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Music Festival recitals excel with ensembles
ASPEN - Two recitals this week proved most rewarding when the soloists worked with ensembles, while the best things about the Percussion Ensemble concert were the featured soloists.
The Aspen Times |
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New Castle music festival enters new realm
NEW CASTLE, Colo. - About five years ago, Chris Davis, an insurance agent from Edwards, got together with a few friends on a gorgeous ranch in New Castle.
The Aspen Times |
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Magazine: Helfgott continues to shine
Australian pianist David Helfgott, of Shine fame, will open the Otago Festival of the Arts in October. Shane Gilchrist asks if the man can be separated from the movie.
Otago Daily Times |
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Going to the 'Flip Side': DJ Migz San Miguel likes the contact with his listeners
From taking orders at McDonald's to guiding tours around the island, DJ 'Migz San Miguel' has ventured throughout the job industry before airing song requests for your favorite Cueshe track.
Pacific Daily News |
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Bollywood has caught up with Hinglish music: Neeraj Shridhar
Mumbai, Aug 2: Bollywood, though belatedly, has caught up with Hinglish music, observes Bombay Viking's Neeraj Shridhar of 'Kya Surat Hai' fame, the pioneer of catchy pop hits with ingenious mix of Hindi-English lyrics.
New Kerala |
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Two arrests as rave is disrupted
Two men are arrested on suspicion of organising an illegal music event after police disrupt a rave.
BBC News |
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Billboard.com -- Radiohead Rocks Lollapalooza Day One
Radiohead capped off a hot Day One last night (Aug. 1) at the Lollapalooza music festival at Chicago's Grant Park, drawing most heavily from "The Bends," "OK Computer" and the newest "In Rainbows." A packed sea of 75,000 fans, which fanned out hundreds of yards from the stage, sang along to tracks like manic "The National Anthem," lullaby-ish "No Surprises," "There There," "Bodysnatchers" and ...
Billboard.com |
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Smithsonian could be in county's future
Cleveland County might get a high-profile visitor in 2010 - the Smithsonian Institution. The county is in contention to land the traveling exhibit "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music."
The Shelby Star |
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Columbus Symphony musicians play on
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A sellout crowd is expected for the fourth in a series of summer concerts performed by musicians with the suspended Columbus Symphony.
FOX 19 Cincinnati |
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First beer festival for community centre
IT WILL be drinks all round at Wickham Community Centre as part of a major fund-raising event. The Centre, based in Mill Lane, will be holding their first beer festival in September in an effort to raise the remaining £10,000 needed to complete the £45,000 upgrade to improve its disabled access.
Hampshire Chronicle |
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Second show added at Honeywell House
A second show at 9 p.m. has been added to the evening of cabaret music at the Honeywell House on Aug. 9. Kim Grogg Marin, New York City, will sing show tunes and popular standards, accompanied by David Hupp, North Manchester. They will also perform at 7 p.m.
Wabash Plain Dealer |
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Theater Review (LA): Singin' In The Rain at The Cabrillo Music Theatre
Director Larry Ruben captures the funny as well as the poignant, and has cast a super group of actors in those iconic roles. Does the price of gas have you down? Want to see something other than negative campaign ads? What about that housing market? Well, I know just the ticket - Singin’ In The Rain at Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks. This is a production bound to please and lighten ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Get Out: Saturday
CHOMP ON SOME CRAWFISH Head down to the Rainbow Lagoon for Long Beach's 15th Annual Crawfish Festival . From Noon til midnight tonight (and Noon til 11 p.m. tomorrow, too) you can rock out to Cajun, Zydeco, and New Orleans music and chow down on some authentic Louisiana-style crawfish. TIME TO TIKI Check out the Tonga Hut Art Show, featuring the work of Tom Thordarson, Micko, Tiki ...
LAist |
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Cistercian monks' chants are hit worldwide
London, Aug 2 : Music knows no bounds, as has been proved by a group of chanting Cistercian monks who have become this year's most unlikely chart sensation around the world.
New Kerala |
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Lollapalooza a big draw in Chicago
Hundreds of thousands of people are in Chicago enjoying this year's three-day Lollapalooza music festival, event organizers said.Attendee Ken Keenan, 51, said of the 11 Lollapalooza events he has attended, the festival that began Friday morning appears to have drawn the largest crowd, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday.This is definitely the most crowded I've ever seen it, he said.The ...
Moldova.org |
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Festival-goer ill with 'overdose'
A 20-year-old is critically ill with a suspected overdose after collapsing at a music festival.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Alameda County Fair : This year's features include the Action Zone (a sports and fitness expo), the second annual Cooking Academy, the Community Heroes Program awards, a parade, talent competition, opening-night fireworks, and live music by Bo Diddley, Crystal Gayle, the Spinners, War, and Night Ranger.
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Clarification (Aug. 2, 2008)
Because of a copy editor's error, a headline on page A1 Friday was inaccurate. Today's Taneytown Christian Music Festival is not directly associated with a single church.
Carroll County Times |
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Lollapalooza a big draw in Chicago
CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of people are in Chicago enjoying this year's three-day Lollapalooza music festival, event organizers said.
UPI |
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Benjamin Zander on Music and Life [Weekend Watching]
If the words "classical music appreciation" make your eyes glaze over, conductor Benjamin Zander will change your mind in this short talk from the invite-only TED event. Zander connects music to...
Lifehacker |
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Monterrey's nightlife the attraction for Texas visitors to this Mexican city
It's 1 a.m. and the walls of the club are throbbing to the beats of the latest chart-topping single. Patrons mob the DJ on the dance floor, and in the lounge area, clubbers sit glued to TVs blaring '80s pop and '90s rock. It's a typical night out downtown, save one small fact: I'm not in Austin.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Gwinnett Philharmonic grows silent
GWINNETT COUNTY - After 13 seasons in the black, the music will stop for the Gwinnett Philharmonic.
AccessNorthGA |
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Three cheers for Sudbury Secondary
There is still some spirited rivalry between former students from the now amalgamated high schools of Sudbury High and Sudbury Tech. Hundreds of former students, jocks and cheerleaders gathered for a breakfast at Idylwylde Golf and Country Club to kick-off the 100 year Sudbury Secondary reunion. "We're [...]
The Sudbury Star |
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Steve Lopez's 'The Soloist': joyous, fraught
Portrait of a concert violinist felled by schizophrenia finds him wrestling with how involved he should get with his subject.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Year of concerts ends on high note
The year’s last installment of Concerts in the Park filled Circus Square to near capacity Friday evening, with hundreds sprawling in lawn chairs on the gently sloping ground to hear Skip Bond and the Fugitives.
Bowling Green Daily News |
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