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Thursday 10
Jazz jamCJ’s Restaurant & Lounge presents “The Roger Humphries & RH Factor Jazz Jam Session” at 8 p.m. at 2901-2911 Penn Ave., Strip District. There will be live jazz and fun every Thursday night. Must be 30 years or older and there is a dress code that will be enforced. No tennis shoes, sweats or athletic gear. For more information, call 412-642-2377.
Arts festival
Dollar Bank presents The Three Rivers Arts Festival from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at Point State Park, Downtown. The event will run through June 13 and feature various performances, activities, visual arts exhibitions, vendors and more. For more information, visit www.artsfestival.net.
Friday 11
‘Full Bloom’
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater presents “Full Bloom: Take the Stage” from 8 p.m.-12 a.m. at 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. This is the kick-off event for the theater’s summer programming presented as Celebrate East Liberty. This dance party celebration will feature DoubleShot!, the Stacee Pearl Dance Project, the Alumni Theater Company and Pittsburgh PACT. There will also be a reception and silent auction. The celebration will also take place June 12. Tickets are $75 for the reception and dance party, $35 in advance for the dance party only and $40 at the door for the dance party only. For more information, call 412-363-3000 or visit www.kelly-strayhorn.org.
Saturday 12
‘Radio Golf’
The University of Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre presents “Radio Golf” by August Wilson at 8 p.m. at Alumni Hall, 7th floor Auditorium, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This is the last play of the 2009-2010 season and ends with the final play in Wilson’s 10-play cycle chronicling Black life in the 20th century. The play is about a successful entrepreneur Harmond Wilks, who aspires to become the city’s first Black mayor. But when his past comes to life, his campaign is put in jeopardy. The show will run through June 12. Admission is $20 for adults, $13 for senior citizens and $5 for students. For more information, call 412-624-7298 or visit www.kuntu.org.
Sunday 13
Sunday night jazz
The Pittsburgh Jazz Society presents The Sunday Night Jazz Concerts from 6-9 p.m. at The GrandView Buffet Restaurant at The Rivers Casino, 777 Casino Dr., North Shore. The featured entertainer will be Maureen and David Budway along with DUQ’s Tony Mowod as the host. For more information, call 412-343-9555 or visit www.pittsburghjazz.org.
Monday 14
Jam session
AVA Lounge presents a Weekly Live Jazz/Jam Session with The Interval Trio & Friends at 9 p.m. at 126 S. Highland Ave., East Liberty. Every Monday jazz fans can enjoy great music from some of the best musicians. DJ J. Malls will be spinning the vinyl. Must be 21 years or older. There is no cover. For more information, visit www.shadowlounge.net.
Tuesday 15
JazzLive
BYN Mellon and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Education & Community Engagement presents JazzLive from 5-7 p.m. at the Agnes R. Katz Plaza, Seventh St., Cultural District. Each Tuesday there will be a performance from some of Pittsburgh’s finest jazz musicians. This week’s featured musician is the Benny Benack III Quintet. Also from 7-11 p.m. at Backstage Bar at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Cultural District, there will be a performance by Roger Humphries Jr. Every Tuesday some of Pittsburgh’s most talented jazz musicians will perform. For more information, call 412-456-6666 or visit www.pgharts.org.
Wednesday 16
Poet’s playshop
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh presents the Pittsburgh Poet’s Playshop at 12 p.m. at 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Local poets and writers collaborate compositions, poetry exercises and more. For more information, call Renèe at 412-622-3151.
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Rain couldn’t stop ‘Spring Bling’... Rhymes, Lil’ Kim shine at concert, after-party
Category: Entertainment Written by Ashley G. Woodson
With the absence of WAMO 106.7FM, B. Marshall Productions was able to pull off what most promoters could not. His company presented Pittsburgh’s first Spring Bling Celebration, May 28 at the Station Square Amphitheatre by promoting the event heavily on his Facebook page, BET television, Brotha Ash Productions, SteelCityLive.com and 101theBlaze.com.
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| SOLID PROMOTION—From left: Promoter B. Marshall, Margo Doss, with Marlo, a representative of Lil’ Kim, and Lil’ Kim at Club Heat in the Strip District.
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This event featured national recording hip-hop artist Lil’ Kim aka Queen Bee, Busta Rhymes, Hurricane Chris, Yo Gotti and Roscoe Dash. Straight Money Entertainment and Rovalike records started the show. The concert at Station Square’s Amphitheatre was a major success and so was the after-party at Club Heat in the Strip District.
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Blues Fest 2010: The Old and The New... Burdon, Shepherd headline weekend
Category: Entertainment Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer
When Eric Burdon and the Animals first came to the U.S. as part of the British Invasion of the early1960s, guitar phenom Kenny Wayne Shepherd was still about a dozen years away from his first birthday. But before he signed his first recording contract at 16, Shepherd had cut his teeth on “House of the Rising Sun,” “Don’t Bring Me Down” and other Animals hits.
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That traditional passing down of blues lore will continue in July as both Burdon and Shepherd headline the 16th annual Pittsburgh Blues Festival. And for the sixth straight year, the three-day festival, which serves as the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s primary fundraiser, will be held at Hartwood Acres.
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‘I Gotcha!’ takes audience on soul music journey
Category: Entertainment Written by Genea Webb
New Horizon Theater ended its 2009/2010 season on a high note with a trip down memory lane in “I Gotcha! The Story of Joe Tex and the Soul Clan.”
The production ran from May 21-30 at the Grey Box Theatre in Lawrenceville.
The show was written by Joseph H. Plummer and David Barr III. It was directed by Eileen J. Morris.
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| THE SOUL CLAN— Joe Tex and the Soul Clan from left: Wilson Pickett, played by Chad Eric Smith; Joe Tex, played by Ijasneem; Ben E. King, played by Charles Timbers; and Solomon Burke, played by Benjamin Blakey.
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Morris drew from her childhood memories of hearing Joe Tex’s music on her grandmother’s porch to direct a humorous and music-filled production.
“I remember playing Joe Tex on my grandmamma’s front porch, teaching my cousins the latest Chicago dances and loving the sun falling on my face,” Morris said. “As a matter of fact, my brother and I won a dance contest that earned us $25 each for first place for doing ‘The Bump!’”
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Out & About with Brotha Ash
Category: Entertainment Written by Ashley G. Woodson
This week I visited Club Heat in the Strip District, CJ’s in the Strip District, Billy’s Gold Door in Homewood, the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty, Earl the Pearl’s in Homewood and Phase III in Homewood, Red Onion in the Hill District, and the Monroeville Convention Center in Monroeville.
My first stop was the Monroeville Convention Center in Monroeville where Rayco War Promotions and Fever Stimulation Beverage presented “War in the East.” This event featured DJ Biz Markie, DJ Boogie of Boogstown.com and Cool V. It was off the chain and look out for more events to come from Rayco War Promotions.
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| The dance floor was hot at CJ’s in the Strip District.
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