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Guitarist Helms spoke of Williams' loyalty
Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist and a member of Hank Williams' famous Drifting Cowboys band, has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 81.
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PEP : Francis M has leukemia, needs blood donors
PEP received information August 13 that rapper-songwriter Francis Magalona has been diagnosed with leukemia and needs blood donors.
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U.S. nails first verse of swan song
BEIJING — For their first dance at the last roundup, the defending women's softball champions won in a waltz. That is certainly not a surprise, since Team USA has been boogieing to music only it can hear from the time the sport joined the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996.
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Call it 'I sync for my country'
China's $100 million Opening Ceremony, the most expensive and lavish in Olympic history, set a standard for spectacle and pizazz and impressed viewers around the world.
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1920 Music launch - Picture Gallery
Vikram Bhatt's upcoming flick 1920 had its Music launch event at JW Marriot, Mumbai.
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Community Calendar
David Drake in Concert and Potluck Picnic, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Iola Village Library, 180 S. Main St., Iola. 715-445-4330.
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Best Bets Aug. 13, 2008
Dave Brogan and Band The drummer and vocalist for ALO hit the studio earlier this year with Tim Bluhm of the Mother Hips to record 'The Black Swan Project I' due out Sept.
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Don Helms, renowned steel guitarist
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent heart attack.
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George Furth, playwright and actor
LOS ANGELES - George Furth, an actor and Tony Award-winning playwright who wrote the book for the landmark 1970 Broadway musical "Company" and also wrote the 1971 play "Twigs," died Monday morning.
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City of London Sinfonia
Classical and romantic symphonies “bookended� works by two of England's favourite composers which in different ways carried degrees of wistfulness in them.
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The eight-year-old blues guitar prodigy
And what, you might ask, would a kid in primary school have the blues about?
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People, Places and Things
ELKHORN, Wis. - When Tallan "T-Man" Latz was 5, he saw Joe Satriani playing guitar on TV. "I turned around to my dad and said, 'That's exactly what I want to do.' "
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Donald Erb, avant-garde composer, Cleveland Institute of Music professor -- Obituary
Cleveland Heights -- Donald Erb, a bold, avant-garde composer who inspired generations of composition students at the Cleveland Institute of Music, died Tuesday at his home in Cleveland Heights at age 81.
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AROUND THE REGION
Ashland: The Rotary Club is sponsoring a bus trip to the American Music Theatre on Nov. 9 to see the Christmas Show. Anyone who made a reservation last year when the trip was canceled due to an ice storm is assured a seat, but those reservations must be confirmed with Connie Wydra at 682-0933 as soon as possible. The bus will leave at noon and the show will be at 3 p.m., followed by dinner at ...
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Kris Kristofferson has long lived in the worlds of music and movies, but now he says "it wouldn't kill me" ... It's one of the more unusual food markets in Beijing. Popular with tourists, and with locals seeking a bit of a show, Snack ...
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Olympic gymnasts to appear at The Q in November
UPDATED: 04 :44 a.m. EDT, August 13, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes an Akron Blackstockings player. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Time for Three perform dazzling concert
UPDATED: 04 :38 a.m. EDT, August 13, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes an Akron Blackstockings player. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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On Wednesday's Talk Shows
7 a.m. (ABC) Good Morning America: Music by Metro Station; actors Ben Stiller and Jack Black. (N)
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ARTStolen works recoveredThe FBI says pieces from an extensive art collection found in the New York home of a dead ...
UPDATED: 04 :42 a.m. EDT, August 13, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes an Akron Blackstockings player. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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Community Calendar
The Gateway Players will perform "The Sound of Music" at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 15 and 16 and at 2 p.m. Aug. 17 in the air-conditioned auditorium of the Charlton Middle School, 2 Oxford Road, Charlton. Tickets cost $15, $12 for seniors and those under 18. Tickets are available at the Gateway Players Theatre box office at 111 Main St., Southbridge, by calling (508) 764-4531, online at ...
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I'll be the first to admit I haven't attended every Oil Festival Parade since I've lived here.
Unlike my grandfather, who lived for parades in his retirement, I got my fill of them while participating in high school band.
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With the last of its formal chamber concerts last night, the Toronto Summer Music Academy & Festival reinforced something that everyone in this city needs to know: you can bring in as many international stars as you want but, in the end, Canada can match them, talent for talent.
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The night a rebel folk poet reinvented rock 'n' roll
I knew, as my first real lover and I huddled over his songs by candlelight in her tiny student flat in Glebe, on the edge of the Sydney University campus but significantly not part of it, that Bob Dylan was probably a very dangerous artist, a rebel and a rule-breaker, a poet so safe in his cleverly invented skin that he was virtually unassailable.
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Music and media pioneer Chester Smith dies
Chester Smith, a celebrated country music singer, radio broadcaster and founder of a media empire that includes the Eureka Television Group, died of heart failure Friday at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto.
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Fairgoers love thrills, spills
MARSHALL — Screams punctuated the carnival rides' blaring music on Tuesday at the Calhoun County Fair.
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