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FOXBORO - Text message to underage drinkers, binge boozers and concert-goers without tickets: For your own good, stay home Saturday.
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Sound of Paint: Five-day event merges music, art
If you've ever wondered what local music would look like if someone painted it, well, here's something for ya:
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''For Mr. Bachchan, music is not just a hobby'' - Vishal Dadlani
One man who continues to get impressed with Amitabh Bachchan with every passing day is Vishal Dadlani. He along with Shekhar has been constantly interacting with the Bachchans for last so many years and the fact which always amazes him is Big B's impeccable music sense.
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Phoenix, Tucson rockers hit Congress on Friday
Club Congress on Friday hosts a meeting of the Tucson and Phoenix music scenes.
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NICHOLAS J. COTSONIKA'S BLOG: Army mishandled Caleb Campbell situation
How could they let Campbell go to the NFL scouting combine, go to the draft in uniform at Radio City Music Hall, do interviews on NFL Network and ESPN, get drafted by the Lions, listen to "USA!" chants, go to rookie camp, go to minicamp, negotiate a contract — and then, the day he is supposed to report to training camp, tell him, no, he must report for traditional military duty?
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The Kooks to open Rhythm & Vines
British alternative band The Kooks will be playing their first and only New Zealand show at the opening day of the new three day Rhythm & Vines New Years festival.
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Oxnard's Salsa Fest sure to heat up weekend
Things are going to get spicy in Ventura County when the 15th annual Oxnard Salsa Festival gets under way this weekend in Plaza Park.
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Summer band practice keeping young musicians in tune
Children in the Penn-Trafford area are staying in tune this summer with band programs. read more »
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Events for singles
American Singles Golf Association: www.southeastmichigan.singlesgolf.com. Monthly meeting, socializing and cocktails. 7 p.m. Aug. 21. Maple Country Club, 13260 Wakefield, Novi. 248-347-0379.
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Sound of Paint: Five-day event merges music, art
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Mudcat's advice to Obama: Sing the blues
The Democrats' "bubba" consultant says the blues will work as well as bluegrass in Virginia. In 2001, a Democratic yuppie appealed to back-mountain Virginia voters with a campaign set to bluegrass music and colored in hunter's blaze orange.
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Out & About
• THE STRAUSS FESTIVAL OF ELK GROVE
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An ungrammatical but harmonious tandem
Zooey Deschanel thought that she might explode. "I've been writing music since I was a little girl," says the 28-year-old indie-movie ingenue who makes up half of She & Him. The duo will play the Trocadero tomorrow in support of their fetching folk-rock debut, Volume One.
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Musical social commentary lands cool, calm, direct punch
NEW YORK - Laurie Anderson's relationship with mainstream pop music has always been offhand: Sure, she'll traffic in that world if it suits what she has to say. And if not? The 1980s new-wave music that first made her famous couldn't have been further away amid the lush, multimedia imagery of Songs and Stories From Moby Dick, or the more-literary-than-musical End of the Moon.
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Orchestra's surprising encore a perfect fit
Choosing an encore can be a squidgy business, and on a night such as Tuesday at the Mann Center, with the air still vibrating from a voluble Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, pianist Jon Kimura Parker offered exactly what was least expected: a quiet Joplin rag called Solace.
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Catholic store closing, 'sadly'
CHICOPEE - Caroline A. McAleer cradled a Holy 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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William L. Miller, 58
Carpenter, guitarist William L. "Bud" Miller, a carpenter and longtime Eastern Shore resident, died July 17 of heart failure at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. The former Odenton resident was 58.
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Millville's free concerts aimed at senior citizens
MILLVILLE - Every Thursday during the summer, the sounds of a bygone era can be heard at Corson Park.
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John M. Bond
Age 90 Retired editor and Mencken Society treasurer was an avid reader and played keyboard and organ music. J ohn Meredith Bond, a retired editor who had worked in the publications department at Peterson, Howell and Heather and longtime treasurer of the Mencken Society, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Roland Park resident was 90.
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CD Check
New on CD John Mellencamp Life Death Love and Freedom (Hear Music) As the title indicates, this is John Mellencamp at his most serious - and his most forlorn: "Life is an abstraction, and it tries to fool us all, and it's working so far, it seems," the normally feisty Hoosier sings on "Young Without Lovers." On "A Ride Back Home," the 56-year-old is ready to lie down in a pine box: "I was ...
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getting warmer
Piano-playing pop singer Vanessa Carlton's evolving repertoire will warm up the Recher Theatre I n the "junior" stage of her career, Vanessa Carlton looks for creative and "warm" ways to express her music. On her latest album, Heroes and Thieves , the piano-playing pop star feels listeners are getting a real sense of who she is - at the moment.
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Laplante brings new life to an old hall
It didn't take much of André Laplante's program to prove why what's now known as the Carlu was Glenn Gould's all-time favourite music room
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Simon Shahin Opens East Jerusalem Music Festival
Simon Shahin, accompanied by American and Israeli musicians, on Wednesday opened an international music festival in an amphitheater in east Jerusalem's “Kings' Graves,” Ynet reported Thursday.
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Mitchell’s Cahnah party will raise money for Nahant Education Foundation Aug. 31
NAHANT - It’s an adults-only party, but it’s all about the kids. The fifth annual “Mitchell’s Cahnah” Block Party will raise money for the Nahant Education Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for the schools.
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Pop singer embraces second chance
NEW YORK -- George Michael started his Monday-night concert in Madison Square Garden with Waiting (Reprise) , a ballad that concluded: "Is it too late to try again? Here I am."
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