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1997
April 18, First induction ceremony into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, Muskogee Civic Center, Muskogee, OK, inductees: Patti Page, Merle Haggard, Woody Guthrie & CLAUDE WILLIAMS
July 4 Sylvan Outdoor Theatre, Washington Monument Grounds, Washington, DC, w Keter Betts & Steve Abshire leading up to fireworks. Other acts: Paquito D'Rivera & his UN Orchestra, Merle Haggard & Gatemouth Brown.
July 23 Dick Hyman's "Jazz in July" "Keep on Swinging" evening at the 92nd Street Y, NYC w Ruth Brown, Frank Wess, many more.
July 24 Greater Hartford (CT) Area Jazz Festival, launching event.
Sept 30 National release of "EASTWOOD AFTER HOURS" CD from TV special taped at Carnegie Hall with a performance by Claude with Jay McShaan, Christian McBride and Kenny Washington. WATCH FOR PBS BROADCAST DATE TO COME
Sept 11 "JAZZ PROFILES: A TRIBUTE TO CLAUDE WILLIAMS" National Public Radio broadcast feed to 200+ stations. This was the premiere of a one-hour program devoted to Claude.
Sept 14-20 Tour of Japan, Tokyo & Osaka concerts with the Statesmen of Jazz, including Louis Bellson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Benny Waters, Al Grey, Earl May, Rick Fay and Irvin Stokes.
1998
Feb 20, Folly Theatre, KC, MO, w Jay McShann, "Sweets" Edison, Harold Ashby, Rod Fleeman, Todd Strait & Gerald Spaits (sold out)
Feb 22 CLAUDE "FIDDLER" WILLIAMS' 90th Birthday Concert, Academy of Music in Northampton, MA w Matt Glaser, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Bucky Pizzarelli, Genevieve Rose, Miri Ben-Ari
Feb 23 & 24 CLAUDE "FIDDLER" WILLIAMS' 90th Birthday New York City Club shows, Savoy Lounge, w Bobby Forrester- Hammond organ, Frank Vignola-guitar, Jimmy Lovelace- drums
March 9 "In Performance at the WHITE HOUSE" live for PRESIDENT & First Lady with Keter Betts, Bucky Pizzarelli & dancers Savion Glover & Jimmy Slyde, taped for PBS fall airing by WETA TV
May 3, 8:30pm CLAUDE WILLIAMS Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, Bill Easley - tenor sax, clarinet & flute, Gray Sargent - guitar, Marshall Wood- bass.
May 4, 8pm CLAUDE WILLIAMS UNH Concert, Durham, NH, with Bill Easley - tenor sax, clarinet & flute, Marshall Wood-bass, Gray Sargent - guitar, Les Harris, Sr. - drums.
May 16, Lawrence, KS, Liberty Hall, a Birdland Concert
May 22, Blue Room @ 18th & Vine Museum, KC, MO with the Scamps.
June 4, 8:30 & 10:30pm, Swing String Trio including Earl May on bass at August Lounge, (a very fine new restaurant with live jazz Wed-Sat) Scarsdale, NY.
June 5, 10pm-2am New York, NY Savoy Lounge, W 41st St just East of 9th Ave., with Bobby Forrester- Hammond B3 organ, Jimmy Lovelace - drums, 4th artist TBA.
June 6, 4:30 p.m., Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues at Riverfest, CLAUDE WILLIAMS Swing String Trio with Bucky Pizzarelli - guitar, Earl May - bass, Red Bank, NJ
June 7, 7pm. 90th Birthday Tribute to Claude Williams in Kansas City, MO with Eddie Baker's Orchestra
June 12 & 13, Claude's Quartet with bassist Eddie de Haas, The Green Mill, 4802 N Broadway, Chicago, IL.
June 18, 9pm-12:30am Zoo Bar, 136 N 14th Lincoln, NE, with Jim Cidlik, Steve Hanson, Dave Morris & John Scofield.
June 19, 8-10:00 p.m., Lincoln, NE, Area Agency on Aging benefit with the Lightning Bugs.
June 20, Toronto Downtown Jazz Fest, Jim Galloway, Benny Waters, Irwin Stokes, Bob Haggart, Chuck Folds, Dan Barrett & Don Victory.
June 22-28, CLAUDE WILLIAMS teaches at Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp near Nashville, TN.
July 3, Blue Room @ 18th & Vine Museum, Kansas City, MO 816.474.2929
July 18, Claude leads KC Allstars, with Rod Fleeman - guitar, Paul Smith - piano, Bob Bowman - bass, Tommy Ruskin - drums, Gerald Dunn-tenor sax, KC Blues & Jazz Fest., Kansas City
Aug 7, Claude's Swing String Trio w/Bucky Pizzarelli - guitar & Earl May - bass plays the North Plaza, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Aug 8, 3-4pm, workshops for NYC violinists
Aug 8, 10-2am, Savoy Lounge, NYC Jimmy Lovelace-drums, Joe Cohn-guitar, David Braham-organ.
Aug 9, 2-4 p.m., Harlem Meer, NYC, with Swing String Trio
Aug 16-22, teaches at Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp near Nashville, TN
Aug 29, 6:30 & 8:15pm, Shanghai Jazz, Madison, NJ
Aug 30, Tompkins Square Park Charlie Parker Fest, NYC, with Etta Jones, Lou Donaldson, Ray Barretto, Julius Hemphill Sextet
Aug 31, afternoon, clinics & workshops for NYC violinists
Sept 6, Manhattan, KS, 5:45-6:45pm, Sunset Zoo's Cool Cats Jazz Festival with Kim Park-sax, Frank Mantooth-piano, Gerald Spaits-bass. 2333 Oak St.
Sept 16, 9pm, NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION; "Savion Glover-Stomp, Slide & Swing: In Performance at the White House" (WETA fed this to over 300 PBS stations nationwide.
Sept 17, 5-9pm, York, PA concert with Keter Betts
Sept 19, Blue Room @ 18th & Vine Museum, KC, MO
Oct 3, Blue Room @ 18th & Vine Museum, KC, MO
Oct 8, Washington, DC dinner/ceremony to accept Endowment for the Arts '98 Nat'l Heritage Fellowship, Keter Betts & Joe Cohn
Oct 9 &10, likely Washington, DC club with Keter Betts, Joe Cohn
Oct 11, 3-5pm, Topeka (KS) Performing Arts Center, Swing String Trio
Oct 15-26, Germany, northern Europe, Richard Wyands, piano, Lew Tabackin, sax, wolfgang Morike, bass, Greg Beck, drums.
Nov 5 (or 10th), NYC Induction into International Jazz Hall of Fame
Nov 6, concert with Svend Asmussen & his band, Munich, Germany
Nov 28, Saint Louis Church, KC, MO
1999
Feb 13, Club at Plaza III, Kansas City, MO, 816-753-0000
Feb 14, March issue of Down Beat Magazine will feature Claude, 2,000 words + photos and more by KC jazz historian Chuck Haddix.
Feb 16, National Public Radio - national feed to 200 stations: Jazz Profiles: A Tribute to Claude "Fiddler" Williams
Feb 22, HAPPY 91st BIRTHDAY TO CLAUDE!! - born Muskogee, OK, in 1908
Feb 27, Blue Room @ 18th & Vine Museum, Kansas City, MO
March 20, Blue Room @ 18th & Vine Museum, Kansas City, MO
March 25, 8pm 18th & Vine, Kansas City, MO "Remembering Bird"
A Live Open Chat with Dr. Billy Taylor, Jay McShann, Al Grey, Milt Jackson & Max Roach.
March 26, 9-10:30am, 18th & Vine, Kansas City, MO, Early Bird Jam (talk) with Jay McShann, Leonard Brown, Oliver Todd & Dooley Weilert
March 27, Club at Plaza III, Kansas City, MO.
April 6, 7:30pm, Lincoln, NE, Holiday Inn, Nebraska Jazz Orchestra concert
April 7th & 8th Lincoln, NE, four Public school presentations
April 9, 8:30, 9:30 & 11:30am, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, History of American Jazz Classes
April 21 New York, lessons and clinics, some still available
April 22, 6:30pm & 9pm, Priory Restaurant, Newark, NJ, 2nd show live on WBGO-FM & Internet. With Joe Cohn-guitar, Ray Drummond- bass, and special guest vocalist & pianist Teri Thornton.
April 24, 11:30 am, Troy, NY demonstration with O'Connor, more
April 24, Troy, NY 7:30pm Swing Fiddle concert with Mark O'Connor, Johnny Gimble, Vassar Clements, Federico Britos, Frank Vignola-guitar, Jon Burr-bass
April 26/27, Rounder Bullseye RECORDING in NYC with Joe Cohn, Henry Butler-piano, Jimmy Lovelace & Keter Betts + guest TBA.
April 28, Sprint Imax Theater premiere of Claude on film @ Kansas City (MO) Zoo
May, 1999, date TBA, tentative Hannover, Germany Jazz Festival
May 29 & 30, Topeka, KS Jazz Festival
June 5, Coleman Hawkins Festival, Topeka, KS
June 12, Club at Plaza III, Kansas City, MO, 816.753.0000
June 16, St. Louis, MO concert with Regina Carter
June 18 & 19, Watkin's Brothers 90th Anniversary, KC, MO
June 24, Club at Plaza III, Kansas City, MO, 816.753.0000 ( Pub
Crawl) w Queen Bey, Lonnie McFadden, & Charles Williams Trio.
June 25, Blue Room, KC, MO
July, early weeks, hopeful Swing String Trio tour of Europe with Joe
Cohn- guitar & Keter Betts- acoustic bass
July 10, Club at Plaza III, Kansas City, MO, 816.753.0000
July 16, 9:00pm, Kansas City (MO) Blues & Jazz Fest Heritage Stage
July 30, Blue Room, KC, MO
Aug 1-7, teaching at Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp near Nashville, TN
with other great fiddlers, including Johnny Frigo
Sept 4, Tony Williams Scholarship Concert w John Blake, Philadelphia, PA
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