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Coldplay, Michael come to Philly
Some big names in the music biz are coming through town this week. Coldplay kicked off its national "Viva La Vida" tour in Philly at the Wachovia Center on Friday, while George Michael's first U.S.
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ResortQuest Breckenridge Welcomes the Water House Wine Festival to Main Street Station
The Water House Wine Festival is a producition of K-CMV "Colorado's Mountain Voice" and will feature tastings of over 30 Colorado wines, local art and free live music. The event will be held in the ResortQuest Main Street Station plaza, location at 505 South Main Street in Breckenridge Colorado. (PRWeb Jul 27, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Inqlings: Philly grabs ball and runs with it
Philadelphia, the setting of some great sports flicks, will host the first-ever U.S. Sports Film Festival from Oct. 23 to 26.
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Bar-B-Cutie Wins Big at Inaugural "Toast of Music City" Awards
The World's Best Barbecue Since 1950® sweeps 3 categories including Best Barbecue, Best Meal Deal and Best Restaurant Overall (PRWeb Jul 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1146934.htm
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Obama returns to face McCain music over missed GI visit
White House hopeful Barack Obama was back in the United States Sunday after a triumphant foreign trip, facing a new assault from Republican rival John McCain over his cancelled visit to wounded US troops in Germany.
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Grosse Ile Yacht Club seeks 50 to sail
Matthew Dubois' goal for celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Grosse Ile Yacht Club's Downriver Race is to have 50 sailboats channeling from Belle Isle down the Detroit River to their final destination in Grosse Ile. Dubois is one of the organizers of the event, which will take place on Saturday and is the middle of a weekend full of activities.
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Documentary tracks success of South L.A.'s Foshay choir
With the help of music executive Tom Sturges, 30 students from an inner-city school performed for large -- sometimes famous -- audiences. Almost all went on to graduate from four-year colleges. It all started 10 years ago when middle school student Helen Camarillo walked up to music executive Tom Sturges at a Christmas party for youths and adults interested in mentoring. She told him that she ...
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Homemade Brews Flow At Their Farm Wedding
Allison Wills and Geffrey Stopper knew each other remotely as clarinet and tuba players, respectively, in the fall of 1998.
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Workplace Music Offensive
DEAR AMY: My workplace recently installed broadcast music. We work in cubicles, and there are various job functions going on in the same area. I have to read heavy documents and hold discussions with vendors about products vitally important to our company.
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George H. Russell, 89; guitarist and composer also promoted records
George H. Russell, a veteran record promoter, guitarist and composer, died of a heart attack July 19 at his home in Laguna Beach, said Sandra Gillard, his companion. He was 89.
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Bomb threat pushes pause button at Silver City concert
SILVER CITY — Not even a bomb threat could stop the beats and rhymes of the Hood Fellas Entertainment show Friday night at Western New Mexico University's Fine Arts Center.
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PLAYLIST: Fresh thoughts on new music
Alice Cooper could have packed away the makeup long ago. But the Detroit-born shock-rocker didn't just keep chugging along -- he actually emerged from middle age recharged and inspired, and has settled into the most consistent stretch of his career since the mid-1970s.
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Mom remembers free-spirited teenager as 'fun-loving'
The 16-year-old, who died in a car crash Friday, enjoyed music, basketball and his friends. Robbie McCormack spent Thursday riding roller coasters at Busch Gardens with his mother, played electric guitar at his church's worship practice in the evening and capped the night off by watching "So You Think You Can Dance" on television.
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Popular flamenco festival enters its sixth year
BY BETH FEINSTEIN-BARTL Damaris Ferrer and Niurca Márquez are constantly putting a new spin on the age-old art form of flamenco.
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100 years later, GM and America go hand in hand
It's long been said that what's good for GM is good for the country, and it's also true -- after 100 years together -- that the cultures of the country and company are interwoven.
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Kerr: Music Row land grab should be condemned
City officials have closed her alley. Her property is barricaded on three sides. But inside the little brown brick building on Music Row, songwriters are still making music under Joy Ford's tutorage.
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Former music executive seizes chance for possible medical miracle
Merlin Littlefield participates in cancer treatment study
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Carter's loud voices
LENOX — There seemed not one but two Elliott Carters on display in Tanglewood's chamber concerts in his honor Monday and Tuesday nights. There was "Syringa" (1978), a setting of a lengthy John Ashbery poem on the Orpheus myth for mezzo-soprano, bass and instrumental ensemble.
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Loud music, sexual lyrics bother employee
DEAR AMY: My workplace recently installed broadcast music. We work in cubicles, and various job functions go on in the same area. I have to read heavy documents and hold discussions with vendors about products vitally important to our company.
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Let all musicians be like Billy Joel and McCartney
The final concert at Shea Stadium ended with such extraordinary, historic graciousness that it should be held up as an example for artists of all sorts, especially musicians.
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MUSIC ON TV
WHO Atmosphere
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Event calendar this week
The Alamosa Live Music Association (ALMA) presents the next installment in its
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FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: Animated cartoon: "Nowhere Man" Kilpatrick
Kwame's a real "Nowhere Man," living in his nowhere land -- or at least he is when Free Press cartoonist Mike Thompson takes a page from The Beatles' songbook.
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JOEL AUGÉ, On the Blue
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Entremont wins over Opera House audience
BARRE -- The Barre Opera House has hosted a number of famous pianists, but the historic concert hall's Steinway concert grand has never sounded like it did Friday evening. ... - By JIM LOWE Staff Writer
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