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Are you still wondering which summer festival to check out this year? Beyondjazz has gathered the basic info and links for ten of our fave fests for your perfect summertime and holidays diary; Pick your own and enjoy the summer season! If you’re attending any of these, of have any other suggestions, be sure to drop a line in the comments, you might find a few fellow beyondjazzers to hook up with …

Springfestival, Spring8

When?

21-25 May

Where?

Graz, Austria, EU

Lineup?

Live performances from Roisin Murphy to Robert Owens to Buraka Som Sistema. Massive listings of DJs inc names like Phil Asher, Gilles Peterson, Rainer Truby, Chateau Flight, Daedelus, Dom Servini, Max Cole etc. Huge visual acts in public spaces, workshops and synthesizerpark exhibition, Red Bull Music Academy and The End (UK) club dj showcase and house acts from Chicago, Austrian Beer and various other hotties.

Tickets?

Daily Tickets from 25 Euro, 4 days pass from 58 Euro.

Official Website:

http://www.springfestival.at/

BJ Extra:

Drop a visit to the lovely Vienna before or after the fest, here’s our old but vintage cityguide.

Meltdown Festival

When?

Various events between 14-21 June

Where?

London, UK

Lineup?

Massive Attack, Horace Andy, Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Heritage Orchestra, Shape of Broad Minds & Flying Lotus, Terry Calier & Aloe Blacc, George Clinton & Parliament. Nine Days of films, talks, discussions, concerts in London’s premier cultural centre, the Southbank Centre.

Tickets?

Daily is from 20-50 GBP (25-65 Euro)

Official Website

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/festivals-series/meltdown

Sonar Festival

When?

19-21, June

Where?

Barcelona, Spain, EU

Lineup?

Incredibly impressive list of DJs and live acts from Little Dragon, Flying Lotus, Quiet Village to Theo Parrish, Take, Jneiro Jarel etc. BBC, Ninja Tune, Red Bull Music Academy, Freerange Records showcases. Exhibitions, museum format, discussion panel, record market, meeting point for professionals and so on.

Tickets?

Daily Tickets from 30 Euro, Special general pass is 170 Euro.

Official Website

http://www.sonar.es/

BJ Extra

Barcelona needs no introduction but here’s our nice little cityguide if you are there for the first time.

IJazz Festival

When?

20-21-22, June

Where?

Amsterdam

Lineup?

From local heroes to international rising stars: Cool Collective, Jazz Invaders, Kraak & Smaak, Lefties Soul Connection, Giovanca, Scallymatic Orchestra, Apple Tree family, Tawiah, Eric Lau etc…

Tickets?

Free!?

Official website:

http://www.ijazz.nl/

Worldwide Festival

When?

3-5, July

Where?

Sete, South France

Line-up?

“Worldwide winners”, of course. Gilles Peterson, Cinematic Orchestra, Laurent Garnier, Madlib, Sebastien Tellier, Pascal Comelade, Breakestra, Henrik Schwarz, Benga, Gilles Peterson, zero dB, Pilooski, Little Dragon, Dynamax, Marathon Men, Toshio Matsuura, DJ Lefto, James Stewart, L’Aroye and Ky just to name a few. Stunning outdoor venues, great people and french wine.

Tickets?

3 days pass is from 81 Euro.

Official website:

http://www.worldwidefestival.com/

The Garden Festival

When?

4-6, July

Where?

Zadar, Croatia, EU

Lineup?

Biggie. Live acts from Mark De Clive Lowe feat Tawiah, Domu, Bonobo to The Bays, Belleruche and many more. Top djs: Daz-i-Kue, Domu, Phil Asher, Mad Mats, Mr Scruff, Michael Rutten, Karizma, Karen P, Kelvin Brown, Sick Trumpet DJs and others. Beautiful seaside, boat parties, balkan hotstep and superb prices.

Tickets?

3 day pass is 65 Euro.

Official website:

http://www.thegardenzadar.com/

Gent Jazz Festival (Ex Blue Note Festival)

When?

Various gigs and events throughout 10-20, July

Where?

Gent, Belgium

Line-up?

From musical heroes like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny Trio or Bueana Vista Social Club to today’s soul and jazz stars like Erykah Badu, Soil n Pimp Sessions, Diana Krall and more…

Tickets?

Daily ticket is from 27 Euro.

Official website:

http://www.gentjazz.com/

BJ Feature:

Our hometown-guide and fest profile

Camp Bestival

When?

18-20, July

Where?

Ludworth Castle, Dorset, UK

Line-up?

Hercules & Love Affair, Gilles Peterson, Tawiah, Polar Bear, Idjut Boys, Maurice Fulton but all kinds of music styles will be represented. Plus amazing venues around a castle in the countryside, many spoken word, theatre, comedy, literature events etc.

Tickets?

Adult weekend ticket is £120, Age 13-15 is £60, under age 13 is free

Official Website

www.campbestival.co.uk (lovely site)

Big Chill Festival

When?

1st - 3rd August 2008

Where?

Eastnor, UK

Line-up?

Djs sets from Benji B, Ame, Charlie Dark, Ron Trent, Vadim etc and live acts from Christian Prommer’s, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Krush, Hot 8 Brass Band, Little Dragon, Portico Quartet, Ty, Souljazz Orchestra, Roisin Murphy and others.

Tickets?

Adult is 129 GBP (163 Euro). Student is 110 GBP (140 Euro).

Official website

http://www.bigchill.net/festival.html

Big Chill Extra

Fresh interview with Little Dragon

Flow Festival

When?

15-17, August

Where?

Helsinki, Finland

Line-up?

Versatile list of various local and international DJs and live acts from Ame, Lil Tony, Sebo K to Jamie Lidell, Jose James, Five Corners Quintet. Full lineup: http://www.flowfestival.com/en/program/

Tickets?

Daily tickets are 40-45 Euro. 2 day tickets cost 60-65 Euro. 3 day tickets: 80-85 Euro. http://www.flowfestival.com/en/tickets/

Official website

http://www.flowfestival.com/en/

BJ Feature:

Helsinki Cityguide

More info:

• http://www.residentadvisor.net/event-festivals.aspx
• http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article3893931.ece
• http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/holiday_type/music_and_travel/article3489188.ece

by creaminal for [beyondjazz.net]

17 mei (als in: volgende week zaterdag) feest in Het Depot met José James, support van Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson en sets van Marc Mac (4hero) en Lefto.

En diezelfde Lefto meldt dat mr. James een extra concert geeft in de Studio Toots voor het jazzprogramma Neve van radio Klara, 2 dagen later. Sweet! Gratis tickets daarvoor hier.

Morgen helaas niet naar BrasilInTime in the Dam, met Madlib en de Kindred Spirits crew, so that’s bad. Maar Jose James kunnen we niet missen, right? Hij leverde zonder twijfel m’n favoriete album van de laatste maanden af …

Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)
Quiet Village - Silent Movie (K7!)
VA - Nigeria Special - Modern Highlife - Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 (Soundway)
Katalyst - How Bout Us (feat. Steve Spacek) (BBE)
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (Motown)
Aardvarck - Pigstyle EP (Nod Navigators)
Mark E - Slave 1 (Running Back)
J.A.M. - Just A Maestor (Victor Japan)
IG Culture - Zen Badizm (Freedom School)
Jackson Conti - Sujinho (Kindred Spirits)

00:00 - volledig opgeladen batterij, power adaptor uit
00:01 - switch naar “Langere gebruiksduur van de batterij”
00:01 - “Berekenen… resterend”
01:00 - “1:01 resterend”
05:25 - “0:46 resterend”
12:56 - “0:37 resterend”
36:23 - “Melding “De batterij is vrijwel leeg.”
37:37 - 0:08 resterend
46:30 - shutdown laptop
46:48 - power adaptor aansluiten
47:23 - laptop leeft terug
48:24 - “0:41 tot opladen is voltooid”

Dus?

• Oplaadtijd = Levensduur
• Mobiel zijn duurt 46 minuten

Hmmm; lobbyen voor vervanging?

Barcamp Gent has been more more than 2 weeks now, but I still felt the need to give some credit to those who did great, interesting, good and/or remarkable presentations.

One of the first talks I attended was the one by Werner Raemakers demoing Channel.TV and talking about the efforts VRT and BBC are making to get their video recordings digitally distributed. It was cool to see how they’re experimenting with Apple TV and own linux based set top boxes.

Elise Houard later on did an introduction on OAuth (waf? o-af? open-waf? … What a nightmare to pronounce this correctly), the open protocol for secure API authentication between web and desktop applications. (You’ve seen a protocol similar to OAuth, if you’ve used any application using the Flickr API before.) I fully support this standard, ’cause I’m sure it’s more secure and correct than eg. most screen-scraping-based contact-importers used mostly, and it’s good to have a standard for API providers, because they’re all dealing with the issue of authorization.
I’m still waiting to see some more sites support this standard, though, and I’m also keen to know in which way implementing the OAuth protocol affects the user experience, because I assume navigating away from a site could potentially scare a user maybe even more then asking for a password. I do see the advantages in allowing for partial access (in features - read and/or write - and in time - eg. limited for a week), but I think for most users it comes down to: “do I trust this site or not?”, and if they do, will make OAuth or asking for a password of another site really make any difference?
Must add I’ve been impressed by the recent implementations of ‘check who of your whatever-online-addresbook-service are on here too’ by Flickr and Dopplr recently.

Later that day Kris Buytaert ranted about the fact (!) the web 2.0 services of today still don’t work together the way they could, and should. Why can’t all the services aggregate all the information one publishes on all the different sites, and eg. show me the restaurant tips from NotSoSo created by my best Netlog friends for the trip next week I’ve been planning using Dopplr? Should be possible … Anyways, we’ve all definitely got some work to do to make this possible. The discussion took an interesting direction when Pascal Van Hecke spoke about initiatives in further decentralising your online presence, kind of returning to the subjects related to OpenID and OAuth.

Frank Louwers shared his enthousiasm for the Baobab Health project, running in Malawi. In his Africa On Rails talk he spoke about how a small team of developers is using Ruby On Rails to create kiosks that help suggesting the amount of drugs for HIV positive patients. This way not only the 160 doctors of Malawi can help out the 1 000 000 people suffering of AIDS. Their main concerns are power & budget, but in an interview with one of the developers it was interesting to see how they appreciated and disliked the same things in Ruby as local Ruby developers, albeit in totally different circumstances. Definitely check out baobabhealth.org.

My last session for the day was another demo, given by Bart Claeys. He and a friend did a quick tour through the most important features of Adobe Lightroom. I hope a demo of Apple’s Aperture is up next, so I can decide where to start managing the photos of the newly bought DSLR (Wooha!).

I left with a whole bunch of ideas, new people to follow on Twitter and lots of inspiration. Thumbs up for Thomas Bouve, he organised a great BarCamp edition (for the very first time in my hometown, yeey!).

More info and linkage at: http://barcampgent.wikispaces.com/.