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Design talent rules first London Jewellery Week
Top designers, royalty and stars of the art and music world dazzled the British capital this week with a whirlwind of glitter, glamour and luxurious parties at the first ever London Jewellery Week.
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Design talent rules first London Jewellery Week
Top designers, royalty and stars of the art and music world dazzled the British capital this week with a whirlwind of glitter, glamour and luxurious parties at the first ever London Jewellery Week.
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Biography
Chris Kase (b. 1964, New Brunswick, NJ) is a jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and educator who has resided in Madrid, Spain since 1997. He has performed and/or recorded with many well known jazz artists such as: The Mingus Big Band, Adam Nussbaum, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Mintzer, The Bird of Paradise Orchestra, Steve Coleman, Chick Corea, Steve Wilson, Don Braden, Grant Stewart, Bruce Barth, ...
All About Jazz |
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Sal Nunziato: Look Out Walmart! Here Come The Threadheads
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival may have come and gone, but to an ever-growing number of diehards known as the Threadheads, the last...
HuffingtonPost |
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Music Review Phil Lesh: Dead's bassist wins duel with elements
Phil Lesh, headlining at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion last night, had it easy compared with opening act Levon Helm. By the time the former Grateful Dead bassist took the stage, the sky had cleared and the crowd, which had suffered two hours of a rain, was ready to dance.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Namibia: Amateur Musician Releases Scorcher
A NAMIBIAN part-time musician has just released a 10--track album that seems to have propelled him into great expectations.
AllAfrica.com |
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Bach Describes 'Cautionary Tales' Of PSP
Speaking in a new interview, Robbie Bach, president of Mircosoft's entertainment & devices group, has discussed Microsoft's potential portable video games plans and how the success of the PSP has influenced the Zune portable music player. Although the interview with Dean Takahashi focuses primarily on the Zune the question of games on the hardware was raised, with Bach purposefully describing ...
Gamasutra |
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Side roads: Artists in their element
Red Wing, Minn. Hot air balloon launches will be held in Red Wing Friday and Saturday as part of the Plein Air Arts Festival, which continues through June 29. More than 20 balloons will paint the sky with color with launches scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. and 6 p.m Saturday at the Red Wing airport, weather permitting.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Musicians union sues 'American Idol' producers
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A musicians union has filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of "American Idol," claiming musicians were underpaid because the show's live music was re-recorded for reruns.
Daily Record |
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Music
A new documentary looking back at the career of legendary Manchester band Joy Division has been put together by Grant Gee and is coming to a cinema near you.
Euronews |
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Surfside honors Aventura man behind Elvis Presley hits
Almost 90, Sid Tepper is being honored for the songs he wrote for famous singers -- especially Elvis -- and he's still making music. He was honored Tuesday by the Town Commission in Surfside, where he lived for 35 years.
Miami Herald |
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Family Fun! Golden Dragon Acrobats, Beauty and the Beast, The Elves and the Shoemaker
By Phyllis Stone China's premiere acrobatic touring company brings its gravity-defying show to Bass Hall on Sunday. The jugglers, acrobats and contortionists from Hebei, China, combine their skills with dance, spectacular costumes and ancient and contemporary music to create an imaginative and extravagant show. Golden Dragon Acrobats 2 p.m. Sunday Bass Hall 525 Commerce St. Fort Worth ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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NASA STS-124 Report #26 3 a.m. CDT Friday, June 13, 2008
Fittingly, the wake-up music was "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home," performed by Louis Prima and Keely Smith. The song was played at 2:02 a.m. CDT for Mission Specialist Garrett Reisman.
SpaceRef |
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School of rock: London's Roundhouse comes to the rescue
Kyle Thorne, a 24-year-old unemployed Londoner, will be one of the greeters at the Roundhouse's Rock'n'Roll Circus fundraising gala on Thursday, showing guests to their seats for the auction and show. "Five hundred pound a ticket? They didn't tell me that," he says. "I'm gonna have to be per-lite, man!"
Independent |
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North West Evening Mail
A NOISY neighbour has been fined £600. Neville James Ryland, 19, of Ashworth Street, Dalton, had been playing music too loud.
North-West Evening Mail |
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Live music at centre of Wake Jam
Not all the action will be on the water later this month when Wake Jam comes to Beavermead. A two-day live music festival will be a centre piece of the event's off-water activities.
myKawartha.com |
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What the Heck
, one more isn't gonna kill you. (Or is it?!) For the seventh consecutive year, the What the Heck Fest will hit venues around Anacortes, Washington for a weekend of music and mayhem on July 18-20, with a warm-up event happening on July 17.
Pitchfork |
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Art, Wine, Music Festival all day Saturday in downtown Shawnee
Saturday is the day for outdoor festivities as the Art, Wine and Music Festival fills historic Bell Street in downtown Shawnee. The event, back this summer after a year off, will offer activities from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., said Ronda White, executive director of Downtown Shawnee Inc.
The Shawnee News-Star |
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On DVD: 'The Bucket List,' 'Jumper'
The Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman comedy drama "The Bucket List" and Hayden Christensen sci-fi thriller "Jumper" are among the new DVDs on shelves this week. Read our reviews.
NBC 5 Chicago |
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Rox star bringing her music to town
Katie Rox knew early on she wanted to perform. Growing up in Airdrie, she first performed live at the age of eight, and hasn’t stopped since. Moving to Vancouver seven years ago, she said she needed to get involved in the music industry, and knew the west coast was the place to be.
Leduc Representative |
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Local teen back from provincial singing finals
Tyler Smith, 17, just came back from the Provincial Finals for Singing for Musical Theatre, and the Christ the King student placed first. Representing Leduc, Smith said he competed against 17 people, and he was competing in both the musical theatre and classical categories on May 21 to 24.
Leduc Representative |
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Music DVD Review: Decapitated - Human's Dust
Extreme tech death metal that will crush your skull (in a good way). My first exposure to Decapitated came this past Fall. I was making my web rounds and came across a story about an accident the band had been involved in. Being the occasionally morbidly curious guy that I am, I clicked on the story. It told of a tragic car accident that occurred in Russia while the band was on tour. The ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Music Review: Chris Barber Presents The Blues Legacy Lost & Found
The real beginnings of the 60s blues revival. Chris Barber Presents The Blues Legacy Lost & Found is a three-CD set of blues masterpieces recorded in the late 1950s, the early 1960s, with the Jimmy Witherspoon portion from 1980. The story of how these CDs came into being is every bit as interesting as the music.Chris Barber is relatively unknown to most Americans unless you happen to be an... ...
Blogcritics.org |
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The sound of Maria
Guelph woman makes top 48 in CBC's 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?' Alison Jutzi has swept through thousands of girls vying to be Maria Von Trapp in the musical production of "The Sound of Music" and landed in the top 48.
Guelph Mercury |
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Tickets on sale
Download Festival. Changed from 3 p.m. to 1 p.m. July 19. Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View. Ticketmaster.
San Jose Mercury News |
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