New Year's Eve with Shemekia Copeland, Blues Singer, at Bull Run Restaurant

Blues singer Shemekia Copeland is performing at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley on Monday, December 31, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are $105 and include full course dinner, show, champagne toast, party favors, taxes and tip. Order tickets online or call 877 536-7190.

Juke Joint 5 opens the show. 

Here's a schedule of upcoming concerts at Bull Run Restaurant.

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New Year's Eve with Nicole Nelson and Dwight Ritcher at Regattabar Jazz Club in Harvard Square

American recording artists Nicole Nelson and Dwight Ritcher perform a New Year's eve concert at the Regattabar Jazz Club at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, Cambridge on Monday, December 31, 2012 starting at 9:30 p.m. Tickets to the show are $90 and include party favors and midnight toast.

Order tickets online. The duo blends jazz, R&B, soul and popular music together in a way the Boston Globe called "riveting and heavenly."

Here is a schedule of upcoming concerts at Regattabar in the New Year.

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2013 Grammy Award Nominees in Jazz Includes Many Massachusetts Artists

In case you missed the announcement, the 55th annual Grammy Award nominees were announced earlier this month.

Here are the Grammy nominations in the jazz category, which include artists with Massachusetts connections like Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny and Esperanza Spalding, all Grammy award winners in years past.

Also, Berklee College of Music alumni and faculty earned 27 Grammy nominations in a variety of categories, including jazz, Latin, pop, hip-hop and rock. 

And a number of alumni and faculty from the New England Conservatory were nominated, led by jazz vocalist Luciana Souza, who was nominated for three separate projects.

And the Boston Symphony Chamber Players group was nominated for best Chamber Music, Small Ensemble perfomance.

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Blues Guitar Legend Johnny Winter Playing at Iron Horse Music Hall on Saturday, December 29

Johnny Winter, legendary blues guitarist and singer, is performing at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.  Tickets are $50 online or at the door.

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Winter is a genuine guitar hero whose Texas style of gutsy blues playing has won him legions of admirers around the world.

Here is a schedule of upcoming music at the Iron Horse, located at 20 Center Street in Northampton. 

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Original Jelly Roll Soul Performng at Nick's in Worcester on Saturday, December 29

The Original Jelly Roll Soul band is performing at Nick's Bar & Restaurant in Worcester on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 9:00 p.m.

Formed in 2010, the Rhode Island-based ensemble plays roots jazz, including New Orleans, swing, jump, hard bop, Afro-Cuban, as well as Ethiopian, and others. The band also draws from the many genres, such as blues, gospel, ragtime, calypsos and other Caribbean styles of music that came together in early New Orleans to create jazz.

Here are directions to Nick's, located at 124 Millbury Street in Worcester. 

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Ron Murphy and the Workingman's Jazz Band Performs at Colonial Inn on December 29

Jazz vocalist Ron Murphy and the Workingman's Jazz Band perform at the Village Forge Tavern at the Colonial Inn in Concord on Saturday, December 29, 2012 from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m.  There is no cover charge.

Here is a schedule of upcoming music at Colonial Inn.

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Live Jazz & Blues in Massachusetts on Saturday, December 29

Andy Wrba Trio

Looking for live jazz and blues throughout Massachusetts on Saturday, December 29, 2012?  Here are some suggestions from MassJazz.com:

Boston

Regina Carter
Scullers Jazz Club
Doubletree Suites Hilton
400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston

Steve Soares

Top of the Hub Restaurant

Prudential Tower, 52^nd Floor

800 Boylston Street

Back Bay, Boston

Brian Thomas All Stars

Beehive Jazz Club

541 Tremont Street

South End, Boston

Peter Smith Trio

Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel

3 Battery Wharf

Boston

Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen
604 Columbus Avenue
South End, Boston

Cambridge

Chillith Fair #2
The Lily Pad

1353 Cambridge Street

Inman Square, Cambridge

Herman Johnson

Ryles Jazz Club
212 Hampshire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge

West of Boston 

Alexei Tsiganov Trio /

Michael Payette and Cassandre McKinley

Acton Jazz Café

103 Nagog Park Shopping Mall

Acton

Ron Murphy & the Workingman’s Band

Colonial Inn

48 Monument Avenue

Concord

Central Mass

The Original Jelly Roll Soul

Nick’s Bar & Restaurant       

124 Millbury Street

Worcester

Cape Cod

Bart Weisman Smooth Jazz Group

Cape Codder Resort & Spa

1225 Iyannough Road

Route 132 & Bearse's Way, Hyannis

Western Mass

AndyWrba Trio

Castle Street Cafe

10 Castle Street

Great Barrington

Johnny Winter

Iron Horse Music Hall

20 Center Street

Northampton

For year round details on jazz concerts, night clubs, radio stations, campus events, weekend brunches and jazz activities throughout Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com.

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