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Westerly All Stars in tune with the Summer Solstice
It’s time to hear from Westerly’s All-Stars. Over the years, musicians of all stripes have grown up here or moved here, developed their craft or started a famous band here, or moved away and started one somewhere else.
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Univision.com Launches ''En Directo'' with Latin GRAMMY(R) Winner Fonseca
Univision Online, Inc., the interactive subsidiary of Univision Communications Inc., the nation's leading Spanish-language media company, today announced the launch of a groundbreaking music microsite on Univision.com called "En Directo" with a free online concert by Colombian Latin GRAMMY(R) artist Fonseca. The Fonseca concert will stream on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m. ET. The concert will be ...
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Trio of festivals kicks off with parade of tomatoes
NEW ORLEANS -- If there is a nationwide scare of tainted tomatoes, you wouldn't know it by the looks of New Orleans. Residents dressed in large tomato costumes paraded through the...
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Kenny Chesney: ‘I’m just a dreamer, nothing more’
“I feel songs are the soundtracks of people’s lives, especially mine,” the platinum-selling singer said, adding, “There’s a lot of me” in his latest album, “Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates." The irony is, he doesn’t write the songs.
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Entertainment briefs
Music at Twilight Fort Ward Park, 4301 W. Braddock Road, hosts free concerts at 7:30 p.m. each Thursday. Tonight, Alexandria Citizen’s Band (Big Band) June 12, Michael Hoover “Memories of Elvis” (Traditional Elvis) •June 19, Charles Bubeck (Jazz) •June 26, Alexandria Singers (Choral) •July 10, Swing Command (Big Band) •July 17, Hand Painted Swinger (Pop & Rock) •July 24, Alexandria Harmonizers ...
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Banjo waltzed with more than Matilda
LEGENDARY poet Banjo Paterson has been accused of being "a cad and a rotter" who wrote Waltzing Matilda with the help of a woman he was wooing while he was engaged to her best friend.
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Trio of festivals kicks off with parade of tomatoes
Associated Press - June 13, 2008 12:24 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - If there is a nationwide scare of tainted tomatoes, you wouldn't know it by the looks of New Orleans.
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Stratford Festival Review: Terrific Cabaret in both senses of the word
The story: Struggling American novelist Cliff Bradshaw arrives in Berlin, New Year’s Eve, 1929. It’s a time of hedonistic attitudes, fully embraced by the members of the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret where Cliff meets English chanteuse Sally Bowles, and where the enigmatic Emcee holds court.
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Lenny Kravitz - Kravitz Opens Top Recording Studio In Florida
Caption: Lenny Kravitz performing live at Rock in Rio Lisboa 2008 Lisbon, Portugal - 30.05.08....
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Internap CDN Powers Pearl Jam Site
June 13, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internap Network Services announced on Friday that its content delivery network has been selected by American alternative rock band Pearl Jam to deliver "high-quality" recordings of its 2008 tour performances on its website.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Carnegie Hall Presents: JVC Jazz Festival New York
Carnegie Hall will host nearly a dozen programs from June 20 to 28, representing the vast array of approaches falling under the contemporary jazz umbrella.
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Thursday night: MGMT
MGMT main men Andrew Vanwyngarden (left, pictured at Coachella Music Festival) and Ben Goldwasser rolled down to the first two Bonnaroos in a Honda Civic, they told us Thursday night from the This Tent stage. This was the first time...
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Hallmark Names Portland Resident 'Number One Dancing Dad In America'
Today, Hallmark named Ronnie Bell of Portland, Ore., the 2008 "Number One Dancing Dad In America." Bell beat out hundreds of other dancing dads from across the country in Hallmark's "Daddy of All Dance-Offs," a nationwide search for America's best dancing dad.
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Kindness, Freedom and Friendship Shine in New Opera
TORONTO-Playing at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs in the heart of downtown Toronto, Sanctuary Song is a new "Opera for All Ages" that combines theatre, music, dance and multimedia effects o...
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Russia Catherine the Great – the musical 13/06 17:32 CET
The colourful and much debated life of Russia’s most powerful female ruler, Catherine the Great, has been turned into an all-singing all-dancing stage musical. It combines rock, operatic arias and Russian Orthodox religious music to tell how the German-born princess rose to Imperial power.
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Korg serves notebook DJs with nanoSeries
Korg late yesterday previewed a new set of music controllers for artists whose studio or live work centers around notebooks. The nanoSeries attaches through USB and is small enough to sit in front of a portable on stage or in a tight recording environment either to play software instruments or to control MIDI devices. The nanoKONTROL caters most ...
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156th Army Band plans Alexandria show
The Louisiana National Guard's 156th Army Band will present a free concert tonight in Alexandria.
The Shreveport Times |
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3 Smart Things About Music
1 The pitches in musical scales are likely derived from language. Turns out, aspects of spoken English and Mandarin correlate to the intervals between notes in a chromatic scale (the black and white piano keys in an octave). Is it music we love or the sound of our own voices? 2 When musicians improvise, the lateral prefrontal areas of their brains — responsible for planning and ...
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Broadway Stars Prepare For Sunday's Tony Awards
Broadway stars are spending the next couple of days rehearsing for the 62nd Annual Tony Awards, which are being held this Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall.
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MULTIMEDIA: Pennsylvania Academy of Music
Explore the dazzling, new Pennsylvania Academy of Music in this interactive multimedia feature....
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French first lady's drug-inspired lyrics 'painful for Colombia': minister
Though some French critics are raving about former model and singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's new album, Colombia's foreign minister is giving one song by the French first lady in particular a thumbs down.
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Sheik and Bostwick Will Be Tony Presenters
Original Grease star Barry Bostwick and Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik are the final additions to the starry list of presenters for the 62nd Annual Tony Awards, which will be presented June 15 at Radio City Music Hall.
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Tunisia: El Haouaria to Host Traditional Falconry Festival
The picturesque sea side town of El Haouaria , located in Tunisia's green Cap Bon region, also known by its Roman name as 'Aqualaria' , the country of the eagle, is holding the 42 nd edition of its falconry festival.
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5 free things to do this weekend
ART AT ITS PEAK: Stroll among hundreds of art pieces, listen to music and enjoy a day on the grounds of the Pikes Peak Center as Pikes Peak Arts Fest returns 4-8 p.m.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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2008 SHDHS Student of the Year nominee Katie Anderson
Katie Anderson Parents: Ron and Frances Anderson of Exeter Nickname: Katie, Kathleen, Katelyn Known for: Running Fall 2008: McMaster for Science Most Memorable Moment: In Grade 10, our music trip to Ottawa.
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