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Monday, July 12th, 2010
The month of June, 2010 marked the debut of an alternate venue for the Nova Jazz Orchestra. It’s the Shorewood Bar & Grill in Fridley, MN. In lieu of playing at O’Gara’s for the rest of the summer, we’ll be playing at the Shorewood in July and August, on the 27th and 24th respectively. See how to get to the Shorewood here. Note that we start playing at 7pm! We’ll play until 10. See you there — we are excited to be playing this new venue.
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Happy Summer Solstice. Join us at O’Gara’s tomorrow, June 22 8pm-11pm for what the headline above announces. As usual, it promises to be a great time.
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Coming up next month, the Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra will assist in performing an original musical production titled “Dreaming of America.” The work is by one of our talented alto saxophonists, Kari Musil. All information is listed below. Save the date, mark your calendar, and otherwise take note!
There will be a reception following featuring artwork by 7th graders, plus food & drink by BC2 Bakery.
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Just a reminder: Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra’s “Battle of Big Bands” concert with the Acme Jazz Company will be broadcast on Jazz88’s Big Band Scene—soon—on Monday, March 22nd at 7pm. The show will be re-broadcast on Sunday the 28th, also at 7pm.
Then, this Tuesday, March 23, Nova plays its monthly O’ Gara’s gig at 8pm. Join us there!
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra plays our regular gig tonight at O’ Gara’s, 8pm-11pm. Plus, our recent—and completely friendly—Battle of Big Bands foray with Acme Jazz Company will be broadcast on Jazz88’s Big Band Scene on March 22nd and 28. Tune in! (We’ll remind you again.)
If you came out to our recent show with Acme Jazz Company at Minnetonka High, thanks for your support. We sincerely hope you enjoyed the music. In the next battle, we hope to work in marshmallow bazookas in some way.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Mike Krikava, leader of the Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, passes along this special message about our upcoming CD release party:
Greetings All,
I am very excited to announce that the Nova Jazz Orchestra has completed its Seventh CD of all Minnesota Jazz. This CD – A Time of Reckoning – features 10 charts with a Minnesota connection. The title track, by Dan Cavanagh (Jazz Studies Prof at Univ. Texas at Arlington) was commissioned especially for the Nova band and is an amazing piece of music. It takes a line of Gregorian Chant and transforms it into a very hot up-tempo swing chart. It must be heard to be believed.
Nova is having a CD Release Party on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2009 at O’Gara’s Bar and Grill on the corner of Snelling and Selby in St. Paul. The event starts at 7 pm with the Frankhouse Septet (they are very cool and definitely worth a listen). The Nova band will begin playing at 8:30 pm and will go until 11 or so. We will play cuts off the CD plus some new material and a few holiday favorites, from our last recording project – An Odd Christmas. Renowned Jazz artists Dave Hagedorn, Vibes and Dave Marden, Flute, are featured on the CD and both will perform with us at the party. Nova CDs will be available at $15/each.
This CD is by far Nova’s most ambitious effort yet. I am very proud of this work and hope you will join us on the 24th.
Cheers,
Mike
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra plays O’Gara’s tonight, and we hope everyone can make it. The beginning of Fall means a few changes in the Nova band. Tonight, we welcome Kari on alto saxophone, and bid a fond farewell to Sten Johnson, our previous 2nd alto player. This means we are down only one Sten Johnson, since we still have a Sten Johnson in the trumpet section.
On a related note, if your name is Sten Johnson and you play any sort of instrument, don’t forget to talk to us about getting on Nova’s sub list.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Where did the summer go? Nope, it hasn’t really been a long hot summer in Minnesota, but tonight, August 25, the Nova Band will do its best to heat things up. Join us at 8 o’clock at O’Gara’s for the a last summer fling. (Or last hurrah, or anything else you might like to call it.) The program will include some new charts we’ve been working on.
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Is tonight, June 23. One night only, at least until next month. Cool down, cool off, and hear Nova play all the favorites tonight!
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Once again, tonight at O’Gara’s. See everybody there!
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