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Music Review: Breakout
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Tea party: Under the plane trees
The Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens hosted two big events yesterday, a tea party in the Plane Tree Avenue to celebrate its centenary and the Hillside Concert, featuring English folk group Magna Carta and a host of Pietermaritzburg and KZN performers.
The Natal Witness Group |
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Music Review: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Reviewed by Simon Vozick-Levinson --
Entertainment Weekly |
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The Major Works of John Coltrane
This two CD set brings together some very intense and transitional music recorded by John Coltrane in 1965. This was a fascinating period in his career, as his longtime quartet with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums was in the process of dissolving, and his role as a mentor to the younger “New Thing" musicians led him to seek out new collaborators like Archie ...
All About Jazz |
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Toots Thielemans in from the Storm: Music of Jimi Hendrix
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All About Jazz |
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Colombians take to streets
Hundreds of thousands of shouting, weeping and flag-waving Colombians marched, calling for an end to the kidnappings that have plagued the country during its 44-year-old guerrilla war.
TVNZ |
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Sterling Marlin adjusting his car before the Old School Reunion.com race at Music City Motorplex Friday.
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QUEBEC - Tens of thousands of music fans streamed onto the Plains of Abraham and spilled into the surrounding streets of Quebec City Sunday in hopes of securing a good vantage point to watch music icon Paul McCartney.
Brandon Sun |
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Join probe or face music: NZ to missing Indians
IMMIGRATION authorities in New Zealand have issued an advisory to the 20 Indian pilgrims who have gone missing, most of them from Punjab, to join investigation by Tuesday or face legal action.
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Yardbirds Jeff Beck and Nigel Kennedy Make Jazz at Albert Hall
Jeff Beck, the rock guitarist, was making a surprise appearance at the Proms last night -- and creating a piece of musical history.
All About Jazz |
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[Publisher’s Note] Innocents Abroad
It was with a bit a trepidation that I approached last week’s bus trip to Little Rock arranged by former City Councilman Ben Allen, now president of Downtown Jackson Partners.
Jackson Free Press |
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John Rockwell on the arts
I went to see the Russian director Sergei Bodrov's film "Mongol" the other night. It was beautifully shot, tho did 12th-century Mongols, still rustling horses and stealing one another's wives, reallly have such spotless clothes and perfect teeth?
Arts Journal |
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Draw youth to appreciate carnatic music: Murali
Presents Swaramurthy V.N. Rao Memorial National Award to Rudrapatnam brothers
The Hindu |
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Quick Look
The Indian Cultural Centre will hold a Carnatic vocal music recital by Nishshanka Abeyrathne, (MA, PS Teluga University, Hyderabad) on Tuesday July 22 at 6 pm at the Indian Cultural Centre, 133, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 4.
Daily News |
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Quebec City police ready for McCartney concert
When it comes to celebrating Quebec City’s 400th anniversary, the challenge of making sure everything goes smoothly can be boiled down to a matter of scale.
Montreal Gazette |
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Music Fest Causes I-70, Quebec Traffic Backup
DENVER - Eastbound I-70 is backed up for miles as music fans attempt to access Dick's Sporting Goods park in Commerce city for the second day of the innaugural Mile High Music fest.
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Musician Raises Money For Cancer
East Tennessee musician Ronnie Raper is raising money and awareness of pancreatic cancer through his love of bluegrass. Raper is from McMinn County and helps organize the 2nd Annual Cotton Fest in Etowah.
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Japan’s Mixi: A Social Network As A Purely Local Phenomenon
Japan’s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15 million members. The site ranks sixth on Alexa Japan and racks up over 14 billion page views monthly. Google Trends for Websites [...]
TechCrunch |
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Colombians take to streets to protest kidnappings
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have marched, calling for an end to the kidnappings that have plagued the country during its 44-year-old guerrilla war.
Stuff |
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Cleve ignites Mozart festival opening concert
Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D major, "Prague," has prompted critics to reach for superlatives since its inaugural performance.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Franz Lehár: The Merry Widow
Opera New Jersey is rounding out its festival season with The Merry Widow . Franz Lehár’s operetta waltzed into Princeton scattering its lilting melodies in the air and winning generous applause from the audience in Berlind Theatre Friday evening.
Concertonet |
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Starbucks counter at Borders to close
KAHULUI - The Starbucks store at Borders Music Movies & Cafe in the Maui Marketplace will close as part of Starbucks Corp.'s plan to eliminate 600 company-owned stores over the next year. Another Starbucks cafe at Maui Marketplace, located on the opposite side of the mall next to Jamba Juice, will remain open, said Jill Wheatman, marketing manager at Starbucks Coffee Hawaii. Some customers on Fr
The Maui News |
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The “World Music Award” goes to Amr Diab
The famous Egyptian superstar Amer Diab will receive “The World Music Award” for the 4th time. He is considered to be the biggest music star in the Middle East.
Al Bawaba |
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Dancing, cars bring city into the streets
The air along the Lafayette and West Lafayette riverfronts was filled Saturday night with a mixture of music, chatter and the rumble of revving engines.
Journal & Courier |
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MixTurtle Music Search Is Fast. Real Fast.
Combine the element of Web search with music playback and a mohawk-sporting, ciggie-smoking dinosaur, and you get MixTurtle , a new service that works as you might expect it to. Just click and play. Ajax is responsible making it behave as it does. Some might consider it bit too heavy on the large print. Everything but the topmost menu is sized big. But this is fairly easy to get accustomed ...
Mashable |
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