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Country singer returns for benefit
EDWARDSBURG - These days it isn't uncommon to see entertainers venturing into the world of politics, raising money and speaking out for their favorite candidates.
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Psychadelic rock band Ekoostik Hookah content in Columbus
While at a weekly songwriters' co-op in a basement bar in April 1991, something happened that singer-songwriter and mainly solo musician John Mullins did not expect - he formed a band. Almost 17 years later the magic and chemistry is still there. Ekoostik Hookah, which is composed of Mullins and his long-time band mates, will be performing at the Centennial Terrace in support of their Live at ...
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Solid 'Smokey Joe's' shines spotlight on songwriters
Songwriters -- for the most part -- get little attention. That's one big reason you might want to see the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's production of "Smokey Joe's Cafe."
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Bret Michaels Takes His Hit Show on the Road for Another Try at Love as VH1 Announces 'Rock of Love Bus with Bret ...
Rock star Bret Michaels tried twice to find love by filling a mansion with gorgeous women and having them compete for his heart.
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SPORTS HEADLINES
GRAND RAPIDS — Mariachi Cobre will be featured during the Grand Rapids Symphony's Chase Picnic Pops concert at Cannonsburg Ski Area on Thursday and Friday, July 17-18, with 7:30 p.m. start times.
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Johnson singing happy song after earning scholarship
Anna Johnson doesn’t like to toot her own horn. She prefers to sing her own song.
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Cable series 'Sordid Lives' sorts out life and love with laughs
NEW YORK - On "Sordid Lives: The Series," the colourful folk in a certain Texas town are back in action after having won an avid following with the 1996 play and 2000 movie of the same name.
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SPORTS HEADLINES
SL kids theater group puts Dr. Seuss to music: One-act show performed today and Thursday at 7 p.m.
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State Fair's concert schedule is heavy on country
The 2008 NC State Fair concert schedule includes Josh Turner, Jason Alsean, Toby Mac, Lady Antebellum and Heidi Newfield, Bobby Flay and Bucky Covington.
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Music/Theater
“La Traviata” will be performed Thursday, July 17, Saturday, July 19 and Saturday, July 26 at McCarter Theater’s Berlind Theatre. Ticket information can be obtained by calling the Opera New Jersey box office at (609) 799-7700.
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Music/Theater
INTENSE INTERROGATIONS: Inspector Goole (Shawn Fennell) stares down his resistant suspect (Aaron Strand) in a rehearsal for Princeton Summer Theater’s production of J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls,” a 1945 psychological murder mystery with a heavy dose of social commentary, running through July 27 at the Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus.
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Billboard.com -- Okkervil River Expanding With 'Stand Ins'
On the heels of last year's "The Stage Names," its best seller to date, Austin-based rock act Okkervil River returns Sept. 9 with another Jagjaguwar album, "The Stand Ins."
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Heritage Festival is a rock and roll family bargain this weekend at Pierce Field
Tickets for the event can be purchased at the gate, online through Ticketweb or at city hall, room 303. This year's prices have gone down from last year, with daily admission for adults being $5 on Friday and Sunday and $10 on Saturday.
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Nintendo Shows off New Wii Titles
Wii Sports Resort and Wii Music will be the latest cutesy titles developed in-house by Nintendo to show up on the Wii.
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Music Review: JJ Grey & Mofro Lochloosa and Country Ghetto
Mighty fine music filled with heart and soul that won't fail to move you. No one likes to admit to their own prejudices, let's face it who wants to own up how narrow minded they really are? So it's with some chagrin that I have to confess that I've long thought of Florida as being a mixture of plastic tourist traps, right wing money, and conservative Christians who would as soon see me burn in ...
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El Sistema: Changing Lives Through Music
Through a system of early training and local orchestras, Venezuela has not only provided an uplifting musical experience for its at-risk youth, but also developed an orchestra that is world famous. Bob Simon reports.
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RBC Donates $30,000 to MusiCan to support music education
RBC today announced a $30,000 donation to MusiCan, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' music education program, to fund the organization's work to nurture and support music programs for young Canadians across the country.
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Cruisin' and groovin' set for Sunday
The Fairfield Parks and Recreation, Symmes Tavern on the Green and Barry Brown Paving present A Day of Music and Cars at Village Green, noon to 10 p.m. Sunday at the park at Nilles Road and Wessel Dr.
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Record Review
“Music hath charms to soothe the” — you know the rest, which is more often than not misquoted, with “savage beast” bumping “savage breast.” The passage comes from William Congreve’s 1697 play The Mourning Bride and goes on to say that music can soften rocks, bend knotted oaks, and give motion to inanimate things that “as with living Souls have been inform’d/By magick numbers and persuasive sound.”
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Rock-N-Wheels moves show to downtown Bay City this weekend
After 15 years in Auburn, the Rock-N-Wheels festival will come to Bay City for the first time this weekend. The event, on Friday and Saturday, features a classic car show along Water Street and two nights of live music in Wenonah Park.
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Compose Yourself
, part of the York's new New2NY series. For reasons not so obscure, composer Grossman still needs introduction — as the revue makes clear several times. This despite his writing the scores for four Broadway musicals and at least one headed to Broadway but pulled at the last minute.
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Pure Mendocino(R) Organic Celebration To Benefit Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County
UKIAH, Calif.----The bounty of Mendocino County's organic farms, vineyards and coastal waters will be featured at the 4th Annual Pure Mendocino Celebration August 22-24, 2008. Proceeds of the three-day event will benefit the nationally recognized Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County .
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Contact Us
1 p.m.: Senior Resource Center screening of No Country for Old Men; Suzanne Patterson Building. Free. 2 and 8 p.m.: Guys and Dolls ; Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pa. Also Thursday at 2 and 8 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 4 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
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What's happening in and around Mason and Deerfield Twp.?
Wizards rock out
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The AllStars Collective
Everyone in the western world owns albums on which musicians from The AllStars play whether by Robbie Williams, Cher, Jamiroquai, Paul McCartney or a host of others.
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