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Austin Daily Herald
A local non-profit memorial fund is experiencing second year growing pains, and hopes to relieve those with another successful concert in Austin.
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WITNESS: Rebel gunfire, the music of Chad
Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa, was born in Swansea, Wales in 1971 and started as an Arts correspondent. He joined Reuters in 2001, turning to photography in 2005 and winning the World Press Photo Award for picture of the year in 2006. In the following story, he describes a recent encounter with rebels in eastern Chad.
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MADLINES - Local News - News - General - Grenfell Record
The reason was to visit her son Steve, daughter-in-law Ali and grandson Harry, who for the last 3 months have been living in the US. Steve and his family have taken up temporary residence in Nashville, Tennessee, the heart of American Country Music, to write and record his latest album.
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Ex-'American Idol' runner-up Blake Lewis dropped by Arista Records
Former sixth-season American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis has announced he's been dropped by Arista Records, the Song BMG-owned RCA Music Group record label that released his "Audio Day Dream" debut album late last year.
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'We don't want to be a pop band'
Arts & entertainment: A multi-platinum album, songs sung at football - it's all rosy for the Fratellis. Not that they think so
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Dance Steps To The Front
"Dance seems to be coming out of the shadows. The top-rated, top-viewed video on YouTube is The Evolution of Dance, a breezy potted history of popular dance styles - which is also, incidentally, a breezy potted history of popular music, except with dance on top, the way I like it.
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Rowlett celebrates Festival of Freedom
Just off Main Street, the pink and white Ferris wheel stands silent in the morning sun as workers in a golf cart make the rounds ensuring that everything is ready for Friday night.
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Amy Winehouse's flying festival
Amy Winehouse will arrive at the Glastonbury music festival by helicopter on Saturday. The "Rehab" singer, who has been in hospital since collapsing at her home last week, is so desperate to perform at the event organizers have offe ...
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Skyfire adds rock-blues band to July 4 lineup
MICHAEL STRAND This year’s Skyfire fireworks show on Independence Day at the East Crawford Recreation Area will have a new feature: the well-known Southern rock and blues band Grayson Capps and the Stumpknockers.
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WITNESS-Rebel gunfire, the music of Chad
Source: Reuters By Finbarr O'Reilly GOZ-BEIDA, Chad, June 27 (Reuters) - Harsh light and shifting shadows in the windblown desert of eastern Chad can conjure strange images, but this was no mirage. Lurking in the ...
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El Sistema is music to the ears
Youngsters taking part in a musical pilot scheme to transform their lives get set to take the stage.
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Bhutan builds temple in downtown Washington as centerpiece of festival exhibit
Hundreds of artists, scientists and visitors from three wildly different cultures — the state of Texas, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — converged Wednesday at the opening of the Smithsonian's annual open-air Folklife Festival.
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The Closing Bell
We have one more update for you today before we head down to happy hour at the Skinny Promoter Bar & Grill. We have new dates for Duffy , Juanes , Supersuckers and Apocalyptica , and links to items about Mindy McCready , Ted Nugent , Boston , Napster, how Guitar Hero is changing the video game market and which country is thinking about banning sexy music videos from Saturday morning TV. Cheers!
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Kings of Leon's festival fear
Kings of Leon have revealed they are "scared s***less" about their upcoming performance at the Glastonbury music festival on Friday (27.06.08).
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WITNESS-Rebel gunfire, the music of Chad
Harsh light and shifting shadows in the windblown desert of eastern Chad can conjure strange images, but this was no mirage.
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WITNESS: Rebel gunfire, the music of Chad
GOZ-BEIDA, Chad (Reuters) - Harsh light and shifting shadows in the windblown desert of eastern Chad can conjure strange images, but this was no mirage.
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Hopewell teacher seeking stardom
WEST CHESTER TWP. — Hopewell Elementary School music teacher Susan Bauer is reaching for stardom, but needs help.
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Latest Casualty - Miami Herald Ditches Classical Music Critic
"On Monday, Miami Herald Classical Music Critic Lawrence Johnson received an "involuntary buyout" from his newspaper. Just to be clear, the word "buyout" when preceded by 'involuntary' means laid off, in this case with eight weeks severance pay. Such is Johnson's paper parachute."
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Television - Entertainment
Eight-piece California-based band The Mars Volta is arguably the busiest band in rock 'n roll, averaging an album release every year since their debut in 2003.
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Dems to drop Sopranos theme from ad
Democrats in Washington state say they will remove the theme from The Sopranos from a video attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi.The Italian Club of Seattle, in a letter to Gov. Christine Gregoire, described the video Wednesday as beyond offensive, the Seattle Times said. It accused the Democrats of negative ethnic stereotyping.The song, Woke Up This Morning, by an obscure ...
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Billboard's 1,000th Rock Era #1 Is Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl"
American popular music hit a milestone today as Billboard announced that Katy Perry's breakthrough smash hit "I Kissed a Girl" has officially become the 1,000 #1 single in what Billboard...
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Ejected Audience Member Is Still a Tim McGraw Fan
Marcus Nirschl, 30, a union glazer from Kent, Wash., still likes Tim McGraw -- even after the singer pulled him onstage at Tuesday's (June 24) concert, apparently ready for a fight.
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Get set to rock with Lavigne in August
PETALING JAYA: Canadian singer Avril Lavigne is all set to rock Malaysia this August, as part of her “The Best Damn Tour: world tour”. According to organiser Galaxy Group managing director Alan Chan, this will be her only concert in South-East Asia.
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People Head to Downtown Wausau for Live Music Over Lunch
Last week it was dogs, Thursday it's music that brought people to the center of Wausau. The Jim Carlson Trio entertained the folks on the 400 Block from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Triple killer awaits fate: death penalty or life
BY LAURA ISENSEE When Kevin Evers shot and killed three revelers at a Miami Beach birthday party in 2003, people here and abroad were shocked: Two young fathers from Argentina and a Brazilian woman died because Evers felt the music was too loud, sending him into a rage.
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