Jazz-Funk News

The Final Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will take place in Cape Town on 4 December 2009 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre .The entertainment lined up for the 90-minute live show will include the Soweto Gospel Choir, Beninoise singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo and Johnny Clegg.

Grammy-winning singer Angelique Kidjo joined human rights activists to demand courts martial for troops who publicly gang raped women in the streets of the West African country of Guinea last month.

Johannesburg - Music legend Miriam Makeba will be remembered at a free concert at the Union Buildings in Tshwane next month.

Melding jazz, funk, rock and hip-hop, Galactic is a band that's impossible to pin down.

The 'Stand Up Take Action' online campaign officially launched worldwide this week with events in Australia, New Zealand and New York, with many more to come this weekend.

Twenty years after releasing the debut album "Pickin' On Nashville," the Kentucky Headhunters is still playing and kicking and not conforming to Nashville expectations - thank goodness.

Album of the Year AC/DC - Black Ice Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Eskimo Joe - Inshalla Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night The Temper Trap - Conditions Single of the Year Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Hilltop Hoods - Chase That Feeling Kate Miller-Heidke - The Last Day On Earth Ladyhawke - My Delirium The Temper Trap - Sweet ...

Wyre Fest, headlined by The Blockheads, raised at least A 1,000 for The Proton Effect, helping cancer sufferers in Wyre Forest, and Spinal Research, which funds research into a cure for spinal disability.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming - Jazz-funk improvisational badass a ' one of the only musicians youa TMll see handling a seven-string guitar with ease a ' Charlie Hunter and his trio will rock the Knotty Pine in Sunday.

TAMI JOHNS/For Shorelines Lisa DeLuca , Henrietta "Hank" Watson and King Eddie of the band Pili Pili helped drive last year's Boobsapalooza Bands Against Breast Cancer benefit at the Beaches.

Alain Mion & Cortex whose band is internationnally considered as the french jazz funk band .

Although they held comfortable success in the northeast, things dwindled down when the band tragically lost bass player John Hall to cancer in late 2004 AGP soon parted ways.

People who love playing with their food will want to arrive early for the 8th Annual Grape Stomp at Savannah Oaks Winery.

Rock with Laughter is back!!! The annual variety fest of Christmas fun is back with an unashamed stonking new line up like never before! In the driving seat and compering the shows is one of the UK's best known and loved personalities, not to mention local boy - LENNY HENRY! Providing three hours of modern style classic variety for the noughties, ...

THE Hoola Boola Boys return to Stourport on Sunday, September 27, joined by popular rhythm and blues singer Ricky Cool.

Wyre Fest, which was called Kidderminster Music Festival last year, features five days of gigs in Kidderminster, Stourport and Bewdley.

Next time you're about to make out with your girl or boy , instead of throwing on a Barry White or Marvin Gaye best-of, reach for this new release, Juke Joint II , from the German duo Boozoo Bajou .

Submitted by StateTheatre on Wed, 2009-09-02 14:29. Start: 2009-10-21 20:00 End: 2009-10-21 22:00 Timezone: Cost: $25 814-272-0606 www.thestatetheatre.org/Events With the release of their sixth album, From the Corner to the Block, the five-man group Galactic reaffirms their standing as one of the funkiest bands.

Brisbane celebrates its 150th birthday on Sunday with a number of events in and around the city culminating in a performance by eclectic Australian band The Cat Empire.

As the long hot summer of 1983 was bought to an abrupt end by thunderstorms, were there any stars - apart from at the seaside - worth going to see? Well yes - David Essex was at the Hippodrome, and it was packed.