SPC Summer Jazz Band Concert

Come and enjoy classic big band tunes with a twist, arrangements of contemporary rock, and music for all ages! It is free! 

Tuesday, July 19^th, 7:30pm at the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus Music Center, located at 6605 Fifth Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

For information about our upcoming events, please visit our web site: http://www.spcollege.edu/spg/music/calendar.htm or call at (727) 341-7984.

Freegal: songs that are yours to keep!

If you have a Pinellas County public library card then you can use Freegal --  a free music service provided by the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative that allows you to keep the .mp3 files forever. 

This is from the Freegal website explaining how the service works: 

• Library users have a weekly download limit.  You will be able to keep track of your downloads in the upper right corner of the site. Every song has a sample clip you can listen to before you download.
• The library may have an overall weekly limit, too.  If your library runs out of downloads for the week, you can go to “My Wishlist” in the upper right corner and queue up for future music.
• The downloads on this site are all in the MP3 format with no DRM. This service will work with any MP3 player, including iPod, and can be loaded into iTunes.  It works on both PCs and Macs.
• Be sure to check out the browsing areas, especially Artists A to Z (bottom of page) and the genre lists (menu bar).  Click on see all genres to view dozens of categories.

If you have questions, please ask a librarian for help.

NPR Music app for iPhone and iPod Touch

NPR Music app for iPhone and iPod Touch. More information can be found at: http://n.pr/aIIGSq.

Free Concert Tonight in the Library! 'Jazz in the Stacks' with the Helios Jazz Orchestra

Come join us at the library and celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month!

The Helios Jazz Orchestra, directed by David Manson, presents an evening of big band jazz at the West St. Petersburg Community Library @ St. Petersburg College tonight (Tuesday, April 20th) at 7:30 PM. The 20-piece professional jazz big band will perform Swing, Pop, Latin, Bebop and will feature jazz vocalists Rita Wilson ...and Joseph Ephraim. This free concert is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the EMIT series.

St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6605 5th Ave N, St. Petersburg (727) 341.7177

A video of last year's performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GJyahilL8&feature=related

Interactive Timeline: The Decade In Music

NPR Music highlights some of the most significant musical moments of the '00s in culture, business and technology using their archival news coverage. Ten years is a lot to survey (you could listen to Chinese Democracy 73,888 times in ten years). Feel free to share your thoughts on the most important music moments this decade in the NPR comments section.

Check it out at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120181495&sc=nl&cc=mn-20091111