The centenary of the birth of Muddy Waters is to be marked at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival with a concert by his eldest son Mud Morganfield.
The Rolling Stone received perhaps the most sustained standing ovation of the night as he joined his old pal toward the end of Crossroads, a two-night concert festival at Madison Square Garden that brought together a dazzling array of guitar masters, from John Mayer to Jeff Beck to legends like Buddy Guy, and of course, Clapton and Richards.
Mean Fiddler Media also wants to sell content from its concert and festival venues.
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The Usher Hall will host the festival's opening concert, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, the story of a fallen angel's salvation.
Colin Davis got his big break in 1959 when Otto Klemperer fell ill and he took his place at the Royal Festival Hall to conduct a concert performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Joan Sutherland.
The Celtic Connections festival is to stage a tribute concert to the late Scottish folk legend Michael Marra.
Former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser is to make a rare concert appearance at the Meltdown Festival.
Philippe Jordan leads concert performances at the Salzburg Festival in August.
The concert was part of the Piedigrotta festival in Naples in September 2009.
The song is about a fire that burned down the Montreux Casino, where the festival was held, during a Frank Zappa concert in 1971.
Thursday's concert opened the third Manchester International Festival, which aims to put the city on the global cultural map by hosting new works by respected performers.
Homage was paid to Rameau's brilliant music in this special concert at the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival.
In his memory, JazzSet presents a concert recorded at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival.
He regularly performed in Scotland - a place he considered home - and appeared in concert at last year's Celtic Connections festival.
The song is about a fire that burned down the Montreux Casino, where the festival was then being held, during a Frank Zappa concert in 1971.
The 13-event festival, which runs from 13 to 24 February, is organised by Super, a Parisian creative agency that represents more than 150 artists (including international music stars Bon Iver and the XX), organises more than 800 concerts a year around France and co-organises the annual Paris outpost of the three-day indie Pitchfork Music festival, which originated in Chicago and takes place at concert venue La Villette in the north of Paris.
"The police were pleased and the concert was a great way to kick off the festival, " said Mr Powell.
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The festival was first staged in 1993 as a way of filling the Royal Concert Hall's January schedule.
On any given night, the arena might play host to an American Idol concert, a hockey game or a death-metal mini-festival.
On any given day, it could be a music festival, a tailgate, a restaurant parking lot or outside a Bon Jovi concert when the band plays in Nashville.
But the most important task for Marshall during his career, whether it was the Beatles' final concert in 1966 or Jimi Hendrix's performance during the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, was to capture the feeling of music, a task that could seem quite impossible.
Other acts at the festival on Friday are jazz legends Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, while an eagerly anticipated concert by Brit award nominee Amy Winehouse is set for Saturday night.
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The organization already runs similar operations at the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series at the Prospect Park Bandshell, as well as the Great GoogaMooga food festival.
One of the Piedigrotta festival organisers, Dario Scalabrini, said 600, 000 euros of EU money had been spent on the concert.
Now in its 65th year, the international festival presents a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls and a number of smaller venues.
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