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Martha Graham still captivates
Anyone wondering how the word "modern" still applies to the content of a 75-year-old dance festival can find an answer this weekend.
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Religion News
Severna Park Baptist Church, 506 Benfield Road, will hold a car show and chicken barbecue from 1 to 6 p.m. Activities will include music, cars and a moonbounce for children.
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Presidents festival celebrates spirit of freedom, fun downtown
For years, tourists would ask Chris Johnson, "Why don't you have something going on downtown around the Fourth of July with all of these great patriotic statues?"
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Nappy Roots visits Girls Inc.
Although the girls at Girls Inc. agreed not to bombard their special guests, that agreement was short-lived as national recording artists Nappy Roots visited the organization Friday.
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Winehouse, Will Smith, and others honor Mandela
Will Smith charmed the crowd, Amy Winehouse wowed them just by showing up - but Nelson Mandela proved to be the biggest star of all at a concert Friday in honor of the South African statesman's 90th birthday.
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Bluegrass: Pass it on
Besides the bluegrass music, family fun and learning will
Rapid City Journal |
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Badfinger to headline Festival of Presidents concerts
The third annual Festival of Presidents offers a mix of family fun with concerts, a parade, sidewalk store sales, kids fair, craft and food vendors, beer garden and more on Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, at Sixth and Main streets.
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Meera Thapa stuns music lovers at Paleti
A graduate in classical music, Meera Thapa from Digboi, Assam (India), captivated the audience at 'r' sala Paleti on 27 June, Friday evening, with songs of veteran lyricist Hari Bhakta Katuwal.
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POP MUSIC
The music of San Antonio, which was celebrated Thursday night at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, is sometimes called "Tex-Mex," but that tag barely begins to cover all the styles heard at the festival tent dubbed the Dancehall. There were Spanish-language ballads and Nashville-style country...
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Today at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Bhutan Kitchen 11 a.m. Dragon Drinks: Tea and Alcohol
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WASHINGTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Officially, "From Hildegard to Bach" was the thematic parameter for this year's Washington Early Music Festival. The two-week event, with a focus on German music, concludes today with two concerts at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill. Yesterday afternoon, seven local musicians took the...
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A varied musical lineup for Eagle's Flight Days
Don’t wear yourself out Friday night dancing to the tunes of Deja Vue. This group, ranked the No. 1 dance band in Denver, will take the stage from 8:30 to 11 p.m.
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After deadly shootout, LoDo rocks on
The city's downtown playground has always been a place to dance and drink, a site of revelry and booze-induced spats. It's not usually a place where people die.
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Ballard Vale United collects money, cereal for various causes
ANDOVER — Members of Ballard Vale United Church, 23 Clark St., donated $3,000 to Merrimack Valley Samaritans so the organization can reinstate the Teen Crisis Hot-Line. This is one of several fundraisers by church members to help local organizations.
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CD REVIEW
"The Spirit of New Orleans" by Liz McComb (GVE) Liz McComb was born in Cleveland, made her name -- and part-time home -- in Paris and now has released a jazzy gospel CD that is all New Orleans. Many of the songs on the 12-track project are, for the most part, old-time gospel standards such as "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "I Know It Was the Blood" and "You've Got to Move." But all of the ...
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Church to recognize retiring choir director
First Evangelical Free Church will hold a reception Sunday for Trudy Burkholder, who is retiring after directing the church's choir for 40 years. The church choir will pay tribute to Burkholder during the 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. worship services. The church, 1825 N. Woodlawn, will also hold an open house reception for Burkholder from 2 to 4 p.m. Burkholder spent 37 years as a music educator for ...
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RELIGION CALENDAR
Concerts One Nation Under God, by Ascension Lutheran Church musicians, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, 842 N. Tyler Road. Offering. In God We Trust, 5 p.m. Sunday, West Side Baptist Church, 304 S. Seneca. Ice cream social will follow. Information, 316-262-7244. Seminars, workshops Write it Right, 6 to 8 p.m. July 11 and 25, Aug. 8 and 22, Perfect Peace, 604 N. Tyler Road. Speaker July 11 is ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Don't miss it: El Paso Youth Symphony Orchestra
El Paso Youth Symphony Orchestra will have a concert that looks back to the 1960s."Flashback to the Summer of Love" will include music by the Beatles as well as songs from well-known movies of that
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Contest hits chord for youths worldwide
Only the best try out for the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Sara Vujadinovic, a 17-year-old from Serbia, is one of them.
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Stars Sing for Mandela at 90
A galaxy of stars including Leona Lewis, Jamelia, Amy Winehouse, Sugababes, Will Smith, Razorlight, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox and Queen took part in a concert at the London Hyde Park, as part of activities celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebration.
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Washington gets a chance to sparkle on 4th
Jimmy Smits has participated in PBS's Fourth of July concert before, but he will host for the first time on Friday. Smits, whose work includes roles on "The West Wing" and "NYPD Blue," said being present on the Mall for the annual event "takes your breath away." "You have all the monuments, and the orchestra, you've got cannon batteries and fireworks, and it gives you goose bumps," he said. ...
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Your community in brief (June 28)
Summer concert series to start on Tuesday Harrisburg’s Summer Sounds concert series kicks off Tuesday with the Oregon Jazz All-Stars, featuring Paul Biondi with Haley Loren, Gus Russell, Byron Case and Neil Granstopp.
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Ottawa Jazz Festival 2008: Days 4-6, June 23-25, 2008
When you run an outdoor festival you're at the mercy of the weather, but one thunderstorm aside, the first three days of the 2008 Ottawa International Jazz Festival (OIJF) managed to beat the poor weather forecast.
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Soul and Science 2: Electric Boogaloo
Jazz—a genre that has come to mean something different depending on who is asked and the period that is being discussed. Soul and Science 2: Electric Boogaloo , finds the Chris Greene Quartet conceptualizing jazz in a way that is bigger than the mainstream limits imposed upon it.
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Wildbirds and Peacedrums The Leaf Label (2008)
Wildbirds and Peacedrums is a Swedish duo that combines Mariam Wallentin's voice and Andreas Werlin's drums into a fresh, heady brew that is part pop, part improvisstion, part tribalism.
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