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Orchestra to perform Grateful Dead-inspired music
On the day Jerry Garcia would have turned 66, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will welcome more than 2,000 Deadheads to the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for the world premiere of "Dead Symphony No. 6."
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Surprise in the post for illegal music downloaders
Thousands of parents will learn of their children's illegal downloading habits when warning letters arrive at their homes in a battle against internet piracy. A government-backed drive is targeting the worst offenders of the estimated 6.5 million web users involved in illicit file-sharing of music and films. Britain's six largest internet service providers, or ISPs, have joined the scheme, ...
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Ry Cooder keeps alive L.A. sound with new album
It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing "Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was hooked. Cooder knew he had to head up to "Big River" himself. Or over to Folsom Prison or down to Jackson, Miss., or anywhere else Cash was singing about. But his parents balked at even taking ...
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Ry Cooder keeps alive L.A. sound with new album
The recording, told through the eyes of fictional country musician Kash Buk and his band the Klowns, is accompanied by a 95-page novella that Cooder says he wrote mainly for fun but which in the end inspired the album's songs.
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12 Questions: DJ Fresh
BOTSWANA-BORN DJ Fresh, real name Thato Sikwane, is one of South Africa’s most-sought after mix masters. He is credited with pioneering the house music scourge which is engulfing Southern Africa.
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Surprise in the post for illegal music downloaders
Parents to learn of their children's illegal downloading habits when warning letters arrive at their homes
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Zimbabwean in Idols final
A ZIMBABWEAN singing prodigy is on the verge of winning a US$80 000 cash prize and a recording contract with Sony BMG after making it into the final two of the Mnet Idols music talent show taking place in Kenya.
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Catholic store closing, 'sadly'
CHICOPEE - Caroline A. McAleer cradled a first communion doll, a Celtic music box in the shape of a cross, a framed blessing, and a book in her arms as she made her way around the Open Window Book and Gift Shop one recent morning.
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School fees could be on rise
It's mid-July and the temperatures outside are heating up and so is the music in the Mesa High band room. Summer break for members of the Mesa High marching band also includes working out their parts for this year's halftime show.
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Ry Cooder keeps alive L.A. sound with new album
It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing "Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was hooked. Cooder knew he had to head up to "Big River" himself. Or over to Folsom Prison or down to Jackson, Miss., or anywhere else Cash was singing about. But his parents balked at even taking him ...
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ESCONDIDO: Merchants hope new events will bolster downtown
ESCONDIDO ---- Aiming to attract new customers in a struggling economy, the Downtown Business Association says it will stage the city's first "sidewalk sale" next month on Grand Avenue, sponsor four jazz concerts during the next year and move the cit
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Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller & Victor Wooten @ The Keswick Theatre on August 19, 2008
Tickets on sale NOW! Thunder happens when three premier bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten team up for concert dates. The Thunder Tour comes to Glenside's Keswick Theatre on Tues., Aug. 19 @ 8 PM.
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Community Calendar
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following list comes from the organizations involved. Meeting changes and special speakers will be printed in the Little Argus section during the week.
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Profanity charges against rapper dropped
Profanity charges brought against hip-hop artist Raymond Boots Riley after his performance at a Virginia music festival have been dismissed, a court said.Riley was issued a citation after audience members complained he used foul language while introducing members of the the band Galactic, with whom he was performing, at the Bayou Boogaloo at Town Point Park in Norfolk last month.The festival's ...
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Madame Tussauds in London unveils wax Winehouse
LONDON (AP) -- Madame Tussauds unveiled a waxwork of Amy Winehouse on Wednesday complete with her signature beehive, black eyeliner and a bright yellow minidress. Winehouse's hair and 5-inch black heels make the model nearly 6 feet tall. The wax Winehouse's dress resembles one that the singer wore to the BRIT music awards in 2007, when she won best female solo artist. Her sailor-inspired ...
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Nas Takes Fox News To Task For What He Calls 'Racist Attacks,' At NYC Rally
headquarters on Wednesday (July 23) and present a petition to the news organization . Color of Change gathered more than 600,000 signatures to try to curb what it considers biased reporting on Fox's part.
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BBC Jazz Awards 2008: A Winning Shindig
As this blog has recorded a few times before, awards ceremonies get a mixed reception from jazzers. At its best, jazz is frequently informal, unpremeditated and uncompetitive - something that seems to run against the spirit of handing out prizes for Best In Show.
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A perfect day
Looking down into the rushing Rio Chama — at the grays and greens and reds and dozens of shades of brown of the river cobble in the stream bed — I suddenly heard, and felt, the music of the water.
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'Art Goes Green' day spreads eco message through creativity
Festival of Arts and Endangered Planet Foundation come together to host special activities this Saturday.
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Entertainment
Matthew McConaughey “got tribal” and played Brazilian music during the birth of his first child.
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Contoocook trombonist swings to the sound of jazz
BY MATT SCHOOLEY Dave Dustin has never been a big fan of reading – not music, anyway. The Hopkinton Town Band member also plays the trombone in the Tall Granite Jazz Band, a group he founded that is dedicated to Chicago-style jazz and swing. “I’ve always liked jazz because of the energy and the expression that’s possible in it. Part of it also is that it also seems more suited to my ...
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Profanity charges against rapper dropped
NORFOLK, Va., July 23 (UPI) -- Profanity charges brought against hip-hop artist Raymond "Boots" Riley after his performance at a Virginia music festival have been dismissed, a court said.
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Entertainment
Sting is recording a Songs for Tibet album with a host of other music stars. The Police frontman joins artists including John Mayer, Dave Matthews and Alanis Morissette to lend his talent to the collection of songs.
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Nellas troupe on song
“I CAN sing, but I can’t dance. It was the one thing holding me back,” said Nella Magnante, whose Warrawong studio was basking in the warm afterglow of winning a swag of places in the recent Wollongong Eisteddfod.
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Twelve years later, O.A.R. hitting its stride; Jam Band to perform Friday at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester ...
ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan -- It's easy to believe saxophonist and guitarist Jerry DePizzo when he says it's a good time to be a member of jam band O.A.R.
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