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Concert holds special place in residents' hearts
For many area residents, “Freedom on Main” Concert Chairperson Alice Eschelman included, the concert is more than an evening celebrating their country.
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Roanoke celebrates with Patriotic Pops
Roanoke will play host to the Fort Wayne Philharmonic tomorrow as part of it's patriotic pops concert “Freedom on Main.” Concert Chairperson Alice Eschelman thinks Roanoke is the perfect place to celebrate the holiday.
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Achievers - Liberty and West Chester Twps: Taulbee brothers; Music students win; Beyer; BGSU dean's list; OSU grads
Ron Taulbee wins
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PHOTO SLIDESHOW: Bloomingdale celebrates 20 years of family fun
The Village of Bloomingdale marked its 20th annual Family Fest last weekend, a four-day festival organizers called one of the biggest events of the year in the village.
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Freeman to open blues club at Choctaw casino
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) - Actor Morgan Freeman is opening his second blues club in Mississippi. This one will outside the Mississippi Delta.
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New Music: Death Vessel: "Bruno's Torso" [MP3/Stream]
Some listeners may read the title of Death Vessel 's forthcoming sophomore disc and Sub Pop debut, Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us, as a pejorative. The band's sole permanent member, Joel Thibodeau, has a unique vocal delivery, which may strike some as a stunt. Singing in a clear, high-pitched voice, he sounds more like an adolescent female than an adult male, which made his debut, ...
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Top Story Videos
Colorado Springs Colorado Springs' Fabulous Fourth will be held in Memorial Park. Activities get underway at 5 p.m. with carnival games, pony rides and live music from local bands. At 8:00, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic will take the stage. Fireworks that will go off at dark.
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Collegiate Chorale travels on 2008 Europe tour
A trip to Europe is a dream for most college students, but few actually experience it. The University's Collegiate Chorale has a chance to experience the dream this summer when they go to the 2008 Lucerne International Choral Festival in Europe from June 30 to July 12.
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San Francisco Classical Voice 07/01/08
A New Model Of Orchestra? Symphony Silicon Valley "has become locally famous, almost notorious, as an orchestra without a music director.
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Gil Scott-Heron: Back to the streets
Hip-hop's godfather returns to the scene of the rhyme... By Grant Britt.Reality is not a TV show. It's live and in your face. That message was brought to bear by Gil Scott-Heron nearly four decades ago when he set street poetry to music with "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Poet, activist, pianist, composer and singer Scott-Heron stirred up the citizenry with lyrics like, "Black people ...
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Fringe Factory: Party out of time
Highland Inn Ballroom scores with throwback shindig... By Chad Radford.Since December 2007, Fringe Factory has grown from a fledgling, conceptual party idea into one of the most highly attended monthly hipster happenings in Atlanta. The premise is simple: It's an all-out aural extravaganza that mashes up live music, DJs and film projections to create a kaleidoscopic atmosphere of psychedelic ...
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Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes ... By Chad Radford.Seattle quintet Fleet Foxes has constructed a glowing and ornate pop album that draws from a palette of pastoral country and folk-rock fugues. "Baroque harmonic pop" is the viral catchphrase that the blogosphere has adopted when describing the album's nocturnal pace. Songs like "Sun It Rises," with its church-choir intro, and the Beach Boys-esque "White Winter ...
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In Search of the Blues
by Marybeth Hamilton ... By Ben Westhoff.When most people think of Delta blues music, they think of hard-luck, nomadic geniuses such as Robert Johnson and Son House, men who embodied the suffering and popular taste of downtrodden Southern black folk in the early 20th century. But that view is largely a myth, argues Marybeth Hamilton in her excellent book In Search of the Blues, perpetuated by ...
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Sound Menu
CL 's picks for the week's best shows... Courtesy soul asylum WED/2 THE DEATH SET Baltimore's Australian ex-pat duo the Death Set explodes with a sample-fueled fury unheard since Atari Teenage Riot. The buzzing synth and drum-machine beats are joined by noisy, distortion-drenched bass and guitar with childlike shouted vocals like the Go! Team giving Daft Punk a beatdown. The lo-fi crush adds an ...
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Morgan Freeman Opens Another Blues Club in Mississippi
Morgan Freeman is opening another blues club outside the Mississippi Delta.
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The Animation Show 4: Short cuts
Cartoons go the sick and twisted route... By Curt Holman.Imagine going to a comedy festival and discovering that more than half the entries were limericks and knock-knock jokes. That's comparable to the disparity of material in The Animation Show 4, an annual roundup of animated shorts created and programmed by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt. "Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival" ...
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Moonfest faces licensing hearing
ORGANISERS of controversial music festival Moonfest will have to wait until the end of the month before they find out if the Westbury-based event will go ahead.
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The secret behind people accepting Vivian Azarah
A new Lebanese singer has been introduced to the music business, artist Vivian Azarah.
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Bay de Verde musician dead at 85
He was an accomplished carpenter, cooper and blacksmith, but Kevin Broderick will be remembered most for his love of traditional Irish music, and his desire to pass it on to as many people as possible.
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Amer Diab renews contract with ‘Rotana’ for $50 Million
The Egyptian superstar Amer Diab renewed his contract with the music production company ‘Rotana’ for another five years for a sum of $50 million dollars.
Al Bawaba |
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Concert series in park kicks off July 17 with Ruby Dee performance
One of Mountain Home's great summer traditions returns beginning July 17 with the 2008 Summer Concert Series.
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Music: No Age
Thurs., July 3... By Chad Radford.Los Angeles duo NO AGE has taken the indie-rock world by storm, unleashing a wash of lo-fi noise that's driven by infectious pop rhythms. Guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt hammer out an overdriven punk/pop plod that's guided by frayed vocals and fidelity that are bound by a hearty, art-rock bent. Nouns, the group's Sub Pop debut, moves with hazy and ...
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Visual art: Millennium Gate
Fri., July 4... By Cinque Hicks.Depending on whom you ask, the new MILLENNIUM GATE in Atlantic Station is either a refreshing neoclassical monument that at last puts Atlanta in the same rarified architectural air as New York, Paris and Rome, or it's a fatuous bit of retrograde schlock that even Las Vegans would consider too tacky to build. Decide for yourself at the grand opening of the monument ...
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Music: Lyle Lovett
Sun., July 6... By David Lee Simmons.LYLE LOVETT's consistent blend of country, folk, blues, gospel and his own style of Texas swing is no more apparent than on his 2007 release, It's Not Big It's Large, a tongue-in-cheek reference to his Large Band. Lovett and his crew roll into town Sun., JULY 6, in support of his new album, his first effort in four years and the second for the Lost Highway ...
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Music: Dave Matthews Band and Gomez
Mon., July 7... By Amanda Peterson.Celebrate we will for DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, who performs with Southport, England, indie-rock band Gomez Mon., JULY 7, for the 2008 Live Nation Concert Series. DMB's first Atlanta appearance since last September's Piedmont Park benefit with the Allman Brothers, the jam band brings an ardent fan base to Lakewood Amphitheatre. What could be better for curing a case ...
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