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DeClouette named to La. Folklife Commission
Armand DeClouette of Lawtell has been named by Gov. Bobby Jindal to the Louisiana Folklife Commission.
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What's Happening
Greater Oroville Community Outreach volunteers and classes All volunteer nonprofit organization sponsors classes, health programs, recreational activities in the Family Resource Center, 2185 Baldwin Ave.
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Billy Joel fans feast on music and mood at Shea concert
They packed the house and cheered. They sang along. Mostly, they seemed thrilled to be part of history.
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Free concert series continues in Towson
The Towson Chamber of Commerce is continuing its Feet on the Street concert series from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Friday through Sept. 26 on Allegheny Avenue between York Road and Washington Avenue.
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14 years later, Warped Tour remains a youthful rite of passage
Trends pass. Rock festivals come and go. But the Warped Tour marches on. Warped hasn't just survived -- it continues to thrive: Fourteen years after quietly premiering as a celebration of the teenage skate-surf-punk culture, one decade after expanding to a massive multi-stage event, the traveling music party remains one of the summer's perennial draws.
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Keeping music alive
The California State Old Time Fiddlers' Association vigorously worked on the group's mission of preserving old-time fiddle music during an open stage jam session Sunday in Orangevale. The organization began in the 1950s in Butte County as a conduit for country music, according to the group's Web site. The organization now has 12 districts statewide. Guitarists and fiddlers play old-time ...
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Country piano man Phil Vassar due at DDC
Nashville singer-songwriter Phil Vassar will headline Desert Diamond Casino on Aug. 28 in his first Tucson concert since he played the intimate City Limits in 2003.
Arizona Daily Star |
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CONCERT OF COLORS: Buffy Sainte-Marie is light-years beyond her days as a protest singer
Buffy Sainte-Marie. If you're a baby boomer, the name surely rings bells. There's probably a picture attached, circa the early-'60s folk music explosion, of a young American Indian girl with an acoustic guitar and a strange, singular vibrato as she performs protest anthems "Universal Soldier" and "Now That the Buffalo's Gone." If you're a pop scholar, you think of her as the writer of "Until ...
Detroit Free Press |
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CLASSICAL+JAZZ HIGHLIGHTS: Hear terrific jazz free all weekend
Summer is jazz festival season. Of course, the big daddy of them all is the four-day 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend. But there's lots of action in the meantime, starting with the 14th annual Michigan Jazz Festival on Sunday at Schoolcraft College in Livonia.
Detroit Free Press |
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Mark Ronson 'approves' of Lindsay and Samantha relationship
Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson's reported romance has received its blessing from the DJ's music producer brother Mark - who "approves" of their relationship.
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Rocker James McMurtry hits Club Congress Sunday night
An Americana rocker with Tucson ties will make his way through Club Congress on Sunday.
Arizona Daily Star |
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More live music top club picks
Alvin's: Odayin, with Night Cap, Blue Angels and Madison Opera, 8 p.m. Thu. The Pop Project, with Great Lakes Myth Society and Friendly Foes, 9:30 p.m. Fri. Iceberg, with H8 Inc., Written With Blood, DIC and Hate Ashbury, 9 p.m. Wed. 5756 Cass, Detroit. 313-831-4577.
Detroit Free Press |
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Five questions with singer-songwriter Amos Lee
Philadelphia native Amos Lee, who just released his third album for Blue Note Records ("Last Days at the Lodge"), has been quite a busy man since he stopped teaching elementary school and started playing and singing songs professionally.
Detroit Free Press |
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FIVE QUESTIONS: Five questions with scientist-artist Deb Gumucio
It may not look like it, but the University of Michigan Center for Organogenesis, with its dissecting and transmission electron microscopes, doubles as an art studio. The center's director and founder, Deb Gumucio, is part of a collective of about 100 scientists-turned-artists who work at the Ann Arbor facility. The research scientists at the center, who study the intricacies of cells and animal ...
Detroit Free Press |
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Brian McCollum's Big Gigs
A look at some of the big music acts coming to town this week.
Detroit Free Press |
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RACHEL MAY LOCAL MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: Original owner to reopen legendary Blondies club
Local watering holes come and go all the time, but not many have left an impression on the Detroit rock scene the way the legendary Blondies nightclub did before it closed in 1994. Good news for Blondies fans: Original owner Ruzvelt Stevanovski is resurrecting its namesake at a new Detroit location.
Detroit Free Press |
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Tickets on sale
Thursday Mushroomhead: 6 p.m. Sept. 5, Club Bijou, $15. Friday Citizen Cope: 7 p.m. Sept. 30, Royal Oak Music Theatre, $28. Chiodos: 6 p.m. Aug. 29, Headliners, $15, $18.
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More performances
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare": Performed by Central Michigan University Theatre, 7 p.m. Fri. Performing Arts Center, 1150 Scott Lake Road, Waterford. 248-673-4205. $3-$10.
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Words cannot express . . .
played its first show for a drinking-age crowd last month. Previously relegated to all-ages venues and performances, the band's four musicians (all 21 or younger) played their entire set at Plush without singing a word. West is just one of many young instrumental rock bands invading local music spots. "It's been an interesting phenomenon," said Don Jennings, former host of "Locals Only" on KXCI ...
Arizona Daily Star |
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ROBERTA JASINA: Great stuff for families
Music, meatballs & Lamborghinis: The Italian American Cultural Society presents Festa Italiana this weekend at Freedom Hill County Park. There will be music, food, a kids area and a very cool Lamborghini-Ferrari car show. At 2:45 p.m. Sunday, the Verdi Opera Theater of Michigan performs. 6-11 p.m. Friday, noon-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 14900 Metropolitan Parkway, Sterling Heights. ...
Detroit Free Press |
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One rockin' owner
Tommy Dubielak has been in the music business since he began playing drums in kindergarten.
Arizona Daily Star |
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HoCo Festival is back in August
What started a few years ago as Hotel Congress' birthday bash is going green this year.
Arizona Daily Star |
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SYLVIA RECTOR WORD OF MOUTH: These are fast times at Slows; Pi ready to rock your mornings
Barbecue meister Brian Perrone, founder of the popular Slows Bar BQ in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, and his partners plan to open a Slows carryout and commissary kitchen at the corner of Cass and Alexandrine, across the street from the Old Miami bar, in early 2009.
Detroit Free Press |
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CD recording to be part of Lancaster festival
For the first time, members of the Lancaster Festival audience will take home more than just memories.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Like track, drivers face cloudy future
Music City Motorplex is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend. But with an extension of the track's lease still unfinished, it's unclear if there'll be a 51st.
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