Thursday Music News You Can Use

Bowling Green State gets ready for Jazz Week

http://www.toledoblade.com/Music-Theater-Dance/2013/03/28/Jazz-Week-to-begin-Monday-at-BGSU.html

Meet Bilal

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/soul-jazz-and-randb-impresario-bilal-makes-his-area-debut/Content?oid=3460890

Will Cape Town lose its Jazz Fest?

http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/music/cape-town-could-lose-jazz-fest-1.1492726

Great Britain's Ookelele Orchestra makes its Santa Barbara debut

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/032713_ukulele_orchestra_of_great_britain_santa_barbara_debut/

Chasing perfection (and profits)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/03/27/paul-reed-smith-guitars-chasing-perfection-profits/

Russian stage invasions are crazy

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/entertainment/russian_stage_invasions_are_crazy.html

It's New Orleans JazzFest Cube Time!

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-entertainment/2013/03/new_orleans_jazz_fest_releases_lineup_for_2013_shows.html

The return of the musical "Evangeline"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-evangeline-remixed-play-los-lobos-20130326,0,4883582.story

Some Aloha Music in D.C.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/03/cant-afford-a-trip-to-hawaii-heres-some-aloha-right-here-in-d-c/

And Talking Story with Brah Hugh Masekela

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/9956557/Hugh-Masekela-interview-TV-and-the-media-have-Africans-believing-that-our-own-heritage-is-barbaric.html