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Bravo! finishes final week with chamber music and free shows
Bravo! artists perform an intimate chamber concert at the Vilar Performing Arts Center last season. Bravo hosts Bountiful Baroque at the Vilar at 6 p.m. Tuesday. For tickets, call 877-812-5700 or visit www.vailmusicfestival.org.
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Britain Eyes Download Tax
Broadband users could pay an annual levy to download as much music as they want, with proceeds channeled to copyright holders
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Whole Lotta' Lez Zeppelin in Beaver Creek
Channel Led Zeppelin with tribute band Lez Zeppelin Satruday night in Beaver Creek at 6 p.m. on the Beaver Creek Chophouse Lawn. BEAVER CREEK, Colorado — There’s a fine line between musical imitation and reinvention.
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Prince - Batman Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Purple One meets the Dark Knight to somewhat funky results. July 24, 2008 - Prince's companion piece to Danny Elfman's rather staid score set the precedent for many of the Batman films to release both a score and soundtrack, the latter featuring music crafted by some of the hottest artists of the day.
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Madlib Remixes Madvillainy, Curates BBE Comp
We don't want to call MF DOOM an unreliable guy. We like to imagine that instead of recording music he is sneaking around doing important stuff like hunting down Osama bin Laden or building seal habitats. Either way, the fact remains: The rumored follow-up to Madvillainy , DOOM's 2004 collaboration with Madlib , remains unfinished. While we wait for the album, Madlib has ...
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Angola: Singer Dom Caetano Releases Latest CD
The new Compact Disk (CD) by the Angolan musician Dom Caetano is to be available at the national market late this year, he told Angop on Thursday in Luanda.
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Mario Melodia keeps his hands, heart in the art of dance
Even his name says music. read more »
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'Rock villain' brings horror show here
Rock 'n' roll legend Alice Cooper has been touring the world for 40 years, but he sounds like he could do it for another 40.
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Violin Maker, Heifitz Protege Support Int'l Competition
Here's an invitation hard to turn down. Hear the incredible sounds of some of the best Chinese violinists in the world. Come and be transported to another place and time as East meets West at NTDTV’s Chinese International Violin Competition. Let their performances carry you to a golden age of music as they vie for the top prizes.
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OSF hosts Festival Latino
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival became home to the music, words and even food of Latin America starting on Wednesday.
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U.K. Proposes Music Flat Tax
Leave it to our friends across the pond to come up with a creative, tax-heavy way of punishing music downloaders.
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Festival spirit defies instability in Lebanon
BEITEDDIN, Lebanon - Lyrical notes from the saxophone of U.S. jazz artist Branford Marsalis waft into the cool night air of a mountain palace courtyard in Lebanon.
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AudioMicro Builds a User-Made Stock Music Market (The Startup Review)
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: AudioMicro 20-word Description: AudioMicro is the preeminent user generated micro stock music and sound effects licensing ...
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Doc Walker, Emerson Drive in running for CCMA fans' choice award
The Canadian Country Music Association released its list of nominees for the fans' choice award Thursday and for the first time in years Terri Clark is not a contender.
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Apple is Fisher-Price of sound quality, says Neil Young
The revolution will not be podcast Over five decades Neil Young has played a variety of roles including sixties protester, folk singer, Ronald Reagan supporter, grunge rocker and film maker. Now he's donning a new hat: Apple basher.…
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Birthplace of blues?
DOCKERY - Saturday used to be payday at Dockery Farms. That was the day when, early in the 20th century, Charley Patton, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Pops Staples and others would play an emerging new kind of music on the front porch of the plantation's commissary.
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Gary Wilson at The Silent Movie Theatre
A couple weeks ago, Gary Wilson , the subject of the documentary “You Think You Really Know Me – The Gary Wilson Story” performed songs from his obscure masterpiece album “You Think You Really Know Me” after the screening of the film. In 1977, Gary Wilson recorded his brilliantly bizarre debut album in the basement of his parents’ house in Endicott, New York. Then, Wilson disappeared. Fans ...
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The Horror! MTV Readying Rocky Redo
Do we really need to do the time warp again? MTV thinks so. The music net is resurrecting Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Brad, Janet, Riff Raff and the rest of the singin' and dancin'...
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CNN - Poet Gives Voice To Black America
Born Of The Smoke-Infused Speakeasies Of 1950s And '60s Underground San Francisco, California, The Art Of Spoken Word Was Popularized By Beatnik Novelists Such As Jack Kerouac. Today, Hip Hop Has Inspired New Spoken Word Poet Jon Goode And Others To Give Voice To Serious Topics Ranging From AIDS And Prostitution To Gas Prices And Love.
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Mūz
FLY, FLY AWAY Local folk siren Rachel Williams has been transfixing audiences in recent months performing under the moniker Birds Fled From Me. With a crisp, ethereal air in her stunning voice, Williams' singing evokes the soaring, arctic heights of Björk, if the Icelandic enchantress took cues from the spare arrangements of Cat Power.
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A bit 'o tradition
Fifth Great American Irish Festival strikes balance between old, new
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Bach Again
The opening weekend of the 71st Carmel Bach Festival offered a mighty feast in the form of the Festival namesake's Mass in B Minor and Cantata BWV 21, and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem , the first of three performances each spread over as many weeks.
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Soul Jazz
Any musician who moves to New Orleans can expect to pay some dues, but organist Robert Walter got far more than he bargained for when he relocated to the Crescent City from his native San Diego in the summer of 2004.
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People: Elk Grove teen named Mr. Fiji USA
Elk Grove's Amresh Gosai, 19, was named Mr. Fiji USA 2008 and Mr. Fiji Charity at the July 4 Fiji Festival in Hayward. Amresh Gosai is named Mr. Fiji USA 2008 and Mr. Fiji Charity.
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‘High School Musical 2' premiers Friday in Fountain Inn
Fountain Inn is ready to open its theater company with a high-energy pilot performance of Disney's wildly successful made-for-television movie "High School Musical 2."
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