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Southwest Boys Club clings to spot in city's baseball culture
Editor's note: "Summer in Season" is a weekly series focusing on a variety of Wichita-area sports, events and individuals. Four baseball games played simultaneously on what was an ideal night for baseball at Southwest Boys Club. The wind blew just enough to cool off the spectators, the crickets chirped cheerfully, providing music for the sun's setting. A lone "hey batta, batta, batta, hey, ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Lionel Loueke Trio Takes Jazz into Whole New World
Lionel Loueke gave Hartford its first taste of his trailblazing guitar-led trio Sunday at Sweet Jane's. The West African native enraptured a standing-room-only audience by blending cutting-edge jazz with traditional and popular sounds from his homeland.
All About Jazz |
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New plays and newcomers salvage Broadway season
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" on Broadway. Uh, wait. That's this fall when a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in September.
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Yee-Haw
Kline Whitis Elementary second-grade music students took part in a wild and wooly afternoon of singing Texas songs and kicking up their heels to traditional music in the cafeteria.
Lampasas Dispatch Record |
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Adamsville
A picnic-style 100-year celebration will be at Adamsville Community Center June 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be classic cars, vintage clothing, old farm equipment, soap-making, spinning, corn shelling, music, children's activities and food.
Lampasas Dispatch Record |
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Stores give vinyl a spin
Diehard music lovers say records offer better listening experience
The Olympian |
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Bumbershoot(R): Seattle's Music & Arts Festival Announces Samsung Mobile as Presenting Sponsor
One Reel, the not for profit producer of Bumbershoot, has secured a 2-year commitment from Samsung Mobile, elevating them to Presenting Sponsor of the 2008 Festival.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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`Camp Rock': Can it be another `High School Musical'?
Demi Lovato recalls with delight "my first — and my only! — fan mob scene."
AP via Yahoo! News |
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Fans travel for Riverfest
Eddie Guthrie goes to a lot of concerts throughout the South, and he plans to make Riverfest one of his stops this year.
The Gadsden Times |
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Bobbin' Along With Rascal Flatts
Grammy-winning country trio Rascal Flatts kicks off a summer trek through sheds and festivals this week that will see the band and openers Taylor Swift , Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley on the road through the end of September.
POLLSTAR |
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Biography
Renowned and revered the world over as one of the greatest saxophone players of all-time, David Sanborn is an artist whose music has inspired countless other musicians while creating a body of work that spans the genres of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, pop and jazz.
All About Jazz |
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The Thompson and Grace Balcony Concert Series
The West of the Boulevard neighborhood is in for a treat on select Saturdays this summer.
All About Jazz |
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Region briefs
Loveland's Friends of Chamber Music will host its first concert of the new season at 2 p.m. June 21.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan |
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The Dunmow Broadcast and Recorder
PUPILS from Dunmow Primary School have teamed up with the Dunmow Singers to perform a one-off concert. Titled "Easy on the Ear" the singers will be performing a concert with a range of music from the 1930's onwards.
The Dunmow Broadcast |
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iPhone 3G not instilling fear in Apple's music foes
Competitors don't think that Apple's iPhone, even an upgraded version, can repeat iPod's success with only one carrier.
CNET |
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iPhone music app offers new way to annoy your bandmates
Instead of becoming a human beatbox to suggest beats to the drummer, you'll be able to whip out your iPhone and play what you had in mind.
CNET |
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Morissette reflects on breakup with new CD
Alanis Morissette was so happy for a while. And there was no new music. Then early last year, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter split with her actor fiance Ryan Reynolds after a 4 1/2-year relationship. And lo, the product of that broken relationship lands on store shelves this week in the form of "Flavors of Entanglement."
Lake County News Sun |
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Nextcat.com Announces Release of iRock Facebook App
Nextcat, the leading worldwide professional network for the entertainment industry, today announced the release of iRock, a new Facebook application that enables Nextcat members to better leverage their Nextcat industry portfolio on their existing Facebook profile.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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New index provides a measure of happiness
The Gallup Organization and a health industry partner now offer a detailed daily measure of U.S. happiness and stress that you can look up on the Internet. They hope that it will be as influential an indicator of national progress someday as the gross domestic product. The index, which is based on 1,000 in-depth interviews nightly, is the first time that happiness and its many components have ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Just Joe keeps on plucking away at his guitar strings
MANSFIELD -- Just Joe won't be giving up the day job, just yet. At the invitation of country music radio station WKLB, singer-songwriter Guy Joseph Perigny, of Pelham, who works full-time as a custodian in the Pelham schools, competed in the Colgate Country Showdown on Saturday at the Comcast Center for Performing Arts (formerly the Tweeter
Lowell Sun |
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Nissitissit Middle School band members trumpeting their success
By Don Eriksson MediaNews Staff PEPPERELL -- "There are things happening here every day but some things are completely extraordinary," said Nissitissit Middle School band director Kevin Tellier. "And these kids deserve recognition.
Lowell Sun |
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Benguela: Cultural Agents React to Pension for Musicians
Benguela, 06/10 – Musicians and promoters of cultural shows in Lobito city, southwest Benguela province, praised the government for having approved the pension for musicians with over 30 years of career.
AngolaPress |
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Classical guitar showdown starts tonight in Kleinhans Music Hall
No matter who wins the third JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, the true beneficiary will be the ever-popular classical guitar itself.
The Buffalo News |
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Beach Break Live 2008
Beach Break plays host to Does It Offend You, Yeah? Rick brings you an hour of the Xlist plus the best new music and some random stuff too. Text Rick on 83xfm (std network).
Xfm Online |
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DuPage Fair revamps music acts
Christian, country and kids' music entertainers are booked to take the stage this year at the DuPage County Fair, where organizers hope they will help to end a recent lag in fair attendance.
The Naperville Sun |
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