Frank Zappa News

Less Broadway and more jazz, rock, rhythm & blues, Chelsea Table + Stage is brewing up some fun events in their hip new venue.

ROME CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL all'AUDITORIUM DELLA CONCILIAZIONE Presentata la 18° edizione del prestigioso Festival di musica da camera

Vapor Vespers, the edge- and button-pushing transcontinental collaboration between acclaimed NYC & Hudson Valley-based multi-instrumentalist Sal Cataldi (aka Spaghetti Eastern Music) and Alaskan playwright, actor and slam poet Mark Muro, will be staging their first-ever ever public performances in New York City and Kingston, NY in October.

Alberta Bair Theater launches its Outstanding Performances Series with Quarteto Nuevo, who melds music of ancient worlds and far away places with a contemporary groove, on Friday, October 1 at 7:30pm.

The new album, “Bill Haley,” a mixture of Prog/Alternative/Classic Rock, consists of fourteen original songs, mostly written by Annellsson-Tabacco, and one cover written by Susan DeVita. The recording was done by sending files back and forth.

This is the world of Vapor Vespers, the edge- and button-pushing transcontinental collaboration between acclaimed NYC & Hudson Valley-based multi-instrumentalist Sal Cataldi (aka Spaghetti Eastern Music) and Alaskan playwright, actor and slam poet Mark Muro.

The album, which was produced by BLUHAUZ and David Molho (both are co-owners of LoSweet Records production company) and mixed by David Molho in collaboration with Rodrigo Crespo, is now available via The Orchard on digital outlets.

City Weezle was founded in Paris back in 2005 by potato lovin’ Irishman Simon Fleury. After stringing together two demos, “City Weezle” (in 2006) and “The Leprechaun” (in 2008), City Weezle became a prominent member of the European underground fusion scene.

Kimmel Cultural Campus has announced the much-anticipated return of in-person performing arts across their venues: the Kimmel Center, the Academy of Music, and the Merriam Theater. On September 18, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., Kimmel Cultural Campus will host a grand reopening event in Commonwealth Plaza to celebrate the start of the 2021-22 season.

The global fundraising event will bring together celebrities and fans all over the world to honor Dio’s undeniable impact both on and off the stage.

The front man for Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and DIO, Ronnie lost his battle with gastric cancer in 2010. 

After a year's hiatus, Kronos Performing Arts Association's KRONOS FESTIVAL returns on June 11 – 18, expanding the annual San Francisco-based event into the virtual sphere with eight exciting online presentations, including ten world premieres.

Läther filled the Osmond Terrace Function Centre with their sold-out show.

The album serves as a direct follow-up to last year's full-length K.G., and is the third volume in the band's explorations into microtonal tunings (which began with 2017's Flying Microtonal Banana).

LEVERKUSEN '97, the latest release in the continuing series of classic live recordings by Allan Holdsworth, is due March 12 from Manifesto Records.

A truly experimental work, the album sees the band fusing rich melodies with avant-garde techniques, making for a one-of-a-kind listening experience. The remastered edition of Coming Into Beauty will be available digitally on February 12, 2021.

Danny Wimmer Presents has announced Sacramento’s chart topping, genre defying quintet, Dance Gavin Dance for their most ambitious and unique undertaking thus far - Tree City Sessions Volume 2. The global streaming event will see the band perform a fan-voted setlist, featuring tracks that have never been performed live before.

Alex talks about directing for our show, some of the crazy segments he did, pranking Uncle Frank, making a movie with Mr.T, and his new Frank Zappa documentary.

ZAPPA director, Alex Winter, editor Michael J. Nichols, and author of CAN'T PAY, WON'T PAY, Thomas Gokey, are Tom Needham's special guests this Thursday at 6 pm on WUSB.

From November 8 to 15, 2020, be a part of history as Jazz Festivals across the country join forces to present top jazz talent performing online. From coast to coast, over a dozen Festivals have collaborated to bring all Canadians together in an effort to unite us in our love of jazz music.