Music

Legendary keyboardist George Duke will be playing a benefit performance for The Bob Moog Foundation at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbadistan on Friday, November 6, 2009.

George’s prolific career as a pianist, synth pioneer, composer and Grammy award-winning producer has earned him a place of honor in the world of jazz, funk, pop and R&B. He has worked with a who’s who of artists, including: Jean-Luc Ponty, Cannonball Adderly, Nancy Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Sonny Rollins, Diane Reeves, and many others. His production credits span decades of top artists and performers. Today, the unstoppable Duke continues to produce, write and perform. His 2008 album, Dukey Treats, was released on the Heads Up label.

The Bob Moog Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and inspire children and adults through the power and possibilities of electronic music and through the intersection of science, music and innovation.

Ticket for the show are $75 for the general public and $65 for Museum members. For tickets and information, please contact the Museum at 760-438-5996 or visit http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org. The Museum of Making Music is
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The New Village Arts Theatre’s Off-Nights @ NVA will be hosting Tokeli, the Brazilian jazz and world music group this Monday, October 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM.

Redefining Brazillian jazz and world music by blending technol-electronica beats, jazz fusion, Brazillian traditional, rock and more, Tokeli creats the World Music Revolution — a totally new sound.

Tickets for Tokeli are $10. The Village Arts Theatre is located at 2787 State St, Carlsbad, CA. Click here to buy tickets or call (760) 433-3245.

[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]

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Classical music on the cutting edge returns to Carlsbadistan for its sixth season September 25-27, 2009 as the Carlsbad Music Festival takes over the Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium in the Carlsbad City Library Complex.

This year’s buoyantly creative program features the Festival’s founding ensemble the Calder Quartet, famed composer/guitarist Fred Frith, California EAR Unit, and five young prize winners in the Festival’s annual International Composers Competition. All Festival events – concerts, workshops, school programs and meet-the-artists receptions – are guided by Founding Artistic Director and Carlsbad native Matthew McBane. The Carlsbad Cultural Arts Office is a presenting partner of the Festival, which is also made possible in part by the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation’s Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund.

Tickets for all concerts are $25 for priority seating, $15 for general admission, $8 for students (at door), and can be purchased through www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org.

[Link: The Carlsbad Music Festival]
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Anyone who loves electronic music owes a huge debt of respect to Bob Moog. Everyone from Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, and Devo to Abba and George Harrison have used Moog’s technology to make music. This weekend the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbadistan is kicking off their latest exhibition: “Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog.”

The exhibition focuses on the life, work and philosophy of Bob Moog, a pioneer in the field of electronic music, developing the Moog synthesizer in 1964. The history of Bob Moog also encompasses the story of how the synthesizer became commercially accessible to musicians for the first time, and how it provided them with new realms of sonic expression.

On Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 1 PM exhibition Advisor Brian Kehew (Moog Cookbook, The Who) and Larry Fast (Synergy, Peter Gabriel) will present a multimedia exploration of the life, work and philosophy of Bob Moog. The Museum will broadcast this event LIVE over the internet on Sunday, August 30th at 1 PM (PST). To attend online, please visit www.museumofmakingmusic.org and click on the “Live Broadcast” link.

Tickets are $10; FREE for Museum Members. Purchase tickets online or call 760-438-5996.

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What better way to cap off another summer of great TGIF Jazz In The Park performances than with blues guitarist Coco Montoya making his second appearance with a show this Friday August 21, 2009 in Calavera Hills Park.

Over his 30-year career, guitarist and vocalist Coco Montoya’s explosive guitar playing and soul-driven voice have propelled him to the upper reaches of the blues-rock world. Montoya performs non-stop at clubs, concert halls and major festivals all over the world, serving up mind-bending guitar licks and impassioned vocals. “The fiery blues that issue forth from Coco Montoya’s guitar are awe-inspiring and boogie requiring,” shouts The Village Voice.

[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Parks]

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Last summer’s Tinsley Ellis show was cancelled by the San Diego County Department of Heath after officials found a bird that tested positive for the West Nile Virus. This year, we’re hoping nothing stands in the way of what may be the hardest rocking nights of the entire TGIF Jazz In The Park as Ellis drowns Calavera Hills Park in his own brand of southern fried blues, tonight August 14, 2009 from 6-8 PM.

Tinsley Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. Ellis attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, following in the tradition of Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes. His live shows feature extended fretwork filled with melodic and rhythmic experimentation, in the spirit of jam bands like his friends Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers. Atlanta Magazine declared Ellis “the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell.

[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Parks]

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