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acf/LA Events Calendar
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Los Angeles area
 
Currently acf/LA uses a Yahoo groups message board to post concert announcements by members as well as other important information. Join us here to submit and receive announcements about new music in the Los Angeles.
 
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ACF DC New Music Calendar
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Click here to learn how to add your own events to the calendar, and how to publish the calendar on your website.
 
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Piano Duo Gastesi-Bezerra Summer 2008
6/8/2008 - 8/1/2008
Various
Duo Gastesi-Bezerra is proud to announce the summer 2008 touring agenda.
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Registration Begins for the Festival of African and African-American Music!
July 2008-September 2008
St Louis
Registration begins for the 2009 Festival of African and African American Music: Tribute to Great African Composers featuring ELEVEN concerts of new chamber and orchestral by African-descent composers.
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MN Educators: Learn to Compose!
August 5-7, 2008
Perpich Center for the Performing Arts, 6125 Olson Memorial Hwy, Golden Valley, MN
 
The Perpich Center for Arts Education and American Composers Forum present
summer workshop sessions exploring composition pedagogy.
 
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European Premiere of Philippe Bodin's piano trio
August 2, 2008
Kungsbacka, Sweden
The Kungsbacka Trio performs "Poétique des Fluides" in the Kungsbacka Chamber Music Festival.
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JACK Quartet
August 9, 2008
le poisson rouge (old Village Gate)
JACK Quartet plays Myers' work "dopamine" for string quartet--the 13 minute work employs microtonally retuned strings creating a hallucinatory experience.
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Experimental sound art band Planet 9 at The Fine Line, Mpls.
Tuesday Aug 26, 10-11pm
The Fine LIne Music Cafe
Experimental sound art band Planet 9 plays The Fine Line on Tuesday August 26 from 10-11pm. This will be a full Planet 9 multimedia experience featuring cool fusion-fueled electro-psyche sounds and colorful visual art and animation projections.
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Minnesota Voices Concert
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Minnesota State Fair's Bandshell, St. Paul
 
Featuring premieres of pieces by Carol Barnett, Edie Hill, J. David Moore, Brian Schmidt, and Jankia Vandervelde. Performed by:
Arrowhead Chorale (Duluth, MN)
Bemidji Chorale (Bemidji, MN)
Choral Arts Ensemble (Rochester, MN)
Minneapolis Youth Chorus (Minneapolis, MN)
Minnesota Valley Chorale (Mankato, MN)
Prairie Arts Chorale (Southwest Minnesota)
 
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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
five shows only, August 2, 10 pm, August 6, 10 pm, August 8, 8:30 pm, August 9, 5:30 pm, August 10, 1:00 pm
Ritz Theatre, 345 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis
"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities", a new music theatre-piece, with choreographer Nancy Nair, music director/pianist Avedis Manoogian & director Mary Keepers.
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Piano/Composition Recital
August 6th, 2008
Sacramento
I am giving a piano recital including 5 works by myself, new and old at the beautiful Westminster Presbyrian Church in Sacramento, CA, on 13th and N sts, at 12 noon, FREE!
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JazZen - EXPLORATIONS
8/24/2008
Riverview Cafe and Wine Bar
Bobb Fantauzzo and Aaron Kerr celebrate the release of EXPLORATIONS (their first CD as the duo, JazZen).
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J & S Beanfactory gig
8/9/2008 8/23/2008 9/6/2008 9/20/2008 10/4/2008 10/18/2008 11/1/2008,11/15/2008 11/29/2008,12/13/2008 12/27/2008
1518 Randolf st. St. Paul, MN.
Small little place where the music flows like cup of freshly brewed coffee, Smell the tunes roasting in ears. Melodic desserts du-jour'
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Vecchione/Erdahl Duo Recital at WVU
Monday, August 25, 8:15 pm
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
The Vecchione/Erdahl Duo presents a recital of new work for oboe and bass at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
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The Dan Blake Trio
13 August
The Brooklyn Lyceum
New music for jazz trio by saxophonist/composer Dan Blake
8 p.m.
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Tim Kaiser at Beaner's Central
Wed. Aug. 27th
Beaner's Central Duluth MN
A special performance by Tim Kaiser with guests Cello Dreams.
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