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62nd Rhododendron Festival begins today in Roan Mountain
ROAN MOUNTAIN — The 62nd Annual Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival takes place today and Sunday at Roan Mountain State Park, featuring plenty of good music, food, and the world’s largest natural rhododendron garden atop the 6,000-foot mountain.
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Charleston Gets Artsy With Annual FestivALL
The event will feature arts of all kinds for the next ten days.
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Canary in a gold mine
John Medeski has heard stories about a bird — he believes it might be a canary — that changes its song every year, nev
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Comedian/guitarist Mike Rayburn to play here tonight
What if, in Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog," Robert Plant didn't sing "Hey hey, mama, said the way you move, Gon
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Jazz is in the evening air at Lititz 'Rendezvous'
There will a bit of romance in the air on Saturday, when the Lititz Historical Foundation presents Rendezvous at Twilight. The ol
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American Wind Symphony disembarks for Lancaster events
If you think filling up your gas tank is expensive, consider how much it would be to fill up the Counterpoint II, the 195-foot bar
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The Boss to play Hershey in August
For the first time in his legendary career, Bruce Springsteen will perform at Hersheypark Stadium in a concert set for Tuesday, Au
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Danny Davis Country Artist Dies
Grammy award winner Danny Davis, who pioneered the use of horns in country music, has died aged 83, his publicist Betty Hofer said Friday. Davis died of a heart attack at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital, she said.
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Last noon Bach concert packs the house
As the last day of the Victoria Bach Festival got under way on Friday, people came out of the woodwork to see the last free noontime concert.
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Jackson rock garden gets rock concert tonight
The free concert features BIll Booth's acoustic rock and blues
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The Dynamo
By Ann Lukits Whig-Standard Staff Writer When Shari King was in the third grade, she made three important discoveries about herself. She started taking piano lessons and realized she had an abundance of natural musical talent. She taught students in the [...]
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The Investor
By Erin Flegg For The Whig-Standard Of late, Julie Miller has found herself constantly telling her son, Aaron, to turn it down. But it’s not his music or the TV prompting her admonitions. It’s the rising volume of his commitments. “When I don’t have something [...]
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High fuel prices put brakes on indie band tours in the US
SAN FRANCISCO - Steven Garcia pulled into a Houston gas station recently to fill up the old Dodge van his punk band uses on summer tours. For months, the 23-year-old singer-guitarist had been budgeting money and booking show dates for Something Fierce's third tour - but skyrocketing gas prices have put the brakes on those plans.
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W.Va. Dems rally at state's birthday celebration
MARTINSBURG, W.VA. Rod Snyder always had kept his music separate from his politics - until Friday night at The Apollo Civic Theatre.
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Biography
On his first DGC album, 1994's Mellow Gold, Beck demonstrated his ingenious ability to mix old and new styles with ease. The result was music that on one hand sounded familiar, yet surprised at every turn.
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Mosaic festival runs all weekend
The setting wasn’t exactly evocative of his native rural Pakistani village — not when there were about half-a-dozen high-rises surrounding the place — but Junaid Farooqi didn’t let that minor detail bother him.
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Harry Potter tales set to music
Jen Leffler first escaped into the world of Harry Potter as an adolescent in suburban Chicago. A decade later, the love affair continues. Only now, it means taking road trips to concerts across the country.
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Honey, you sound like kinfolk.
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Chenille Sisters excited about show, return visit
The trio The Chenille Sisters is returning to the Northport Community Arts Center (NCAC) Saturday night for the second time, where high-energy music mixed with humor is again expected to draw a big crowd.
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The Taste Of Champaign-Urbana Begins!
Food, Music, and Fun is what this weekend has to offer out at Westside Park. Over forty thousand people are expected to converge onto the park. This year folks can expect something a little different.
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A game even the rats could enjoy
Nothing mousy about this thriller It wasn't easy to hear during Friday's seventh-inning sing-along if country music superstar Kenny Chesney gave the traditional Wrigley Field rally cry "Let's get some runs!" after he sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at our North Side vs. South Side baseball civil war.
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Five years, 5 billion downloads
Here’s another big download record this week. Apple announced yesterday that iTunes sold its 5 billionth song. The five-year-old MP3 store took a while to get going, but as of February has become the biggest music retailer in the US – even surpassing Wal-Mart. Fortune framed it well: “This represents a significant acceleration in music sales. [...]
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FOR THE 4TH: Bands, Booms
This Fourth of July, the rockets will glare red and the booms will certainly be in air. “Bands & Booms,” the Fourth of July celebration planned for downtown, will bring some bang back to America’s birthday.
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Marsalis a tasty treat at Jazzfest
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A passion for Beethoven
A few months ago pianist Hyun-Mi Chung completed a lifelong dream of recording all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas.
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