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Jazz festival kicks off Aug. 1
The 13th annual Litchfield Jazz Festival kicks off on Friday, Aug. 1, with the Friends of the Festival Gala from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Winvian Luxury Resort & Spa in Morris.
Litchfield Enquirer |
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Bregenz Festival excavates long-forgotten Krenek opera
While the opening night of the annual Bregenz Festival on Wednesday was one for the masses with a visually stunning staging of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca", opera connoisseurs were in for a treat on Thursday with a rarely performed operatic gem from the 1930s.
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Belfast Gets Ready For Marine Heritage Festival
BELFAST (NEWS CENTER) -- Belfast will be bustling Saturday with the Belfast Marine Heritage Festival and National BoatBuilding Challenge. In the BoatBuilding Challenge, teams of two race to build 12-foot Monhegan skiffs. They must also take them out on the water for a measured distance.
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Jazz legend Griffin dies in France aged 80: agent
US jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played alongside such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk, died Friday in France, his agent Helene Manfredi said.
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Kosovo: Day 7, Sharing visitor's thoughts
Editor’s note: This month, 37 Muscatine-area adults and children are visiting Gjakove, Kosovo, to continue an exchange program between the Muscatine Youth and Children’s Choir and the Shropshire Muscatine Foundation’s Kosovo Children’s Music Initiative that began in 2004. What follows is a first-hand account from Muscatine’s Kristin McHugh-Johnston, who is in Kosovo.
Muscatine Journal |
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Apple's MobileMe service still rocky
Two weeks after it hobbled out of the starting gate, Apple's new upgraded Internet service is still limping along and performing poorly.
AM New York |
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Marshall's Civic Band concert Sunday
Topeka’s Marshall’s Civic Band will perform its fourth concert of the summer at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Gage Park amphitheater.
The Topeka Capital-Journal |
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Evansville Civic Theatre looking for actors for upcoming show
Evansville Civic Theatre needs men and women to act and sing in multiple roles in the musical comedy “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!” Auditions will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at Civic Theatre for the community theater’s first show of the 2008-2008 season.
Evansville Courier & Press |
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SHB 4x4 Group Keeps the summer music festivals rocking and rolling
AUTO CENTRAL - July 25, 2008: SHB 4x4, the leading four wheel drive leasing and rental company, celebrated more than two decades keeping the Glastonbury Festival rocking and rolling this year by supplying more than 200 Land Rover Defenders and Toyota Hilux vehicles to the event.
The Auto Channel |
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Making Rumbles
Jonny Rumble is one of those bands endlessly toiling in the background of the music scene. It feels like they're been around forever but they've never really made that much of an impact. Sure, folks would book them because they were a decent draw, but they seemed destined to be yet another undiscovered Chicago band that would be barely remembered. Hopefully that perception of the band will ...
Chicagoist |
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Yahoo Music: Burn Your Tracks to CD
In a move reminiscent of MSN Music, Yahoo is warning folks who purchased tunes through Yahoo Music to burn them to CD by Sept. 30...or lose'em forever.
DesignTechnica |
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LA prosecutors oppose motions in Spector retrial
Jurors in Phil Spector's upcoming murder retrial should be allowed to hear testimony about blood evidence and the autopsy of the actress he is accused of shooting, prosecutors argued in court documents. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office opposed a motion by Spector's lawyers to exclude testimony presented at the music producer's first trial by three forensics experts. They ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Don't Miss the Music, Fun & Fireworks at Misquamicut Beach
Bring the entire family for a day of music, fun and fireworks at Misquamicut Beach. Coca Cola of Southeastern New England and the Misquamicut Business Association present the 4th Annual Misquamicut Music Festival and Fireworks o Saturday, July 26 at Misquamicut State Beach.
Westerly Sun |
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Weekend Festivals and Road Closures
It's another busy summer weekend in Toronto with festivals featuring everything from jazz and comedy to South Asian culture taking over city streets.
GlobalTV Ontario |
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Winter’s Tale in Chisinau in Japanese
The Theater Company “Ryutopia” from the Japanese town of Nigata will perform the play The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare at the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu” on July 26 and 27. The troupe “Ryutopia Noh Theatre Company” is the most famous “No” theater company in Japan. Noh is a classical Japanese performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly ...
Moldova.org |
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Austinist Weekend Music Preview: Eric Hisaw, Yuppie Pricks, & The Dirty Hearts celebrate CD releases!
Image from Haunting Oboe Music’s MySpace Austinist Indieroke upstairs in The Green Room at The Mohawk is naturally our number one recommendation for a Friday night out on town but we cannot ignore the other quality shows in our fine city on the same evening. Beloved indie-rock outfit Wolf Parade hits the stage at La Zona Rosa nice and early in the evening so as to allow you to ...
Austinist |
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Location Guide
Mudflap King - . Sat., July 26, 8 p.m. Metal MF Mondays - . Mondays. Red Rooster Christmas In July - Live music by The Dempseys, The Plaintiffs, Frankie Hollie & The Noise. Also a Santa sighting, food, and a Christmas cruise giveaway. Fri., July 25, 6 p.m. $20 advance/$25 door.
The Memphis Flyer |
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Calendar Listings
Red Rooster Christmas In July - Live music by The Dempseys, The Plaintiffs, Frankie Hollie & The Noise. Also a Santa sighting, food, and a Christmas cruise giveaway. Fri., July 25, 6 p.m. $20 advance/$25 door.
The Memphis Flyer |
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HELL HATH OBVIOUS LIMITS
To those who would eagerly praise the deficiencies and clichés of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army as daring pop, I propose The Ting Tings scintillating new single, "That's Not My Name." Once the song's chorus begins ("They call me Hell..."), The Ting Tings make Hellboy's campy, bad = good subversiveness seem like a stack of dusty old comic books.
New York Press |
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Willy Nelson, Trigger, and Mark Slavit
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 10:46 a.m. COLUMBIA, MO -- Music legend Willie Nelson performed this week on the m-u campus.
KRCG Jefferson City |
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Documentary Screening Shows Support for Local Live Music
A locally produced documentary helps the community travel back to a time when live music took center stage in Charlottesville.
WCAV Charlottesville |
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Business viral video: Engine tuning
'Ode to Ford' gets a musical makeover
Guardian Unlimited |
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After 70 years, Maria von Trapp returns to her Sound of Music home
Vienna - Maria von Trapp, a member of the family choir depicted in the movie The Sound of Music, revisited some of her favorite and less favourite things this week, as she stayed in her childhood home for the first time since fleeing Salzburg in 1938...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Local teens rally to raise money to replace Green Spring Haunted House
For years, teens from Green Spring, Springfield, Romney and Augusta have spent their summers planning the pranks, skits, costumes, and haunted scenes for the annual Green Spring House of the Setting Sun’s haunted house through the Community Involvement for Kids organization.
Mineral Daily News-Tribune |
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Singer Connie Francis hospitalized
Singer Connie Francis was rushed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center for dangerously high blood pressure, shortly before her concert on LI.
Newsday |
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