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Renowned vocalist/harpist stops in York
CAPE NEDDICK and#8212; Acclaimed vocalist-harpist Mark Hummel and his band The Blues Survivors' stops by York on Thursday as part of the "Aint Easy No More" tour.
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Wisconsin's child labor laws giving guitar prodigy the blues
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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A (Contemporary) Classical Gas
Looking for something a little off the beaten path? Contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly is taking his work outside the concert hall this week as he embarks on a club and theatre tour in support of his latest, Mothertongue . Muhly kicks off his 12-city sojourn August 15 at Triple Door in Seattle and will wrap hit the final beat August 28 at Lakeshore Theater in Chicago.
POLLSTAR |
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Pop star prepares for trans-national tour
VietNamNet Bridge – My Tam is preparing for a trans-Vietnam tour entitled Time and Me – Live Concert Tour 2008 to promote two new albums, My Tam vols. 6 and 7.
Vietnam Net |
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Music technical finalists announced
The finalists in the technical categories have been announced for the 2008 New Zealand Music Awards. Tiki Taane, Anika Moa and Lee Prebble are nominated for best producer.
TVNZ |
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Will Britney Spears perform on VMAs again?
NEW YORK — Britney Spears may get a shot at redemption during this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
The Star Press |
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Hank Snow Tribute still draws a crowd
By Nick Moase THE ADVANCE NovaNewsNow.com Organizers are putting the finishing touches on this year's Hank Snow Tribute, taking place Aug...
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Hank Snow Tribute moving on home?
By Nick Moase THE ADVANCE NovaNewsNow.com Could the Hank Snow Tribute be moving to Liverpool? That's what organizers hope to do for 2010. Organizers had always dreamed of bringing the Tribute to Liverpool, but the facilities just weren't able to handle the volume of traffic. ?We just don't have a place to hold it (in Liverpool)...
The Advance |
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Bad airline stories are nothing like this
As I watch the Olympics this week, my thoughts keep turning to Anita Cabral of Spring Valley, though she is not an Olympian, or even an athlete. Cabral is a disgusted former customer of United Airlines, the official airline of the Beijing Games. I think of her whenever I see that United commercial with the orchestra of animated sea creatures playing Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue.”
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Zack pours a little bit of cold water on the Rage reunion. Zack De La Rocha has been speaking about the future of Rage Against The Machine and has admitted that he is 'not sure' if there will be any new music from the band in the future.
Metal Hammer |
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O.C.'s Zebrahead reborn with 'Phoenix'
The rock quintet from La Habra, huge in Japan, rises strong on new CD.
Orange County Register |
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Music, munchies pepper Taste of Roanoke
Saturday will be a day of feasting in Roanoke. First the usual farmers market is open from 8 a.m. to noon on Main Street. Then the 16th annual Taste of Roanoke runs from 5 to 8 p.m.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Britney to make MTV comeback
Britney Spears is set to re-ignite her image with a comeback performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
News 24 South Africa |
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Go and Do: Jumbo Circus Peanuts and tall ships
The Jumbo Circus Peanuts are playing the final show in the Seacoast Science Center's Music-by-the Sea concert series from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14 at Odiorne State Park, Rye. Gates open at 5 p.m. All the area's Wednesday and Thursday night concert...
Portsmouth Herald |
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Buena Vista Concerts and Walt Disney Records Announce the Launch of The Cheetah Girls One World Tour
BURBANK, Calif.----Disney’s multi-platinum recording group The Cheetah Girls will launch their nationwide “The Cheetah Girls One World Tour” this Fall. The 50-date nationwide concert tour follows the soundtrack and third Disney Channel Original Movie, “The Cheetah Girls One World.” The tour embarks October 8 in Austin, Texas and concludes in San Diego, California on December 21.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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ubExact Develops New User-Centric Search Engine to Address Irrelevant and Disorganized Content, Lack of Privacy and Spam
ubExact today unveiled plans to launch its beta search engine to speed users to relevant results. Built out of frustration using traditional search interfaces, ubExact attempts to simplify and rebuild the Web into a user-centric library. ubExact serves users with a fast, intuitive and simple way to search based on user behavior/actions, geo-targeted metro service areas and direct navigation to ...
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Indie911 Strikes Pioneering Artist Marketing and Discovery Deal with "Highnote"
Leading artist services network Indie911 announced a new partnership with Highnote to provide artists and record labels with a pioneering streaming music discovery and promotion service. Highnote powers the targeted delivery of artist inventory into music streams across the web, and the partnership will leverage Indie911's content and artist services platform to deliver a new paradigm in music ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Brutal heat can't stop the music at band camp
Fletcher High School Marching Senators band members braved brutal heat last week in band camp as they marched and played music on the school's asphalt parking lot.
The Florida Times-Union |
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Chart-toppers lined up to headline park festival
THE National Trust's Clumber Park is holding an outdoor music festival next weekend with two chart-topping bands set to headline on Friday night. (13/08/2008 10:42:50)
Yorkshire Post Today |
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Autumn Melody concerts go on without sponsor
Pianist Nguyen Bich Tra. The HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will again stage the Giai Dieu Mua Thu (Autumn Melody) concerts this year following the enthusiastic response from the audience over the last three years, despite the lack of sponsorship.
Nhân Dân |
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Contemporary art project seeks hip hop dancers
Nhan Dan Online – The French Culture Centre (L’Espace) and the Goethe Institute in Hanoi are calling on artists to join a project on hip hop dance and traditional and contemporary art.
Nhân Dân |
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Bangladesh anthem makes music at Beijing
Dhaka, Aug 13 : Bangladesh has bagged a silver on the sidelines of the Beijing Olympics - not for a sporting event but for its national anthem written by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
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Memphis: It took a town of losers to produce the King
By the time we got to the Zippin' Pippin it was midnight. My guide, Mike McCarthy, had led a ghost tour of Beale Street – a thoroughfare routinely described as the birthplace of the blues – which ended at the statue of the young Elvis Presley. Then, the real tour began.
Belfast Telegraph |
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Zimbabwe: Rapper Malvin S Bounces Back
AFTER experiencing a stint of waning fortunes, versatile rapper Malvin S, popular for his golden voice that helped turn Innocent Utsiwegota's singles In My Dreams and Country Boy into anthemic hits, has bounced back.
AllAfrica.com |
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