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Ramey had persuaded Goodstein to let Parker perform at Birdland with his band on a pair of Monday nights in 1954. [5] The neon sign at the front of the club read, "Birdland, Jazz Corner of the World". The venue seated 500 people and had bandstand space for a big band—the Count Basie Orchestra was a regular booking.
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music is a 2001 television program tribute to John Lennon aired on both TNT and The WB.. Originally planned to celebrate Lennon's accomplishments, the concert took place on October 2, 2001, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, shortly after the September 11 attacks and exactly one week before the 61st anniversary of Lennon's birth.
May 15, 1957 — 1957 New York Crusade. Evangelist Billy Graham began his 16-week religious revival at Madison Square Garden. [10] Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the invocation at the Garden in one of the subsequent meetings. [11] 2005-2014 — Lakewood Church's Night of Hope
The 1965 album Joya Sherrill Sings Duke features Ellingtonians performing in support. [4] From 1970, Sherrill hosted a children's television show, Time for Joya, later called Joya's Fun School. [1] This was recorded for a few years, but was rerun until 1982. [1] In the mid-1970s, she accompanied her husband when he went to Iran for his work. [2]
The Ritz was founded in 1980 by Jerry Brandt in the historic Webster Hall ballroom and concert space located at 119 East 11th Street between Third and Fourth avenues in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. The Ritz focused primarily on live performances, often of newer acts, but also featured dancing.
In 2011 "Andrew Bird: Fever Year", a feature-length concert documentary on Bird's year-long tour, had its World Premiere at Lincoln Center with the prestigious New York Film Festival. The film's festival-only run closed in 2013 after screening in over ninety international festivals and winning nine awards.
The chorus performs alongside the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland at the Cross Cultural Youth Festival held at The Armory, Washington Heights for 2500 children from all five boroughs of New York. The event is covered by Fox5 New York. (October 27, 2009) Paul Rieckhoff, founder of IAVA, invites the chorus to sing at the Third Annual Heroes ...
Conceived as more of a project than a band, they have only performed a total of five times: twice in 2003 (May 17 at Upper Montclair, New Jersey and May 18 at B.B. King's Blues Club, New York), and three times in 2011. Due to scheduling conflicts, Matt Bissonette was unable to play with the band in 2011, and thus was replaced by Kasim Sulton. [2]