falls, OR
03/30/10 Tue John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts Eugene, OR
Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform “Homeless” at the Nobel Peace Concert:
BELA FLECK TO TOUR IN SUPPORT OF
THROW DOWN YOUR HEART: THE AFRICA SESSIONS PART 2
 Bela Fleck |
Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck is honored to continue exploring the instrument’s roots in 2010 with the help of Bassekouye Kouyate, Anania Ngolia and John Kitime during the 33-city tour, Africa Project: Collaborations with Amazing African Musicians. All three musicians are featured on the 2010 Grammy-nominated album and award-winning documentary, Throw Down Your Heart.
The tour was conceived after the musicians collaborated on another album, the double disc effort Throw Down Your Heart: The Africa Sessions Part 2, Unreleased Tracks, which will be available February 2.
“Honestly, I ran out of time to finish the first album,” says Bela. “This stuff needed to be heard! More of these great artists from the African continent will be brought into the light.”
“The moment I heard Anania Ngoliga I knew we had to find him,” hails Fleck, regarding the blind, singing Tanzanian thumb piano master who will be joined by guitarist John Kitime. “When we did, he exceeded my expectations, which were quite high.”
One of the foremost ngoni players (essentially the banjo of Mali), Kouyate will be joined by his rocking band, Ngoni Ba. Their forthcoming album I Speak Fula (Next Ambiance / Sub Pop) will be
released February 2, and features Toumani Diabate, Vieux Farka Toure and Kasse Mady Diabate.
Throw Down Your Heart is the 11-time Grammy winner’s most ambitious project to date and has earned some of the best reviews of his career.
Bela Fleck & The Africa Project: Collaborations with Amazing African Musicians Tour
02/02/10 Tue Fort Lewis College Durango, CO
02/03/10 Wed Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, NM
02/04/10 Thu Aggie Theatre Fort Collins, CO
02/05/10 Fri Wheeler Opera House Aspen, CO
02/06/10 Sat Avalon Theatre Grand Junction, CO
02/08/10 Mon Boulder Theater Boulder, CO
02/10/10 Wed Granada Theater Dallas, TX
02/11/10 Thu Lyric Theatre Oxford, MS
02/12/10 Fri Lovett Auditorium Murray, KY
02/13/10 Sat Liberty Hall Lawrence, KS
02/14/10 Sun Canopy Club Urbana, IL
02/16/10 Tue House Of Blues Cleveland, OH
02/17/10 Wed Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor, MI
02/18/10 Thu Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium Athens, OH
02/19/10 Fri Clowes Memorial Hall Indianapolis, IN
02/20/10 Sat Holland Performing Arts Center Omaha, NE
02/21/10 Sun Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago, IL
02/22/10 Mon Parrish Auditorium Hamilton, OH
02/24/10 Wed Grand Opera House Wilmington, DE
02/25/10 Thu Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Storrs Mansfield, CT
02/26/10 Fri Grand Opera House Wilmington, DE
02/27/10 Sat Weis Center for the Performing Arts Lewisburg, PA
03/01/10 Mon Dominion-Chalmers United Church Ottawa, ON
03/02/10 Tue Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME
03/03/10 Wed Schwab Auditorium University Park, PA
03/04/10 Thu Jefferson Center Roanoke, VA
03/05/10 Fri Weinberg Center for the Arts Frederick, MD
03/06/10 Sat Rialto Center for the Performing Arts Atlanta, GA
03/08/10 Mon The Plaza Theatre Orlando, FL
03/09/10 Tue Sunrise Theatre Fort Pierce, FL
03/10/10 Wed Florida Theater Jacksonville, FL
03/11/10 Thu Bama Theater Tuscaloosa, AL
03/12/10 Fri Orange Peel Asheville, NC
Complete Bela Fleck tour dates available here.
