Yanni News

Early on in the new film "The Family Jams,'' the camera zooms in on Devendra Banhart's face, a thick tangle of dark hair, darker eyes, and a beard straight out of the Book of Exodus.

John Tesh has sold some 7 million records of his own New Age/pop compositions. Seriously. He also has written a few books, of the self-help variety, and hosts a syndicated radio show dedicated to spreading his personal philosophy, to the tune of his own grandiose, melodic and occasionally overwrought instrumental music.

The ancient wind instrument may be much-maligned, but it's also a powerful symbol of Aboriginal culture.

Renowned violinist Karen Briggs is scheduled to headline the sixth Simi Valley Vino Jazz Festival scheduled for Sept.

World-renowned violinist Karen Briggs worked with musician Yanni for 15 years, staring in the 1994 performance "Yanni-Live at the Acropolis." Briggs presents an assortment of musical styles during her Soulchestra performance that blends classical, contemporary, world, soul and R&B sounds during the Urban Village Monday Night Series, Monday, Aug.

The name game was quite popular on its first go around , so we've decided to bring it back for an encore tour.

When "Yanni Voices" began its 51-city tour of the US and Canada last spring a pair of grandMA2 consoles went along to program video and lighting for the visually-compelling live concert series.

Yanni come lately? Not for seven years, an eternity in the New Age music world, where people wait in vigil for contemporary instrumentals to discuss at dinner.

In 1994, he topped the Billboard New Age album chart with "Live at the Acropolis," the soundtrack to a TV special that helped PBS raise $13 million.

Wednesday: Bay Area singer Connie Champagne brings her renowned Judy Garland impersonation to the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, in a special show celebrating Garland's ties to the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the modern LGBT movement.

The biggest surprise about Sunday night's Yanni concert: it wasn't actually about Yanni.

YANNI, EnergySolutions Arena, June 17 Take Yanni's uniquely beautiful music and add new breathtaking visual and vocal layers in the form of four young performers and you have Yanni's "Voices," a collaboration that appears to be a hit with Yanni's picky audience.

The Hollywood Music industry is buzzing with the news that legendary Multiple Oscar and Grammy music producer Ric Wake and World Famous New Age Composer Yanni have asked Bollywood sensation Mallika Sherawat to participate in an upcoming special concert, which will be heralded as a triumphant return to India.

Words like pageantry, wonderment, and spectacle aren't used very much in the Aftermath lexicon.

"It was time to experiment," Yanni said in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune .

Singing Yanni's songs: The Yanni Voices tour will stop at 7:30 p.m. next Sunday in Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd.

Gilda's Club members in Grand Rapids will be coming to the Van Andel Arena on Saturday to see New Age artist Yanni .

With his next performance slated for Wednesday night in Cleveland, OH, the new-age icon unveiled a limited quantity of $10 tickets for each remaining stop on the tour.

THURSDAY : Yanni at the Target Center and Doves at the Varsity Theater. Also Santigold at First Avenue.

This text is replaced by the Flash movie. New age superstar Yanni introduced the Twin Cities to the second phase of his career Thursday night at the Target Center.