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Coca-Cola Keeps It Cool With Teen Concert Tour Featuring Grammy Award-Winning Star Lupe Fiasco
Grammy award-winning hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco kicks off the "Refresh Your Flow Tour" for lucky teens, ages 13-17, across the country. The six-city tour is an exclusive, invitation-only concert tour created by Coca-Cola North America.
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Band of the Week After The Scars Band members, instruments and day jobs: Don Nichols, guitar and vocals, works at Simmons Pet Foods in Siloam Springs. Steve Pruitt, drums and vocals, works at an RV dealership in Lowell. Chris Villines, bass, works at Guitar Center in Fayetteville.
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Restoration recognition
Central Virginia- based southern gospel group “Restoration” won the award for “Group of the Year 2008” at the Music City Gospel Showcase Convention and Awards Show. Pictured, left to right, are Becky Locklear, Rev. Larry Morris, Rachel Williams and Rodney Locklear.
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Ashley Parker Angel Calls Off Engagement
Singer Ashley Parker Angel and model Tiffany Lynn have called off their engagement, his rep tells Usmagazine.com exclusively. "The two remain close friends as they raise their two-year old son Lyric together," the rep says in a statement. See other stars who are single this summer. The two headlined the 2006 MTV reality show There and Back, which tracked his efforts to restart his music ...
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Albert Lea Tribune
Albert Lea High School Drama and Music Departments are excited to announce the fall musical for the coming school year will be Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” Auditions for the cast will be held about the third week of school in September and rehearsals will begin soon after.
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Open Hearth brings skateboard demo tour to Waitsfield
This summer, American Ramp Company (ARC) is traveling to cities and towns across the country, including Waitsfield, to set up a complete skateboard park so that local riders can experience ARC equipment firsthand.
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Briefs 7-17-08
Arts on Grand will present Music in the Gallery at 7 p.m., tonight. This week's featured musician will be composer and pianist Isaac Brockshus. Isaac is currently a student at the University of Northern Iowa, where he has studied piano with Sean Botkin and Gennady Zagor.
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New Kevin Devine MP3: "Another Bag of Bones"
Political songwriting can often come off as poorly thought-out or undercooked, especially when it involves the same sort of vague sloganeering that exists in political campaigns. The absence of heavy-handed rhetoric is what distinguishes Brooklyn singer/songwriter Kevin Devine’s "Another Bag of Bones," off of the 7" of the same name (which will come out Aug. 19 via Academy Fight Song on ...
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Volume rises for music video games
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It turns out everyone just wants to be a rock star.
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Gaylord dresses for the Alpenfest occasion
The town of Gaylord stepped out in its Alpine garb, perhaps the only place around where lederhosen and blumen kranz are trendy fashions. Hundreds came to Alpenfest Wednesday morning, the first full day of scheduled events at downtown Gaylord's annual community festival.
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Simmons lands new reality show role
Kiss star Gene Simmons is to front a new reality TV show which will see contestants composing music jingles.
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Britney Spears working on new album
Britney Spears will hit us one more time, give us more, do it again! Yes, folks, she's planning to release a new record.
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Midland Remembers: The Olson Community Church
On July 27, 2008 the Olson Community Church will celebrate 52 years of public worship with a reunion of past and current church members under its new name: The Lighthouse Body of Christ Church. But the history of the little country church stretches back 100 years with Sunday School classes being the seed sown in the area known as Olson.
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Refurbished train car leaves New Orleans today on fundraising tour
A refurbished 1927 train car will depart from New Orleans today on a fundraising tour for two area charities, promising those who raise the most money a chance to win a trip to the Video Music Awards in Los Angeles or a red-carpet event in New York City.
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Armed for a new challenge: Salvation Army captains hope to increase presence
Newly appointed Salvation Army Captains Claudia and Johnson Germain are hoping to increase the presence of the social services organization within the city.
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The magnificent ‘Oz’
Rapt children and awed parents are being blown away, like Dorothy, with the big stage version of “The Wizard of Oz” at the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly. Kelrik Productions has presented the musical before, and Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, the Wizard and the witches have fine-tuned their performances, so the group decided to move from Unity’s small, intimate space to Cal ...
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A civics lesson in song: Musical "Ragtime" tells sweeping story of America's diversity and turmoil
The musical “Ragtime” is a powerful example of what good theater is all about. We often enjoy entertaining comedies and musicals, but we rarely see a musical that adds another dimension — drama that tells a story that enlightens and moves us. “Ragtime,” the novel by E. L. Doctorow, is a sweeping epic of America at the turn of the 20th century. It weaves fact and fiction into compelling stories ...
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Festival Mozaic's classical lineup begins Friday
When Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” debuted at a Paris theater, the audience went wild. Boos drowned out the ballet’s opening bassoon solo. Fistfights and shouting matches started in the aisles. Composer Camille Saint- Säens reportedly stormed out of the 1913 premiere. That’s the kind of passionate reaction that organizers hope to coax from audiences at the newly christened Festival ...
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Birthday Jamboree party
EVERY JULY, thousands of people travel to Morristown to celebrate the most outrageous four-day country music concert in the area, but this year, one local Shadyside resident is celebrating more than just Jamboree in the Hills. Patty Palenicek, third year "Jambo" veteran, along with family and friends, threw a party Wednesday night at Fine Day Campground in honor of her 50th birthday.
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After The Scars Band members, instruments and day jobs: Don Nichols, guitar and vocals, works at Simmons Pet Foods in Siloam Springs. Steve Pruitt, drums and vocals, works at an RV dealership in Lowell. Chris Villines, bass, works at Guitar Center in Fayetteville.
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Kay Ryan named U.S. poet laureate
U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.Ryan, a 63-year-old California native, is to begin her duties in the fall, opening the library's annual literary series Oct. 16 with a reading of her work. She also will be a featured guest at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in the Poetry pavilion ...
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RiffWorks T4: Free Guitar Recording & Online Collaboration Software Now Available
Sonoma Wire Works announces the launch of RiffWorks T4, a free edition of RiffWorks guitar recording and online collaboration software. With RiffWorks T4, musicians can record ideas at the moment of inspiration, quickly create complete songs with drums and effects, easily collaborate online with musicians around the world for free, and cast tunes to RiffWorld.com.
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New Music: Diskokaine: "Riminini (Vocal Mix)" [MP3/Stream]
Italo disco gives way to glitzier, kookier dancefloor sounds from the late 1980s and 90s on the latest from Diskokaine , aka Vienna-based DJ/producer Wolfram "marfloW" Eckert. It was Diskokaine's eponymous label that first released Sally Shapiro's early singles, followed by the original Disco Romance full-length, and Eckert in his Marflow guise gave "I'll Be By Your Side" one of its ...
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Curtains ' Paice to Star in Signature Theatre Company's New Musical Ace
Jill Paice, most recently seen as Scarlett O'Hara in the world premiere of the short-lived London musical Gone With the Wind, has found her next theatre project.
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Girls Aloud to join teen soap
Girls Aloud are set to feature in a soap opera about the music industry in which the show's main character is based on Cheryl Tweedy's X Factor co-judge Simon Cowell.
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