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In a small country like Macedonia, with few modern-day heroes and a penchant for pessimism, there’s nothing like a concert by first son Toshe Proeski to lift the spirits of the locals and, in some cases, to burn an indelible, incendiary mark on the racing hearts of the smitten.
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At a Roadside Vigil, an Iconic Voice of Protest
For the last four years, the folk singer Pete Seeger has been keeping his vigil in Wappingers Falls, flashing antiwar signs to the drivers who whiz by on the highway.
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Sippy Cups kids band to appear at Lewis Family Playhouse in Victoria Gardens
Get ready to rock at a concert full of familiar tunes for moms and dads and lyrics kids can relate to. The Sippy Cups, a rock 'n' roll band for the whole family, is coming to the Lewis Family Playhouse Saturday.
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Album Review: Queen Anne's Revenge
QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE Just One Umbrella? Watercolour Music WCMCD34, £12.99
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FALLBROOK: Painting Pekingese has a flare for the artistic
FALLBROOK ---- No one would suspect Ziggy of having an artistic side. At 8 pounds and less than a foot off the ground, the 3-year-old dog of the Pekingese variety would be perfectly happy to lounge around his owner's music studio ... or to sleep ...
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Gredo: 'Golden'
I believe... I became a gigolo by accident. I'm a musician, but there's not much money to be made in jazz. I started meeting and dating women I met at parties who were more financially independent than I was.
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How We Met: Clive Deamer & Robert Plant
Robert Plant, 59, is Led Zeppelin's frontman. After the band had broken up in 1980, he pursued a successful career collaborating with various musicians, and helped set up blues band Strange Sensation in 2002. He lives in Worcestershire and Woodstock
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Parties: Stars rally for Roundhouse
What was it about the invitation to drink champagne and listen to live music at Camden's legendary Roundhouse venue that brought out such wardrobe excess?
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Gwilym Simcock: The prodigious pianist reveals the music that gets his fingers twitching
You are in a concert hall. You don't know where it is located or why you're there. The lights are down. A man you don't recognise, wearing unremarkable clothing, walks across the stage, towards a grand piano. He faces the keyboard, sits down, cracks his knuckles, levels his hands and... you wake up.
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Trends: Nude is no longer rude
"The basic hang-up that the body must be covered on all occasions is being eroded," says British Naturism's Andrew Welch – and, it seems, more and more Brits agree. Held in Cornwall, Nudefest 2008 ( www.british-naturism.org.uk ), in its second year, has everything a regular summer festival offers – music, poetry readings, yoga – though all in the buff.
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This Weekends Events
Until 26 Jun 2008 A film adaptation of C. S Lewis's epic masterpiece. The four siblings return to the land of Narnia where an evil villain Miraz has ruined the country. The children join forces with the exiled Prince...
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Thousands come out for "Big Ticket"
The annual Christian music festival brought out over 20 thousand people this weekend to the Otsego County Fairgrounds.
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This Week's Tips For Travellers
A new way to enjoy music on the move is offered by Motorola ROKR Speakers EQ3, EQ5 and EQ7 (motorola.com). Battery operated and wireless, they're also compact and can be folded away. From £29.99.
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Leonard Cohen, Opera House, Manchester Grace Jones, Royal Festival Hall, London
I think I've seen them all now. Not one of the pantheon of towering legends has eluded me. The ones who didn't die young, anyway. Leonard Cohen has always occupied a paradoxical place in the scheme of things: the world's most overground underground singer, the most popular of the unpopular, the most mainstream of the cult, the biggest of the little guys.
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Album: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 6/ Dumka – Philadelphia Orchestra/Eschenbach (Ondine)
Music director since 2003, Christoph Eschenbach has galvanised the Philadephia Orchestra and transformed its style. The orchestra's sleek tone is still well-nourished but its phrasing is more muscular and less sentimental.
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Album: Purcell, Cease, Anxious World – La Rêveuse (Mirare)
The faintest of French inflections on soprano Julie Hassler's Ts and Ds are tiny blemishes on this otherwise flawless recital of Purcell's songs and chamber music.
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Album: Eliza Carthy, Dreams of Breathing Underwater (Topic)
She's on the front in bright blue eye-shadow and lippy, lying down, her hair curling round her jaw like Rita Hayworth's. There's a clue. Not your regular folk album. It does with the elements of the English folk tradition what Tom Waits does with the elements of tradtional American music: screws them back together all wonky, as frames for wonky songs. In 'Dreams', Eliza sings about boys and ...
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Album: Various artists, The Roots of Chicha (Barbes)
In 1960s Peru there was born an unlikely musical hybrid called chicha, which mixed surf guitar with the seesaw rhythm of cumbia.
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Album: Django Bates, Spring Is Here (Lost Marble)
Composer/pianist Bates has been drawing funny faces on the jazz blackboard for nearly 30 years, yet still shows no sign of moving into long trousers.
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Album: Various artists, Ed Rec Vol III (Ed Banger)
In the past few years, Parisian label Ed Banger has emerged as Europe's foremost purveyor of nonconformist dance music, most notably through the release of Justice v Simian's anthem "Never Be Alone" and Uffie's snooty fem-rap classic "Pop the Glock". The third instalment of the label's regular round-ups includes all the major players: Justice, Uffie, Busy P, DJ Mehdi and Mr Oizo. It's a mixed ...
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Big celebration planned for grand opening of new Sauvie Island Bridge
The family-oriented event will include a dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting, a parade of first bridge crossings, live music, and booths featuring island products, food and visitor information.
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Released by world music specialist ARC Music of Great Britain, Music of the Ottoman Empire is an invigorating compilation of Turkish classical music by 19 th century Ottoman composers.
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PA’s Choates receives marker
The accomplishments of Port Arthur’s Harry Choate, considered one of the most influential musicians in the history of Cajun music and one of the most tragic, was officially recognized Saturday.
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Part 1 of this fascinating interview with a leading Macedonian ethnomusicologist discusses her interests in the field, the challenges one faces in coaxing songs out of reluctant villagers, and the importance of ritual music in Macedonian culture.
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In part one of this article, which appeared yesterday, readers were introduced to Skopje-based professional ethnomusicologist Velika Stojkova Serafimovska, and the important work she is doing in identifying the origins and morphology of traditional Macedonian songs.
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