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Things to do today: June 29, 2008
FESTIVALL: Free FestivALL Charleston music. Noon: Heidi Muller and Bobb Webb (singer-songwriter and traditional); 1 p.m.: Mike Bennett (singer-songwriter); 2 p.m.: Change of Heart (gospel).
The Charleston Gazette |
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Teen drums up a music career
Lisa is the drummer for Alamance, a band from Morris County, which will be playing in the Vans Warped Tour. Alamance will be part of the tour July 9 through Aug. 2. The tour has stops in Englishtown and Camden.
Morris Ledger |
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Music jam may bring phone jam
PRYOR — Heavy metal music fans may soon pose problems for Mayes County. With Rocklahoma — a four-day festival featuring bands like RATT and L.A. Guns — fast-approaching, 911 service officials are trying to remedy phone problems that are caused by the influx of people. During Country Fever earlier this month, the phone lines in Mayes County were jammed as thousands of fans using their cells at ...
The Oklahoman |
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South American music highlights recital
By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH — Harold Martina concluded the Piano Texas Distinguished Artist recital series Saturday night at PepsiCo Recital Hall with a refreshing mix of the Old World and the New. In the first half, he played five short, tantalizing Songs Without Words by Mendelssohn followed by the monumental Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel by Brahms. The second half of the ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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The music continues
Before we know it, the summer will be winding down and it will be time for the 23rd annual Bluegrass in the Park Folklife Festival on the Henderson Riverfront.
The Gleaner |
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Forward-looking Brazilian musician embraces change
NEW YORK — One of the leaders of the tropicalismo movement — a creative hothouse during Brazil’s military rule in the 1960s — Gilberto Gil has always been folding new sounds into Brazilian popular music. In 1969, the junta became suspicious of Gil’s iconoclastic ways and arrested him, then sent him into exile. Today, Brazil is a democracy and Gil is its minister of culture. Still innovating at ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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SpiralFrog lets you leap for free music
By BUZZ McCLAIN I can’t find my Achtung Baby, and I’m desperate to hear Even Better Than the Real Thing , one of U2’s best. You know how it is when you get a song in your head and you just need to hear it right away. Because my wife and kids never let me add anything to their iPods, I got my own personal media device, a nifty Olympus digital voice recorder, which doubles as an MP3 player. ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Local music students to tour Europe
Six students from the Henderson area will be among the 200 students who were nominated for the 2008 Kentucky Ambassadors of Music tour in Europe.
The Gleaner |
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Songwriter Tom Waits mines American genres to special effect
Tom Waits has often been called surrealist. However, what he evokes is usually not a world beyond our own, but a new perspective on the weirdness, beauty and banality of the world we already have. He brought that perspective to last night's sold-out show at the Ohio Theatre.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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John Masino: Hometown hero
Masino began playing both guitar and drums after his elder brother and dad taught him the lead guitar part to the Ventures' version of 'quot;Theme From Peter Gunn.'quot; Within a year, he and three chums were entertaining their Badger School classmates, John playing drums covered with blue fur on the Monkees and Tommy James favorites, his brother's big (to a small-for-his-age 10-year-old) white ...
Isthmus |
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Diversions for June 29, 2008
DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE, 6 to 8 p.m., Bodyworks Massage Institute, 2112 Maxwell St. (donation is $5). CORYDON SUMMER BAND CONCERT, featuring Traveler's Dream, 7:30 p.m., downtown Corydon, Ind. (free). Call (317) 232-8272.
The Gleaner |
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Scoops for the week of June 27-July 3
Freedy Johnston had this to say about the performances by Go-Go's member Jane Wiedlin and Madison's Whore du Jour at the 2008 Steel Bridge Songfest: "Man, did they rock. You can tell they've been rehearsing. They're really tight."
Isthmus |
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The return of Orchestra Baobab
This coolish fledgling summer should start to sizzle Sunday night when the Orchestra Baobab, straight from Dakar, Senegal, busts loose at the Barrymore Theatre - the warmup concert for the east side's annual Fete de Marquette.
Isthmus |
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Kismet keeps praising Jesus by rocking all night
JONESBORO — Four guys from Northeast Arkansas believe it’s their destiny to share their faith through hard rock music.
Jonesboro Sun |
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U of M singers to perform in 2 festivals in Austria
Members of the University of Memphis' flagship choir will embark today on a three-week trip to Austria, where the group will appear in two festivals.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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He's got connections: Music industry pals are concert headliner
Transferred to Millington last year, he got a condo on Riverside Drive in Downtown Memphis for better access to live Memphis music.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Cape Verdean parade has new route
NEW BEDFORD — Organizers of the Cape Verdean Recognition Day Parade planned for July 5 announced Friday their new parade route and other details about one of the city's most important annual cultural events.
The Standard-Times |
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Courthouse is Portales landmark
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles about New Deal/WPA projects in Roosevelt County, marking the 75th anniversary of the program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pull the country out of the Great Depression.
Portales News-Tribune |
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This 4th of July, activities abound
Boat races, music festivals, firework extravaganzas - that should be enough to keep anyone busy during the Fourth of July weekend.
Bradenton Herald |
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1776 victory over the Brits celebrated
Cannons boomed, fife and drum music wafted through the air, and fine ol' gents in seersucker suits paraded down Meeting Street to The Battery on Saturday to celebrate Carolina Day. The events commemorated the 232nd anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island. Carolina Day marks what long has been considered the first decisive win for the Patriots in the Revolutionary War.
The Post and Courier |
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Court case gives Calif. gay pride parade new meaning
Given San Francisco's sizable role in initiating the lawsuits that led California's highest court to strike down the state's bans on same-sex marriage, the city's 38th annual gay pride festival and parade is likely to draw huge crowds this weekend, tourism officials say.
USA Today |
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Thousands gather to celebrate lesbians
Rainbow flags fluttered and motorcycles squealed as thousands of lesbians thronged to Dolores Park today to hug, march, celebrate, holler and pump each other up at the annual Dyke Festival and March. There were dykes on bikes, dykes with tykes and, on stage,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Conway festival a mix of music, games, river events
Anyone curious about what jumping into a 500-gallon vat of green gelatin would be like can ask 8-year-old Josie Holmes.
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Uncle Pete's barbecue sauce may spice up the country
This story is as all-American as hot dogs burning on the grill.
Island Packet |
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Jay-Z answers critics in Glastonbury performance
US rap artist Jay-Z performs at the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm, on June 28. Striding on stage with a guitar slung over his shoulder, he led the crowd in a rendition of Oasis's "Wonderwall", smiling throughout, and with wife Beyonce Knowles in attendance, his set included songs such as "99 Problems".
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