LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: My Father’s Place played a critical role in the New York music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Located in Roslyn on Long Island just outside the New York City limits, My Father’s Place helped launch the careers of scores of musicians who were unknown at the ...read more
SZOMBATHELY, HUNGARY: It is the Montréal Jazz Festival of Hungary, a talent-packed week in the ancient and yet forward-thinking city of Szombathely near Hungary’s western border with Austria. The Lamantin Jazz Fest draws over 3,000 jazz fans and musicians from Hungary and beyond ...read more
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: First a lighthouse, then a military base, then a military prison, then a federal prison, and finally a National Park Service historic site, Alcatraz Island attracts over 2,000 visitors every day. Although it only served as a federal prison for 29 years ...read more
The Eastern States Exposition, known as “The Big E,” set another attendance record this year with over 1.5-million visitors. It’s the only event in the country with a state fair-like structure in the nation where more than one state participates (six New England states partake). ...read more