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Vault 350, blues club up for sale
LONG BEACH - A popular concert venue and a yet-to-be-opened jazz and supper club on Pine Avenue may soon perform for a new audience of owners.
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If you go . . .
The annual Pioneer Day concert with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Orchestra at Temple Square, the Osmond Family and its band will take place Friday and Saturday at the Conference Center, beginning at 7:30. p.m.
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LAKE ELSINORE: Nightclub events approved at Trevi center
LAKE ELSINORE ---- Club Illusion is open for business. For at least six months. A divided Lake Elsinore City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to approve the issuance of a permit that allows live music events inside the nightclub venue in the Trevi Entertain
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Vision Festival 2008: Day 4
For the second of the week's panel discussions on Friday afternoon at the Vision Festival, the topic was ”Jazz Factions,” with representation drawn from across the creative music spectrum, including several musicians in the audience.
All About Jazz |
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(ECM, 1984) and, more recently, The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam's
All-percussion ensemble albums are rare in any genre. Still, by digging deep, it's possible to find exceptional discs like Swiss percussionist Pierre Favre's Singing Drums Go Between (Summerfold, 2007), proving that percussion needn't be just about the rhythm.
All About Jazz |
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Eyes in the Back of My Head
Where does one find one's muse? Jason Robinson (tenor saxophone), Michael Dessen (trombone), Scott Walton (bass) and Nathan Hubbard (drums), who band together as Cosmologic, found it in jazz, in improvised music, in classical tangents, and in their own palpitating imaginations.
All About Jazz |
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Kaidan Suite
Billy Fox is primarily a composer, although he does play various percussion instruments on both his fine previous release The Uncle Wiggly Suite (Clean Feed, 2007) and Kaidan Suite . He approaches composition eclectically, but there is a decided classical undertone.
All About Jazz |
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Big River: Twainâ€s tale takes stage at playhouse
Mark Twain’s great American novel depicting a young man’s journey floating along the Mississippi River is coming to the Black Hills Playhouse, but with a slight twist. The story of Huckleberry Finn and Jim, his runaway slave friend, will be told through music and song.
Rapid City Journal |
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10 answers by Paul Field, of The Wiggles
1. I owe my success to... my father and mother. My mother instilled a love of music and had all of her seven children taught a musical instrument. My father put family first but worked very, very hard.
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Festival has new rules for alcohol
WATKINS GLEN -- The emphasis will be on family fun next week at the 29th annual Schuyler County Italian-American Festival.
Elmira Star-Gazette |
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Badfinger to headline Festival of Presidents concerts
The third annual Festival of Presidents offers a mix of family fun with concerts, a parade, sidewalk store sales, kids fair, craft and food vendors, beer garden and more on Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, at Sixth and Main streets.
Rapid City Journal |
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Bluegrass: Pass it on
Besides the bluegrass music, family fun and learning will
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'For Mr. Bachchan, music is not just a hobby' - Vishal Dadlani
Joginder Tuteja: One man who continues to get impressed with Amitabh Bachchan with every passing day is Vishal Dadlani.
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Corbin Bleu, Chapman, Jars of Clay highlight DuPage Co. Fair music
Even though the official theme of this year's DuPage County Fair is "Something to Crow About," the unofficial theme should be "Something for Everyone."
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Glencoe native opening for Corbin Bleu at DuPage Co. Fair
One week after graduation from high school, Justin Stein moved from the suburbs to Los Angeles to pursue his musical dreams.
Daily Herald |
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UPDATED: Upcoming local summer festivals
Nearly two dozen major community events will keep residents and the interested occupied, all free to attend, as summer sun and cabin fever gradually call everyone out of their homes.
Granite City Press-Record |
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Terry Peak to host festival this weekend
TERRY PEAK — The Terry Peak Mountain Festival is a two-day event involving the best views and vertical climbs in the Black Hills. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, the Kussy Express will be open to the general public with a lift passes for biking, hiking, sightseeing and racing.
Rapid City Journal |
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Guitar Guild opens 3-night fest with adventurous mix
By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH -- The opening concert of Fort Worth Guitar Guild's three-night festival was a mix of some things familiar and some things new. The familiar was tinged with exploration and adventure. Take Joaquin Rodrigo. Most know the Spanish composer from his delightful Concierto de Aranjuez often programmed by symphony orchestras (and reworked in a jazz vein on Miles Davis' ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Burlesque show ‘Ms. B.D.U. 2008' is tame, unpolished fun
Your humble theater critic caught the first of several burlesque shows at this year’s KC Fringe Festival on opening night and the results were more or less what you might expect — comical, cynical, satirical, sexy and not very polished.
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Miriam Faris crowned ‘Beauty Queen’
The young Lebanese artist Miriam Faris hosted a grand music celebration at “Al Yasoieh University” located in Lebanon. During the celebration she was crowned the university’s beauty queen.
Al Bawaba |
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Rula Saed glows in Jordan
Jordanian fans welcomed Lebanese artist Rula Saed to the 8th season of “Al Fuhais Music Festival,” called the “Jordan History and Civilization.” According to the London daily Elaph, Rula’s concert drew the largest number of fans of all the nights of the festival.
Al Bawaba |
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Najwa Karam films new clip
The Lebanese superstar Najwa Karam has filmed a video clip for her new song “Am Bemzah Maak” (I’m Kidding with You), written and composed by Imad Shams Al Deen.
Al Bawaba |
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Music, dance on tap for fall
With midsummer barely upon us, it may seem like jumping the gun to broach the subject of fall and winter happenings on the arts and entertainment front.
The Pantagraph |
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25th sweet for Sugar Creek
NORMAL -- Besides the glow of silver, the 25th anniversary for Normal's longest-running festival will have a touch of green to it, too -- just as it did for its 24th birthday.
The Pantagraph |
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Fest shakes up the Shakespeare
Ten reasons why the 31st year of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, arriving this weekend, may be its most eye-and-ear-opening to date:
The Pantagraph |
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