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Hoghead Festival on track
The 33rd Annual Hoghead Festival, celebrating Proctor’s railroad heritage, continues today. An Art Show featuring railroad and green-theme art is on display at the Proctor Area Community Center - 100 S. Pionk Drive. Viewing times are: Thurs.,
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Mayes and Strickland to Star in NYMF's Play It Cool
Complete casting has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival's upcoming production of Play It Cool, which begins performances Sept. 22 at the TBG Theatre.
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FIRE IN THE GLEN
Fire in the Glen started a fire in the glen outside the Two Mile House on July 26 that organizers hope will burn until the annual McClain Celtic Festival on Aug. 30.
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New Ned Wilkinson musical in concert tonight
The new musical "Little Vegas," by Ned Wilkinson ("Dawg Pound Blues") and Chris Leavy, is presented in concert tonight at 7:30. Reserved seat tickets are $12, $10 for seniors (55 and over) and students. Group rates are available for 12 or more.
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July 30 , 2008
On the streets of downtown Decatur, Guitar Red is a familiar fixture to the regulars who travel about Decatur’s square. He strums his guitar singing songs of women, drinking and hard times in the unvarnished tradition of the blues.
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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Proposal to Generate Over $350 Million in Annual Economic Benefit to Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Aug. 13 -- Kansas Speedway and The Cordish Company's (Kansas Entertainment LLC) proposed 1.5 million square-foot, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will include a 300-room luxury hotel; a state-of-the-art casino with 3,000 slot machines and 140 gaming tables; 275,000 square-feet of destination retail, dining and entertainment including a live music venue; first-class resort amenities; ...
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Keeping it in the family (Thursday, August 14, 2008)
With some humble beginnings, Ryan Lepine is steadily climbing the music ladder. The son of Helen and Martin Lepine, is living in Vancouver and has been rehearsing for a major concert. Lepine was dr
Wheat City Journal |
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Nico Muhly, the next John Adams -- and Bjork
Don't think of Nico Muhly, the hotshot 26-year-old New York composer, as the next John Adams or Steve Reich. Instead, think of him as both, plus a little Philip Glass, a bit of Björk and William Byrd, incantations of Chopin, some mumbling minimalism and deep-space reveries.
The Oregonian |
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Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 12:23 EST
RED WING, Minnesota -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Two of the most exhilarating performers in the music industry are coming to Treasure Island Resort & Casino. On Saturday, November 22 at 8 p.m., Brooks & Dunn are set to take the stage at The Island's new event and convention center.
Rolling Good Times |
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Simply Listening To Music Affects One’s Musicality
Researchers have demonstrated how much the brain can learn simply through active exposure to many different kinds of music. “More and more labs are showing that people have the sensitivity for skills that we thought were only expert skills,” Henkjan Honing (UvA) explains. “It turns out that mere exposure makes an enormous contribution to how musical competence develops.”
Science Daily |
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Music reviews
By USA TODAY critics
Hattiesburg American |
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Musical Hunters
Look to the stars The next time you’re waiting for things to happen in St. Francis Auditorium, courtesy of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, glance up at those three microphone lines elegantly looped and dangled above the stage. If you like, think super-minimalist Calder.
Santa Fe Reporter |
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Apple director to host iTunes radio show
Premiere Radio Networks has announced that this weekend, a new, three-hour music countdown show backed by Apple will launch, titled The iTunes Download (link not yet functional). The show will be hosted by iTunes' Director of Music Programming, Alex Luke, and be broadcast from Los Angeles to a number of Top 40-format radio stations. The show will a...
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KNB — the Musical , with Allen and McOwen, Plays the Schimmel Center
KNB – the Musical, which features a book and score by Christopher Carter Sanderson, is currently playing a limited engagement at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.
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Can Indie Acts Give It Away?
Life in the post- In Rainbows music business.
Seattle Weekly |
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Galway, Ireland
Irish Arts & Culture monthly update in Theatre, Visual Arts, Music, Dance News; What's on Abroad?; What's on Ireland? and much more...
Irish Emigrant |
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Somerset House sorts document management with Version One
Somerset House Trust manages the conservation and development of Somerset House, an 18th Century palace located on the Strand in Central London. It is now primarily used as a cultural centre, hosting music concerts, films, visual arts exhibitions and, during the winter months, an open air ice rink.
Computer Business Review |
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Iowans sweep 'Idol' contest
Music talent in the region apparently resides in Mason City, Iowa. That's the hometown of the winner and both runners-up in the KXLT-TV Idol contest held Tuesday at the Chateau Theatre in Rochester. Eric Alberts, 19, of M
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Bobby Rush Releases New Project Returning to His Modern Style of Music on Look at What You Gettin'
Jackson, MS (BlackNews.com) - No one was surprised this May when Bobby Rush took home the Blues Music Award for "Best Male Soul Blues Artist."
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Festival highlights Greek culture
Pola Maniskas, of Burlington, makes bird nest cookies at the St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Huntington in preparation for the Greek Festival. For the past decade or so, the grounds and parish hall of the church become a treasure trove of Greek foods, pastries, music and dance.
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Blues festival offers siblings, Davies
Debbie Davies will close the first night of the main stage entertainment at this year’s Rollin’ on the River Blues Festival in Keokuk. Davies will play at 9:15 p.m. Friday.
Keokuk Daily Gate City |
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Music Review: The Residents - Duck Stab
A classic slab of avant-garde weirdness from the late seventies gets a spiffy new reissue. Even a hard-core pop-rock junkie can occasionally feel the urge for some bracingly ugly music: in the late sixties, that need was best met by Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention; in the late seventies, it was a group of anonymous wise asses named the Residents. Through a series of albums which ...
Blogcritics.org |
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iTunes still leads music sales
The iTunes music store is still rockin' at the top of music sales.
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News & Views
Brit ISP to charge download fee for unlimited music, Best Buy to start selling iPhone, Britney talks to MVAs, Everything old is new again for soul singers, Buck Owens gets a post office and IOC defends lip syncing in News.
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Handleman Company Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Handleman Company , www.handleman.com, today announced results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended May 3, 2008 . These results reflect the impact on Handleman of the rapid and fundamental changes underway in the music industry.
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