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Survey says: 80% likely to attend events at new performing arts center
Results from another survey show public support for a proposed performing arts center in Warren County, according to the group studying whether and how to build a home for theater, music, dance and classes.
The Hamilton Journal News
Musicians Hall of Fame Reveals Inductees
The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum announced its second class of inductees on Tuesday morning (July 1) in Nashville.
cmt.com
July 4th is cause for CELEBRATION
This Friday, the City of Mauston will provide the bang (as in fireworks) and brats.  A group of University of Wisconsin Marching Band members will provide the bang (musically) on Friday, July 4.The combination will team up for a fundraiser for the Mauston Community Sharing Food Pantry at Grayside Elementary School, 510 Grayside Ave, Mauston.Brats will go on sale at 7:30 p.m. and the UW Band ...
Juneau County Star-Times
Grammy(R) Winner Gretchen Wilson Lends Empowering Voice to Marketing Campaign for Second Season of TNT's Critically ...
Specially Created Music Video of Wilson's "Work Hard, Play Harder" Features Clips from Hit Series Starring Oscar(R) Winner Holly HunterTNT's SAVING GRACE Returns for Second Season Mo...
Broadcast Newsroom
Bayreuth's Wagner festival will offer opera online
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price - $77.
FOX 11 Tucson
New Atlanta girl group harkens TLC
bMEET KRAVE — the new Atlanta R&B trio young enough to consider TLC inspirations, fortunate enough to have two local music powers in their corner and savvy enough to be arriving at a time when female groups are scarce on the charts these days. Before opening for R&B pin-up Chris Brown this weekend — whom 19-year-old Chanel Ross admits to having "a serious, serious crush on" — she and fellow ...
Access Atlanta
Television - Lifestyle
Cure Kids is the face of the Child Health Research Foundation. The organisation has invested more than $21 million in medical research into life-threatening childhood illnesses over its 30-year history.
Scoop.co.nz
`The Fly' opera is buzz of Paris season
Be afraid, be very afraid: David Cronenberg's 1986 horror flick, "The Fly," has undergone a bizarre metamorphosis. It's now an opera. The new incarnation, with tenor Placido Domingo conducting a score by Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore ("The Lord of the Rings"), isn't as gory as the movie. Audiences will be spared close-ups of the title character's fingernails falling off as he makes the ...
The Charlotte Observer
Manahan to stay at NYC Opera through 2011-12
Conductor George Manahan will remain a music director of the New York City Opera under incoming general manager Gerard Mortier, agreeing to a four-year contract through the 2011-12 season. Manahan, 56, was hired as music director in 1996, effective with the 1997-98 season. In 2009-10, Mortier's first season, Manahan will conduct Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" and Britten's "Death in Venice." ...
The Charlotte Observer
Zim art enjoys popularity internationally
ALTHOUGH the influx of foreign tourists into the country has declined in recent years, Zimbabwean art, however, continues to enjoy massive popularity on the international art scene.
The Herald
Group wants to buy land around Ohio music center
CLEVELAND (AP) - A land conservation group says it has an agreement to buy property around the Blossom Music Center in northeast Ohio and preserve it as green space.
FOX 19 Cincinnati
M-Audio announces two new digital keyboards
M-Audio has released two new digital keyboards with built-in audio interfaces for songwriters and performers. The ProKeys Sono 61 and ProKeys Sono 88 are designed for keyboard artists who write, record and/or perform their music. They are compatible with MME and Mac OS X Core MIDI and require a minimum of a 1GHz G4-based Mac with 512MB RAM and a na...
MacNN
New ringtone options debut for the iPhone
RingtoneFeeder has announced a new way of packaging and distributing music, called "Dynamic Albums" which provides updates to the album, delivered via RSS, for 12 months after the release date. RingtoneFeeder is $2 per month or $20 per year, while RingtoneStudio is $15 and requires iTunes and Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Also PocketMac has announced ...
MacNN
Statler Brothers join country Hall of Fame
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Tom T. Hall and the Statler Brothers were formally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame with a musical tribute.
Nevada Appeal
Free fireworks display tonight
Eastland Shopping Center will sponsor a free fireworks show starting at 9:45 p.m. tonight. The show will last approximately 20 minutes and, according to organizers, will feature loud, spectacular shells in an “awe-inspiring” display.
Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
Music is Bombat
Music launch of Ganesh and Ramya starrer Bombat will be held today, which also happens to be actors birthday. Metrolife wishes the Golden Star a very happy birthday
Deccan Herald
Manahan to stay at NYC Opera through 2011-12
Conductor George Manahan will remain a music director of the New York City Opera under incoming general manager Gerard Mortier, agreeing to a four-year contract through the 2011-12 season.
Belleville News-Democrat
Baker & Taylor names CEO
Baker & Taylor Inc. has named Thomas Morgan chairman and chief executive. (HD)
BizJournals
Broadway musical 'Rent' sings out in print
"Rent" may be saying goodbye to Broadway on Sept. 7, but the long-running pop-rock musical will still be around in print. "Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical" has just been published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books.
Asbury Park Press
Derby: 'Posters Fade'
NPR.org , July 1, 2008 - Listen to the new album from the rock group, Derby and you'd swear they hail from Britain. The Portland, Ore.-based band draws heavily on BritPop and classic sounds of past British invasions on their latest CD — their second — Posters Fade . The influence of bands like The Beatles is impossible to miss, but the group leans more towards homage than imitation.
NPR
A big bang
• 5 to 5:45 p.m. Parade starting on Chestnut and ending on Harris - You may still enter a float by calling Lisa Martek at 878-1198. • 5 p.m. music in the Rotary Pavilion begins.
Cadillac News
Man gets prison for burning Burning Man
Saturday, June 28 RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A San Francisco performance artist was sentenced Friday to as many as four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for the early torching last summer of the signature effigy of the counterculture Burning Man festival.
Brattleboro Reformer
Randolph County Man Pleads Guilty to Beating Elderly Man Over Loud Music Complaint
Robert Rosier will spend between two and eight years behind bars.
The Charleston State Journal
Bayreuth's Wagner festival will offer opera online
(AP) -- Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price - $77.
PhysOrg
Singer Jessica Lombard Transcends Teens
Jessica Lombard of Torrance has put out her first CD as a singer/songwriter and has retained a New York manager. At gigs in Los Angeles, her parents come, too -- after all, the singer is only 13.
All About Jazz
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