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Jazz: SIMM: The Montreal Musical Instrument Show
Only four years old, the Montreal Musical Instrument Show (SIMM) has already become a major feature of the Montreal Jazz Fest, which is a pretty big deal considering the fest is the annual home to some of the biggest names in music. The key to its phenomenal success? Interactivity.
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Voices of the Village brings together adults with special needs
ARLINGTON -- Their goal is to have Voices of the Village invited to play at the Experience Music Project in Seattle and perhaps someday appear on Oprah Winfrey's television talk show.
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Strike up the bands for Go 4th
In case you’ve forgotten, there’s a little festival called Go 4th happening in Longview this week.
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Jazz: Lee "Scratch" Perry
Repent ye sinners! Steve Lalla For dub and reggae enthusiasts, Lee "Scratch" Perry needs no introduction.
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Jazz: Michel Donato
Bassist Michel Donato has been a fixture on the Montreal jazz scene for 50 years, having played and recorded with a huge number of local and international musicians over the years.
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Festival season's in full swing: Nuits d'Afrique, the Montreal reggae and Haitian music festivals
Some of the world's greatest entertainers will descend upon Montreal in the coming days, including two children of Africa: Seun Kuti, son of legendary Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and Empire Isis, the Moroccan-born dancehall performer basking in the middle of a U.S. record-label bidding war.
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Jazz: Torngat
French horn, keyboards and drums are their instruments. Torngat is their name.
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Concerts
POP/ROCK Chicago and The Doobie Brothers, Mohegan Sun, 8 p.m. tomorrow The Chicago of 2006 doesn't resemble the Peter Cetera version of the early 1980s that specialized in syrupy ballads and little else, at least personnel-wise.
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Raised voices in Hobart
The annual Tasmanian Festival of Voices has opened in Hobart and organisers are describing this year's line-up as the best yet.
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Alice Cooper - Coopers Sideline As Bible Teacher
Shock rocker ALICE COOPER is not a bad boy at heart - he occasionally teaches Bible lessons at his local church. The reformed wild child, real name Vincent Furnier, ...
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Slash - Slash Forms Another Band
SLASH is set to form another supergroup for the launch concert at Las Vegas' Red Rock Resort. The former Guns N' Roses star has recruited Alice In Chains star Jerry ...
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Perry's to conduct final concert tonight
BY PAT BUTLER
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DVD Detective: Celebrate the 4th with an all-American film
As we head into Independence Day weekend, I wanted to suggest some classic titles scattered over the decades that evoke our country's unique character.
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Hopelessly devoted: 30 years later 'Grease' is still the word
ITt's the word. It's got groove, it's got meaning. It's been 30 years since "Grease" opened in theaters - making the successful transition from musical to movie - and began leaving what would become an indelible mark on American popular culture.
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"Woody Guthrie" gets powerful staging in Boulder
Review: Traditional musicals can be schmaltzy, the singing too precious, with people bursting into conversational song for no apparent reason. Then there are shows about the kind of music regular people play on back porches and in bars. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's "Woody Guthrie's American Song" falls into the latter camp.
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Fireworks shows add sparkle to holiday
sharedstory Barbecues, picnics, red, white and blue decorations, a day at the beach, patriotic music and time with family and friends are all images conjured up when you think Fourth of July.
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Celebrate the USA
At Staunton's July 4th festivities this weekend, organizers will kick off a new event in the tradition of the classic 1950s "cruise-in."
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Violinist gave his heart to Mexican folk music
Angel Tavira, a one-handed violinist who dedicated his life to Mexican folk music and won a Cannes Film Festival award for his first movie at age 82, has died. He was 83.
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Source Fest Tries Some Odd Mash-Ups
A gutsy experiment is unfurling this week at the Source Festival. Through Sunday, seven interdisciplinary teams -- a burlesque artist paired with a poet, for example, and a playwright matched with a photographer -- present newly minted mash-ups, exploding the walls that might seem to separate cre...
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Signature Receives $300,000 Grant for 'Next Generation' of Musicals
Productivity in some manufacturing industries might be on the downswing, but the arrows are pointing up at that increasingly busy factory for new musicals, Signature Theatre.
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Afer the Fireworks, Hit Gallery's Loda Bash
Two summers ago electronic-music outfit 88 held down daytime parties at Gallery Restaurant and Lounge in Silver Spring that featured DJs and well as live graffiti art. If a club opening for a party in the afternoon is unusual, one that does so in MoCo -- well, that's unexpected indeed.
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Album reviews The B-52's are back, and they're da bomb
THE B-52'S Funplex Astralwerks When the B-52's turned Saturday Night Live upside down in 1979 with its performance of the gleefully absurd Rock Lobster, it was immediately apparent we were witnessing something completely original in the pop music world.
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Ultra Music Festival continues
As if there weren't enough for dance music fanatics to feast upon during Winter Music Conference week, here comes the Ultra Music Festival, a who's-who of renowned DJs and electronic music acts. Now in its 10th year, Ultra has grown so much it had to be expanded to two days to realize its full euphoric glory. Sprawled across Downtown (or DWNTWN) Miami's Bicentennial Park, the festival boasts the ...
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Winter Moods' big day
Winter Moods has made it a point to rope in "the biggest players" in the business to ensure that their concert at Valletta Waterfront on Wednesday will be one "that goes down in history".
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BRAVO! Cleveland Orchestra and Midori
If you haven't already nabbed a ticket for the Cleveland Orchestra's final season program with violinist Midori this weekend, you're out of luck -- Friday and Saturday's concerts are sold out. Tickets are still available for Yundi Li's Miami debut Tuesday night.
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