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Virtual fifth major Merlin now as big as "real" labels
Merlin represents more than 12,000 independent music labels, and it now has the same market share as EMI in the US. Read More...
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Summer fun keeps it close to home
With gas prices ever higher, turning the key on that gas guzzler may feel like crime and punishment this year. Yet getting away doesn't necessarily mean crossing state lines as local communities gear up their summer festivals.
Collinsville Herald |
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Lots of bands for little bucks
This weekend, the streets of Downtown Collinsville will be an independent music lover's dream come true.
Collinsville Herald |
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Fonzie and Friends Will Tour in Happy Days ; Cast Album Now in Stores
The new national tour of Happy Days – A New Musical, with Fonzie, the Cunninghams and malt shop owner Arnold singing about life in the fifties, will launch at La Mirada Theatre in California Oct. 31-Nov. 16.
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Lace® Introduces Alumitone® Bass Bar™ Pickups for Bass
Lace Music Products proudly introduces the new Bass Bar™ Series of Alumitone® pickups at Nashville's Summer NAMM Show at booth#1501. The new Alumitone® Bass Bars™ were designed by Jeff Lace to enhance and replace, as an upgrade to bass guitars using conventional size soap bar pickups.
Harmony Central |
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Convocations offer entertainment variety
Jump start your college life this fall by attending one of the many events Purdue Convocations has to offer. Whether it is dance, music or theater, the 27 shows featured in six series with three special events are sure to entertain your evenings. Ticket prices vary for students, general public and senior citizens, and tickets can be bought in series, Pick Five, groups or single. Here is a look ...
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Princess Haya Is Patron Of London Philharmonic Orchestra's Work In Dubai
Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister, Ruler of Dubai HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has agreed to be the Patron of the Orchestra's work in Dubai commencing with immediate effect, it was announced by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]
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Music Review: The Infamous Stringdusters
The Infamous Stringdusters, "The Infamous Stringdusters" (Sugar Hill)
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Woodlanders return to home town for an evening of song on Saturday
Woodland High School graduates and current Boston Conservatory students Chelsea Beatty and Ryan Favorite will be giving a joint recital with Jana Olvera accompanying on piano.
The Daily Democrat |
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Rock N River Jam gets off to tasty start
HORICON — The second annual Rock n River Jam will kick off at Discher Park Thursday with the Taste of Horicon from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.Offerings by LeRoy Meats of Horicon, Cedar Road Meats, Domino's Pizza, Dodge Entertainment Center, Confections for Any Occasion, Kwik Trip, Zion Lutheran Church, Mountin's Piggly Wiggly, Rock River Royals 4-H Club, the Horicon Rotary Club and the Horicon Marsh ...
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen |
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Music to their ears
Girl Scout Troop 6330 and friends performed at Palm Manor Nursing Home.
Chelmsford Independent |
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Age of Conan: The Musical
Funcom announces an Age of Conan soundtrack CD: In the wake of the wildly successful Age of...
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Andra Mitrovich talks about channeling Janis Joplin
Before "Love, Janis," the musical about legendary 1960s singer and native Texan Janis Joplin, became an off-Broadway hit in 2001, singer Andra Mitrovich wowed Austin audiences with the role of the blues singer when Zachary Scott Theatre staged the show.
Austin American-Statesman |
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See KISS at Download and buy the CD!
Knowing that real fans would prefer to keep handing over their money to Gene Simmons than make do with a shoddy bootleg, KISS and Concert Live have announced that they'll be offering fans the chance to own a recording of their Download performance, right after they come offstage!
Kerrang.com |
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Feel the power of cheese in Pinconning this weekend
If you love cheese, or at least the idea of a cheese-themed festival, then Pinconning is the place to be Thursday through Sunday. Michigan's Cheese Capital hosts its 25th annual Cheesetown Challenge Festival featuring road races, fireworks and daily concerts.
The Bay City Times |
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Eagle-Vail bocce ball tournament coming up
EAGLE-VAIL, Colorado — A bocce ball tournament, live music, silent auction and dinner will be held June 29 to raise money for Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation.
Vail Daily |
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The 'Great American Voter Trek' Aims High to Register Voters for the 2008 Presidential Election
In an effort to highlight the importance of voting, seven students from Vermont's leading colleges and universities will bicycle cross country from Vermont, the Green Mountain State, to Wyoming, the Equality State, to register as many voters as possible for the 2008 presidential election.
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Dreaming a drum and bugle corps on a Vegas scale
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 (2 a.m.) Randy Warner has always heard the beat of a different drummer. Now, after 27 years as a very vocal animal protection activist, Warner is a man with an all-new mission. And he wants Las Vegas to march along with him.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Music brings minorities more money
VietNamNet Bridge – Dozens of singers and dancers will perform in a music and song programme in HCM City this week to raise funds for poor ethnic minority students.
Vietnam Net |
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Tune-deaf people may hear a sour note unconsciously
People with tune deafness aren't able to tell when a musician accidentally strikes the wrong note in a song, but their brains know the difference. Researchers from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health, have found that people with tune deafness, an auditory processing disorder in which a person with normal hearing ...
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Honors Choir marks 10 years with hearts full of song
Judy Simpson said she didn't expect things to go this far. She thought the York County Honors Choir she helped found in 1998 would last a year, with sophomore, junior and senior high school students singing at several places throughout York County.
The York Dispatch |
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Music Review: Hit-filled Petty show is the real deal
Tom Petty's hits-packed set kept last night's crowd singing, dancing and playing air guitar through nearly every number.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Queen chosen for freedom festival
Fenton - Leslie Joy Elrod, 18, has been named the 2008 Fenton Freedom Festival (FFF) queen. Zonta Club of the Fenton Area annually sponsors the queen contest.
Tri-County Times |
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Setting Up Camp: 'Brokeback Mountain' the Opera to Have Singing Homosexual Horsemen
Opera doesn’t really tap into the gay cultural stereotyping of its musical theater kid-sister, which makes the choice of genre for this landmark homosexuals-on-horses remake not only compelling in its unorthodoxy, but ambitious in its bucking of commercial instinct.
New York Press |
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A perfect day for the Relay for Life as 'remarkable' £72,000 is raised
THE weathermen may have dismissed Saturday as being an ordinary day – virtually no sun, no rain, no wind. But to Belle Spence and the organisers of the Relay for Life it was perfect.
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