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Top Concert: Plain White T's
Chicago's Plain White T's make a stop at the Taste of Chicago on Sunday, performing as the headliner at the Petrillo Music Shell.
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Who's Playing
BELMONT ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL - Belmont and Damen avenues, Chicago, (773) 327-5123: Saturday, Cursive, Maritime, Sybris, Unwed Sailor, Parlor Mob, Mark Rose, Everthus the Deadbeats, the Redwalls, Waco Brothers, Dot Dot Dot, Steepwater, Rockit and Hey Champ; Sunday, American Music Club, Johnathan Rice, Maria Taylor, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Nik Freitas, Yourself and the Air, Smoking ...
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Without song, Costner might be single
Kevin Costner, whose band plays in Chicago tonight, says music might have played a small role in saving his marriage to Christine Baumgartner.
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Puppeteers lend their hands to 'A Rabbit's Tale'
Music was the muse of Chicago's premier puppet artist, Blair Thomas, as he created "A Rabbit's Tale," which comes to life in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park at 3 p.m. Wednesday and runs through Aug. 24.
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Weekend chock-full of activities
It's back! That feeling of freedom, summertime fun and street festivals galore.
The Herald News |
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Taste of Joliet offering bigger helping of fun
Taste of Joliet offers food and music, and this year there will be more of both. The Taste starts at 5 p.m. today and runs through the weekend. The big attractions this year are rock musician Pat Benatar and country performer Jo Dee Messina.
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Concert Monday at Heritage Hill
Twin Hill Springs will perform as part of Heritage Hill State Historical Parks free summer concert series at 6 p.m. Monday. Twin Hill Strings has performed since 1987. Their music is a blend of old-time mountain music, bluegrass, early folk music with a specialty in Civil War music. This group of three plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, auto harp, mountain dulcimer and string bass. Park gates ...
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Paint the city red: art festival returns
-- JOLIET -- The downtown Joliet cultural movement gets another big dose of the fine arts this weekend.
The Herald News |
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40th arts festival kicks off today (VIDEO) Organizers say best is yet to come
Dave Stevens paced back and forth across the Liberty Park lawn, his hand running through his hair as he spoke on his cell phone. The days leading up to the 40th Erie Summer Festival of the Arts, which starts today, have been hectic.
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Thousands to Attend Manayunk Arts Festival This Weekend
Thousands from up and down the East Coast are expected in Manayunk this week for the Manayunk Arts Festival.
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Arts festival has helped paint new image of Reno
RENO, Nev. - An arts and cultural festival that began 13 years ago as an attempt to fill a tourism gap between the Reno Rodeo in June and the Hot August Nights car rally is coming of age as a key component of civic leaders' efforts to revive the city's image and restore its sense of community.
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Review: Earth, Wind and Fire are in their element at Britt
They've performed at two Super Bowls, the Grammys, and the Winter Olympics. They've been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Mail Tribune |
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Taste-full sounds
While it has yet to recapture the glory days of the early '90s -- when the memorable performers ranged from the Replacements to Barry White -- or match the generally superior lineups offered by Milwaukee's Summerfest, the musical bookings at Chicago's venerable Taste of Chicago have incrementally been improving in recent years, and 2008 is inarguably the best in quite some time.
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Datebook
A roundup of festivals, auditions, music, stage, comedy and art exhibits in the area.
The Courier News |
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Uganda: Nvanungi Back With New Album
In 2003, she had her first hit, Doctor, and in 2004, she won the Pearl of Africa Music Award for Female Artiste of The Year, memorably performing in front of a big audience at Speke Resort Munyonyo.
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Nicole Atkins & The Sea Land Coveted Opening Slot on Chris Isaak Summer Tour for Second Year Running
For the second summer in a row, the critically-acclaimed Nicole Atkins and her band, The Sea, will open a series of shows for Chris Isaak on the legendary roots rocker's upcoming tour in July.
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TOP FIVE: Music, tours, video and DVD
Top 5 in music, concert tours, video and DVD HOT FIVE SINGLES 1. "I Kissed a Girl," Katy Perry. Capitol. 2. "Lollipop," Lil Wayne feat. Static Major. Cash Money/Universal Motown.
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Uganda: Kpolongo Concert Today
It is now official. The Danfo Drivers (Mad Melon and Mountain Black), popular for their runaway hit, Kpolongo (Shout it out) are in town for a series of shows. The two Nigerians will stage a show at the Kati Kati grounds tonight for sh40,000 (VIP) and sh15,000 for the rest.
AllAfrica.com |
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Cool Hand Luke: Local guitarist doesn't let one hand stop him
Lucas Stephenson remembers well the major league baseball player he admired growing up: Jim Abbott.
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Shoppers invited to dance in silence
WHEN you imagine a disco the main ingredient is usually loud music, but Leeds is set to host one with a major difference – it's SILENT. (27/06/2008 09:48:49)
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Monterey Bay Blues Festival: Youngsters putting serious study into old-school blues
It's doubtful that any of them have walked the hard road like Muddy Waters or Billie Holiday, but the young people who will perform Saturday and Sunday at the historic Monterey Bay Blues Festival are savoring their early steps into the deepest, most emotional genre in music.
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AROUND THE REGION
n Ashland: The ABA Cruise Night 2008, hosted by Ashland Mummers’ Club ABA Committee, will begin at 5 p.m. Sunday. Registration and judging will start at 3 p.m. at Memorial Field with awards presentation at 5 p.m. Pre-registration is $6 and $10 day of event. Music will be provided by JB Sound. Food and drink available. Rain date is Monday. For more information, call 875-4031.
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2nd Skook-A-Palooza venue scrapped, organizer arrested
Call it Skook-A-Confusion. In an e-mail distributed to area musicians early Thursday, Skook-A-Palooza coordinator Neil Moyer said this weekend’s music festival “will not be held in Frackville as the newspaper stated.”
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BAR FIGHTER HIDING OUT IN SERBIA
KULA, Serbia - The wealthy parents of a hulking Serbian basketball player charged with viciously beating a Brooklyn student admitted they helped their son become an international fugitive by whisking him out of the country and back home because he...
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Who says climate change isn't funny?
The Rumoli Brothers' hilarious Fringe festival hit An Inconvenient Musical stars a deadpan Doug Morency as Al Gore
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