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Billy Joel, Jill Scott and Others Star at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On todays program, we tell all about the famed New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which opens a few hours from

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Billy Joel, Jill Scott and Others Star at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On todays program, we tell all about the famed New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which opens

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It's Time for New Orleans Jazz Fest The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is back for its 42nd season (4/29-5/1 and 5/5-5/8), and the word is come early and stay late. The good news is Jazz Fest 2011 is not sold out. Matter of fact, Jazz Fest ne

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By Katherine Cole Washington 19 May 2008 During the last weekend of April, close to 80,000 people from as far away as Japan, Australia and Germany converged upon the town of Wilkesboro, North Carolina. What drew these people to the small town in the

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By Katherine Cole Washington 12 May 2006 Attention live music lovers: Festival season is now underway, in cities both large and small. For example, until mid-September, the region between New York and

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans, LA 27 April 2007 Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city is showing signs of recovery and drawing visitors back to traditional events, like the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival. It runs o

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Bruce Springsteen Headlines Jazz Fest Its been six years since Springsteen made his first appearance at Jazz Fest. New Orleans was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina which had devastated much of the city eight months earlier. His latest excursion m

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By Doug Levine Washington 02 May 2007 Thousands took in the sights and sounds of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on its opening weekend, April 27-29, which featured almost every type of music imaginable. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, some

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