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Lyle Lovett, Ziggy Marley to headline Jazz Plus
'One Love'
By Emily Charrier-Botts INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Ziggy Marley will perform at the Sonoma Jazz Plus Festival on Sunday, May 24.
While pure jazz musicians may be in the minority, the recently announced lineup for this year's Sonoma Jazz Plus Festival includes some heavy hitting musicians, including four-time Grammy Award winner Lyle Lovett and his Large Band and legendary British rocker Joe thingyer.
The four days of music will again be presented at the Field of Dreams over Memorial Day weekend. Performances begin on Thursday, May 21, with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the nine-member swing band that had the break-out songs, "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)," and "Go Daddy-O," in 1996. The band played the 1999 Super Bowl halftime show and has released a number of albums, including "This Beautiful Life," "Save My Soul," and a 2004 "Live" album.
Friday, May 22, will bring the raw, gravelly voice of Joe thingyer, who rose to fame in the 1960s doing Beatles covers and is best known for international hits like, "You Are So Beautiful," "Up Where We Belong," "Just Like a Woman," and "Say You Will." thingyer performed at both the original Woodstock and at Woodstock '94, has won both a Grammy and an Academy Award and in 2007 received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth.
Keb' Mo' will return to Sonoma this year to open for thingyer's Friday-night performance. The three-time Grammy winner, who performed during the 2008 festival, is a highly-regarded, Robert Johnson-inspired blues musician and political activist who has participated in and performed for the Vote for Change campaign.
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band will headline the show on Saturday, May 23. A musician and actor whose musical career has touched so many bases it is hard to classify, Lovett's performances and recordings have embraced Texas swing, folk, blues, gospel, jazz and lots of country and western. He has recorded 13 albums, 21 singles and has four Grammy Awards to his credit. While he may be remembered for his brief marriage to Julia Roberts, Lovett's musical fame has risen to a whole new level through his performances with a 16-piece band. Country maven Shelby Lynne will open that show. The theme of the show on Sunday, May 23, will be One Love and features Ziggy Marley and another headliner, who has not yet been named.
Ziggy Marley is the eldest son of the reggae legend Bob Marley.
Ziggy maintains his roots in reggae, mixing in modern influences from pop and hip-hop. He began recording at the tender age of 11 and has never looked back.
Tickets, which range from $30 for general admission to $95 reserved (no price increase from 2008), will go on sale in Sonoma, in person only, on Saturday, March 7, at the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., from 2 to 5 p.m. Sonoma Jazz Plus will distribute a limited selection of premium reserved (center and side-center) tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets to the general public will go on sale Monday, March 9, at 9 a.m. by calling (866) 527-8499, through http://www.sonomajazz.org; or on a walk-in basis at Sonoma Valley Music on Broadway.
Proceeds from this annual festival will aid music education in Valley schools. Since its inception, the festival has donated more than $400,000 to provide music education to students, including support for drumming and guitar programs in the elementary schools, funds for Altimira and Adele Harrison middle schools to perform annual musicals and scholarships to talented high school musicians.
Learn more at www.sonomajazz.org.
Lyle Lovett, Ziggy Marley to headline Jazz Plus
'One Love'
By Emily Charrier-Botts INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Ziggy Marley will perform at the Sonoma Jazz Plus Festival on Sunday, May 24.
While pure jazz musicians may be in the minority, the recently announced lineup for this year's Sonoma Jazz Plus Festival includes some heavy hitting musicians, including four-time Grammy Award winner Lyle Lovett and his Large Band and legendary British rocker Joe thingyer.
The four days of music will again be presented at the Field of Dreams over Memorial Day weekend. Performances begin on Thursday, May 21, with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the nine-member swing band that had the break-out songs, "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)," and "Go Daddy-O," in 1996. The band played the 1999 Super Bowl halftime show and has released a number of albums, including "This Beautiful Life," "Save My Soul," and a 2004 "Live" album.
Friday, May 22, will bring the raw, gravelly voice of Joe thingyer, who rose to fame in the 1960s doing Beatles covers and is best known for international hits like, "You Are So Beautiful," "Up Where We Belong," "Just Like a Woman," and "Say You Will." thingyer performed at both the original Woodstock and at Woodstock '94, has won both a Grammy and an Academy Award and in 2007 received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth.
Keb' Mo' will return to Sonoma this year to open for thingyer's Friday-night performance. The three-time Grammy winner, who performed during the 2008 festival, is a highly-regarded, Robert Johnson-inspired blues musician and political activist who has participated in and performed for the Vote for Change campaign.
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band will headline the show on Saturday, May 23. A musician and actor whose musical career has touched so many bases it is hard to classify, Lovett's performances and recordings have embraced Texas swing, folk, blues, gospel, jazz and lots of country and western. He has recorded 13 albums, 21 singles and has four Grammy Awards to his credit. While he may be remembered for his brief marriage to Julia Roberts, Lovett's musical fame has risen to a whole new level through his performances with a 16-piece band. Country maven Shelby Lynne will open that show. The theme of the show on Sunday, May 23, will be One Love and features Ziggy Marley and another headliner, who has not yet been named.
Ziggy Marley is the eldest son of the reggae legend Bob Marley.
Ziggy maintains his roots in reggae, mixing in modern influences from pop and hip-hop. He began recording at the tender age of 11 and has never looked back.
Tickets, which range from $30 for general admission to $95 reserved (no price increase from 2008), will go on sale in Sonoma, in person only, on Saturday, March 7, at the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., from 2 to 5 p.m. Sonoma Jazz Plus will distribute a limited selection of premium reserved (center and side-center) tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets to the general public will go on sale Monday, March 9, at 9 a.m. by calling (866) 527-8499, through http://www.sonomajazz.org; or on a walk-in basis at Sonoma Valley Music on Broadway.
Proceeds from this annual festival will aid music education in Valley schools. Since its inception, the festival has donated more than $400,000 to provide music education to students, including support for drumming and guitar programs in the elementary schools, funds for Altimira and Adele Harrison middle schools to perform annual musicals and scholarships to talented high school musicians.
Learn more at www.sonomajazz.org.