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Booming tent sales boosts Blacks Leisure
Booming sales of tents as holidaymakers and festival goers opt to stay in the UK gave outdoor equipment group Blacks Leisure a sales boost this month.
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Westlake Reed Leskosky architect firm boosts plan to bring back Ameritrust building
UPDATED: 04 :50 a.m. EDT, July 17, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a field archaeologist. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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Joel's Shea concerts to be made into film
A movie documentary of Billy Joel's upcoming Shea Stadium concerts is in the works.
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All Walsh needs is a surf board and a guitar
LEWES -- Ian Walsh is on summer break from his second semester of college in Boston. While he's an avid surfer, most of his time is being taken up by something else -- a promising music career as a singer-songwriter.
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Live Review: Kid Rock in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - Good intentions will only get you so far.
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Hedley frontman plays the game
You supposedly can't judge books by their covers, but with music, that's the easiest way in.
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Girls Aloud set for teen TV soap
Girls Aloud will star in a teenage soap set in the music business - with the main character based on X Factor judge Simon Cowell.
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Billy Joel and friends farewell stadium
Music legends Tony Bennett, Don Henley and John Mellencamp have joined piano man Billy Joel onstage in New York City for the first of two sold-out concerts that will close the historic Shea Stadium.
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Rabbi strikes rich with 'Avengi Ja Nahin'
Three years ago, Rabbi Shergill announced his arrival on the Indian music scene with "Bulla ki jaana" that almost became a theme song for Sufi music aficionados.
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Concert review: Disney's latest band delights
If you're under age 14 - or happen to be the parent of someone who is - then you've heard of the Jonas Brothers.
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Opera singer to guest at zoo’s Stars concert
Music Under the Stars will continue July 27 with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber in a program titled Different by Design. Soprano Carol Dusdieker will be special guest performer with the Toledo Concert Band, Sam Szor conducting. Gordon Ward will return as emcee for the free concert, held at 7:30 p.m. Sundays through August in the Toledo Zoo amphitheater. Dusdieker, who is in a doctoral program in ...
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Special events: Earth, Wind and Fire rocks the zoo
The Toledo Zoo ends its Summer Concert Series with a performance by Earth, Wind and Fire at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The band, known for its elaborate stage shows, shot to the top of the charts in the ’70s with a sound that mixed funk with soul, rock, pop, African music, and disco. The group received its first Grammy award for the 1975 hit “Shining Star.” The Arts Zone Third Thursday Art Walk is ...
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Shirley King headlines Toledo Blues Festival
Shirley King doesn’t just sing the blues. She moves to the music like a tiger chasing down a gazelle. “People typically stand on stage doing their thing and here I come, shaking and showing it to them,” she said. “I shake a mean hip. I believe in putting everything I can into it.” The daughter of blues legend B.B. King, Shirley King will headline Saturday’s lineup at the Toledo Blues Festival, ...
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Downtown barbecue fest slated Aug. 1-3
Smoke on the Water — Ribs for the Red Cross takes place the first weekend in August at Promenade Park along the downtown riverfront. The event features local and national barbecue vendors and entertainment. Performing Aug. 1 will be the local country music band Haywire and national act Julie Roberts. Aug. 2 will be rock day with local bands Argyle Everything, Resonant Soul, the Nutones, and We ...
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Jazz musicians and fans will honor Rusty Monroe Sunday
Toledo’s jazz community is throwing a party for its legendary “First Lady of Jazz,” Margaret “Rusty” Monroe. Twelve bands or solo artists are scheduled to perform at the Fourth Annual Rusty’s Jazz Picnic, a free event starting at 1 p.m. Sunday at Toledo Botanical Garden. Jazz musicians and fans are welcome to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets as they listen to music by Rusty’s Big ...
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Music in Motion tour to depart New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- A luxury train car is scheduled to leave New Orleans on Thursday as part of a tour around the country to raise money and awareness for rebuilding the Hurricane...
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Music in Motion tour to depart New Orleans
Associated Press - July 17, 2008 4:28 AM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A luxury train car is scheduled to leave New Orleans on Thursday as part of a tour around the country to raise money and awareness...
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Thunder in the Desert booms
By Maggie Hyde MRT Correspondent Volunteers and performers at the Scharbauer Sports Complex were bracing themselves for the thunder late Wednesday. And while some dark clouds loomed, for the most part sounds of the eighth annual Thunder in the Desert roared, boomed and crashed from brass horns and drums on the football field, not the sky.
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Billy Joel rocks Shea Stadium farewell
Forty-three years ago, the Beatles played the first concert at Shea Stadium. Wednesday night, Billy Joel played the last. The Piano Man served as an apt, genial and energetic host for the stadium's send-off. (With photos.)
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critics' choice
Classic Albums Live is taking a major turn. The five-year-old Toronto-based series known for note-for-note re-creations of rock's greatest records, including the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon , is having its way with Michael Jackson's pop masterpiece Thriller . A crack 12-piece band of faceless musicians who have backed the likes of Tom ...
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Entertainment
Britney Spears will spend the summer working on her new album. The Toxic singer has been “having fun” in the recording studio and is delighted with the songs she has created so far.
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What's On: Out of Town
Brott Music Festival presents the British Invasion Weekend with Last Night at the Proms Sat. 7:30 p.m. at the Hamilton Place Great Hall; High Tea at Burlington's Royal Botanical Gardens is "Big, British & Brass" Sun. 3 p.m.; Valerie Tryon offers Russian Rhapsody Wed. 7:30 p.m. at Melrose United in Hamilton.
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Summer Music runs July 22 to Aug. 17. and closes with a production of Richard Strauss’s demanding opera Ariadne auf Naxos. The cast is drawn from Canada-wide auditions of young singers Some more highlights:
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A woman's love awakened the fadista in Tony Gouveia. "I think it was always within me," he says of his talent for singing fado – the stylish, emotive music of urban Portugal, currently enjoying a global revival.
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Shaw Festival box office is up
Shakespeare's Malvolio put it best in Twelfth Night : "And thus the whirligig of time brings in its revenges." For the first time in recent memory, the Shaw Festival is doing far better at the box office than its colleagues at Stratford.
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