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Battle Ground Harvest Days: Candy was dandy, politicos handy at parade
BATTLE GROUND — Same community festival, new location. Battle Ground’s skate park and community center have consumed most of Fairgrounds Park, but that didn’t stop Har...
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"Hot" Mexican musical genre picks up steam in U.S.
MIAMI (Billboard) - Mexico's music from the hotlands -- better-known by its Spanish term, "musica de tierra caliente" -- has long played second fiddle to its more popular cousin, duranguense.
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The First Ward Festival Kicks Off
Live music, cotton candy, toys and a dunk tank were only some of the features at the First Ward Festival. "There's a lot of new businesses in the First Ward on Clinton Street and other places as well and we just wanted to make the whole city aware of it and the whole area aware of it and how nice Clinton Street is becoming," said Mary Lou Rutkowski, a member of the Guiding Community of the First ...
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Country Star Comes to Beckley
Concert one of many events at Auto Fair.
The Charleston State Journal |
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Sioux Falls Jazzfest Celebrates 20th Anniversary
JazzFest has made Sioux Falls a hotbed of jazz culture
KELO Sioux Falls |
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Samuel Beckett, From Everywhere but the Stage
The Gate Theater in Dublin is back at the Lincoln Center Festival for three star-studded helpings of Samuel Beckett.
New York Times |
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Morphing Neil Young for the Stage and Page
Neil Young?s concept album ?Greendale? continues to inspire spinoffs outside the music world, including a graphic novel and a multi-performer theater piece.
New York Times |
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Adventures in Concert Programming
There?s more to innovation than throwing in a contemporary composer or two.
New York Times |
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Andrew Lippa and David Bloch
Andrew Lippa, a composer, and David Bloch, a film marketing executive, were married on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Diane Wayne, a retired judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, officiated at the home of Paula Holt, a friend of Judge Wayne?s.
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Kiwanis Brat Days provides a tasty way to fundraise
One definition of summer is seeing picnic tables filled with people eating hot dogs and bratwursts, listening to local music at the annual Alpine Kiwanis Brat Days, said Rosemary Falduto of Bartlett.
Rockford Register Star |
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"Hot" Mexican musical genre picks up steam in U.S.
By Leila Cobo
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"The Ultimate Elvis Contest"
The Ultimate Elvis Contest brought look-a-likes from across the country to walk the walk and talk the talk.
WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News |
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Classical music tuned out
At 10 a.m. July 9, Carla Selby turned the dial on her radio to 88.1 FM and heard... nothing. For weeks, she’d heard announcers on her favorite radio station, KVOD classical music, warn listeners that the station was moving down the dial from its longtime home at 90.1 FM. But she never once heard that Boulder residents would likely lose their reception.
Boulder Daily Camera |
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LAKE ELSINORE: Council to decide on appeals on Trevi decision
LAKE ELSINORE ---- The City Council could rule this week on appeals of a Planning Commission decision that allowed live music performances inside Trevi Entertainment Center on Mission Trail. An item regarding the appeals has been included on the agen
North County Times |
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Music Review: David Bowie - Live Santa Monica '72
Thirty-six years on, this bootleg remains an onslaught of rock ‘n’ roll abandon. In June 1972, David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, the album that launched his most provocative, mercurial persona into the zeitgeist. When he landed in America later that year for a concert tour – his first-ever in the country – he not only introduced an intriguing ...
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More than 1.5 million dance to techno beats at annual Love Parade mass-rave
BERLIN - More than 1.5 million people danced through the streets of the western German city of Dortmund at the annual Love Parade techno music festival.
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One More Thing: Music in Movies and TV [Nostalgia]
As any of my close friends will attest, I don't know a damned thing about music. But I do know when I like it, and I especially like it when it's used to wonderful effect in cinema or television. So...
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No Age is at a DIY crossroads
Randy Randall and Dean Spunt are helping revive the L.A. punk scene. But as their popularity grows, can they maintain their punk ethic? DEAN SPUNT and Randy Randall of the L.A. experimental punk duo No Age have played plenty of warehouse shows but none like the one late last month in Hollywood. For a taping of "FNMTV," the music channel's new Friday night video show, the network retrofitted a ...
Los Angeles Times |
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Community Party may help Operation Sunshine top goal
Sickenberger Lane bar was buzzing with music Saturday afternoon despite the heat and several other events in the area.
The Observer-Dispatch |
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Deltarado Days brings out thousands for fun
Thousands of Delta residents spent Saturday in the park celebrating the town's history. Deltarado Days is an annual event held for over 70 years. The festival kicked off Thursday, and runs until Sunday.
KJCT 8 Grand Junction |
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German Love Parade draws 1.5 million
BERLIN - More than 1.5 million revelers danced through the streets of the western German city of Dortmund on Saturday at the annual Love Parade techno music festival.
The Arizona Republic |
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Album: Golden Animals, Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (Happy Parts)
Album title of the year, clearly. But what's the music like? While they recorded 'Pony', guitarist Tommy Eisner and drummer Linda Beecroft went out into the California desert to live in complete isolation with nowt but a set of Doors albums for company.
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Album: Polar Bear, Polar Bear (Tin Angel)
A third album for Seb Rochford's jazz rats, and by far their best. Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart are the frontal tenor sax lobes, but what makes this their most accomplished, coherent recorded work is the LP's unitary vibe: by the sound of it, the group now constitute a single brain, a listening one.
Independent |
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Locals have fun, help fire department
Its about the size of an average church festival, but the Schofield Fun Days offers more dimension than a typical gathering.
Wausau Daily Herald |
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How George W is coining it in from Britain's music festivals
It is the summer of love of live music. A festival fiesta with more than a million fans paying to watch top-name bands at the 500-plus music events that are now held across the UK.
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