Fans of the Broadway version of "The Sound of Music" will notice an old favorite on Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata's (BRO) 'The Hills Are Alive' (Canal Records, 3/8).

The 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres.

February 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival Schedule:

Headtronics is an electronic project from DJ Logic (Medeski, Martin and Wood; John Popper Project), Steve Molitz (Particle; Phil Lesh and Friends) and Ohio bass prodigy Freekbass (Bootsy Collins; Buckethead) that has already received national attention though the artists have only performed a very limited number of dates.

Marco Benevento will perform at this weekend's Winterfest On The Mountain up in Nederland, Colorado.  Other artists scheduled to appear include:  Wicked Messanger featuring Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufman of Yonder Mountain String Band, Billy Nershi, Springdale Quartet, Cornmeal, Charlie Hunter, Elephant Reviv